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If the gaming industry is an automobile, and the game designers are the drivers, then that makes us, the players, backseat drivers, and we'll be damned if we're gonna let the industry keep on heading the way it's going (good or bad) without letting them know what we think. So buckle up, feel free to complain about there being no air in the back, and bring your most critical and analytical mind to the open air discussion of the current age, Backseat Gamers!
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The games industry likes to hurt itself.
I know we've gotten away from story posting, but this article was a
well written piece about the dangers of another "next gen console" and blockbuster games.I remember reading another article about how all these "hardcore" gamers that play nothing, but blockbuster video games like CoD, HALO, Mass Effect and the like are no better than the soccer moms buying garbage mainstream games for the Wii.
Juniper's article below got me thinking about this btw.
I've been dreading the release of the next-gen consoles. You just dread even trying to find one at first and then you dread dishing out $700 for the console, 2 controllers, headset, all the proper plugs and wires and headjacks, 2 games, warranty and so on and so forth. Then you dread when it breaks because it's even more unreliable than the last generation and then you dread the fact that you have to deal with customer service at some store as you attempt to cash in your precious warranty.
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I've actually felt this way for a while now, but lacked the years of experience buying consoles to see it. The author points out that at least those older generation consoles added something to the industry, and the new generation doesn't - my question is how many of those older consoles were killed before they were fully utilized. If there were a little bit of patience being demonstrated, on both developer and player ends, I think we would get a lot more for our time and money out of our games. I think I'm probably considering the 64 most. The expansion pack added some graphical quality, but for the most part I feel like we saw little change in quality from launch to death. Maybe it's just my poor memory.
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