Guitar hero the dumbest fucking game in the world instead of learning how to play real guitar you fucking sit there and learn nothing how stupid is that.
Post by Red Bull Icon on Jul 30, 2009 21:44:27 GMT -5
Alright, what I wrote when someone asked me on Wrestlecrap to explain why I said FPS and Guitar Hero are killing gaming...
OK I should preface this with I am in no way an avid gamer.
The problem comes with each new FPS the focus seems to be more and more on the online aspect. In of itself that is not a problem, however more and more it seems the story mode takes the hit to give way to new weapons and flashier graphics. If the emphasis is placed on these games for their online features than the story the actual game becomes an after thought to what becomes an online competition.
Guitar Hero and Rock Band only help to contribute to this by allowing manufacturers to code a bands library and release a new game.
I might as well throw in any sports franchise like Madden, NBA Live, or SDvR. Games with slight gameplay improvements, sometimes, fresher graphics, updated rosters, and new online capabilities.
The problem is not the games themselves though, but rather the revenue they generate versus what I would assume is a smaller investment. It's risk versus reward. It's safer and more profitable for manufacturers to update the next Halo, Resistance, Call of Duty, Madden, NBA Live, MLB Showdown, GH Metallica, Aerosmith, or Rock Band World Tour instead of produce inFamous, Prototype, or Batman: Arkham Asylum.
Now the argument would be that developers are producing story driven action adventure and RPG's. My response though is I can see those titles becoming more obscure, spaced out, or major titles being solely sequel driven, GoWIII, KH3, Ninja Gaiden Sigma2, or DMC5, rather than producing the next KotOR. Knights of the Old Republic solely as an example of a game that caught a lot of people and should have been a huge series if II hadn't been snorked over.
I truely believe, and my Gamefly account will atest to this, that we're coming to a time where if you're not into online or Guitar Hero then you'll have to wait 4-5 monthes for your gaming fix of a 12 hour Viking: Battle for Asgard or Conan with the occasional 4th or 5th sequel of a game you loved 4 yrs ago peppered throughout.
It was a random video game observation thread, and I also threw out that there needed to be more God of War type nudity.
Well Before I started Writing role plays I would spend my whole life playing Guitar Hero, Halo,GTA4,Whatever good game was out there.
It even came to the point were I would actually skip school just to play these stupid fucking video games now my xbox 360 sits there getting dusty.
I came realize that video games are retarded unless your playing a role play game like Oblivion or Fallout, Games like that are more realistic you actually have to eat food and sleep or you will end up dead.
Post by Declan Prescott on Jul 30, 2009 23:35:46 GMT -5
Gotta agree with BoolZ. Though I would disagree with him including SDVR with those other games. SDVR gameplay actually gets a little worse each year, haha.
But I look at my favourite PS3 games and they’re all old school single player style… Fallout, Oblivion and Dead Space. And I feel this generation of consoles has produced far less memorable games than the last. Obviously these consoles haven’t been around for as long yet, but after a year of owning a GC and PS2 I had so many games that I loved. Now the same amount of time has passed with my PS3 and there’s only a couple I’d call classic.
And LOL @ skipping school to play video games. Epic failz.
20/10/2010 The day open mindedness returned to UGWC. Lest we forget.