Nick @ PS3Center writes:
Luminary Japanese designer Goichi Suda is not of the same opinion, though. In a recent interview, Suda, director of No More Heroes and Killer 7, spoke out on what he thought of the industry, indicating that he thinks that the Japanese gaming industry still has "potential".
Microtransactions have gotten ridiculously overpriced in recent years, with titles now offering cosmetic skins worth more than some games.
There never was, the only time I paid for a microtransaction was on Blacklight Retribution (PS4) and it was because I enjoyed the game a lot so I felt the devs should get something for all that entertainment (€5 "membership")
I couldn’t believe what Blizzard charged for horse armor and cosmetics in Diablo 4…
I remember back in the day when a season pass was $15 and you got everything included in it. Now, I see them at $60 and you still don’t get everything.
As soon as gaming wasn't deemed nerdy anymore, and reached the casuals this happened. We're smart, but casuals play mobile games and other stuff, and don't really have anything to compare. They think gaming is supposed to be like this and pay for in game purchases.
A famous actor from Starship Troopers has showered praise on Helldivers 2 and said he is open to the idea of playing General Brasch.
Deliver Us Mars developer Keoken Interactive has laid off the majority of its staff after struggling to secure funding …
The industry model and standards and who's in place to approve/disapprove have changed ^ what Keoken is feeling now is much like the Mobile burst 15 years ago. Expect more to come out of your own finances. Investors are treating games like movies and now (thank$ a lot for involving yourself hollywood) only the big (and money blind) investors get involved, effectively killing a lot of content that would come out with proper non-gate-kept and/or with incentivized funding.
Sorry but i couldn't care less, Deliver us Mars was as woke game as they come, climate change disaster, all female cast plus only a comic relief indian guy (it takes only 5 minutes into the game for the main female character to say how smart she is compared to the guy), evil white guys, ugly females, then add generic gameplay and puzzles (how many times do you have to cut things with a laser for gods sake), you can't change anything in how the events develop so 0 agency in the story, sub par graphics even while using UE4. So well, go woke go broke, that's how it works.
That stinks but with a 68 average critic rating on their games probably made it difficult for people to invest considering there is a bloat of games getting made these days.
So long as they put out more games like Demons Souls and less games like Blue Dragon, they'll be alright.
That Suda dude is f***ing awesome. He makes some real crazy games.
Suda51 is cool as hell, in NMH2 you have to take a Sh!t to save, now that's creative. The J-Industry seems like they have switched their creative from Consoles(360&PS3 mainly)games, to Handhelds/Small DL games.
Of course Japan has a lot potential. Japanese are the one that started gaming. Still today they still make the best games in my opinion. Don't get me wrong I enjoy western games to but I still prefer Japanese games. Games like Street fighter, Mario, Sonic, Resident Evil, Tekken, and Donkey Kong are the games that got me into gaming. I enjoy western games like Syphon Filter, Mortal Kombat, God of War and some other western games but I can't stand fps because I find them really boring and I don't like RPG games either.
also games like The last guardian, 3d dot heroes etc