Joshua Mobley of VGU.TV rants about why he hates April fools day in the gaming industry.
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Golden Axe is a great game I enjoyed it on the SMS, Genesis and in the arcade. Great game but it truly was a quarter eater back in the day. I wish Sega could get the rights to the arcade port of Moonwalker another great arcade game I enjoyed. Collect so many monkeys and become Robo Michael lol.
GB: "With this feature, we will be taking a look at 15 of the best games from the PlayStation 2's vast library."
With so many games fighting for players' attention and interest losing out over time, time sink games are at risk of eventually losing steam.
It was worrisome to begin with.
It's a niche genre with only a handful of hits that can stand the test of time.
I like the sound of that!! I will for sure never support these gaas games.
Sony must be shocked at gamer's reaction, making them cancel a few of these and hopefully go back to the good heavy hitters they had us used to..
now bring on that PSPro reveal and show us some SP 1st party awesomeness.
It's pretty ridiculous.
Imagine having a breadth of data at your disposal to see the statistically low success rate of these games, only to be laser focused on the exceptional case studies.
Only a few will catch on. You need a perfect storm to be successful in GaaS and a bit of luck on top of that. But a potential cash cow will keep them trying and some will go out of business because of it.
Helldivers 2 manages just fine…
Keep production costs low… don’t just make custscenes until the mechanics and enemies are perfected first.
Make so much content that you can drip extra content for years, and the game already feels complete without them.
Most importantly: make weapons, enemies, levels, and mechanics that will stand the test of 1000 hours. This might require more devs embracing procedurally generated leveled, which I think separates Helldivers 2 from Destiny’s repetitiveness.
Shen Long was the best and only April Fools joke worth mentioning. There were people who claimed, long after EGM showed how they created the prank, that they had fought Shen Long.
I wonder how many quarters were lost in pursuit of him.
Wii Tuu and iPlay is among the two I've came across today.
There are some April Fools that are actually funny, because they're just totally non-sense (like the "Starcraft Kinect" http://www.youtube.com/watc... , Assassin's Creed for Kinect http://www.youtube.com/watc... or Alpine Legend http://www.youtube.com/watc... ), but some "jokes" are so much elaborate they actually feel real and you don't know if you should believe it or not.
That is even more disturbing when, like the article says, there are legitimate news you may not believe in because of April Fools.
Here in Motherland, there is a story about April Fools in the videogame industry. A renown website spread the news of a barely believable game (something about figure skating), but the news was so much elaborate that concurrent websites duplicated the story without checking if it was a hoax.
Of course, the original website revealed it was a total joke and the other websites felt ashamed for falling in such pathetic trap.
What I mean is, during April Fools, it can be possible to be fooled and to spread false informations based on flat jokes. So I totally agree with the article, April Fools suck when its anywhere related to journalism and informations.
Guild Wars 2 is doing something pretty cool to mark the occasion.