@clyde46 said:
It’s been a while since I’ve done a rant, which means a lot of rage has built up. I’m going to deliver it to you right now in the form of a reality check on the state of the gaming industry. It’s gotten to such a bad state in the past few years I’ve just avoided talking or thinking about it and happily played my games. Iwata was right in 2000-2004 about graphics not being important. In 2015 he’s still right. He’s been right every time he’s opened his mouth and prophetised games declining in value (aka the end of the world) which IS NOW UPON US.
Nobody listened and Nintendo has been forced to shake hands with the devil. It’s sink or swim in this industry infested with HD remakes, revenue models disguised as games, and absolute garbage on the grandest scale with huge development teams spending big money to make sure nobody has control over their game experience. With money thrown at awful “cinematic experiences” and racing games that don’t even have basic modes like multiplayer and replays, we are witnessing gameplay being gutted from games in front of our very eyes. Publishers are so determined to make shitty games we’ve seen dozens of studio closures and layoffs as developers go down swinging in a blaze of unpatched glory. Rockstar spent an entire year making GTAV a second time. Games like Borderlands and Batman are being resold to the same audience with no gameplay improvements. Assassin’s Creed has an entire nation of people working on it and still needs a 40GB patch to function, despite the best programming efforts of their genius development babies.
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WHAT THE **** IS GOING ON?
When did all this shit become
NORMAL?
What are gamers doing with themselves today? Going by the raw data on what is selling, we are buying PS4’s with no games and staring at them. Then going to work and sharing our stories of not playing the PS4 on social media. As a collective, we’re all fucking doing nothing and paying money for the privilege.
People are becoming too stupid to make choices for themselves and accept every garbage game handed to them by publishers, because that’s all the respect they have. That’s all there is, right? Despite being more connected than ever, we are STILL finding ways to ignore great games. How the **** The Wonderful 101 did not find an audience is still one of the biggest mysteries of the past few years to me. People are so hungry for gameplay in this dire High High Def world we saw Kotaku creaming over a fanmade Mario 64 HD demo with stolen assets. Gee, IF ONLY there was a 3D Mario game in HD we could play instead. Imagine if a BIG TEAM made a full blown Mario game! Yes I have used this argument before but it needs drilling into people’s heads. Just look at the fucking picture and tell me why you’re not playing this.
I have a little rant of my own in response to this sheep (not you Clyde46).
I'm sick and tired of Nintendo fans arrogantly presuming the tastes they hold in games to be an objective given in an entirely subjectively driven medium and then act bewildered, frustrated, and even offended when the market doesn't respond in kind as if we should be obligated to embrace Nintendo's fruits as the ultimate gift from the Gods and bow our heads in worship. Not forgetting in the process to deride what everyone else enjoys as "awful cinematic experiences" and asininely claiming games like Batman come out with "no gameplay improvements" sold to the same audience, and that those who choose other venues other than Nintendo to our gaming entertainment relegates us to unworthy, sub-IQ mainstream idiots. The only idiot here is this douchebag who's fooling himself into such a delusion.
"Nobody listened and Nintendo's been forced to shake hands with the devil."
Oh, **** off. Perhaps not many are listening because not many are interested or are getting tired of what Nintendo's selling and Nintendo continues to sit there with its ears closed still unwilling to care? Maybe people are fed up with their actions, attitudes, and philosophies? A company has to adapt to the times, it can't dictate it as Nintendo arrogantly believes. There is no mandate out there that people must find what Nintendo does appealing, nor is there any measurement on someone's enjoyment.
This is exactly what I knew what would happen: Nintendo insists on a very niche, core Nintendo game library, and their overall approach to gaming is largely antithetical to what many people value today: "screw online, screw third parties, screw the west, we do what we want, you guys deal with our anti-consumer 2004 online account policies, deal with our shitty VC drip feed output, enjoy our archaic decisions, and here's another excuse to hold our droughts of 30 year old IPs over......." (etc, etc). Consumers respond in kind saying they'll no longer stand for any of these things in this day and age, rightfully so. Yes, what are these people thinking? Don't we realize Nintendo knows better? Why can't we just support them acting like complete incompetent asshats stuck two decades in the past in everything they do and let them reap the rewards for such an incredible level of mediocrity in comparison to industry standards?
Yea man, I mean........WHAT THE **** IS GOING ON?
I'll tell you what's going on and when this became "normal". It's been normal for people YEARS ago who haven't had their heads stuck up between Nintendo's cheeks and instead decide to hold them accountable to change instead of continually apologizing for every antiquated and moronic decision they make, and then turning around and blaming "The dudebro and their poor CoD tastes" and crappy business tactics elsewhere in the industry when Nintendo continues to suffer without even considering they need to remove their head from the darkness and take a look at where the real problem resides: Nintendo.That is normal and is what (the majority of) people are doing/have done, and I'm glad to see it. The only abnormality going on here stems from those who would write such a dumb rant that seems wholly oblivious to what is explicitly apparent to everyone else who doesn't have Nintendo love goggles on and attributes all of their current problems to a simple matter of peoples' "poor" taste, as if this subjectivism can be held as any sort of evidence at all.
How can people act as if Nintendo's doing everything right and blame everyone else for their position? Anyone with a degree of objectivity, context, and history of the industry can easily understand why Nintendo is presently in the spot they are. They have been forced to do nothing but be directed down the path that their insistent stubbornness, insularity, and incompetence throughout the years has built for them.
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*whew* That's been building up for a while as well.
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