Ah yeah it's hard to focus on anything more than 5 seconds right? Go play some more Halo and make some splosions.
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I tried to read that, but it was just another shallow exdeath rant, interchangeable with all the rest.
im sure he actually watched his 8 year old nephew beat modern warfare 3x in one sitting. sure he did. he hates the game but sat there for over 15 hours while an 8 year old finished it start to finish 3x in a row. bet he didnt even take a bathroom break. yep, totally believable.
the fact he thinks single player is even the focus of a game like modern warfare shows how clueless he is.
and fwiw i have never played mw3 and bought mw2 and played it for like 4 hours total. im not a fan of it either, but i don't bitch about it because there are plenty of other games to go around.
Lol, i'll go dig out my PONG game.
He was over here all weekend and had the whole entertainment system to himself that day. What would you have done at that age? I didn't literally sit down and watch, but it's hard to miss on a 106" screen running all day right in the middle of the house.
I don't think single player is the focus of that particular game, but it's amusing that you bring that up. Multi player death match games are such a cop out. No story or creativity required, quick to market, tried and true cash cow.
You thinking that 15 hours is some significant time to beat a game *3* times being only reinforces how short and shallow todays games are. I have a Fallout 3 save with over 200 hours in it. Yeah it's one of the few modern games that I can't complain about. But they are far too rare these days, takes too much money to produce when you can just nickel and dime another death match arena game with no real single player story or content. I want more games like that which I can burn a month or two of my life away immersed in another world for days on end, such that I'm disoriented returning to the real world. It's happened a few times on my 360, but nowhere near as much as SNES through PS2 era.
I got my multiplayer shoot em up kick over with Q3A and BF2. It's all the same to me now, done and tired. I prefer huge games that consume my life and take me to other worlds and eventually come to an end, not just sit on my couch and rack up frags for an hour or two. And that goes for PC as well... it's even worse on PC that's why I started messing with consoles again.
That's funny. Thinking about it, today's multiplayer death match online games are pretty much all as shallow as Pong once you get past all the pretty HD explosions. Think about it.
One side vs the other until one side wins... and that's the whole game. Playing it by youself is hardly an immserive 10,000 page novel... Where are the latter types of games for players like me? There are some, but you can count them on 1-2 hands. In the 16/32 bit era you couldn't throw a rock into the air without landing on some incredible top notch RPG 3+ years in the making.
That's the root of my problem. I'm an RPG player. RPGs died after the 32 bit era. FPS versus mode games seem to be *all* there is anymore.
you just sound like you are butt hurt that there are no good rpg's out now a days. i havent liked RPG's since SNES days so i don't care about that genre at all.
ummm ... that is EXACTLY what ANY competitive team game is. that is exactly what any competitive team ANYTHING is - one side vs the other side until one side wins.
you just described wars and professional sports as well.
you talk about fallout 3 as being some example, yet it is exactly what you are hating on - a sequel to an IP that has done well in the past. it's okay for you to enjoy a 3rd iteration of a game for 200 hours single player, but it's not okay for "8 year olds" to enjoy the multiplayer on MW3 for 200 hours. yea, real hypocritical.
you talk about fallout 3 as being some example, yet it is exactly what you are hating on - a sequel to an IP that has done well in the past. it's okay for you to enjoy a 3rd iteration of a game for 200 hours single player, but it's not okay for "8 year olds" to enjoy the multiplayer on MW3 for 200 hours. yea, real hypocritical.
Kotick has at times been a controversial figure in the gaming community.In part this can be attributed to advocating a business strategy focused on only developing intellectual property which can be, in his words, "exploited" over a long period, to the exclusion of new titles which cannot guarantee sequels.In responding to why Activision Blizzard chose not to publish certain games following the Activision/Blizzard merger, he stated that focusing on franchises that "have the potential to be exploited every year on every platform with clear sequel potential and have the potential to become $100 million franchises"
Not to take sides, but that's a reaaaaaally weak argument. They are not even in the same realm.
FallOut 2--->FallOut 3 = 10 years in between, and about as different and revolutionary as you can get.
MW--->MW2--->BlackOps--->MW3 = 4 games within 4 years, all a stones throw from each other in any measurable way.
I'm not trying to act "amazing" or "superior", I'm just disapointed in the gaming industry the last couple years. I only bring up my gear to show that I do have current gen systems and gear to show how serious I am with gaming and that I'm not just some old man huddled in a basement with an Atari 2600 and B&W TV yelling at people to stay off my lawn.
People playing shooters doesn't put them beneath anybody, I'm just asking why isn't there anything BUT shooters (or sports and racing rehashes) being released non stop? It's out of hand. Do I need to stick to DS if I want other genres besides CoD 19 3/4 part 6 Platinum Edition Game of the Year Release?
We've been gradually herded this direction for a few years now. OP story isn't surprising at all, the game industry has become corrupt with greed just like cell phone companies, Hollywood, music, etc. and it's really sapped the life out of gaming IMO.
I've never argued there are NO good current gen games, just that they are too far and too few compared to previous generations.
All I can assume is that anyone who doesn't understand where I'm coming from hasn't been "gaming" for more than 5 years or came exclusively from PC shooters and has nothing to really compare to. Ignorance is bliss, be truly thankful if that's the case. I get to play knowing there have been much better.
i havent liked rpg's since the snes days.
Ever ask yourself why that is? Did your personal taste change or is it because the quality of the games has declined since then?
Ever ask yourself why that is? Did your personal taste change or is it because the quality of the games has declined since then?
it is both. i started to not like rpg's when i first played FF7. game was full of fluff and took so long to do little tings. i hated the special moves that took literally 2-3 minutes to animate.
Even if it was done well, I dunno if its the kind of game I'm still interested in playing. But whether or not a JRPG can be done well has zero to do with what other games are popular. There's room for it if they can make it work, modernize it so its not so archaic and aggravating. A lot of the stuff those games pulled (random battles, etc) just aren't going to fly anymore.
Kotick has at times been a controversial figure in the gaming community.In part this can be attributed to advocating a business strategy focused on only developing intellectual property which can be, in his words, "exploited" over a long period, to the exclusion of new titles which cannot guarantee sequels.In responding to why Activision Blizzard chose not to publish certain games following the Activision/Blizzard merger, he stated that focusing on franchises that "have the potential to be exploited every year on every platform with clear sequel potential and have the potential to become $100 million franchises"
That's funny. Thinking about it, today's multiplayer death match online games are pretty much all as shallow as Pong once you get past all the pretty HD explosions. Think about it.
One side vs the other until one side wins... and that's the whole game. Playing it by youself is hardly an immserive 10,000 page novel... Where are the latter types of games for players like me? There are some, but you can count them on 1-2 hands. In the 16/32 bit era you couldn't throw a rock into the air without landing on some incredible top notch RPG 3+ years in the making.
That's the root of my problem. I'm an RPG player. RPGs died after the 32 bit era. They aren't as cheap to make and aren't the cash cow of just making some new levels for the same FPS engine and releasing a new CoD every week. FPS versus mode games seem to be *all* there is anymore.
False. What other games are popular and sell well in today's market is *exactly* the reason for the decline of RPGs and other genres of long intricate games. RPGs are risky, long production, and very expensive to produce compared to redoing some textures for another vs mode shooter using last years engine. You're right, how well it's done has nothing to do with it. If it can't be made in 6 months and isn't guaranteed to make $100 million the first day of release, it will never see the light of day.
If a small developer tries, and it's even remotely getting any popularity, EA or Activision will buy it up, rush it 18 months ahead of schedule full of bugs to maximize Christmas profits, and when the game doesn't rake in a million sales the first hour of release it gets condemned to the garbage. Yet they will hoard exclusive rights on the IP till the end of time so nobody else can pick it up and resume it.
See below what the CEO of Activision has done to gaming:
I bought the hype on that game, unfortunately, my first FF in many years and definitely the last. Japan just can't make an RPG to save its friggin life, though. It's been this way for a long time. Some people love these kinds of "RPG"s (term used loosely because they are so linear). They aren't my thing. There are still great RPGs, better than anything the SNES ever had. Fallout 3 and Skyrim (I personally prefer Fallout3), for example. Fallout 3 really is a masterpiece, nice open world and just a great game.it is both. i started to not like rpg's when i first played FF7. game was full of fluff and took so long to do little tings. i hated the special moves that took literally 2-3 minutes to animate.
I am with you ex-death. Games SHOULD be able to stand up on its own without relying on muilt-player. Like me, i don't give a shit on multilayer beside mmo and fighter. or it would need to teleport whore into the room before i start caring.