The video game industry is boring

I never thought I'd say it, but the video game industry is the most boring it has ever been.

    * We have the same three players for the second generation in a row.
    * Japan has stagnated. They don't get interesting exclusives. They don't push boundaries.
    * The industry as a whole has stagnated. We've been playing similar versions of the same game since 2002.
    * Franchises are being run into the ground. Zelda 10. Resistance 3. GT5. Mario 20.
    * Shameless copycat of motion controls. No interesting software to support the new controls.



Last generation (DC, XB, GCN, PS2) was a thrilling time, to be honest.

The only interesting games I can find are on XBLA, PSN, and WiiWare. It's the only place where creativity counts.
People will buy video games regardless. If the industry as a whole took an oath to only work on new franchise pet projects everybody would benefit.

I'd love to see a time when developers matter more than the name on the box. The Coen Brothers don't make an endless string of sequels and Nintendo EAD shouldn't remake Zelda a thousand times.

I like pacman

You can blame casual gamers for the lack of quality in today's games.

>>4
No you can't.

I don't know, some games like BioShock and Portal are a bit different than most.

>>5
Yes you can, because that's the demographic for nearly every game developed these days.

>>8
I'm not >>7/the other guy, but I sort of have to agree. The biggest games are crappy Halos and COD and what have you, which are casual. I remember the gamestop website even listed COD black ops under casual, which proves it.

I think good gameplay devices deserve sequels, not franchises.
At the very least I want new characters, art, and music to engage with.

More like video lames.

>>9
You don't think Super Mario Bros., The Legend of Zelda, and Metroid weren't for casual gamers?

>>12
The casual scenario didn't really exist back then, so no.

>>13
Pretty sure a much higher percentage of video game consumers were casual back then. Atari was before my time, but I remember everyone had a NES. Specifically I mean adults who were definitely casual gamers. Adults who played games and never bought a console again, until maybe the Wii.

>>13
Pretty sure a much higher percentage of video game consumers were casual back then. Atari was before my time, but I remember everyone had a NES. Specifically I mean adults, and they were definitely casual gamers. Adults who played games and never bought a console again, until maybe the Wii.

>>14
I don't think you know what casual means. Or maybe the meaning of it has been lost, like hardcore.

>>16
Maybe I don't, what does it mean? People who like what you don't like?

>>17
u mad?

>>18
Back to /b/, please.

The problem is that now casual games are SHIT! Who the fuck wants to play boring ass COD games or guitar queer stupid crap. And every game now has to be some huge blockbuster with long boring emo scenes everywhere and the same boring super easy gameplay with just a different skin. And it doesn't help that nintendo started this whole waggle control crap and women and old people want to play games now. Shit sucks.

>>20
How about you just grow up and stop playing games?

>>21
How about you just grow up and stop trolling on the internet device?

>>22
Yeah, you're right. Complaining on a BBS is totally going to change the game industry. Just enjoy your classic games and look for new ones that you missed.

20 years from now people that grew up with CoD and Halo are going to look back at those games as awesome and look at the then-current generation as shit. Times change, bro, nothing you can do about it.

Have you tried playing Minecraft? It's a lot of fun and it's imaginative and mildly original.

>>23
I wonder if I'll live long enough to see some people that grew up playing CoD and Halo try to mimic the game and kill some people.

>>25
You already have.

It's thanks to intelligent hardcore gamers we have Ocarina of Time. It's thanks to casual gamers we have hundreds of crappy EA games.

>>28
True but Mirror's Edge & Dead Space are great games. And Burnout Paradise has it's moments so EA is not all bad.

>>29
Road Rash and NHLPA 93 were awesome, too. I wish EA hadn't have killed the Dreamcast.

When does the Dreamcast 2 come out?

>>31
Never.

Where the fuck did Sega go?

>>29
Dead Space is god awful.

i play yugioh on my gbc bitch deal with it w/e

>>34
Dead Space is god awful fun.

FTFY. Dead Space shits all over RE5.

And whatever happened to good catchy music in games? It's all over the top orchestras now which sounds expensive but doesn't produce any memorable tunes like say Oot did.

Video games are different. Thats how I see it. They just changed so much. I always wonder what the next big genre will be in 20 yearsm

Video games are different. Thats how I see it. They just changed so much. I always wonder what the next big genre will be in 20 yearsm

>>36
RE5 is god awful.