The future looks...

[Twilight_guy]

its pretty sad to see the whole gaming industry having a fetish of some sort for FPS's.
the days of original games are numbered, nothing but shitty MMO's, JRPGS and generic shooters are coming out.

on a brighter note, darkfall online will soon come and rumors of a fifth elder scrolls are circling around the interwebs.

edit: omg i noticed youre name is Twilight_guy
do you read these books?

My name is a reference to my E-mail address, Twilight_zone_guy. The shorter name is just easier to deal with. Sorry for any confusion.

First person is someone doing an action, third person is someone describing someone doing the action, second person is someone receiving the action from someone else. In a Second person shooter: action received = bullets. Second-person perspective is of the guy getting shot.

 

[Twilight_guy]

It's called 'Gaming'.
The only interesting games on the horizon are on the PC platform. Star Craft 2, Diablo 3 and Aion. Street Fighter 4 is hitting all consoles, as far as i know -- but also PC.

1. What games are you looking for? You only announced distaste for one of many genres.
2. Make shitty games for consoles, port the good ones to PC.
3. Consoles will die.

One of the worst type of fanboy ever, the "PC" fanboy.

P.S. PC fanboys make me sick, unless there scorning the "Mac," then its just entertaining.

Well there is a trend in consoles to move more and more towards making mini-computers as opposed to "video game systems." In my view a video game system primarily plays video games. With something like the PS3 where you could use it primarily to watch Blue-ray disks, its hard to say that its a "video game system" as opposed to a computer that happens to play video games. Of course, I suppose that's why they call them "home entertainment systems".

 

[Hevoo]

1. Am I just not looking hard enough for other types of games, besides shooters?
2. What do you think of the current trend in the industry?
3. What do you predict for the future of the gaming market?


1. Yes
2. Big and flashy
3. The market will divide into 3 parts.
Causal games - Gamers that spend 15 dollars on a game which they play for 2 to 3 months, Small puzzle games, Mario type games, Indie dev games, etc.

Franchise games - Massive budgets, massive profits for companies, Mainly shooters(GoW, Halo, COD type games). They would be for both the hardcore fans of gaming, and still get many causal gamers to play them. There would only be a few of these a year. These games would be multi platform, Microsoft, Sony, Nintendo, and PC. Also some MMOs would be added to this type of game (anything Blizzard touches basically)

Hardcore games - This would be the base community of gamers, forum junkies, nerds(nothing wrong with this), the people who grow up with games. These games would come from companies like Valve, IronClad, Blizzard, Stardock, Creative Assembly, etc etc. They would be everything from RTS, RPGs, to FPSs.

That's where I think gaming is going.

 

[Space Spoons]

Sometimes I think gaming is heading for another crash. More and more money is being spent on massive advertising campaigns and superfluous publicity stunts, while the quality of the end product is steadily declining. This isn't always the case, but it's becoming far too common these days for my liking.

 

[Hevoo]

Would Crysis fall into "franchise" or "hardcore?"

I mean, it has a massive budget, but it didn't make exactly a massive profit.

I would put that into Hardcore, because so few people could really play the game on there comps. I think games like that are for testing, see how good there programing is and how far they can push a game graphics wise.

It would fall into hardcore, it was not for the masses, as with GoW2, or Halo3.

 

[Hevoo]

I think in someways the gaming Industry is looking like the Auto Industry as far as testing. The Auto companies put the really cool stuff in there race cars, or really high end sport cars, and over a few years that tech they developed for there high end cars enters into the mass market.

I would say hardcore gamers are like Race car drivers, and people who want and can buy high end cars.

 

[dekkarax]

3. Consoles will die.

Consoles attract more new gamers (i.e. the young) than pcs, if they die, the gaming industry will probably slowly collapse from a slowly dwindling audience.

As for the massive deluge of shooters, they'll eventually die down.

 

[hypothetical fact]

In the future consoles and computers will merge into consuters and all games will be holographic projections controlled by thought.

 

[linchowlewy]

for ps3 you have some good JRPGs and racers but anything else good comes on PC

 

[Erana]

Twilight_guy, it seems to me that you're facing a similar crisis to what I felt when I first entered the gaming culture a few years ago.
Its not that there are any fewer games coming out for other genres, its that general attention is focused more on the blockbuster FPS games than many other, decent, titles.

I, of course, like many games in the FPS genre, so I don't know where to point you too, but, fortunately, I can say that other types of games aren't dead. =D