No they are the exception to the rule. Notice how after years of COD and FPS galore. You play a story driven, remarkably detailed universe and all of a sudden its the poster boy for success. In reality ALL games should be like this. But lots of specialized gamers like their yearly offerings.
We should always expect quality over quantity.
Every Madden should be like a breath of fresh air, every COD should be a masterpiece, every game we play should be this way.
But not ...
Hmmm. Id like to ask K. Levine about this. That would be quite the feat if they connected Songbirds death screen with that noise that sounds like a bird in the original Bioshock. I mean that's ultra nerd territory there.
So whats going to destroy gaming and the industry is your local pawn shop?
Interesting.
I think not.
What we want is a good deal and MAYBE a chance to share some of your games with others or locally on your box.
If these new consoles can take a tip from steam then this whole issue..would disappear.
Offer great sales on games. Not crap arcade games.
Half off, seventy five percent off. Ability to share what you buy with others.
WiiU does i...
Change is a scary thing. It happens to all of us. Scared of Dantes hair. Scared of Castlevania going 3D, scared to make something other than adventure games disguised as rpgs.
I feel the only true rpgs would be Skyrim and Fallout, at least in this gen and something more than likely most have played.
Witcher was great but essentially its also an adventure game with rpg elements.
Mass Effect was a like a book that the player creates with elements that the devs have givin...
F'ing Sweet!
Umm, who cares. I lost track of Id after I heard there was no more Rage 2. They should stick with new stuff and leave Doom alone.
Oh well, less money for me to spend.
But it really isn't. Just cause you are shooting doesn't make it a "shooter" in the classic sense.
Games nowadays blend the genres.
There's shooting in Zeno Clash, and that thing barely resembles the classic definition of shooter.
I bet if you ask Levine, which had a 300+ page screenplay if BioShock was a shooter, hed tell you that they used the first person perspective to make matters more intimate, but its not meant to...
Yep the devs stated it.
But this was a HUGE missed opportunity also I don't buy any season pass to games that contain MP in it. Thats the thing nowadays. You buy the game for the great SP and all the "season pass crap" is for the MP side of the game which will be dead in 2 weeks.
I'm hip to it, started with Assassins Creed and then Max Payne. The only season pass I bought blindly since was Bioshock Infinite cause its ONLY SP.
Yup. Its Burnout with out the fun. I hate "open world" racers. That's just plain dumb. I like my racers with 1 road and lots of things to blow up, cars to crash and excitement build in. If I wanted to drive around I can do it here in NYC.
How is it a missed opportunity. Get the console and pick up the game. Play it as they wanted you to play it. They obviously had the opportunity to put it on any console and the devs themselves thought that WiiU + Deus Ex was a perfect match.
Problem solved.
I really wish folks would stop calling this a shooter, cause its not. There is first person shooting, but this is not a pure shooter. This is an adventure game, you play in the first person perspective.
Not COD, or Battlefield.
They are all that way. Story is paramount here not fine balancing of weapons, and calling in packages, and the timing of reloads.
Game series is excellent. Sp had to change with the times like all living things. Its evolved over the years to adapt to market changes. Thats why we keep the older ones, in case we want to go backwards and relive those experiences.
Cant wait for the next one, although I WILL be missing "The Voice" Michael Ironside.
Why is this comparison even being made? I don't get it. Wait, is this another one of those Dante hating bandwagon things? Cause didn't even make sense.
The OUYA will be a heaven sent platform for Indie developers and Triple devs wanting to try different IPS.
The value of this cannot be understated.
This can be used as an inexpensive test bed. Think how great it could be if a game like Bulletstorm was developed for OUYA first, whatever the kinks are could have been ironed out on the OUYA and if it made sense then a version of it could have been developed for the other consoles.
It great business and something ...
I'll agree with you there.
This article stinks to high heaven. I thought I was going to read an informative insiders article, then I realized its N4G. :(
Couldn't have said it better myself. Thank you for this post.
I don't particularly care if the multiplayer goes away from every single title except competitive titles. The ones that have historically been designed from the ground up to be that way. Gears, Halo, COD, Battlefield.
Coop play in titles that make sense to have it. NOT Mass Effect (or God of War), but Army of Two or Ghost Recon for example, is always welcomed because there are gamers that do not wish to run around shooting each other, but instead want to experience the ca...
Thank you GOD! Kill that abomination.
THank you for this article. I think ive said all I wanted to say about this gen of gamers. I just dont know what or who they are.
All I know is I pay hard earned money for the games I want to play and I mostly paly it all. I dont like to be stopped because of platform.
I enjoy them all and I look forward to them all.
But there is a HUGE section of gamers that consider themselves hardcore or true gamers because they play nothing but COD.
I know cause I've se...