Most recycled video game franchise/series that needs to die.
Posted: Sun Aug 22, 2004 8:42 pm
Wasn't it Forbes last month that actually wrote a half way insightful article about what I've been bitching about since the start of the recent gaming generation?
The lack of creative, ambition, or risk companies are willing to take in the industry is pathetic. And depressing. Either a company ports too much (Nintendo, die), slaps a brand name on anything and it sells(EA, Square, die), or figures that buying up 3rd parties to develop games using ten year old genres just with "purdy-er graphics, and more blood"(Microsoft.. and Namco for buying the rights to SRS.. argh..).
Sure, the industry is certainly producing a more impressive media to the average person, but the soul of it all as seeminly run dry. Or maybe I'm just being cynical.
At any rate, I figured I'd poll on "the most recycled video game franchise that needs to die." Some franchises seem to go on forever, and are still decent all in all. Some should have never been created in the first place, so why do companies still produce them? Argh.
Die.
The lack of creative, ambition, or risk companies are willing to take in the industry is pathetic. And depressing. Either a company ports too much (Nintendo, die), slaps a brand name on anything and it sells(EA, Square, die), or figures that buying up 3rd parties to develop games using ten year old genres just with "purdy-er graphics, and more blood"(Microsoft.. and Namco for buying the rights to SRS.. argh..).
Sure, the industry is certainly producing a more impressive media to the average person, but the soul of it all as seeminly run dry. Or maybe I'm just being cynical.
At any rate, I figured I'd poll on "the most recycled video game franchise that needs to die." Some franchises seem to go on forever, and are still decent all in all. Some should have never been created in the first place, so why do companies still produce them? Argh.
Die.
