PuckPilgrimVs said:Steve Stref said:PuckPilgrimVs said:Let's be honest. The industry is out of ideas. Has been out of ideas. If the expectation of the culture war is that there's some gem that hasnt been dredged due to us going off course.... maybe we get a Bible GAAS game. Sure to be lit and not at all toxic voice chat. I'd say the side that won is the one completely devoid of culture. I guess blue jeans and nikes are on their way mars.
Agreed, industry is out of ideas, and they fired all the talent in lieu of whatever they wanna call this new batch of hacks. I think the expectation isn't to have "conservative", per say, or "Bible thumping" bullshit in games, no one on the other side of the culture divide has ever asked for that. We just want good stories and good games made by people who care about what their doing because they love games more than they love any agenda or corpo grant money. And trust that if the pendulum swings hard back the other way, and we every game has some overtly religious character lecturing us about morals constantly, or anything like that, I'll be right here bitching about that too. I think its a bit disingenuous to say the side that won has no culture though, we have been asking for good stories - not agenda driven in any direction. It's safe to say the losing side of the culture war couldn't deliver on even the most basic things in games, let alone tell a good story. Wouldn't you agree?
I'd say there are too many games. And again if you believe theres a story not yet told then let me write a check because clearly you know something rest of the world doesnt. Times like this make me glad i dont gave any gaming tattoos and have bought and played every system and game known to man. The gaming is as vast as space and for you to have the take that some things shouldnt exist just paints you as real dumb. At this point i go to your gamercore and say things about having a score so high... implies things. But mods have advised against it.
Oh, cmon. I thought we were gonna have a decent chat. Don't get all catty on me with that last line. Lets be adult. Anyway...
I've written and published a few short stories, and won some awards but nothing to write home about. But that's not what I was claiming anyway. There ARE people out there that can tell such stories, and they unceremoniously fired or drove out the ones working in the industry. Luckily, they're all starting their own companies, so we will get to see their stories in real time soon, and this time without any corpo oversite, or intrusive policies that halt progress and destroy franchises. And, no one is saying these games shouldn't exist, people aren't upset because they forced them into existing stories, changed the entire gamut of lores, and for what? To murder franchises? Because they obviously didn't improve them. There is a place for any and all games that anyone can think of, but when you have to inorganically insert it, alter canon, or retcon lore to do it, this is what you get. As we all now know beyond all doubt. I'm live and let live. I have no qualms with anyone who wants to make a nuanced game for a specific audience no matter what it is, but thats not what they did, is it?
I'm just a guy, staring at each new Rockstar update, asking it to be single player DLC...