Maybe some of you have heard about Interplay shutting down Black Isle last month, but I just did. And really, I think it's the dumbest move they've ever made. For God's sake, most people would've have even heard of Interplay if it wasn't for Black Isle, Fallout, and Baldur's Gate.
So, now I wonder, what's left to see in the hardcore gaming community now that they sacked the guys working on Fallout 3? Interplay's focusing on Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance 2 and Fallout: Brotherhood of Steel, which means that the world's best RPG publisher is now going CRPG. It's bad enough with that CRPG Lionheart but now the most hardcore of titles is going softcore??? The only decent CRPG I've ever played was Divine Divinity.
And then there's this problem with violence. I don't mind violence in gaming, but now, violence has become too common. There's nothing wrong with blood splattering from a wounded guy, but these days, wounds cause FOUNTAINS of blood. Even a little bullet can knock off limbs. Game characters are becoming like rubber blow-up dolls pumped with red water.
So what is there left to look forward to? I suppose Black & White 2 would still be cool (if my comp could handle it). But besides that, there's only business sims and The Sims 2 for me to look out for. But besides that, I'll have to around scrounging for freeware to furfill my lust for non-combat based RPGs (cept maybe Kingdom Hearts 2). Even the Final Fantasy series seems to be getting worser.
I'm so darn sick of all those companies selling out. If this keeps up, I'm staying with edutainment.
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"So, now I wonder, what's left to see in the hardcore gaming community now that they sacked the guys working on Fallout 3"
u mean Fallout 4 Online.
Fallout 3 - Tactics is old...
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8th January, 2004 at 08:51:14 -
well, this year we have Half Life 2, Halo 2, Doom 3 all coming soon... from my end, the future looks bright (maybe as i love violence so much)
well my computer is pretty new..bought it 6 months ago or so.
all new games work on it, but most of them just aren't fun. maybe I am just too old,
can u imagine a history teacher playing videogames?
Pete Nattress:
Don't forget Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater on PS2
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8th January, 2004 at 12:28:46 -
no daniel, i'm TRYING to forget it. for me MGS2 was dissapointing and i don't think adding the ability to eat snakes is going to prevent an inevitably dreadful and drawn out story.
fishead, i sure as hell can't imagine my history teachers playing video games
Metal Gear Solid seems to be a sort of Emperor's New Clothes style situation... the media are saying how great it's going to be, but I can't really see anything special about it.
To a lesser extent, the same thing happened with MGS2 - it just doesn't seem to fit together as a game as well as the first MGS did.
I'm still playing the original Prince of Persia. Now that's quality. My best time's just over 20 minutes <¦-)
Ratchet and Clank 2 isn't bad either, but it's still nowhere near the classic platforming days of Sonic and Mario.
The Ratchet & Clank series rules. (I got to interview one of Ratchet & Clank's designers for a school project last year (I'm telling the truth))
In a few years, the big companies will be so big that the smaller companies(like everyone here at DC) will never probably never get a piece of the glory of the game industry. On the other hand, most of the new games are becoming crap. So the competition with the old schoolers won't be that hard.
i buy games too often nowadays and mostly never finish them.
the last game i finished was sonic adventure dx and it wasnt the most fun game ive ever played.
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(maybe as i love violence so much)
(I'm telling the truth))
