Don't you just love Next-Gen gaming?

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Don't you just love Next-Gen gaming?

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Is it just me or is gaming in a dark age? I mean...
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This is just depressing.
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You're not really seeing the entire picture if all you're looking at is mascot platformers. Looking at other genres, I'd suggest that Wolfenstein: The New Order is every bit a worthy successor to its predecessors, the latest Fire Emblem games are the best the series has ever been by far...hell, Yakuza 5 blows the socks off its prequels, which are still pretty awesome anyway! I'd say we still have plenty of room for this generation to be pretty damned cool.

And if it's specifically mascot platforming you're after, why not look at some of the alternatives out there? Freedom Planet is pretty much "the best Sonic game never made," Shovel Knight takes a lot of cues from classic Capcom...hell, you might even be interested in the Shantae games.
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omfg your so right !

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rip gaming it's all over everything is shit now 1998 was the peak of gayming
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Atari 2600 or go home.
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wildweasel wrote:You're not really seeing the entire picture if all you're looking at is mascot platformers. Looking at other genres, I'd suggest that Wolfenstein: The New Order is every bit a worthy successor to its predecessors, the latest Fire Emblem games are the best the series has ever been by far...hell, Yakuza 5 blows the socks off its prequels, which are still pretty awesome anyway! I'd say we still have plenty of room for this generation to be pretty damned cool.

And if it's specifically mascot platforming you're after, why not look at some of the alternatives out there? Freedom Planet is pretty much "the best Sonic game never made," Shovel Knight takes a lot of cues from classic Capcom...hell, you might even be interested in the Shantae games.
I loved Wolf:TNO and Fire Emblem: IF (or Fates I guess), I've yet to play any game in the Yakuza series though
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Safe to say I know a "Sister" to the Mario games I can depend on.
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On topic though: Apparently the newest Star Fox game isn't too well received... And Doom 4's multiplayer is being criticized. ((Let's just hope it's not another DNF))
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Duke Nukem Forever has a abysmally long development time, was promised to be released in the late 90s, and got reworked from the ground up 2 or 3 times i think? meanwhile, there was some leaked footage about a earlier Doom 4 prototype that i don't think had any real information that it was that? okay sure, Doom 3 was 12 years ago. but Doom 4 was also never hyped up to disbelief like Doom 3. they're nothing alike: DNF promised everything and then some, Doom 4 is more honest with what it is.

i don't have anything to comment on the other games as they've never interested me.
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Welcome to the world of big budgets and the risk-reduction management this induces. Take any bean counter who has to greenlight spending this much money and they'll all got the route of least resistance, which is inevitably a sequel to a successful title, if you get a franchise you hit a gold mine.

Of course that kills creativity just as much as with movies - and I am already getting tired by what Hollywood has been producing over the last years.
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seriously some people don't even give the game a chance before it comes out and they complain that its gonna be a shit game.
everyone has there own opinions i guess.
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Actually, I think you'll find that videogames are good.
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Kinsie wrote:Actually, I think you'll find that videogames are good.
i did not say that i thought video games where crap
i was just complaining about how some people stereotype some specific games
sorry if i worded it wrong my english not not too good
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Some places are celebrating the Xbox360 with great "nostalgia". you know, the console that gave us mandatory DLC, timed exclusivity, sparse much-delayed patches and GFWL poor durability, all the things we "love" in nextgen. :|


Also the games in the OP aren't good for comparisons either. You're comparing "dark age" with "dark age"
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This game was mediocre at best.

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This game was terrible in hindsight.

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Worst game in the classic series.
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Graf Zahl wrote:Welcome to the world of big budgets and the risk-reduction management this induces. Take any bean counter who has to greenlight spending this much money and they'll all got the route of least resistance, which is inevitably a sequel to a successful title, if you get a franchise you hit a gold mine.

Of course that kills creativity just as much as with movies - and I am already getting tired by what Hollywood has been producing over the last years.
THIS! This is the problem with gaming these days!

For example, Wrath of the Lich King and Vanilla are much more fun than current Blizzard WoW.

I feel that WoW went down hill after Cataclysm (even the official stats support this!) because the shareholders and bean counters started calling the shots and having more influence. Every art form starts to turn crap when the sole intention is just to make money for the stock market/shareholders. Older games were better because they were from a more innocent time when the developers didn't really care about making lots of money. Why did Minecraft explode and sell so well? Because it was a breath of fresh air developed by someone who was truly passionate about computer games. Although now I expect it to take the WoW route now it's been sold off to big business...

This is why UE4 is now a free engine for anyone to develop with, so the old spirit of gaming can be revived without the big overheads of corporations. Epic have become my new favourite developer just for releasing UE 4 for free! It's a great idea, the big corporations make the high end tools, then small independent hobbyists can keep the old school spirit of gaming alive :).

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Heh, I R teh conversation killer :D

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