[Blood-Pigggy]

Reason it's dying is because it's moving too fast, and all the supposed hardcore gamers are entirely in support of its rapid advancement.

The technology is too expensive, the constant demand for better graphics from the idiotic mainstream audience, along with the rising cost and development time means the industry is moving too quickly for its time and is using too much money and manpower to develop games with woefully unimpressive gameplay.

Now, it can take someone five minutes to make a tight system on a modern engine. Anyone and his grandmother with a little basic coding knowledge, can take a few models and slap a working game together using a simple marketed editor.

So instead of doing what they're SUPPOSED to be doing, which is attempting to create engines that can process multiple things beyond the "LOOK AT WHAT THE PC IS DOING, EVERYONE, IGNORE EVERYTHING AROUND HIM, IT'S HIM! OH MY GOOOOOOOOD!!!" and into a realm where the game is processing something beyond *dirty word* having your character jump around like a retard shooting bullets with fancy ballistics in place.

What I mean is that they typically slap on the most basic functions, ie jumping, crouching, and shooting in a shooter, and instead of actually attempting to make the game a bit more unique in these aspects (IE Max Payne, IE friggin Half-Life for god's sake, at least make it cinematic you porkers) they slap on some pointless, and I do mean POINTLESS little gimmicks, like Prey's crappy gravity segments, or Crysis' annoying little "reinvention of death matching" when all they're doing is upping the speed by like %50 and making sure everyone will be pissed off by cheap exploits.

Radiant AI was a good step, but guess what, Bethesda goes GAGA and pulls the plug on the damn thing, leaving ALL the capabilities in the game, but stripping it down to the point where it becomes retarded.
All those videos and things they said were entirely true, someone just had a brain spasm and decided to flail around and delete anything that was good.


When games now are taking the amount of time and money it took to make an entire game in 1998, and instead are spending that time on money on, what, shaders? Bump mapping? Realistic ragdoll physics and world mechanics (hint at that shallow money-sucking sap-netting Star Wars game coming out soon) all cost ABOUT FOUR TIMES THE AMOUNT OF MONEY, it takes to create HALF-LIFE in 1998.
This is far too evident, companies actually boast about this.
All it proves to me, is that someone made something fun and revolutionary in the space of time and money it took you to make an aspect that no one will remember.

Myst type games are no longer interesting. Crysis, while it may sell, is most likely going to be a pathetic game, and if its any good at all, it will be uninspired tripe.
The audience this industry has now lets anyone shovel anything down their throat without a single consideration of the gameplay.
Story, graphics, sound, ALL almost always take priority over simple *dirty word* gameplay, GAMEPLAY, something you can script in ten minutes, it doesn't take a GENIUS to make a game that can just do something different, it doesn't take a god damn genius to take a team of 100 *dirty word* people, tell them to use some simple code to MAKE A SINGLE THING DIFFERENT and instead of spreading peanut buttery crap all over our faces with their pathetically optimized 3D galleries of soulless crap, maybe they could have something that reviewers will actually like.

I dunno, maybe Starcraft rings a bell?
Simplest system EVER, but how different is it? How much effort did it take Blizzard to make the game? In comparison to other companies, not much at all.

In fact, compare Starcraft to the development cycle of Tiberium Sun, which was a total failure. For the amount of work and money it took to make Starcraft, Westwood spent nearly ten times as much creating a game with absolutely no unique aspects whatsoever.



The industry is failing because it's bafflingly stupid. Just like Rap, the only way to really save it is to tell everyone to stop, and start over at some point.

That's not going to happen, it's either going to crash like Hollywood did, then slowly start up again, or it's just going to continue to be the worst thing ever for anyone with brains.