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| Fuck the Game Developers and Publishers Too | 4/28/14 |
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I've seen mention lately that game developers and publishers have been in trouble for a while. THQ went bankrupt, etc. Am I the only one that thinks they brought this shit on themselves? They release buggy shit that's basically beta all the time and expect everyone to wait for patches IF they patch it at all. Most glitched achievements don't get patched. Even the event shit in Gears took 6+ months and only got a half assed fix, and that's one of Microshaft's "system seller" titles. People aren't impressed with buggy shit, glitched achievements, day one on disc DLC, season passes that cost as much as the game, and micro-transaction infested games. Is it any wonder nobody wants to pay $60 for them anymore? A lot of hardcore fans of each series think Halo and Gears self destructed with their latest installments and aren't likely to buy an XB1 for future titles unless they're extremely impressed with video or get to play demos/betas first. Fuck the devs. Most of the good ones are gone anyway. I don't particularly like the way any of them are heading, and maybe that's part of the reason they're in trouble. Will we ever see another good Bond game? I bet Rare's Goldeneye turned more of a profit or equal profit to ALL of Activision's shit Bond games combined. Why was Rare only allowed to make one Bond game? Why are there multiple publishers doing Walking Dead, Marvel, etc shit at the same time, but nobody worth a shit can get license to compete with Activision's garbage Bond games? How long does that license last? Everything is expiring and getting delisted from XBLA, but shit that should expire like exclusivity and Bond/WWE licenses never seem to. Then nobody does options anymore. We don't get to remap our controller buttons. If we're lucky, we get to pick from a few possible setups the devs fucking chose. Could we make reticules and iron sights optional so COD and Halo fans can both enjoy every shooter? Of course not. Can we turn off aim assist on Halo? Nope. Who the fuck needs aim assist on a rocket launcher!?!? It fucked up my multi-kills in firefight more times than I care to remember. I'm aiming at the whole pack and the fucking reticule just decides to randomly follow one enemy that jets past and fuck up the shot. Nice fucking job, devs. Don't cater to those of us that can actually aim, but give MLG their own fucking playlist while you drop all the fun playlists like Action Sack and Firefight Doubles. btw, fuck MLG too. They should never have had their own playlist on Reach. Wasn't that what Arena was fucking for? Either play with the matchmaking settings everyone else does or fuck off and play something else. That list should've been dropped when Halo 4 was released and they didn't even do that. They dropped the fun stuff instead. Let MLG move the fuck on to the new game. I would've gladly bought the Who Wants to be a Millionaire game for 360 had Ubisoft not been fucking stupid and required Kinect. Last I saw the game dropped to like $5 brand new. Every other trivia game works with a controller. Why not Millionaire? Because the devs are retarded and/or being bribed by Microshaft to support something a fair number of gamers want nothing to do with. Same with Sixaxis on the PS3/PS4. The devs that are smart enough to make Kinect completely optional get to sell games to both sides, so long as the game doesn't suck entirely to begin with. Star Wars Force Unleashed and FU2 sold extremely well. Did we get a 3rd one? Nope. We got Kinect fucking Star Wars. Fuck you. Fuck you very much. Let's run down the list... AKI? Dead. THQ? Dead, partly because they let go of AKI and kept publishing Yuke's horrible WWE titles year after year. I really hope 2K kicks them to the curb. I'm so tired of their load screen shit every time you even go from one menu to another. I think they might actually hold the record for most uses of a load screen in a game on one of those. Warhammer 40k Space Marine was cool. I loved Juiced 2 and a few others. Midway: Dead. Probably in large part because they kept shoveling out those 3D MK games nobody really cared for instead of sticking with 2D mechanics. They made awesome sports games on N64 though, as well as a few other gems I wouldn't mind seeing reappear somehow. Acclaim: I miss the original Turok Dinosaur Hunter. I can't remember much else they had going for them. I do, however, remember them releasing WWF games on N64 during pretty much the same time THQ was. They both released WWF games within 3 months of each other. Why doesn't that happen anymore? Why are we only left with Yuke's bullshit? Bungie: Ok, they're still here, but they left Halo. There were aspects of Reach that leave me questioning the direction they'll go with Destiny, etc. Epic: Fucked. Gears Judgment was utter shit, and the event system on both 3 and Judgment being required for achievements and Seriously 3.0 (WTF!) pissed off a lot of achievement hunters. They don't deserve to sell that series anymore if they can't make their achievements properly attainable and not dependent on bullshit events they're to lazy to change or automate properly. EA: One of the most hated publishers still in existence. They pretty much kill all the series they take over. I'm just glad they failed to acquire Take2(?) when they tried a while back. Rare: RIP. I don't consider Rare in its current form to really be Rare anymore. Rare made the best Bond game ever. Yet, it was the only one they got to make? EA got to make a bunch of shitty ones, and now Activision is doing it. Rare made a ton of other good stuff too. Now the good programming teams are gone or relegated to Kinect garbage. Activision: Fuck Activision. They basically rely on puking out an annual COD title and that's it. If the cost of the DLC isn't bad enough, the damn discs don't even drop in price. You see Black Ops 2 sitting in stores for $45 with Ghosts right beside it at $60. What a goddamn joke. Would it kill these assholes to add an option to play classic shooter style with a real reticule and no fucking iron sights? Nobody does options anymore. The Transformers games barely drop in price too. Hell, Activision's bastardized Goldeneye remake took like 4 years to hit $20. I gotta say it twice. Like I said. Fuck them up the ass with a rusty fence post and break it off. Rockstar: They're still ok, but they're kind of pissing me off too. The PC version of GTA:SA had the option to make your music files the radio in cars. Why didn't GTA4 include that on the console? It would've been awesome, considering how shit the radio was on that one. Probably my favorite GTA, but I can't stand the radio. They need to come up with aiming controls that are worth a damn too. Max Payne 3 was an atrocity. An HD remake of State of Emergency might not be a bad idea either. Capcom: Another decent company mostly gone to shit. Are they going for the record on releasing the same title the most times with SF4, or what? Damn. Aren't they the ones that started that on disc DLC nonsense too? In any case, the ONLY series Capcom has released with proper controls was the 4 Devil May Cry games. I can't speak for the new one, as I haven't tried it yet. I'd love an HD remake of Onimusha, in spite of the controls. However, Resident Evil 5 was one of the biggest piles of shit I've seen in years. The controls on that game were retarded, the AI was beyond retarded, and Professional difficulty (which I completed last night after much swearing at Wesker and Jill) was just ridiculous. The other stupid thing about RE5 was the cutscenes (and QTEs). Either make a movie or make a game. I don't want to stop for a custscene every 10 fucking seconds! An option to auto skip them might've helped, but we never see options in games anymore. Also, Dead Rising. The biggest complaint people had about the original game was the load screens. What did we get with Dead Rising 2? Even worse load screens! Installing the game does next to nothing. Squaresoft: Well, they finally remastered FFX, but not on Xbox (WHY?). From what little of FF13 I played, I don't think I like where they're going either. They need to do a proper remastered release of FF7, preferably on all consoles, or piss off. I think FF has run its course. | |
