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Ifreann wrote:

The Matthew Islands wrote:If everyone is buying the same rehashed stuff, then where does the new stuff come from?

People making and buying that too. They're not mutually exclusive. Besides which, if people are buying sequels of sequels of sequels then obviously people enjoy "the same rehashed stuff", which is the point of entertainment media. Well, the point aside from making money for the producers of it.

Fair enough.

Norstal wrote:

Mesoland wrote:The ones I were originally most excited for were Sim City 5 and FIFA 13, however I was absolutely blown away by Watch Dogs.

I was, in the end, disappointed with Sim City 5. As an avid player of SC4, it looked like EA and Maxis had decided to dumb down the newer edition to appeal to the wider audience. The graphics look cartoony, and the overall gameplay, to be frank, a bit shit.

I don't mind cartoony graphics. Really, what's wrong with cartoony graphics? We're on the edge of the uncanny valley in video gaming. Besides that, they're still working on it.

I just hope that they make it as complex as it was with SC4. Which, they don't seem to make an effort on.

When I said that the gameplay looked shit, I meant that it looked dumbed down and not as complex as SC4.

And I just hate the cartoonishness of the graphics. The relative realism of SC4 was great, yet SC5 just looks ridiculously meh.

The lepearchauns wrote:

Ovisterra wrote:
First, you need a writer or two. Then, you get some artists and a couple of programmers. Put them all in a big room (equipped with whiteboards, paper, computers and stationary) with lots of energy drinks and crisps, add a few million dollars, and come back in a year or so.

Or in Valves case, a decade or 2

HA! I like the cut of your gib.

The worst part about that fiasco is that Half-Life is the only title they have that is actually theirs, that they designed ground up on their own. All the other games? Were either mods or games being developed by studios that they bought out. My guess is, is that that's their strategy; find an up and coming developer that has a promising looking title int he works and buy 'em up and put 'em to work under Valve's banner.

The lepearchauns wrote:

Ovisterra wrote:
First, you need a writer or two. Then, you get some artists and a couple of programmers. Put them all in a big room (equipped with whiteboards, paper, computers and stationary) with lots of energy drinks and crisps, add a few million dollars, and come back in a year or so.

Or in Valves case, a decade or 2

Yeah, but Valve give you a decade's worth of stuff. Have you seen TF2?

Mind you, Bethesda gave us a decade's worth in half a decade with Skyrim.

TF2 is terrible. It was perfect on release and now... I don't even know what it is, but it's not Team Fortress.

Fucking hell, Halo 4 looks awesome!

*disguised tag*

Ballatron wrote:TF2 is terrible. It was perfect on release and now... I don't even know what it is, but it's not Team Fortress.

I like it. I have, on occasion, stayed up all night to play it.

Ovisterra wrote:

Ballatron wrote:TF2 is terrible. It was perfect on release and now... I don't even know what it is, but it's not Team Fortress.

I like it. I have, on occasion, stayed up all night to play it.

I think I played for about half an hour, and when it was apparent that I was shit, gave up entirely.

Oterro wrote:

Ifreann wrote:People like things similar to other things they like. This spells the doom for all entertainment media.

No there is absolutely no harm in people continuously buying the same shit instead of trying new things in a market saturated with rehashes and remakes.

pffftahahahahaahah yeah.

And if it's a continuation of a series they like, how, exactly, does that effect you? By your logic any of the books in your house by the same author of a series is just as bad as someone buying a sequel of a game they like. Sorry everyone can't be as "hip" as you and go for the "new and interesting games" because you don't like the sequels. Ffs.

Ifreann wrote:

Ovisterra wrote:
I like it. I have, on occasion, stayed up all night to play it.

I think I played for about half an hour, and when it was apparent that I was shit, gave up entirely.

I'm shit.

Ballatron wrote:

The lepearchauns wrote:
Or in Valves case, a decade or 2

HA! I like the cut of your gib.

The worst part about that fiasco is that Half-Life is the only title they have that is actually theirs, that they designed ground up on their own. All the other games? Were either mods or games being developed by studios that they bought out. My guess is, is that that's their strategy; find an up and coming developer that has a promising looking title int he works and buy 'em up and put 'em to work under Valve's banner.

They also have Steam and Portal correct? A team outside Valve came up with portal, but THEY went to valve to get it made

The lepearchauns wrote:

Ballatron wrote:
HA! I like the cut of your gib.

The worst part about that fiasco is that Half-Life is the only title they have that is actually theirs, that they designed ground up on their own. All the other games? Were either mods or games being developed by studios that they bought out. My guess is, is that that's their strategy; find an up and coming developer that has a promising looking title int he works and buy 'em up and put 'em to work under Valve's banner.

They also have Steam and Portal correct? A team outside Valve came up with portal, but THEY went to valve to get it made

Steam isn't a game..

Sentinel XV wrote:

The lepearchauns wrote:
They also have Steam and Portal correct? A team outside Valve came up with portal, but THEY went to valve to get it made

Steam isn't a game..

BUt its a software developed and maintained by Valve

The lepearchauns wrote:

Sentinel XV wrote:Steam isn't a game..

BUt its a software developed and maintained by Valve

Software that allows me to play TF2. Awesome software.

Ovisterra wrote:

The lepearchauns wrote:
BUt its a software developed and maintained by Valve

Software that allows me to play TF2. Awesome software.

And has some of the most awesome sales ever.

Corrian wrote:

Ovisterra wrote:
Software that allows me to play TF2. Awesome software.

And has some of the most awesome sales ever.

Yeah, I got Portal for free.

The lepearchauns wrote:

Sentinel XV wrote:Steam isn't a game..

BUt its a software developed and maintained by Valve

I dispute the claim that it's maintained. It crashes constantly. I have to reinstall it, on average, once a week. And the only games I play these days are TF2 and Civ V, so….

Wisconsin9 wrote:

The lepearchauns wrote:
BUt its a software developed and maintained by Valve

I dispute the claim that it's maintained. It crashes constantly. I have to reinstall it, on average, once a week.

Odd. Never happens to me.

Ovisterra wrote:

Wisconsin9 wrote:I dispute the claim that it's maintained. It crashes constantly. I have to reinstall it, on average, once a week.

Odd. Never happens to me.

You must be lucky.

The lepearchauns wrote:Sony went the other route. Theyve taken the most powerful console out there and made a bunch of kiddie gadgets for it. And announced a feature that another group already has, but they want you to pay $300 more for it. They underwhelmed me with their exclusive franchise. Their 1redeeming point was The last of Us. It saved their night from being a complete failure

This PS3 exclusive looks potentially interesting too. The graphics for it being a PS3 exclusive are pretty damn good.

I'm only interested in Far Cry 3, Fable: The Journey and Halo 4. To be honest, even those games can barely hold my attention.

Nothing terribly exciting that I wasn't already interested in, other than Last of Us. Nice to see some actual new IPs though, I was getting bored of E3 being Sequel Central.

Also, while it's still an entry in a series, Medal of Honor: Warfighter is generally speaking completely different from the rest of the series, other than borrowing the same engine that 2010's Medal of Honor used.

Sim-City ...

Halo 4, Black Ops 2, ACIII, Maybe Fall of Cybertron, Dishonored, Crysis 3 and Gear of war are the ones I'm looking forward to.

Corrian wrote:

The lepearchauns wrote:Sony went the other route. Theyve taken the most powerful console out there and made a bunch of kiddie gadgets for it. And announced a feature that another group already has, but they want you to pay $300 more for it. They underwhelmed me with their exclusive franchise. Their 1redeeming point was The last of Us. It saved their night from being a complete failure

This PS3 exclusive looks potentially interesting too. The graphics for it being a PS3 exclusive are pretty damn good.

The Last of Us, which is one of the games I (was) looking forward to, is PS3 exclusive. A shame, because I don't own a PS3.