- To many SKU's. Both Sony and M$ are milking the industry with all of these freaking SKU's and special addition consoles. How many damn 360's do we need? Elite? 20GB? 60GB? Arcade? Halo 3 edition? 250GB?
- Paying for extra content that should have been included in the game in the first place.
- Microtransactions
- The demise of 1st party games
- Catering to much to the casual market and not enough to the hardcore consumer
- Mii's, Avatars, home, etc. Unessasary content that has absolutely nothing to do with gaming
- The lost of many exclusives.
The list goes on and on............
CB4McGusto
* You aren't forced to buy the different SKU's. They all perform the same and run the same games, just with different HDD options, which are upgradeable in your current model IF YOU WANT TO that is. You aren't foced to either way.
* Microtransactions and the whole avatar and mii thing, again, you can simply choose to ignore it if you want to and enjoy your games. They're precense doesn't adversly affect the gaming experience in any way.
* PS2 sold in its monstrous numbers in a majority to casuals, not the hardcores. Oh it had its hardcore market, but do you really think that gaming group numbered in the 100+ million? No, it's the people who just get cheap (when it was $200 and under) games who really didn't care about graphics, exclusives, the tech features (most wouldn't know the CPU from RAM) - in other words THE CASUALS. People complaining about the casual market have no historical perpespective or how this field actually thrives.
* So the fact that a game used to be on only one platform can now be enjoyed by more gamers really bothers you? REALLY??? Are you just selfish? The game loses its merit when it is no longer limited just to one group?
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* And I saved the DLC issue for last. This is one of the worst whiners rants I hear these days (closely following graphics being stagnant). WE need some hermits to come in here and shed some light on this. Back before consoles had HDDs, this was commonly found on many PC games? Remember Expansion Packs? And this was seen as an ADVANTAGE of PC games - that after finsihing a game its life could be EXTENDED and gamers could get MORE enjoyment out of it. That's right noobs, this was actually seen as a GOOD thing.
But now that we have it for consoles it's "buh-buh-but we should have already had it". OH PLEASE, sure, it's real easy to complain what should have been in th original game AFTER THE FACT. But it doesn't change anything, the original game is what it is. Most of the time its designed the same way as any other, with a plot beginning, middle, and conslusion. The fact that the extra chapters (or what ever format the DLC comes in) was awesome and adds to the experience of the game as a whole is, doesn't suddenly invalidate how the game was on its release. If the DLC really is that great, then it did its job - whoch is NOT to make the original game look "incomplete", but to improve what was sound to begin with.
And I actually saw another thread complaining about GTA4 DLC. Excuse me??? SO an original game's design that had anywhere from 25 to 100 hours of play (depending on how many side missions you took) WASN'T GOOD ENOUGH TO BEGIN WITH??? Are you *BLEEPING* serious??? Fallout 3, also has loads of gameplay without the DLC. Mass Effect can last a good 50 hrs without its one expansion mission. Tomb Raider Underwold had a respectable 10-12 hr playthrough on its first time, and also a consclusive story structure.
And in every case, the expansion material does just that, extends the life of what was, AN ALREADY COMPLETE GAME. I will however allow for one caveat here, if the DLC is realeased on the same day as the game, there is no justification for that not to have been on the disc.
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I'm sorry TC, but you didn't prove that this is the worst generation of gaming. Only that it is now populated with th MOST SPOILED players ever!! Saying that the original game "sucked without the DLC", and again after the fact, just shows that nothing is ever good enough for some people, no matter what the devs throw at you. Quite frankly that's your problem (this addressed to ALL who complain that it should have already been there). But hey, since you're so qualified to tell game developers how to make a game so perfect, it'll never need new material down the road, how about you get off your lazy whiny ass, and do it yourself. Otherwise, just leave your moaning to yourself.
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