I'm mad as hell and...

[Manji187]

http://www.cracked.com/article_16196_the-7-commandments-all-video-games-should-obey.html

Prolly done before as the article dates from 2008. Still...it's things like these that are worth thinking about and worth discussing.

Also this (optional):

http://malstrom.50webs.com/

It is recommended to start with the "Blue Ocean Articles" and then continuing with the "Disruption Chronicles".

Very interesting read but if you're too lazy to read even the Cracked article...here's an oversimplified summary:

The gaming industry is in a sad state and needs to fundamentally change.

I agree and want to add that should the industry fail to produce said change itself...there is an epic task for us gamers to see it through...somehow.

I once proposed the founding of an International Gamers Union to function as a representative and negotiator of our common interests. Anyone got a better idea?

"We're consumers of digital interactive entertainment products...so we have rights! And if we don't....we should have em...claim em...fight for em."

"I'm mad as hell and and I'm not going to take this anymore!" (Network, 1976)

 

[Proteus214]

You don't need a gamer advocacy group for better content, you just need to keep in mind what it is that you want out of a game, research it, find it, and play it. The Escapist had a really great article about this very subject a few weeks ago. What you are seeing is essentially, the acceptance of gaming as a mainstream medium. When you go mainstream, you need to appeal to as wide an audience as possible. Generic space marine games get made so often because they sell extremely well. If you don't want developers to make those kinds of games, vote with your wallet. Don't buy them. However, you will definitely be drowned out by the deluge of other gamers who are into that sort of thing, so the effort is ultimately futile.

Also, that Cracked article is horribly ill-advised and I honestly wouldn't take that particular article too seriously.

 

[loooooowwww]

go to 'the angry joe show.com' best reviewer out there right now... and im not forgetting about anyone... go check it out and I think youll have found a website thats dedicated to everything youve said.

 

[Legion IV]

go to 'the angry joe show.com' best reviewer out there right now... and im not forgetting about anyone... go check it out and I think youll have found a website thats dedicated to everything youve said.

I love angry joe!! Oh and spoony! and um alot of people involved with channe awsome.

 

[Dexiro]

There's nothing wrong with the game industry :/

The Cracked article was VERY opinionated and i saw on a lot of occasions he didn't have a clue what he was talking about. A lot of those points weren't even problems, some of them were positives.

You're telling us to fight for the right to have good games made for us? I don't see the logic behind it.

 

[blood77]

Also, that Cracked article is horribly ill-advised and I honestly wouldn't take that particular article seriously.

Yeah, I just read that, the first was the only one I could really agree with. The rest are just silly or dumb.

But more to the point, the gaming sphere is about as good as it is going to get. Could it be better, well yes, but nothing can be perfect.

 

[masterjiji]

Gah. The gaming industry needs one truly godlike game in each genre. An utterly magnificent shooter that poos on the doorsteps of Halo and Metroid Prime (this is the most likely to happen), a fighter game that surpasses in popularity and "goodness" the entire batch of series like Tekken and Street Fighter (highly unlikely, but worth dreaming for), and the most needed one by far is a true horror game, one that creeps you out better than Silent Hill, flat-out scares you better than Penumbra, and mindfucks you so hard (without the use of that horrible "psych test" that ONE game used, cough) that you no longer have a brian. A few golden standards like that would really help raise the bar for gaming and whip all the other asshatted, lets-remake-this-game producers into shape.

 

[cornmancer]

Gah. The gaming industry needs one truly godlike game in each genre. An utterly magnificent shooter that poos on the doorsteps of Halo and Metroid Prime (this is the most likely to happen), a fighter game that surpasses in popularity and "goodness" the entire batch of series like Tekken and Street Fighter (highly unlikely, but worth dreaming for), and the most needed one by far is a true horror game, one that creeps you out better than Silent Hill, flat-out scares you better than Penumbra, and mindfucks you so hard (without the use of that horrible "psych test" that ONE game used, cough) that you no longer have a brian. A few golden standards like that would really help raise the bar for gaming and whip all the other asshatted, lets-remake-this-game producers into shape.

1. I thought Metroid was ONE of the godly games of the shooter genre, you've confused me.
2. The best way fighters could accomplish this is to stay in the arcade, where they belong.
3. Fair enough, Silent Hill 2 is my choice for best game of the genre, but it doesn't really have a game that represents the greatest horror ever.

Sorry, nothing wrong with your argument, I actually agree with it, I just love being devil's advocate.

As for the article, eh. I'm still reading, but it just give me a resounding eh. Somethings I agree with, somethings make him sound like a twat.

 

[More Fun To Compute]

I'll just keep on with my plan of buying games that I want to play at a price that seems fair to me. Don't see why I should do anything else. Other than complain on internet forums of course.

Not really sure how your two sources tie together. The cracked article is a list of personal bug bears that not everyone will agree along with captain obvious level observations like that graphics alone do not make a game. Malstrom is talking about Nintendo's business strategy and we have all seen what happens when other companies try to follow or copy Nintendo's strategy so it doesn't exactly make sense to protest against all game publishers, demanding that they do this.

 

[Manji187]

go to 'the angry joe show.com' best reviewer out there right now... and im not forgetting about anyone... go check it out and I think youll have found a website thats dedicated to everything youve said.

Thank you for expanding my horizon .

 

[masterjiji]

Gah. The gaming industry needs one truly godlike game in each genre. An utterly magnificent shooter that poos on the doorsteps of Halo and Metroid Prime (this is the most likely to happen), a fighter game that surpasses in popularity and "goodness" the entire batch of series like Tekken and Street Fighter (highly unlikely, but worth dreaming for), and the most needed one by far is a true horror game, one that creeps you out better than Silent Hill, flat-out scares you better than Penumbra, and mindfucks you so hard (without the use of that horrible "psych test" that ONE game used, cough) that you no longer have a brian. A few golden standards like that would really help raise the bar for gaming and whip all the other asshatted, lets-remake-this-game producers into shape.

1. I thought Metroid was ONE of the godly games of the shooter genre, you've confused me.
2. The best way fighters could accomplish this is to stay in the arcade, where they belong.
3. Fair enough, Silent Hill 2 is my choice for best game of the genre, but it doesn't really have a game that represents the greatest horror ever.

Sorry, nothing wrong with your argument, I actually agree with it, I just love being devil's advocate.

As for the article, eh. I'm still reading, but it just give me a resounding eh. Somethings I agree with, somethings make him sound like a twat.

I didn't say Metroid was bad. Metroid Prime and Halo (originals of both) are my favorite shooters ever made, Prime for pretty much everything (except for the DAMN FUCKING FISSION METROIDS) and Halo for nothing else than the indestructible Warthogs that you can bash each other for hours with. Also, I didn't say such a shooter was likely to happen, just that it was the MOST likely to. The others are even more unlikely. The "fighting game" genre hasn't had much of any changes; it's still always a choice between slightly controlled button-mashing versus memorizing the super-combos. And as for horror, almost all of the "horror" games today are just a series of jump scares with creepy-sounding music strung together by a loose storyline. Penumbra and SH2 are the closest we've gotten to true terror rather than just elevated blood pressure, and while I have some ideas of my own about a good horror game, I don't have a development team behind me, now, do I?