Are Sequels Ruining Gaming?

GinIchimaru_09 · 2009-06-10T01:31:41+00:00

Games have been coming out in greater and greater quantity and us fan’s couldn’t be happier; but are we really getting a thousand new games or just a thousand remakes. If you think about what games you want the most this year do not most if not all of them have 2’s, 3’s or 4’s on the end? Here is just a small list of game sequals coming out this year. Madden NFL 10, Tiger Woods PGA TOUR 10 , Fight Night Round 4, Halo 3: ODST, Lost Planet 2, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2, Mass Effect 2 , Modern Warfare 2 , Tekken 6, Left for Dead 2, Bio Shock 2, Assassin Creed 2, God of War 3. This is just a small number of the sequels coming out this year. Is this what video games are about, playing Halo 54 and COD 67 years from now? Was it not the original game play, and thrilling new stories that drew us to these games? Dose this not confine some of the best developers like Infinity Ward, Valve, Blizzard, Epic Games, Ect… to only one or two works of art? Epic games has been stuck remaking Unreal Tournament for years; their newsiest franchise Gears of War looks to trap them in the same slump. Game developer Infinity Ward has one series Call of Duty and nothing else. Have we not trapped these great minds to a one way of thinking? There is of course games that have improved after it’s sequels like GTA, Resident Evil, The Legend of Zelda, Call of Duty, Silent Hill; but is this really worth a decreasing number of new and exciting games? Do we not all want new ways of gamming look at Portal was that not a phenomenal achievement for game play? What made Portal so good was because it broke game play barriers on how movement in games should be; it blew our minds having us jump though a portal and end up half way across the map. When shooter’s went “live” on the internet was it not amazing to fight people around the world? Have we now reached a point where gaming will always be the same? Even so we are lucky enough to have a plethora of gaming companies at our despoil so the new games will hopefully never end, but it is the great companies who suffer the most by this, their creativity snuffed by constant sequels.

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icyevilchief

15 years ago

I think sequals work if the company know how to make them work I mean look at the disgaea series it's 3 games in and it's still my second favorite RPG series ever (nothing is going to beat FF7 in my book)

PredHK

15 years ago

dont think they will ruin gaming, sure there some bad sequels and others are just repetitive like the new prince of persia, despite the different graphics, but theres some good ones and even if they all sucked still there would be great new games coming

Kuro1/2

15 years ago

icyevilchief wrote...

And GTA and MGS for example. You just KNOW something bigger and better is to come. (except mgs wich ended with 4, right? I'm not really uptaded with this...)

Moses

15 years ago

Crappy games coming out is ruining gaming.

Tsurayu

15 years ago

gibbous wrote...

the_zac wrote...

not really. what's ruining gaming is piracy.

Heh. Publishers' favorite excuse since 1972.

I have to agree. I really want to see some kind of chart or other research done to see how much gaming piracy actually affects the total video game sales. Makes you wonder why no such research exists. :P

THE ECONOMY

15 years ago

GEE I WONDER ^.^

I find it funny how piracy has become an excuse for not releasing titles on the PC platform, when it's pretty much clear to everyone that the real reason is the profit margins in console releases (unified architecture == drastically lower development cost; ports cost extra money and headache; pricing policy; etc.).

Yushi

15 years ago

more people hack 360 games than PC. Might has well not release in 360 too!

Das

15 years ago

No and I have nothing against them as long the developers don't assume that slapping on a well know title on a game and adding a higher number is enough to appease the fans. The more awesome the predecessor the harder it is to keep on delivering though (GTA for example, manages that very well while a recent game that didn't is IMO Fear 2).

One regrettable thing connected to sequels is that they often (probably due to outside pressure and pre-given schedules) come out unfinished, cut or downright buggy (SW KOTOR 2 and VtM Bloodlines come to mind from my personal disappointments). Seeing wasted potential of a game born before it's time is always hella painful.

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