I've been requesting a more powerful Nintendo console since Switch launch but I still think it's okay when a game is above everything else in gameplay and fun. I'd rather pay $70 for TOTK than every other AAA game released the last couple years except Elden Ring.
And how do you explain the decline in quality in movies and TV shows? We used to get shows like The Wire and Breaking Bad and now we get Cleopatra
it's because Nintendo is a video game company. While PlayStation and Xbox are both division of a tech company.
One thing I find interesting is how the western comic book industry continues to collapse while manga is apparently on the rise.
Eh there's plenty of "good" games, more than ever actually, incredibly few "great/masterclass games like we got way more consistently in the days of old.
Well said
Game design had shift from MDA (that focused on mechanic) to DDE, which focus on user experience and storytelling, at least for all the big budget games
This thread got me thinking. With traditional story telling (literature, film etc), there's basically an infinite amount of possible ways to recreate the medium and not bore people. You can tell different stories in games, too - but you're severely limited by a finite amount of variants of core gameplay concepts. And these concepts are limiting the kind of stories you can wrap around them, too. Maybe that's why Nintendo is so dead serious about reinve ting the wheel every time they show new hardware.
I believe it was already decided by the "captains" of the industry like Kotick before terminology like this came along. The key mental shift is stopping thinking about games as culture, or something like that, to thinking about them as commodities or assets, like toilet roll. It just so happens that commodification is sometimes sold in advertising terms as being shifting games away from being "mere children's toys" to being "experiences" or "art".
Now we also have Succession, Severance, Ted Lasso, House of the Dragon, The Bear,...And how do you explain the decline in quality in movies and TV shows? We used to get shows like The Wire and Breaking Bad and now we get Cleopatra
People have been predicting that diversity hires will have severe negative effects and now we're witnessing the results.
Knowing how good it is I would've bought it at 2x the price.
I'd disagree since so much of it is just more BOTW. If it were a totally new package I'd agree with you.
Yes, it is.
I'd be more worried about agenda pushing affecting storytelling in games more than the hiring process. But I guess that could matter if your hiring people based on them wanting to push those things so idk.
I don't think this is a bad thing, bigger title had the budget to achieve that.
I want my "I woke up as a vending machine and got lost in a dungeon" series thank you very much.
Good or bad, "experience" focus is buying into hype and commodification. Focussing on mechanics is not cheaper or easier, otherwise everyone would be Nintendo, and a lot of indies simply don't have the resources to do it. It is not like if you buy a boomer shooter that looks like a throwback to the 90s but cleaner and with less technical limits, you are getting better or cleaner level design than Quake or Duke3d. Possibly they are also focussing on "experience" because that is in the air they breathe.
Maybe the question should be rephrased to "creative talent" or "creative leads" then...
I love "experiences" and I'm not really seeing much here. Zelda TotK is the epitome of an "experience." I still value gameplay though and a lot of stuff out right now is very "been there, done that."
Experience focus doesn't necessarily has to be like that, neither does mechanic games are free from it
Not really, many mechanic driven game could be done by very small team and still be successful, Stardew Valley was made by one person
This is a bit strawmaning to cherry pick one example out of an entire scene. Small studio could make all types of game
I think woke culture kills creativity, risk taking and quality in general, but not realy ambition.
I love their music since they still incorporate jazz/funk/rock and still have a variety of instruments (I guess their best music takes the best parts of western music), but their TV and anime is really stagnant. It is depressing.
