@fminus said:
It pains me to say, but Ubisoft is the only publisher with guts left that tries to experiment a bit and try new IPs, as much as I hate Ubisoft for making Rainbow Six and Ghost Recon just another arcade shooter thing, they are really the only one left that actually tries.
The other one was THQ.
All the others are banking on existing IPs, and are now looking at the back catalog of what they can re-make and re-invision. It's super cool for fans of such series, but as an avid gamer since the 80s, it's just more of the fucking same.
I look at steam every day, and there is virtually nothing that I want to play, even now that there was the summer sale, I bought exactly 2 things, one being the Titan series from Puppygames and the other one being Awesomenauts.
Not a single damn blockbuster like the latest Farcry or Assassins Creed interests me in the slightest, I've played those game 20 times before, they are all the same with a new coat of graphics.
I'm not saying that's bad, cause people still dig those games, but there's also the other side, where people would actually like something new, and publishers need to realize that and invest heavily into it, or we're looking at another industry crash right around the corner.
Also game critics need to start being more judgmental on the games. And not hype them to oblivion when the game presents one new feature and everything else is a carbon copy from a game before - like the new Tomb Raider which could be called Assassins Creed.
That seems like a little extreme of a mindset. It's basically the same justification a lot of people use against Call of Duty games, which are very similar each iteration. If you're bored of entire genres because they've been done before, you're quickly going to run out of games that interest you. Almost nothing is completely original, now, or in the past.
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