BioWare: Videogame Industry Releases "Too Many Games"

[Travan]

Really? The most disappointing thing about the industry today is that its so awesome it too awesome? Eugh. Good to know that some of the industry's leading lights are content to give back pats all around.

 

[Gindil]

Well, I guess that's a good thing. More diversity means more stories we can discuss with other gamers.

 

[Weaver]

I agree with this. I'm currently unemployed and I can't even find enough time to keep up with all the releases.
Hell I still have games I got on steam from LAST Christmas I haven't beaten.

 

[MetallicaRulez0]

More developers and publishers should take the Blizzard approach to games. Fuck deadlines and release dates, games should come out when they're finished. There's way too many buggy, half-finished games that are released these days. There's even more shovelware bullshit that literally wastes space on store shelves until soccer moms buy it. It's sad, honestly.

I'll point to Madden, Call of Duty (the last good CoD game came out in 2007), Guitar Hero, and 90% of the Wii library as examples of how NOT to release games.

 

[Gindil]

I agree with this. I'm currently unemployed and I can't even find enough time to keep up with all the releases.
Hell I still have games I got on steam from LAST Christmas I haven't beaten.

Main reason to just look em up on Youtube.

 

[Radelaide]

Wait, wait, wait. How does the games industry release too many games where there's nothing TO play? I spent over an hour trolling EB Games, GAME and JB HI FI trying to find something interesting to play, and was hit in the face with absolutely nothing.

 

[Weaver]

Wait, wait, wait. How does the games industry release too many games where there's nothing TO play? I spent over an hour trolling EB Games, GAME and JB HI FI trying to find something interesting to play, and was hit in the face with absolutely nothing.

Because of the awesome stalker powers of the Escapist user profile, I looked at your steam account. If you're hard up for stuff to play, you may know there is a steam sale on currently! I highly, highly recommend buying the King's Bounty Platinum pack. It will probably take you about 150-200 hours to complete it.

 

[Rajin Cajun]

More like industry releases to much crap, the industry is to focused on very short term dev cycles to get crap out to fast and very under done, just look at Bioshock, FO3,New vegas,Dragon Age and these are jsut the top sellers and they are pretty tainted by the process....

^Thisx100000000000

 

[Atmos Duality]

How ironic. I have the opposite problem, and can't seem to find much of anything I might like.

 

[Radelaide]

Wait, wait, wait. How does the games industry release too many games where there's nothing TO play? I spent over an hour trolling EB Games, GAME and JB HI FI trying to find something interesting to play, and was hit in the face with absolutely nothing.

Because of the awesome stalker powers of the Escapist user profile, I looked at your steam account. If you're hard up for stuff to play, you may know there is a steam sale on currently! I highly, highly recommend buying the King's Bounty Platinum pack. It will probably take you about 150-200 hours to complete it.

I'm not hard up for PC games. I'm dying for some decent xbox games that aren't CoD. But thanks for thinkin' about me

 

[Aidinthel]

How ironic. I have the opposite problem, and can't seem to find much of anything I might like.

Have you tried asking the Escapist for recommendations? A lot of people here are quite knowledgable.

 

[Orthon]

I guess you'll just have to prioritize the games you want to play most, guys. Decide which are the ones that are worth keeping up with. Usually it's better to go by developer than franchise.

For example, didn't finish Bioshock until 3 weeks ago. Now I'm keeping up with Irrational Games and Bioshock Infinite. Bought Spore full price, never finished, so therefore, Maxis can stay the hell away.

I'm not of the opinion that there's too much goodiness in the games industry anyway. But maybe that's all those brown military shooters clouding up my judgement.

 

[Bullfrog1983]

I'd like to know what he's playing to find out where these good games are.

 

[ultrachicken]

I haven't observed an overflow of good games, though the tsunami is coming in spring.

 

[geokes]

The problem also is lots of games are worth playing but not really anything more, the games that have been amazing for me are games like Crysis, Fallout 3 and Arma II. More game development studios should try to be like Crytek and Bethesda Game Studios and release games not so often but when they do the games are really something special.

 

[Stabby Joe]

Besides Donkey Kong Country Returns that's out on Friday in the UK, there's not much else I want to play in the near future.

 

[scar_47]

tis the season to release all the games, quite a few dropped back to spring which is nice since i've bought 3 games within a few days of each other and theres another 3 that'll be out by spring. i don't understand why there are so few summer releases. Yes they wouldn't get holiday money but then your not competing with the the giants that most people are going to buy. I'm a student so i've got free time but it's getting ridiculous especially if your like me and play a wide variety of games. Between fallout new vegas, black ops, and assassins creed brotherhood I'm tapped for game cash till february. Theres just to many titles for such a short span.

 

[Sparrow]

My only solution to keep up was to simply ignore a portion of the market, so no handheld games for me sadly.

 

[Onyx Oblivion]

when Mass Effect 2 is a bloody shooter with minimal amounts of team customization and shallow-as-a-toilet combat. And now it looks like they're doing to Dragon Age 2 what they did with Mass Effect 2, trimming too much fat off, and leaving it bare-bones.

Inventory management was a pain in Mass Effect 1, yes, but only because everything you killed dropped something, and you had a relatively low item capacity. A little tweaking would have made it an non-issue. Trim the fat, Bioware, don't melt it down to the bone.

Finally someone says it. Mass Effect 2 (and DA 2 aswell from the looks of it) just cut all the good stuff and made it a rather shallow and lifeless experience. Customization was pathethic and so was the feeling of freedom among others. I have no clue why people hyped ME2 to the degree of being one of the best of all times, it was a decent 20 hour experience or so. Enjoyable, yes, but nothing that keeps you coming back for more.

You don't know how many months it took me to finally word that correctly. I've been trying to put my feelings for Bioware into words FOREVER.

 

[Smooth Operator]

Well to be quite honest there is only about 1% of games that come out in a year actually worth playing, the rest is either a remake or just bad.

Sports games are easily skipable, because they only change the numbers and names
Driving games, pick the one most appealing to you, the rest is just more of the same
CoD, MoH,... pick one, play it for a day, and you covered all of that market, actually go back to MW1 and you cover the last 3 years of warfare shooters
MMO's well if you ever played one you played them all, nothing new going on there

And so it goes on...