There's casual gamers, and then there's you peeps. Who go to a forum, bash a gaming industry, bash casual gamers, but do nothing to prevent this "impending doom" of the gaming industry. You sit around, still buy the games, and then complain about how horrible the games are. If casual gamers are ruining the gaming industry, you peeps are definitely not doing much yourselves to help the gaming community. Older games are more appealing to you because you were raised to play that game, and now frown upon any game that you don't like, because it wasn't created the way you wanted it, so you throw a fit (kind of reminds me the way an old man who soils his diaper does, yelling "those darn kids ruining..."), claiming how terrible games are now, and yet, amazingly, gaming is a rapidly growing industry, and you're just a small part who can't keep up with the times. Old days many games were produced, few were pieces of art. New days, many games are produced, few are pieces of art. If every game produced were perfect, it would take years for the development of each game, and the industry would die, well, because you wouldn't have "greedy" (which is BS btw, every company needs, and wants to make money, I'm thinking free market here, as it's pretty crucial to any company/ government/ person who owns a business) companies i.e. Activision, Treyarch, etc, that realistically keep the industry alive so that you can enjoy those ever so few perfect games such that other companies (Blizzard, for example) makes. Plus, I didn't know it was frowned upon to have the choice of game you want to play. Apparently an enjoyable game is a game that is chosen for you to play, kind of like someone choosing your life for you. Sound familiar? Yeah, think Russia. I'm sure it's not exactly that simple, but whatever lol keep ranting about how games are terrible, but you keep funding them, as I'm sure you will, and they'll just keep expanding.
Please don't generalise. If I don't like a game, I won't buy it, same as I know Twist doesn't, same as I know a few others here don't.
I didn't buy a CoD game after WaW. I didn't get MW2 because it was clearly another reskin and because they stuck 2 fingers up to their roots (the PC gaming market). I didn't get BLOPs because again, it is just another rehash of the same old crap. That doesn't mean I didn't play either - MW2 I got gifted to me by my parents, BLOPs I have played on a few occasions and every time it somehow managed to be worse than I initially thought (knew) it would be.
I didn't buy homefront or MoH for the same reason, I'm not preordering BF3 because it seems it may go the same way, only it may be MoH/BC2 that it is the exact same as.
I wasn't "brought up" on Portal, yet that is my favourite game of all time, I wasn't brought up on Project Reality, Minecraft, Company of Heroes, League of Legends, yet I love those games too.
What I was brought up on was Final Fantasy 7/8/9/10. Compare those to the latest offering, Final Fantasy 13, you are talking comparing games that you could go anywhere and do anything (it took a long period of the game to do that on 10 admittedly, but it wasn't completely linear), but when you did get back to the story, it was an excellent, if sometimes extremely far fetched. Compare that to 13, a linear trawl from cutscene to cutscene, half of the fights are done for you by AI, all you have to do is auto attack because it queues up everything for you. That isn't a game, that is an interactive movie and an awful one at that. The only thing in that game I enjoyed was the cutscenes because the graphics and animation were stunning, but that, again, isn't the game.
You look at Activision and how they work - games little and often, but overpriced. Guitar Hero, 1 game a year, same as the old ones, that went down the drain. CoD, 1 game a year, same as all of the old ones, give it another game or two and people will begin to get bored of it, it is already happening now, the only base they have any more is the casual gamer, and that is growing ever smaller. People don't dislike FPS games, they are beginning to dislike the same thing over and over.
You were asked in another thread to not start calling people dictators or fascists, or to hint at that, just because their opinion is different. I would give the advice to not buy the games "just because that is all there is", because when enough don't buy the games, the companies will be forced to change, and only when the consumer thinks the games are better will thy begin to grow again, and if they become stagnant, like that they have now, again boycott it. Saying that is what I do and that is what I would advise people to do if they think current gaming isn't very good, that isn't the same as saying if you buy it I will make you dissapear, you are the scum of the earth for buying these games. I'm not going to beat around the bush - it is those that buy these piss poor games that keep us where we are now so it is entirely your fault, but it is your money, so do with it what you will, but it affects other gamers besides yourself
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