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Is creativity in video games on the decline

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.

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GreenRanger4182d ago

It is when it comes to military First Person Shooters.

shammgod4182d ago

So true, worst part about it is reviewers still score the clones high and robots will always go out and buy the newest remake.

abzdine4182d ago

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.

r40k2134182d ago

You're joking right? Nintendo is the MASTER at shooting out the same recycled characters and story generation after generation. Every console generation we get the same set of Mario, Zelda, and Metroid games. The idea that Nintendo is the only creative company is absurd.

abzdine4182d ago

it's around the same characters maybe but very creative way they make each game it's 2 completely differerent games everytime in the way they are played, thanks to the Nintendo's very creative minds and hardware.

The hardware they come up with everytime is so creative that the others are copying the principe.

Deku-Johnny4181d ago

Abzdine is right. Yes the base story is the same, princess gets stolen by bad guy, boy in green tunic/Italian plumber has to rescue her but the main story, why she's been taken, how you rescue her, the people you meet along the way is always different. More so than any other game.

coolman2294181d ago

@abzdine and Deku-Johnny

I really can't believe you're getting disagrees. I guess I shouldn't be surprised since this is N4G.

ShaunCameron4181d ago

In a sense they make platforms that give "creative" games a decent shot at flourishing, you can say so.

AWBrawler4181d ago

right, just ignore the new franchises that came last gen and this gen such as Pikmin, fire emblem, 1080, advance wars, endless ocean, professor layton, and scribblenauts

ITFGaming4182d ago

The industry needs to be shaken up a bit!

SOULJER4181d ago

Hell yeah. It's on the decline. You have fighting games copying uncharted. It's F---ING ridiculous. ENOUGH already.

Zha1tan4181d ago

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.

Bimkoblerutso4181d ago

The indie scene is keeping things afloat, I agree. It's sad that when people start thinking about stagnation in the industry, all they think about is the Halo's and COD's or the Resident evil's and jrpg's from japan. The indie scene is more prominent than its EVER been, and there's a ton of creativity happening there.

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Fallout 4's 'next gen' update is over 14 gigs, breaks modded saves, & doesn't change much at all

We were expecting problems with mod support, but there are a lot of other issues.

isarai10h ago

Wow what the actual hell 🤣🤣🤣

just_looken10h ago

This is why you get the GOG version on gog you can select the version of the game to download.

On pc fallout 4 fallout new vegas and skyrim are all broken on steam because they all got the same "next gen" update.

Skyrim dec 2023
https://www.pcgamer.com/sky...

Can not find new vegas but anyone that modded it knows the script extender there was also broken

Valkyrye8h ago

Not accidental, they want modders to stop modding their older games to force them to mod Shitfield.

just_looken6h ago

There doing the same on starfield with a mods store and blocking mods

There goal is like blizzard and what they did with fallout 76 you make mods they can sell and you become a slave.

On skyrim they have "trusted" mod devs now basically a badge that lets your mod on the store you get a crumb of the sale when someone buys it.

Inverno5h ago

lol to the disagrees, the last Skyrim update broke mods too. They've been trying to kill mods to monetize them in creation club for years, it's not a stretch that they purposely put out patches just to break free mods.

porkChop3h ago

The disagrees are from people who have common sense. They aren't trying to kill mods. Most mods for any game will break with a new update because they rely on files/code that have been changed. This isn't new. Even with Bethesda this would happen way before the creation club. Mod support is literally one of the things that got Bethesda to where they are, and they're one of the only devs that releases comprehensive mod tools for each of their games.

Chocoburger4h ago

Over 14 GBs and doesn't change much at all? What? Taking up that much drive space for a pathetic 'remastering' is shameful.

Par for Bethesda.

Aussiesummer3h ago

It's not a remaster, it's a next gen update.

badz1493h ago

LOL people are actually expecting massive improvements or something? From Bethesda?? the same people who released Skyrim multiple times and the all look like shit? THAT Bethesda? are people for real?

Profchaos2h ago(Edited 2h ago)

The ps5 version doesn't change a ton but from my small playtime it's enough to make me want to replay it just to have it running at 60.

A side note to this my PS4 version no longer boots after it's "update" so I guess that's what it feels like to own a Bethesda game on PC

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Gears of War Voice Actor Hints At New Game Announcement Coming In June

A voice actor from The Coalition's third-person shooter series, Gears of War, has hinted at a new game announcement coming in June.

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Ra30303h ago

Hopefully Microsoft will go back to the original story line and get away from that woke nonsense from the last Gears game Gears of Woke! But were talking about Microsoft so all the betting money is on more of the same woke nonsense.

Sciurus_vulgaris2h ago

The Locust trilogy concluded with Gears of War 3. I don’t get how Gears 4 and 5 are “woke” .

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Honkai Star Rail's Revival Tendencies Take Away the Seriousness of Character Deaths

While many are fans of the Honkai Star Rail story so far, The Nerd Stash believes that the deaths of Robin and Firefly no longer carry much weight.

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