The “Let’s Play” is now a powerful form of entertainment. Its prominence brings legal questions, and may help determine the future of the videogames 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.
I've never really been one to watch "Let's plays" I prefer to experience it on my own. They're good though, some of my friends love to watch them and are always telling me new people to watch on YouTube who do them. I don't understand why some game company's go through these legal problems, your game is getting free Advertisement.
95% of them are absolutely terrible, though.
I don't know Stolen Soul. I like to know what I'm buying. Trailers aren't really trust worthy. I want to see the game play and usually how the game plays out. Some games are just too good to pass up that I end up wanting to play them (Heavy Rain, Demon Souls, Arkham City, Mass Effect 2). And let's play's also show what games really are good and which ones are bad. I was planning on getting Alien's Colonial Marines, thank god for "Let's play" or else I'd been screwed out of 40-60 bucks. Let's plays are better than reviews, because you get to judge if the game looks good or not; you don't hear or read the opinion of an "expert" game critic.
What I want to know is, how is it illegal to share footage of yourself playing games YOU bought? I don't get how publishers have the right to say "you can't show people games we created". It's like they're trying to cover up just incase there is a bad game. I would consider it some form of false advertisement if a game gets a whole lot of praise from game critic mediums (IGN, Game Informer) but actually sucks balls; but we wouldn't be able to see and actually buy games based on their word. And there are a lot of people that trust game reviewers if they want to buy a game or not.