3 biggest tragedies in gaming.

What are the 3 biggest tragedies in gaming to you?

mine would be:

1. When Sega decided to stop valuing unique gameplay and creativity above the impending focus on gimmicks and franchises.

2. When Nintendo decided to focus on the female, kids, casual gamers and older people market instead of delivering to their core fans, and as a result made more games that are gimmicky and shallow and made less games like SMG.

3. When Square Enix decided to start making tons of remakes and spin-offs.

These things have most likely directly reduced the amount of stellar games we could have gotten if they didn't make these deciscions.

What about you?

When ensemble were shut down :cry:

when people decided to buy the INFERIOR wii

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Not sure of numbers 2 and 3.

Edit: Troika and LucasArts.

When ensemble were shut down :cry:

irish4eva

How is having three similar studios worse than one? :)

1 - Interplay shutting down

2 - Troika shutting down

3 - Iron Lore shutting down... although now they have a new company

Closing of :-
1. Black Isle System and Troika
2. Looking Glass Studios
3. Westwood acquired by EA and then closed
4. Origin acquired by EA and then closed

when nintendo went for casuals

when sega went out of business

ps3 not selling as good as it should

when nintendo went for casuals

when sega went out of business

ps3 not selling as good as it should

playstationboy7

definately when Nintendo started focusing on casuals.

Closing of :- 1. Black Isle System 2. Looking Glass Studios 3. Westwood acquired by EA and then closed 4. Origin acquired by EA and then closednaval

EDIT: Oh and when sony bought psygnosis only to butcher it 3 years later

when nintendo went for casuals

when sega went out of business

ps3 not selling as good as it should

playstationboy7

When I saw the Star Wars: Battlefront after free radical went away..

Link:(

Mine has to be when M$ entered the gaming business. majadamus

[QUOTE="playstationboy7"]

when nintendo went for casuals

when sega went out of business

ps3 not selling as good as it should

majadamus

i know i mean when they stopped making consoles

It saddens me that no one has mentioned the video game crash yet :SSilenthps

[QUOTE="naval"]Closing of :- 1. Black Isle System 2. Looking Glass Studios 3. Westwood acquired by EA and then closed 4. Origin acquired by EA and then closedbingbaocao

1.The shuttering of Clover Studios, making it highly unlikely that we will ever see a sequel to Okami.

2.The fall of Sega

3.Gunpei Yokoi (hard to argue with a death.)

[QUOTE="naval"][QUOTE="bingbaocao"] you forgot bullfrog aquired by EA and then closedbingbaocao

[QUOTE="bingbaocao"][QUOTE="naval"] was never a big fan of Bullfrong except the Dungeon Keeper Gamesnaval

[QUOTE="naval"][QUOTE="Gamingcucumber"] *LucasArts stop making original games bingbaocao

The secret is that there is no secret.

1. Looking Glass closed

2. Origin bought by EA and then closed

GODDAMNIT I HATE YOU EA. NEVER FORGIVE NEVER FORGET

3. Lucasarts stopped making good games

4. Black Isle/Troika closed

5. Sierra/Dynamix closed

6. Microprose closed

7. Sir-Tech closed

8. New World Computing closed

9. SSI closed

10. Westwood bought by EA and then closed

11. Bullfrog bought by EA and then closed

Last but not least

12. Xbox released. Gaming died that day.

[QUOTE="bingbaocao"][QUOTE="naval"] oh yeah .. this was a pretty big tragedy too Cherokee_Jack

The secret is that there is no secret.

The fall of LucasArts and Sierra.Cherokee_Jack

For those who said Nintendo going casual, who's fault is it for forcing them to go that route? Is it Nintendo after being abandoned by the core gamers or the core gamers themselves for abandoning Nintendo during the GC generation?hiphops_savior

core gamers never abandoned nintendo...

Nintendo's always been casual.

Hell, my NES came with a friggin' plastic robot!

edit: and the biggest tragedy was van buren never seeing the light of day..

[QUOTE="hiphops_savior"]For those who said Nintendo going casual, who's fault is it for forcing them to go that route? Is it Nintendo after being abandoned by the core gamers or the core gamers themselves for abandoning Nintendo during the GC generation?Heydanbud92

core gamers never abandoned nintendo...

[QUOTE="Heydanbud92"]

[QUOTE="hiphops_savior"]For those who said Nintendo going casual, who's fault is it for forcing them to go that route? Is it Nintendo after being abandoned by the core gamers or the core gamers themselves for abandoning Nintendo during the GC generation?hiphops_savior

core gamers never abandoned nintendo...

also, even if core gamers "abandoned" nintendo.... do you really think it was for no reason? PS1 had WAY WAY more games and it took away FF from nintendo.

is that the consumers fault?

and I'm not faulting nintendo for going after casuals myself, I'm faulting them for reducing thier support for hardcore gamers even though they are making much much much more money.

again, i ask what stopped them from opening more studios to make more games for the hardcore rather than less, compared to the GC era.

1- The rise of MMO's

2- The death of the Dreamcast

3- Microtransactions, I'm looking at you EA

It saddens me that no one has mentioned the video game crash yet :SSilenthps

* EA purchasing Bioware and subsequently made Knights of the Old Republic into an MMO
* Nintendo, not so much as dropped the hardcore + mainstream support, but let it take a drastic slide
* Jeff Gerstmann being fired for giving an honest review.
* Itagaki falling out with Tecmo and losing the DOA franchise

Rare being sold to microsoft Gamingcucumber

Mine has to be when M$ entered the gaming business. majadamus