A bit of an overstatement there. There is no shortage of game developers (mostly indie, of course) out there that are legitimately interested in innovating and trying new things. There is plenty of passion and attention to detail that gets put in to many games these days. Don't be so quick to assume that all game developers will follow suit.AdamRhodes said:The fear is that since one genre can make stacks of cash with very little creative innovation besides a new five hour long campaign, eventually every game developer will attempt the same things. Eventually we'll see new Tetris where the only innovation is different colors for the same type of block /hyperboleGoofguy said:I don't play them myself but as long as record numbers of people keep buying and enjoying the games, it won't stop. What's the big deal anyway? Sure, each new iteration does little to innovate the genre but if people are entertained by them and find them fun, is that not the point?
I didn't say it would happen but the fear that it will still exists. Gamers can be pretty paranoid about their hobby.Goofguy said:A bit of an overstatement there. There is no shortage of game developers (mostly indie, of course) out there that are legitimately interested in innovating and trying new things. There is plenty of passion and attention to detail that gets put in to many games these days. Don't be so quick to assume that all game developers will follow suit.AdamRhodes said:snip
Besides, what would the OP hope to accomplish? If the masses want to buy up every new CoD, who's going to stop them? Even he stated that he buys them to play with his friends. Regardless of his reason, he still bought it and he feels he should act indignant about it? Hard for me to take this seriously.
Keep doing what, you say? Breaking the Code of Conduct by not having a clear thread-title but instead an ambivalent one, a title that says nothing about the contents of the thread?theSHAH said:Buying the new Call of Duty? Why? It's the same exact game every single year repackaged in a different setting. I'm guilty of this myself, my reason being is all my friends buy it for whatever reason and it gives me a standard fps to play with them. Will this chain ever break?
What pisses me off even more is that you can't just shoot the pilot with a sniper like the series has had you do before. Because apparently the pilot for the chopper is either purely cosmetic or just not therehazabaza1 said:Apparently, three MP5 mags to the side of a fully armoured attack chopper brings it straight down. Who'da thunk it?Anget Colslaw said:Seriously? Going up against a damn chopper? With nothing but small arms?
Except there seem to be far more people that yell at fans of either series for playing them. Calling them stupid sheep with alarming frequency. In fact I'd be hard pressed to think of anyone that I know who plays those games that has had these discussions you're talking about. Most of them have at least played both, if not own both.Shoqiyqa said:I think they're part of an attempt to bring back Darwinian evolution. The idea was the create two series of the same game with different but similar and, in some cases, overlapping titles and then shoot all the idiots who spent more than an hour of their lives arguing about whether Call Of Warfare 7 or Modern Battlefield 6 was the better game. They're made the indistinguishable games. They've confused the numbering systems. They've got idiots to shout at each other from six feet apart about which game's "more realistic" and which is doing better in which charts and so on. They just haven't got round to shooting the bastards yet.
Honest question here, do you have this fear?AdamRhodes said:I didn't say it would happen but the fear that it will still exists. Gamers can be pretty paranoid about their hobby.
Like you said, indie developers will always have a passion and drive to make games better. Until they get bought by EA or Activision or whichever. Just remember that for every Valve, there is an EA. And indie developers, being independent, may not be able to get the exposure and sales necessary to stay active.Goofguy said:Honest question here, do you have this fear?AdamRhodes said:I didn't say it would happen but the fear that it will still exists. Gamers can be pretty paranoid about their hobby.
I like to believe that despite it being a money making business, there is enough integrity and passion amongst many of the game developers to ever let this kind of thing happen across the board.
This...BeeGeenie said:LOL, not really. I'd say sports games are the worse offenders. At least with FPSs they try to make each one different enough to get noticed.
Not that I play either genre. They're just not my thing.
Ok, yeah they aren't exactly the same, but speaking from a strictly outsider's perspective, it seems to me that saying that is like saying that NHL 2012 isn't "exactly the same" as NHL 2011.oplinger said:Please don't. Really the games aren't "exactly the same game" unless your criteria is "You shoot stuff with guns lol military"
They are the same concept, with differences to keep the fans coming back. Instead of patching the games and updating them, they release a new game every year.
And really, why did you have to make a thread that has been done like 40 bajillion times on this site alone? Did you really need our opinions that badly?
I have no problem with people who buy them, like them, play them, like them, play them more, still like them and buy sequels. That's fine with me. It's people who try to shout each other down for two hours a week where I'm trying to have a relaxing break that get on my nerves. After the 100th hour of them shouting at each other about where each game is on which chart I'd quite happily shoot the pair of them ... with a longbow and broadhead arrows for irony's sake. Everyone else can carry on playing and enjoying the games. It doesn't bother me that much as long as I don't have to hear about it.Blunderboy said:Except there seem to be far more people that yell at fans of either series for playing them. Calling them stupid sheep with alarming frequency. In fact I'd be hard pressed to think of anyone that I know who plays those games that has had these discussions you're talking about. Most of them have at least played both, if not own both.Shoqiyqa said:I think they're part of an attempt to bring back Darwinian evolution. The idea was the create two series of the same game with different but similar and, in some cases, overlapping titles and then shoot all the idiots who spent more than an hour of their lives arguing about whether Call Of Warfare 7 or Modern Battlefield 6 was the better game. They're made the indistinguishable games. They've confused the numbering systems. They've got idiots to shout at each other from six feet apart about which game's "more realistic" and which is doing better in which charts and so on. They just haven't got round to shooting the bastards yet.
Really I've seen a lot more people like yourself then I have the people you view as 'the problem'.
Simple Solution: Stop having friends.theSHAH said:Buying the new Call of Duty? Why? It's the same exact game every single year repackaged in a different setting. I'm guilty of this myself, my reason being is all my friends buy it for whatever reason and it gives me a standard fps to play with them. Will this chain ever break?
Shoot them? Why would they need to shoot them? They'll eventually fall victim to prey at the watering hole. >.>Shoqiyqa said:I think they're part of an attempt to bring back Darwinian evolution. The idea was the create two series of the same game with different but similar and, in some cases, overlapping titles and then shoot all the idiots who spent more than an hour of their lives arguing about whether Call Of Warfare 7 or Modern Battlefield 6 was the better game. They're made the indistinguishable games. They've confused the numbering systems. They've got idiots to shout at each other from six feet apart about which game's "more realistic" and which is doing better in which charts and so on. They just haven't got round to shooting the bastards yet.