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I despise the gaming industry!
« on: September 29, 2010, 01:06:14 PM »
Here's one of my posts from AFF a few months ago:
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For years, the gaming industry had something for everyone. From brainless arcade racers and first person shooters to strategy games and racing simulators. Now, the simulation and strategy genres have fell to the wayside in favor of boring shooters and racers. Every year, the same old ideas get rehashed with prettier graphics and gimmicks just to make the big game companies more money! While games requiring a brain simply aren't considered profitable anymore. It's all about the bottom line for most game publishers and developers!

I'm sick and tired of seeing everyone get so hyped up over the latest shooter or RPG. It's the same God-forsaken game, peeps! Same concepts, same ideas, same storylines. Just better graphics and some stupid gimmicks that only serve to break the game even more. I'm just hopelessly frustrated about this.

Let me tell you something, there has NOT been a successor to SimCity 4. A game which came out almost 10 years ago and still is apparently the definitive city building game. That's pathetic! That ALONE shows how much integrity the gaming industry has left... NONE WHATSOEVER! It's all about shooting up other people/aliens and driving distastefully "pimped-out" Lamborghini Gallardo's and Nissan Skyline GT-R's into walls and other cars.

Everyone else seems to have fun with this brainless tripe. Well, let me tell you something, I DON'T HAVE ANY FUN WITH THAT BULLCRAP WHATSOEVER!!! I canceled my GameFly subscription months ago because of all of these pointless rehashes and sequels coming out every year.

I don't care about going online and playing with some dumb strangers. I am not interested in the whole cesspool of dorkship that is World of Warcraft (more like Wh0recrap). I hate RPG's! If the storyline doesn't bore you to Hell, the grinding will! I have heard so much about online shooters where new players get cheaply beaten and cussed out by 12 year old children who are simply sad excuses for human beings!

I quit being a gamer. The gaming industry is a big sad lie. There's no escape from the real world after all, is there?

Now, it has recently came to me that it will only be a matter of at least a couple of years, if not sooner, that a new generation of gaming consoles will be put out. What is really the point of an Xbox 720 or a Playstation 4? I feel like the gaming industry has stopped making any real progress ever since the Xbox 360 and PS3 came out. It just has been year after year of pointless sequels, rehashes, and been-there-done-that kind of games. Just with better graphics. Most of these games could have been done on the Playstation 2 or the original Xbox. And don't get me started on Wii games, which are all outdated concepts with Wii motion controls plastered on them.

I only have an Xbox 360, there's no need for me to get a Playstation 3, let alone the Nintendo Wii. You know why? Because about 95 percent of the PS3 library is also available for the Xbox 360. What's even the point of having 3 different consoles? The gaming industry really needs to get its priorities straight. All of this console wars crap, the almost constant flurry of revisions to consoles and handhelds I can't even keep track of anymore because every month, there's a new version of the Nintendo DS or PSP coming out.

Look, you fucking stupid gaming companies, the games are just going to stay the same! The first model of the Nintendo DS might be ugly, but it will play every fucking game ever made for the DS. And the Game Boy Advance. Fuck the DS Lite. Fuck the DSi. They are stupid pieces of shit. Who needs 2 fucking worthless cameras on a handheld gaming system? Fuck Nintendo. They are just as bad, if not worse, than Sony or Microsoft.

The gaming industry seems to be stuck in some kind of time hole. Every year, there comes some more shooters, racers, and RPG's which essentially have the same concepts of last year's games. It's NOT evolving. The evolution stopped somewhere in the middle of the Playstation 2 and Xbox lifespan. When the PS3 and Xbox 360 were coming out, all they had to offer was slightly better graphics. That's it. At least the PS2 and original Xbox had SOME fucking promise of something OTHER than slightly improved graphics.

If there really is a game I should play, please TELL me about it. But make sure that it isn't some triple-A FPS or RPG that's essentially the same as most of the others. And I'm not gonna fucking play anything with "Halo" in the fucking title. If I wanted to play a first person shooter, I would play DOOM for fuck's sake! Most of them are all the same! Here is a list of the Xbox 360 games that I have played so far:

Fallout 3
Flatout Ultimate Carnage
Grand Theft Auto IV
Grand Theft Auto IV: Episodes From Liberty City
Forza Motorsport 2
Forza Motorsport 3
Project Gotham Racing 4 (BORING)
Crackdown
Just Cause (BORING)
Saint's Row 2
Midnight Club L.A. (FRUSTRATING)
Need For Speed Shift (FRUSTRATING)
WWE Smackdown Vs Raw 2009 (BORING)
Gears of War (CRAP)
Bioshock (CRAP)
Prey (BORING)
GRID (FRUSTRATING)
Brutal Legend (CRAP)
Tomb Raider Underworld (BORING)
The Orange Box: Half-Life 2 (BORING)

Yeah, I called Half-Life 2 boring, flame me, bitches! :evillaugh:

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Re: I despise the gaming industry!
« Reply #1 on: September 29, 2010, 03:20:03 PM »
 :plus: for a good post :thumbup:

I don't play many games and have no desire to play online.  What I would like are more strategy games like the old wargames
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Re: I despise the gaming industry!
« Reply #2 on: September 29, 2010, 04:01:54 PM »
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Re: I despise the gaming industry!
« Reply #3 on: September 29, 2010, 04:12:14 PM »
I haven't played any of those games or had any gaming devices.  But it makes sense from a business point of view to keep your customers wanting more. 

Assuming you have a reliable product you do that by already have a strategic plan updates and release dates (often years in advance).  When you combine this with man's curiosity and his desire to keep up with the Jones' then you have a successful marketing plan.

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Re: I despise the gaming industry!
« Reply #4 on: September 29, 2010, 04:14:27 PM »
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Ohohohoho. Do you not have anything to contribute to this thread other than some stupid overused smiley? If not, then enjoy the crappy interactive movies that the gaming industry... eh, excuse me... The NEW HOLLYWOOD is putting out nowadays.

Oh, and be sure to play Halo Reach, the best interactive movie game of all time according to the sheeple who play it. Because Bungie, one of the biggest studios in the New Hollywood gaming industry, has put a lot of work into the graphics to make it as pretty as a piece of dog shit and very little work into anything else. Don't let yet another gaming equivalent of masturbation go to waste by playing a game that's actually decent, but the media shuns for being different. Does that seem familiar to you, my fellow aspie? Being shunned because of being different? ::)

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Re: I despise the gaming industry!
« Reply #5 on: September 29, 2010, 04:16:13 PM »
What did I tell you about the whole sheeple thing? :zoinks:

Also, claiming certain games are shit does not make you look superior to others. It just shows you're a clueless moron without any concept of subjectiveness.
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Re: I despise the gaming industry!
« Reply #6 on: September 29, 2010, 04:21:21 PM »
^it's baaaaaaaaaaad?

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Re: I despise the gaming industry!
« Reply #7 on: September 29, 2010, 07:24:06 PM »
This is who Duke reminds me of when he goes off on a rant:




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Re: I despise the gaming industry!
« Reply #8 on: September 29, 2010, 07:27:38 PM »
Judy if you were at a piss trough, I'd push you in.
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Re: I despise the gaming industry!
« Reply #9 on: September 29, 2010, 07:50:31 PM »
i aggree with the rant.

i also think you guys have completely lost the ability to truly direct hate and frustration. you only live once.
i have no real enemies, so...
a handful of game designers, programmers etc, i want them raped in the face SO badly. yes. then executed by bayonet up the ass.

i take all this nonchalantism as faked and forced.
"what are you on about, nothing affects me ever, thats how cool i am - especially despite being aspie *aspieface*"

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Re: I despise the gaming industry!
« Reply #10 on: September 29, 2010, 07:52:09 PM »
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Re: I despise the gaming industry!
« Reply #11 on: September 29, 2010, 08:13:03 PM »
i aggree with the rant.

i also think you guys have completely lost the ability to truly direct hate and frustration. you only live once.
i have no real enemies, so...
a handful of game designers, programmers etc, i want them raped in the face SO badly. yes. then executed by bayonet up the ass.

i take all this nonchalantism as faked and forced.
"what are you on about, nothing affects me ever, thats how cool i am - especially despite being aspie *aspieface*"

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I think it's more a case of  :yawn: I seriously don't give a fuck.

I mean, D.I.L.L.G.A.F?

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Re: I despise the gaming industry!
« Reply #12 on: September 29, 2010, 08:31:25 PM »
I disagree.

There are companies like Activision who, well, where did I put it...Ah, here it is.

On the other hand, you have Introversion (recently saved from folding by Valve running a sale on STEAM for them), Polyphony Digital, Studio Liverpool, Konami, GSC Gameworld, Kalypso, Paradox, GasPoweredGames and many others who still do new things.

If you're playing on consoles then yeah, you're going to have a mountain of FPS, Platformer (though that seems to be dying out), Arcade Racers and JRPGs.

But for every Need For Speed there is a Gran Turismo, a Wipeout - for every Halo a Darwinia, for every Assassins Creed a Demon's Soul's.

Ignore the AAA+ titles, they're just aimed at the mass market. If it's highly publicised and given an aura of "popular" before it's been out even a week, it's usually shit. Case in point; Halo, Call of Duty (although CoD used to be good, since it was the better part of the MoH team that split off when EA...well, when EA did exactly the same crap Activision is doing now, actually.)

I don't buy Activision, I don't buy Ubisoft. I buy Introversion, Valve, Gas Powered Games - I play oddball games like Audiosurf, Dwarf Fortress, Precursors and The Void.

Look around - you'll find something.

For example; Dwarf Fortress.

You have to plan ahead, design your fort efficiently and, preferably, so it can be locked down in sections in emergencies.



This is Wadship; it's a small but insanely wealthy fort built alongside a river on the top of a narrow spit of land.

I dug out the sides of the hills so they were vertical cliffs, built a complex at the bottom of the valley and, well, redirected the river. Boom, underwater fortress - completely isolated from the outside with just the pull of a lever to open the airlocks I designed - the tower which is more completed in this tower is the storehouses - first floor is full of glass blocks, and materials for construction. the next four floors are full of food, then bins of steel, mithril and other metal supplies (coke too), wood, furniture - the four pods in the centre on the floor have soil floors and skylights, for growing small crops (already submerged in this shot).

The tower which is still far from being completed is the living complex - assembly areas, living quarters, dining rooms and so on. the two bridges connecting also form a chamber in the centre, which has a large opening - this can be sealed. it is intended for fishing out of, as well as a source of water.

Across the top of the underwater section is a bridge; this, when complete, will be the only way in and out of Wadship.

In a later shot than this, there is a squat building on the end of the bridge; a small barrack, complete with ballista implacements and a system for dropping water along the centre of the bridge, hopefully washing any invaders off to drown (or smash their heads open, depending on how high the water had filled)

Population is 205~, with enough food stored to last the fort ten, twenty years - when I needed to rush the bottom of the pillars for the bridge, I stopped food production and processing and enlisted all the farmers into the masonry effort for five years.



This is an earlier shot - this shows the more completed tower, the central column thereof, and the four pods before I replaced the stone roofing with glass blocks in a grid pattern. You can see four of the pillars for the bridge there.



This shot shows the living quarters in the main section of the fortress - inside the spit of land, not the tower, as well as a storage area in the towers.





Gaming is mainstream now, and it's not "ours" anymore. Where certain types of gamers were once the dominant force, they are now but a niché.

If you like games of a certain type, buy them. If nobody buys them, no more get made.

If you pirate a game, and find you like it, go and buy it. I've pirated more than a few games - those I played more than once, I went and bought. Those that got played once and never again, deleted, treated as nothing more than an extended demo.

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Re: I despise the gaming industry!
« Reply #13 on: September 29, 2010, 09:05:08 PM »
Why repost that shit, Pikajedi? I don't want to play Dwarf Fortress. I'm more into games like Rigs of Rods. I want to drive a truck in some big open world, with realistic physics and graphics, but every attempt at this is fucked up in one way or another. Just Cause has this great big tropical environment, too bad a crap game runs on it. The driving absolutely sucks. Not what I was looking for.

Either driving sims, or city builders. I play Cities XL, which is enjoyable, because not only is it similar to Simcity, but it's in complete 3D. The game was flawed and buggy and its developers, Monte Crisco, went under several months ago, but at least the sequel should be out in a few weeks. I bet I am going to enjoy Cities XL 2011 more than most of the cookie-cutter sequels out there.

Fuck mainstream gaming. Just look at what going mainstream did to the Forza Motorsport series. Sold out just like Metallica did by dumbing down the gameplay with stupid driving aids, made all wheel drive vehicles extremely advantageous over any other drivetrain type, and taking the custom public lobbies out of multiplayer. Good job, Microsoft, on fucking up the last hope of any actual driving sims on the Xbox 360.

Even if Gran Turismo 5 ever comes out, I refuse to buy a PS3 because I don't think it will be worth the 500 dollars overall.

I have been looking around for some good games for months, and I am getting tired of it!

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Re: I despise the gaming industry!
« Reply #14 on: September 29, 2010, 09:08:26 PM »
Did you guys know that you're extremely awesome to know all that stuff?  Seriously,  it's like a foreign language and culture to me that really makes me feel my age because I'll never "get it" before I die. 
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