x-machina said:
Katana314 said:
The movie industry has its actors, which are big, visible icons. The book industry has authors, which are the sole name on the front of the book. The game industry has nothing more than titles, which they can add numbers onto. Sure, there are the developers, but A. They are backroom rats in China/Japan's development, B. They don't get up-front exposure the same way.
When Titanic was a big success from Leonardo diCaprio, Inception was them making Titanic 2, the way the movies do.
Execpt that Inception was a brillant new movie with fresh ideas, and a great stroy. Not just a quick cash-in repackaging the same idea and enviroments. Your probably right about the gaming industry needing icons, but having them be big corporate franchises is a terrible solution.
Hate to break it to you, but inception is not original...
http://www.cracked.com/article_19021_5-amazing-things-invented-by-donald-duck-seriously.html
OT: I find it hard to include sonic because this franchise kinda died a long time ago, it's way past the point of "downhill" and is more closer to "rock bottom" and has been there for years already.
I can't really say final fantasy either, because while 13 was atrocious, 14 still has some potential, and 12 is probably one of my favorite FF's since 7. Then you have Tactics Ogre on psp that gave me back SOME faith in SE. BUT they are definitely on shaky ground, I cant deny it.
I find that just about all game companies kinda fall into this position now though, it's the same corporate garbage being re-released every year, I mean, Mass Effect 3 and Uncharted 3 got best of show @ e3? They will be the exact same games as the ones before, only ME3 has the lightsword thing from halo now.
/yawn
EA completely killed my Mass Effect boner with ME2, while it was great and cinematic n all that stuff we tend to get all girly in the pants over, its a really shallow game when compared to ME1 (not saying ME1 didn't have problems). And I just cant get into uncharted as much as I try. oh yea, DA2 was definately 'a steaming pile of fail', it's too bad that some people can't see it for what it is, corporate filth disguised as a game.
Then there's Bioshock infinite, and I'm just speechless over the idea that people are actually excited for this game. I saw the trailer, I saw the tears breakdown, and it's going to be the same ole crap, but I'm sure it'll get lots of praise for having just enough of a gameplay twist to have everyone shouting "MOST ORIGINAL GAME EVER", therefore = good. yuck.
Probably gonna get some nasty hate for those statements, but I don't care, it's an opinion thread, and its my opinion so /mlehh
and preemptive response to "well what DO you like", I like games that have good gameplay, good art, good music, something thats ACTUALLY original, and doesn't just try to cater to the 'call of dooky' crowd which is EVERY GAME EVER now-a-days.
aka, games that the designers make to play, rather then make to make lots of money.
But if I had to actually pick a franchise thats really headed down the pooper, I would have to say call of doody, not because its actually losing money or fans, but because of the tremendous damage its doing to the gaming industry. every game is trying to capture the same market, every company is in the 'monkey see monkey do' mindset and its really pathetic. then you have the games themselves and the fact that the original creators of modern warfare got super anal screwed w/o lube while kotick just gets to sit on his mountain of gold and find every possible way to get even more money out of its slave-minded players.
once all these companies go 'all in' on this market, it'll become exhausted and lame, and then there will be another crash.
another company thats really stuggling imo, is nintendo. mario and zelda seems to be their only bag of tricks since the wii came out, and its gotten very stale. the WiiU and 3ds have a lot of potential as hardware, but software is what makes the hardware sell.
