Gameing indestry dying?

[CheeseSandwichCake]

It's going to die if Soccer Mums don't SHUT THE FUCK UP ABOUT THE BLOOD AND TITS IN VIDEO GAMES.
It's not really dying though. It's just getting worse with more copy-pasta's of Halo 3 being released and really bad RTSes of said games getting released.

 

[Simalacrum]

*looks at Nintendo Wii sells* No. It's not going to die anytime soon.

i'm afraid Wii sales don't count for much as sales for the gaming industry... more like gimicky toy industry

(oh snap! no he didn't just call the Wii a gammick!! wait... no, he didn't, it was only a joke)

 

[Vrex360]

When the first silent film, the first ever piece of cinema was created... the idea was ridiculed. Now look at it today, biggest money spinner in the world.

That I apply to game logic as well.

 

[MicrosoftPaysMe]

NEVERRRRRRRRRRRRRRR

 

[hypothetical fact]

gaming will never die. and ur spelling is pretty bad.

You better be trying irony there boy.

 

[SL33TBL1ND]

Well no it isn't dying but originality is. We're gonna eventually run out of new ideas for games.

 

[The_Prophet]

The industry can never die. It can be changed, it can be polluted or grow, it can be made smaller or larger, but as long as there is an electronic media, people will use that media to create interactive amusements.

That said, the industry is in danger of going down the crapper. I have my doubts if gaming can remain good for much longer. I know I'm beginning to sound like one of those Old Wizard losers, but I'm still feeling we may never see gamings Renaissance, which honestly saddens me.

This and it's so hard to use grammar, isn't it?

 

[Zenode]

The gaming industry will never die. Its just to big at the moment we continually see the same thing redone in new ways in the cinema and also.

People thought Cinema would die off with the introduction of television i guess thats a point proven.
lol at the misspelling >.>

 

[Doug]

The gaming industry has become a vast cauldron of filth which fools blinded by either blissful ignorance or by blinding favoritism eat up with all the gusto of a half-starved man who's just dragged himself from the very bottom of hell and worse.

No idea is innovative anymore and every gameplay concept and so called 'fresh' idea is little more than a retread of some obscure games own gimmick in the past. And because of the ignorance and blindness as stated above, the gamer showers adoration and love upon these would-be heroes of the gaming genre.

The only answer is to either become one of the willingly blind who serve this wretched industry in the vague hopes that something good might eventually come from it (It wont), or to become one of the enlightened and play nothing but obscure text games 24/7 till the day you die, then and only then shall you ascend to the gates of gaming nirvana where fields of all the greatest games you could ever possibly dream of await and you need never worry about platform or performance or bad controls ever again.

So join me brethren, join the enlightened ones! Gaming Nirvana awaits!

...

Whatd'ya think of my cultist pitch? I figure rather than trying to get rich by competing directly against the scientologist demographic I'll take a more gamer central angle. Am I genius or what?

Well if ya really have that big of a problem with mainstream gaming, then I'll let ya in on a little secret: "ya don't have to play"

I'm more than a little certain that he's most likely joking.

Joking? Me? Never.

Alas ye poor gamers, slaves to the monstrosity which is the gaming industry. A giant behemoth demon which grows stronger with every blissful sacrifice, intent on eventual world domination and ultimately the end of all things sane and sacred as it's bloated filthy heaving body falls to the earth with one massive final struggle to destroy any decency we humans once pretended to contain.

The only solution? Join me, join me (For only a small fee, promise!) and I shall show ye the light and the path towards ultimate gaming enlightenment. Gaming Nirvana, only several small payments of 9.99$ away, call and order now.

I could keep going all day, this stuff is hella fun to type.

I wish to join, o' brother, but I've one question: Do I need to sacrifice a puppy to join your cult?

Anywho, joking aside, you're right about the stagnantion of the mainstream gaming, and indie game makers seem mostly content to do only puzzler games - not that their bad games, World of Goo was great and fun and all, is just that puzzlers have a very limited replayablity if you're not really into the whole 'get the best mark'-ism, heh.

That said, no, the industry isn't dying, its just that alot of big studios are going to have trouble shoving generic space marine/anime girlboy shooter/JRPG 60 down our collective throats in the near future.

The problem is going to be 'can we fill in the gap between "hardcore" gaming and "casual" gaming, as at the moment the gap is quite wide and sooner or later the pool of "hardcorers" will dismish down to the point where its not profitable to make those games. I believe the Mario creator guy at Nintendo had a possible solution but we'll see how that pans out.

 

[MrPop]

Pointless thread with no argument on their part. But what made me come over was the misspelling of "industry" and "gaming".

Priceless. He just made this for the badge >_>

 

[Darathy]

No, the industry probably isn't dying. What might well be true is that it is unsustainable in its present form, with large studios and fat publishers. Something's going to give.

 

[Manji187]

gaming will never die. and ur spelling is pretty bad.

Never say never. Who knows what people will be doing with their time 100 years from now.