This guy sure talks a lot for someone who's made one so-so 'game'. Whether he has a point or not, he needs a hell of a lot more to back his words up.
This.Kapol said:This man is wrong. That's pretty much obvious. Not that I disagree with the idea that there needs to be more variety in games mind you. But the idea that the industry will 'die' without it is one of the dumbest statements I can imagine. Shooters are the highest sellers because they appeal to both the hardcore crowd and parts of the casual crowd. That's why your typical awful shooter will sell better then, say, Heavy Rain.
But even if the AAA industry did somehow manage to implode, it wouldn't be the death of the entire industry. We'd have indie gaming, which has been doing fairly well for itself. And then there's the casual market which has so much of the market right now it's not even funny. To act like the entire industry will die based on one genre is a fairly foolish idea.
They said oil would get more expensive, they said climate would change, they said banks would collapse...Clearing the Eye said:They said in 1970 we'd have an ice age by now. They said in 1999 all the computers would die. They said global warming would kill us all. They say every fucking year that the world is going to end.
Because there is actually no "culture" to celebrate? Do the people that go to the cinema get together and make up a new name for them? Does everyone who listens to music get together to celebrate their culture?Vault101 said:""Nerd/Gaming Culture" is already pretty cancerous as well"- in regards to what exactly?
My backlog would vanish if the industry died...Toilet said:I kinda hope gaming does die. The big companies are already sewing the seeds of their destruction with massive bloated budgets while trying to appeal to everyone and then killing the studio when the game doesn't ship the millions of copies needed (unless you are Call Of Duty).
"Nerd/Gaming Culture" is already pretty cancerous as well and in my personal opinion independent developers and their games aren't that good either. At best they are fun for a few minutes but they are not substantial enough to support an entire industry.
I would rather gaming die now and be reborn from the ashes in a few years than it continue as it is now, it would be nice to catch up on my backlog to.
well I don't know..conventions and such would say otherwiseElPatron said:Because there is actually no "culture" to celebrate?
In regard to stuff like the VGAs, Felicia Day, Tropes vs. Women, Major League Gaming, The Big Bang Theory and many many other things which I have little time and patience to look up.Vault101 said:no thanksToilet said:I kinda hope gaming does die. The big companies are already sewing the seeds of their destruction with massive bloated budgets while trying to appeal to everyone and then killing the studio when the game doesn't ship the millions of copies needed (unless you are Call Of Duty).
"Nerd/Gaming Culture" is already pretty cancerous as well and in my personal opinion independent developers and their games aren't that good either. At best they are fun for a few minutes but they are not substantial enough to support an entire industry.
I would rather gaming die now and be reborn from the ashes in a few years than it continue as it is now, it would be nice to catch up on my backlog to.
I like my AAA games
""Nerd/Gaming Culture" is already pretty cancerous as well"- in regards to what exactly?
1. VGA's.....so? like does anyone care about the MTV movie awards? they don't hurt the film industryToilet said:[In regard to stuff like the VGAs, Felicia Day, Tropes vs. Women, Major League Gaming, The Big Bang Theory and many many other things which I have little time and patience to look up.
The only part of "Gaming Culture" that has any positive effect on video games is the Mod Communities.