Jonathan Bester from ITF Gaming writes: I started writing for ITF Gaming back in May of 2012, and my inaugural opinion piece covered one of the aspects of the video game industry that is seriously ailing. I speak of course about my article titled is video gaming testing a thing of the past. In that article I covered something that has unfortunately become common place, and as the title suggests, game breaking bugs is a little more prominent than it should be. However I am not here today to talk about bugs and day one patches. Today, I cover an entirely different topic, also related to the downtrodden video gaming industry.
Alone in the Dark developer Pieces Interactive has been hit with layoffs a month after its release, as per the latest information.
That genuinely, genuinely sucks. The reboot has clear flaws, but it really felt like a solid first step for this team to receive *greater* investment.
Shenmue: Reclaiming the Path is a fan game using Dreamcast-era visuals, and tells a new story within the Shenmue saga taking place in both Hong Kong and Guilin. Its expected to release on September 16th.
Something about recreating old school graphics in an era of HD high poly photo realism just hits a spot. I'm not nostalgic cause I mostly played GameCube and GB/A, but it's a visual style that gets over looked even by indies.
Definitely a fan project. Terrible hand animations. Some characters have very bad body proportions. Some look like little kids in adult bodies. Some have short arms, small head, big hips and so on.
While the mainstream media always sees things turning in favor of the hero, here are 6 games that own being a bad guy.
Pretty much all of these games listed are based around a morality system you don't have to be bad and you don't have to be good.
It seems to have left out some real amazing games like red dead redemption 1/2,ass effect and true crime la/ny
Armored Core VI?
Ok, I'm really missing something here. Just beat chapter 3 earlier this evening, unlocked A-rank Arena fights. I'm not seeing or sensing any branching paths or morality system and I've done every side mission and arena fight available to me up to that fight.
Is something big coming soon to branch the story?
No mention of Grand Theft Auto? Saints Row (original trilogy), Manhunt? Also The Suffering (depending on the ending you get).
It is when it comes to military First Person Shooters.
100% sure, only Nintendo is keeping up !
Games look the same way and even play the same way. But i think the customer is the only one to blame in this.
The industry needs to be shaken up a bit!
Hell yeah. It's on the decline. You have fighting games copying uncharted. It's F---ING ridiculous. ENOUGH already.
Not really....at least not on PC anyway.
Look at the titles that have come out recently....Primal Carnage which is human vs dinosaur combat.
Chivalry medieval warfare which is a middle ages first or third person combat game, war of the roses as well.
Also Planetside 2 which is looking to take the FPS game to the next level by having battles with hundreds of players across continents with unique resource and reward systems.
There is plenty of cretivity on PC...which is why i made the call to spend some money and build my own, not for the graphics but for the unique titles you get on there while consoles pound out the same tp action games and shooters PC innovates.