GCO: "At the annual DICE Summit, Sony president Shuhei Yoshida had some rather strong things about annualized video game franchises."
A third game in the Falconeer series has been announced as the second, Bulwark: Falconeer Chronicles, launches.
While there’s a lot to love about modern video games, there is one trend — particularly in the AAA space — that tends to grate: their length.
Games are coming out with too much fluff and side activities that are horribly dull. That's my main issue with all these open world games. Open world should be about exploration, discovery and wonder, not have some stupid 10s or 100s of boring activities spread throughout.
I stopped buying overfluffed games like a decade ago. Cant stand games with the Ubisoft mindset of just filling maps with uselss collectibles and fodder. Make it mean something. Ill gladly take 1/4 size of the map and 1/10th the "content" if it all meant more, were more unique and greater affect on your progression.
Well people complained like the world was ending when a few games were six to ten hours of gameplay. Developers listened and started making longer games full of repetitive gameplay, time wasting fetch quest and other forms of bloat. In doing so they were able to justify the high cost of a game being sold to the customers at seventy dollars or more.
Hopefully Hercule will at least get his jetpack.
I wonder if that could possibly mean anything for Sony's MLB The Show then? Probably not, but I think San Diego Studio could make other great games, even if it were a different sports game.
I played their other game (Kill Strain) at PSX and that game is pretty good so far.. So, I'd like to see more games like that from them.
"Yoshida then explain that, with all due respect to the developers of franchises like Call of Duty and Assassin’s Creed, he “hates” annualized releases and could do without them."
Yoshida is damn right, i mean who seriously didn't get bored with all the annualized franchises.
I would not have minded them if the yearly franchises had..
A better story
A better gameplay
A better protagonist
A less buggy mess
A less extortion methods like Season Passes or dlcs or now the new trend, microtransactions when they already make millions out of the original game
Less Repetition
Less Copy/Paste materials from last games
This list can go on and on and on.
I just can't stand games like Call of Duty and Assassin's Creed anymore, always prefer to buy another games like new IPs or series that i really like on the release date.
Last year, for example, why would i buy CoD or AC with games like Shadow of Mordor, LittleBigPlanet 3, Super Smash Bros and Dragon Age?
Annualized franchise eventually gets victimized by franchise fatigue. I concur with Mr. Yoshisda; I can also live without the yearly ACs, CoDs and BFs.
xbox and forza LOL