[ZippyDSMlee]

Originally Posted by beemoh

Not going to totally disagree- although I'm going to swap out "technology" for "polygons"- it's certainly something that's cost all aspects of the medium dearly.

See also: the obsession with the £40-50 pricepoint, (EDIT: Not for the reasons you've said before, though, Zippy) and bloody film licences.

And Gears' story was crap. Better than its immediate peers, yes, but nothing special.

Well I am a fool for many things(like my nazisitic nitpicking on game qaulity ) and I would be more the fool to say any one thing has de evolved video games.

IMO it works like this as gaming cost slowly rise they find they can win over more potential buyers/gamers with more graphics and while prices crept up you have a steady decline in quality as studios are rushed and or trying to haphazardly grab a large piece of the consumer pie by pablumtizing the product in order to maxmize its market penetration for the shortest amount of time that is profitable.

This leads to higher cost and from that outlook they have to conglomeratize more this leads to a rush of "more digi...er... graphics more power" raising costs even more and createing a dire situation of saturating the industry with meek products.

I can not really say if the graphics rush was before or after a true disregard for quality but it seems part and parcel to how media evolves in a high stakes market. One can see the parallels in Hollywood and its not pretty its taken the comic industry a good long while to recognize that they have to head the film project or the fiction will be raped by a bunch of hacks and even with this realization the industry as a whole thinks what it dose is perfect and needs no change.

If they game industry falls to and lingers in that mindset its going to be in for a rude awaking because they have 2-5X the cost,time,price and over half or less the market the film industry has. The game industry needs to lose the shallowness and get back to making "games"(games as in a fun realitivly deep product thats worth its price) and not placid interactive movies.

I can say yes I am a nitpicking ahole but I nitpick because the industry can do better because they have the creativity and skill(I lack) but I also fear the industry will collapse by replacing its knees with , and you would too if you had that money and thought it was a good idea at the time....