Mad Mike wrote: SlashedTortoise wrote:game industry will never crash aslong as they keep moving on which there doing, and yeah cod is pretty much dead,
Cod you can now blow up signs and block of path ways.
Battlefield you can now bring down a skyscraper and change the map!
cod is dead pretty much, people will still play it cos it is dead but there just getting worse and worse each year and thats because they bring one out each year and then it doesnt last the whole year even with a map pack every month! it just cant keep up, GTA 5 ive heard is brilliant and it looks brilliant (im not getting it unless it comes out on xbox one) but yeah no cod was the top game everyone looking forward to it but now theres battlefield, Halo, GTA, Titanfall and others so instead of one game theres loads!
The thing is that every game is becoming COD. Production times are getting lower for every game! There are VERY few games out there where you can actually tell that people have put alot of heart into.
I'm not talking about good games, I'm talking about games with heart.
Take Bioshock for instance, it was a pretty bad game when it came to graphics and gunplay. But the story in it was incredible and effected me in so many ways.
All we see now is these big budget games that looks amazing and are pretty fun, but there's no love...
actually, Bioshock 1 was praised for its graphics, but yeah the gunplay sucked, i didn't really like the game that much tbh, apart from the story.
and Dred, personally i dont think GTAV outselling CoD means a damn thing. first of all, they are completely different games, and people are going to buy the next CoD game anyway, and it will sell lots, but probably not as much as GTAV because GTA is the most recognisable franchise in gaming.
all GTAV did was break records for most money made in a couple of days, and most expensive game ever made. it isn't the godsend "A GAME HAS FINALLY OUTSOLD COD OMFG THAT MEANS THAT COD IS DEAD NOW" that EVERYONE makes it out to be.
now, on the issue of the gaming crash, there are still a few devs that give a damn about making good games that aren't re-hashes (Valve for instance) and actually take their damn time to make something great, instead of trying to make as much money as possible by rushing development and dumbing down the game as much as possible to reach a wider audience, just like EA did with ME3.
but the thing with ME3 was that Bioware actually cared about making a good game, but EA rushed development of that game because they wanted money quick, so Bioware had to scrap the original ending of ME3, and Bioware was left with hardly any employees to continue on with ME3, tight on budget, and with only ONE month to do the ending.
so don't blame the god damn developers all the time, blame the ones who caused it, and in this case, it was EA.
anyway, about that gaming crash. if the rate in which we are going where we are getting games that are pretty much the same (i played the beta folks, BF4 is pretty much the same as BF3, with a little better graphics, a few new tweaks here and there, and no ugly blue tint), where they are dumbed down as much as possible, it will eventually crash.
it wont happen suddenly. right now, games like that (CoD) are still making billions, but later, when their fanbases grow up and realise that they have been buying the same crap every year, they will just stop buying it. i have overheard huge fans of FIFA who used to buy FIFA every year say "not going to buy FIFA14 now, because it is pretty much the same, and i have all i want with FIFA13" and stuff along those lines.
if it does crash, obviously be prepared for a lack of games to look foward to, especially AAA ones. i think that indies will pull us out of the ditch, then they will rise to AAA developers, because of the popularity they would gain. then we will live in the glory days of good games once again.
that's not to say that this generation is not so bad. hopefully some things will happen that will scare publishers and developers that will scare them, and make quality titles that aren't rushed, dumbed down and made for the dime.