Shut Up.
I'm sorry, it has been a while since I have updated, mostly because of having to wake up at 630 in the morning for work and not getting back to my room until about midnight every day. Don't worry, since I have gotten into the rhythm of things and my computer is not riddled with viruses anymore, there will be many more posts on the way. As for the title, read below and you will see what I am getting at. Later.
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Most video games are "boring" or too complicated, and game makers need to do more to appeal to casual players, according to the head of the world's largest video game publisher, Electronic Arts Inc.
"We're boring people to death and making games that are harder and harder to play," EA Chief Executive John Riccitiello told the Wall Street Journal in a story posted on its Web site on Sunday.
Riccitiello became CEO at EA in April in his return to the game maker. EA's former chief operating officer had left the company in 2004 to help found Elevation Partners, a media and entertainment buyout firm.
The video game executive criticized the industry for rolling out sequels to new games that add little from the previous version.
"For the most part, the industry has been rinse-and-repeat," he was quoted as saying. "There's been lots of product that looked like last year's product, that looked a lot like the year before."
The comments were made as the $30 billion video game industry prepares for its annual gathering, the Electronic Entertainment Expo, or E3, in Santa Monica, California. Anticipation is running high that cheaper hardware and a host of keenly awaited new games will fuel the strongest sales in years.
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Most video games are "boring" or too complicated, and game makers need to do more to appeal to casual players, according to the head of the world's largest video game publisher, Electronic Arts Inc.
"We're boring people to death and making games that are harder and harder to play," EA Chief Executive John Riccitiello told the Wall Street Journal in a story posted on its Web site on Sunday.
Riccitiello became CEO at EA in April in his return to the game maker. EA's former chief operating officer had left the company in 2004 to help found Elevation Partners, a media and entertainment buyout firm.
The video game executive criticized the industry for rolling out sequels to new games that add little from the previous version.
"For the most part, the industry has been rinse-and-repeat," he was quoted as saying. "There's been lots of product that looked like last year's product, that looked a lot like the year before."
The comments were made as the $30 billion video game industry prepares for its annual gathering, the Electronic Entertainment Expo, or E3, in Santa Monica, California. Anticipation is running high that cheaper hardware and a host of keenly awaited new games will fuel the strongest sales in years.
posted by Brian at 11:34 PM
1 Comments:
Too complicated? Is he joking? This is obviously the opinion of a very brain damaged individual. "A lot" would have better described the number complicated games out there... but "most" games I find are quite the opposite.
In my experiences with games I have found that the majority of Computer games tend to be more indepth (complicated) and console games tend to be more simplistic. Neither is better, they are just two different styles. If he is honestly claiming that the majoraty of games are too complicated he is mentally retarded. The only thing remotely complicated about gaming is getting used to a new control scheme, but after you master one (and you will if u try) you can master them all. Not a big deal.
Game developers do need to keep the casual gamer in mind when they make games. But casual players are no less intelligent or skillfull than hardcore players they just put in less playtime, the complicatedness of a game has no affect on a casual player. Blizzard adressed causal playing very well in WoW with their "rest system" i wont explain it, but companies need to address the casual fanbase in similar inventive ways, because we dont want dumber games, they would just handicap the medium. Well my point is...there is a huge and neccesary difference between casual gaming and simple gaming.
Ugh, games arent getting harder people are getting dumber, and that is the sad truth. We live in an age when players wont, dont, or cant read the mission objectives/quest text or even LISTEN to them or the story line of a game (let alone read a manual) and then flounder around saying "what am i supposed to do, this game is too hard" and petition people like EA to make "simpler games". What they really want is lazy games, if it were up to this degenerative sect of people to make the "Where's Waldo" books Waldo would take up the entire page and there might even be multiple Waldo's pasted over him just in case they miss the first few... ugh. Keep these dumbasses away from games of all kinds...go fish is probably too challenging for them too.
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