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Jul 1 2005, 03:36 AM

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An interesting article on stagnant game design.

Older related "video game crash" topic here.

This is a semi satirical article based on the dead ends in game and console design prevalent in the current crop of releases and upcoming titless. It goes through many annoyances which I'm sure many of you have noticed. A small sample:

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Give us a genre of game we've never seen before. Something that's not an FPS or an RPG or Madden NFL or...

Why isn't a there a spy game where we actually get to be a real spy rather than a hallway-roving kill machine? You know, where we actually have to talk to contacts and extract information and tap phones and piece together clues, a game full of exotic locales and deception and backstabbing and subplots? A game where a gun is used as often as a real spy would use it (that is, almost never)?

Where's the game where we're a castaway on a deserted island and the object of the game is to find food and clean water and build a shelter, a game where we can play for one month or six months, because whether or not we get rescued is randomized? Where every time we restart we get a different island with different wildlife and vegetation and water sources?

Granted the article was written with humor in mind but the subject and the many valid points ring true.

Please if you have the time, read the article, it will get you thinking about how much better games could be.

What are some things in gaming you would like to see implemented that haven't been done or not done enough?

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HC82 View Member Profile	Jul 2 2005, 07:00 AM Post #2
Badass Billionaire Extraordanaire Group: Paragon Caste Posts: 969 Joined: 13-December 02 From: NYC Member No.: 4	I don't even consider the current EA games as game developers. I just see them as publishers, regardless as to whether or not they do developement. As a company, they're a souless entity that embraces capitalism at its core. That obviously doesn't apply to all it's workers, but I really have very little respect for EA as a game developer and only as a business. I try to seperate the art form from the business, even if they intertwine. Either way, one affects the other. Games cost money, lots of money to make, so it's a given that finances play a role in development. Regardless of development costs, I see general gameplay flaws that are not a result of business or finance, but merely bad design(ie. jumping puzzles in 1st person shooters). As for EA, the majority of their non-sports inhouse games are fairly bleh, anyway.

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Dive Gamers Manifesto Jul 1 2005, 03:36 AM

HC82 Current game design knowledge and application is B... Jul 1 2005, 10:31 AM

AC9breaker Haha ! A great read indeed. Thanks to you M... Jul 1 2005, 10:59 PM

Dive QUOTE (AC9breaker @ Jul 1 2005, 11:59 PM) It was a... Jul 1 2005, 11:08 PM

HC82 I don't even consider the current EA games as ... Jul 2 2005, 07:00 AM

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