My disappointment in the gaming industry really seems to be growing at an alarming rate.
The Christmas season is soon approaching and this generally means that developers are pushing their precious, baby games into the big bad world to be reviewed, bought and discussed by the public. But trips to my local EB Games, GAME and JB HI-FI don’t seem to harbour these plastic cases of time wasters.
Walking into EB, I make straight for the Xbox 360 corner of the store. I browse the shelves and I sigh to myself, “I wonder if GAME will have anything different”, and walk out.
Sadly, this isn’t the case. The process appears to repeat itself no matter where I wander in my quest for game-age.
The problem with games these days is that they’re just repeating the same stuff. Sequel after sequel after sequel and none of them good. Call of Duty: Black Ops just came out and all the reviews I’ve read or heard say that the story line is horrible, and I’m in the same boat as many. I won’t buy a game that has “awesome” status, simply because of the multi-player game. And any games that have come out require a peripheral I'm not buying yet (See: Kinect), or I have no interest in. The last game I did buy was Grand Theft Auto IV because it was $35 and I'd finished it before.
What bothers me even more is that game developers and publishers can't seem to produce consistent, interesting content throughout the year. Even if they only produced one game and released DLC through the year,* it would still be better than the sludge of games being released now.
Le sigh...
Hopefully there will be an onslaught of fantastic games before Christmas, and the gamer in will be satisfied. Although, the likelyhood of that happening isn't high.
* (Remind me to write a rant about XBL DLC and how it should be free on a later date.)
