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Now every moment of your life you are constantly wanting, wanting wanting wanting and wanting. It's just a common fact of life; we are never satisfied with what we have so we have to have more of it. And this isn't just the case for cars, money, happiness and respect. This is also the case for when we are about to experience something new and refreshing, yes ladies and gentleman I am talking about those games that make us crave the consoles that they are to be developed on and beg out parents for weeks on end.
Every so often a designer will come along and offer the world of gaming something refreshing and something new that has yet to been seen before, which makes it a new experience and something that we are all after. This makes it all that more appealing, some computer games are like a childhood fantasy which offer you everything you wanted to be when you've grown up but never could be, gaming is the key to this problem.
Since technology has become better the ability of gaming has become better and hence the realism of the games has become better making it more life like. This gives us all of those opportunities for us humans to miss out on what we did. Take Metal Gear Solid for example, can anyone hear honestly tell me they didn’t enjoy snapping their necks and all the espionage about it, playing the role of the most deadly man on earth and walking around the sites ducking and diving, doesn’t it remind you of your childhood when you’d ‘kill’ each other with your ‘guns’? And his character isn’t done by mistake, even though the fifteen certificate on the game; it was aimed at everyone including the younger.
All of this makes the game more addictive and all that more enjoyable. In a way it is hard to explain and I’ll probably end up repeating myself, but you kinda get the point that I’m aiming at, the more realistic the game is and the more in depth it becomes then the more playable and engrossing it become and the more games are sold. So does that mean the key too successful games is to make games realistic and life like?
Well really it does seem nowadays that this is the case for most games, as who would really look on the back of a game see a car square shaped with three tyres that look like there made out of wood and are triangle shaped? Now maybe that was a bit of an over creative idea as I don’t think that anyone would be that stupid but you get my point. But then saying all this realism it doesn’t count for every game, there has been occasional great game released now and then that has nothing what-so-ever to do with realism, things like Crash Bandicoot, Nightmare Creatures and LMA Manager, Liverpool winning the league ;-).
Realism gives us new opportunities and that is now bringing me to the main point of this topic. How to attract the public to your new idea, what can you possibly do to make people want to buy this game and will it pay off?
After the original there is always a load of hype over the sequel and everyone is looking forward to it, then after months of delays it turns up on your front door. You rip the package open run upstairs and place the disc/cartridge into your console to prepare for one of the greatest game of all time. Then you start to play on it to notice that not much is different and everything you have expected isn’t there although the magazines gave it 96%. So why is this?
I don’t know all the answers that are why I’m asking you, MGS2 is possibly the most awaited sequel at the moment and to me is the main reason to buy a PS2. Racing games sequel aren’t a hard thing to improve, add realism and more options, can’t be too hard. The same applies for strategy games alike, well most of them anyway. Things like Red Alert 2, what an improvement that was from the first one and all because of the above being added to it. But then you come onto the RPG’s and Shooters, the Resident Evils The Metal Gear Solids and The Final Fantasies. This is where things start to become tough and the whole game really needs to be based again on something new to grab your attention.
So what needs to be added to these games? What makes then so hard to make better? Why do we always want more? And why am I asking so many questions?
All of these need to be answered by you.
Thanks for reading.
Every so often a designer will come along and offer the world of gaming something refreshing and something new that has yet to been seen before, which makes it a new experience and something that we are all after. This makes it all that more appealing, some computer games are like a childhood fantasy which offer you everything you wanted to be when you've grown up but never could be, gaming is the key to this problem.
Since technology has become better the ability of gaming has become better and hence the realism of the games has become better making it more life like. This gives us all of those opportunities for us humans to miss out on what we did. Take Metal Gear Solid for example, can anyone hear honestly tell me they didn’t enjoy snapping their necks and all the espionage about it, playing the role of the most deadly man on earth and walking around the sites ducking and diving, doesn’t it remind you of your childhood when you’d ‘kill’ each other with your ‘guns’? And his character isn’t done by mistake, even though the fifteen certificate on the game; it was aimed at everyone including the younger.
All of this makes the game more addictive and all that more enjoyable. In a way it is hard to explain and I’ll probably end up repeating myself, but you kinda get the point that I’m aiming at, the more realistic the game is and the more in depth it becomes then the more playable and engrossing it become and the more games are sold. So does that mean the key too successful games is to make games realistic and life like?
Well really it does seem nowadays that this is the case for most games, as who would really look on the back of a game see a car square shaped with three tyres that look like there made out of wood and are triangle shaped? Now maybe that was a bit of an over creative idea as I don’t think that anyone would be that stupid but you get my point. But then saying all this realism it doesn’t count for every game, there has been occasional great game released now and then that has nothing what-so-ever to do with realism, things like Crash Bandicoot, Nightmare Creatures and LMA Manager, Liverpool winning the league ;-).
Realism gives us new opportunities and that is now bringing me to the main point of this topic. How to attract the public to your new idea, what can you possibly do to make people want to buy this game and will it pay off?
After the original there is always a load of hype over the sequel and everyone is looking forward to it, then after months of delays it turns up on your front door. You rip the package open run upstairs and place the disc/cartridge into your console to prepare for one of the greatest game of all time. Then you start to play on it to notice that not much is different and everything you have expected isn’t there although the magazines gave it 96%. So why is this?
I don’t know all the answers that are why I’m asking you, MGS2 is possibly the most awaited sequel at the moment and to me is the main reason to buy a PS2. Racing games sequel aren’t a hard thing to improve, add realism and more options, can’t be too hard. The same applies for strategy games alike, well most of them anyway. Things like Red Alert 2, what an improvement that was from the first one and all because of the above being added to it. But then you come onto the RPG’s and Shooters, the Resident Evils The Metal Gear Solids and The Final Fantasies. This is where things start to become tough and the whole game really needs to be based again on something new to grab your attention.
So what needs to be added to these games? What makes then so hard to make better? Why do we always want more? And why am I asking so many questions?
All of these need to be answered by you.
Thanks for reading.
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Seifer wrote:
> That's a good post and I can see where you are coming from. Infact I enjoyed
> reading that post, you must be a regular in disguise!
Come on Nick, you know as well as me that its Tom/Dogfather
VKTR
Paying back the favour.
> That's a good post and I can see where you are coming from. Infact I enjoyed
> reading that post, you must be a regular in disguise!
Come on Nick, you know as well as me that its Tom/Dogfather
VKTR
Paying back the favour.
Seifer wrote:
> One of my most awaited sequals has got to be Final Fantasy 10, as soon as I have
> fully completed the previous Final Fantasy, when I have fully completed it, I
> can't wait to play the next one!
Well sequels aren't everything, but we do seem to expect from them, as of the original and to be honest no game like Resident Evil sequels have impressed me too much. I still can't wait til Metal Gear Solid 2 though and to be honest it would be the only reason I would buy a PS2, I'd prefer to just keep to my noble PC, which is about to become obsolete.
> One of my most awaited sequals has got to be Final Fantasy 10, as soon as I have
> fully completed the previous Final Fantasy, when I have fully completed it, I
> can't wait to play the next one!
Well sequels aren't everything, but we do seem to expect from them, as of the original and to be honest no game like Resident Evil sequels have impressed me too much. I still can't wait til Metal Gear Solid 2 though and to be honest it would be the only reason I would buy a PS2, I'd prefer to just keep to my noble PC, which is about to become obsolete.
One of my most awaited sequals has got to be Final Fantasy 10, as soon as I have fully completed the previous Final Fantasy, when I have fully completed it, I can't wait to play the next one!
It was the same with the PS2, when people had played it, people where already contemplating what the PS3 would be like, I hope that doesn't happen with the Gamecube (by the way, this is a non-biased report, I love Nintendo and Sony!), I don't want to see people contemplating the next Nintendo console when there is the most up to date Nintendo console available right in front of you!
It was the same with the PS2, when people had played it, people where already contemplating what the PS3 would be like, I hope that doesn't happen with the Gamecube (by the way, this is a non-biased report, I love Nintendo and Sony!), I don't want to see people contemplating the next Nintendo console when there is the most up to date Nintendo console available right in front of you!
What makes a game hard to make better is new ideas, a game is nothing really anymore if all it has are nice graphics. No one wants to play a version of say Resi if all that has been improved are the graphics, sadly the new one on PS2 is, however it is a port from DC.
Another prime example of this is GT3. Yes i am a PS2 owner, and yes a love GT3, but it is still only GT2 with nice graphics. What new games need are new ideas, no matter how small or big they are, they need to be there Of course though, at the moment for games to sell they need top class graphics, which while on one hand is good, it is just as bad too. This being because developers concentrate on the graphics more than gameplay sometimes.
So why do we always want more? The simple fact that we need more entertainment. Completed old games dont get played much, if im honest the only game i have really played after i have finished it is ISS Pro Evo 2. Games like Final Fantasy dont get played much after unless your a real fanatic. The games industry is moving forward very fast, and everyday things improve and consoles offer us more and more. This means it is only fair we ask for more, its the way of life for everything, and with the amount of money we spend we deserve to get it.
Another prime example of this is GT3. Yes i am a PS2 owner, and yes a love GT3, but it is still only GT2 with nice graphics. What new games need are new ideas, no matter how small or big they are, they need to be there Of course though, at the moment for games to sell they need top class graphics, which while on one hand is good, it is just as bad too. This being because developers concentrate on the graphics more than gameplay sometimes.
So why do we always want more? The simple fact that we need more entertainment. Completed old games dont get played much, if im honest the only game i have really played after i have finished it is ISS Pro Evo 2. Games like Final Fantasy dont get played much after unless your a real fanatic. The games industry is moving forward very fast, and everyday things improve and consoles offer us more and more. This means it is only fair we ask for more, its the way of life for everything, and with the amount of money we spend we deserve to get it.
Hard As Nails wrote:
> shaneo wrote:
> Yeah T, I agree.
Oh well atleast 3 people replied in this
> thread. You make a half decent thread and no one takes any notice but if you
> make a short and humerous thread then it's more popular then a man giving away
> money.
Yeah, true T.
> shaneo wrote:
> Yeah T, I agree.
Oh well atleast 3 people replied in this
> thread. You make a half decent thread and no one takes any notice but if you
> make a short and humerous thread then it's more popular then a man giving away
> money.
Yeah, true T.
you need to make something that people don't take long to read, this ones very good though, it on't take long before people take notice.
shaneo wrote:
> Yeah T, I agree.
Oh well atleast 3 people replied in this thread. You make a half decent thread and no one takes any notice but if you make a short and humerous thread then it's more popular then a man giving away money.
> Yeah T, I agree.
Oh well atleast 3 people replied in this thread. You make a half decent thread and no one takes any notice but if you make a short and humerous thread then it's more popular then a man giving away money.
Yeah T, I agree.
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