I'd like to divulge here for a minute (after noting that I love listening to buckeye and Ninjaface argue about the X-box and PS2, though it is the opposite of what I'm going to discuss, I love seeing people stand up for their shit. It's fun too.) Anyway I'd like to talk about the shittiness of corporate America and how it affects something as wonderful as video games.
Anyway, all systems have their crutches. Otherwise known as the top-selling games. People complain about a lack of good games for all of the systems. That's because what's happening in the music business is also happening in the video game industry.
Nobody wants to take risks on making any really cool new innovative games. They only want to try what has been done before and sold before (hence the first person shooters, military/spy games, sports games, mario games). That's why there are the good stereotypical ones that they know are going to sell, which do, and then the shitty ones which developers try to profitize over, and they just suck because they spend no time on them. It's really fucking sad. There are only a few games that they know everyone is going to buy.
The shittiest part though, is that the fault doesn't lie completely in the developer's hands. There are a shortage of people out there that are willing to try games that aren't the Mario or Zelda or Halo or Silent Hill that they're used to. Same thing with the music business. It's all a big steaming pile of shit because no one wants to step outside of their comfort zone. Fucking hippies. The unemployment rate is way high too, the world is going to shit, I'm tellin' ya.
[ August 30, 2003, 11:34 AM: Message edited by: Titan ]
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