The "General Games Chat" forum, which includes Retro Game Reviews, has been archived and is now read-only. You cannot post here or create a new thread or review on this forum.
Ahhh, Hollywood. The name which always brings up images of bright lights, fame and fortune. The place on this Earth where every celebrity has to be to be noticed. Hollywood is the epicentre of all things celebrity, where all the greatest films are made, and where all the gossip, rumours and voyeurism stems from. Ahhh, Hollywood, if only gaming had a place as famous as you...
Films aren't necessarily focused in Hollywood. East European countries are popular for their tax breaks, and it would be hard to film an open-air tropical spot in the claustrophobic, fake environment of Hollywood. Granted, last years best film (in my opinion), Lord of the Rings, was filmed entirely in my home country New Zealand. But they are in a minority - Hollywood is the place to be for celebrity scoop, scandal and movies.
Could gaming ever become this way? Where Shigeru Miyamoto is constantly confronted with a barrage of cameramen, where programmers struggle to work in vast numbers while competing with the people next door? Well, this is certainly something strange. Gaming is a very widespread thing. There are developers in England, Japan, America, Australia, Russia, South Africa, Brazil and China. Who's to say that development is focused in on only one area?
But what if game development was in a Hollywood area? Well, for a start they'd be so much more hyped up gaming tat. Guaranteed, games would be released in sets. Where two or three games, all the same genre and indistinguishable in plot, are released within a month of each other. Imagine if SSX Tricky, Amped and Cool Boarders 5 were released within each other? Only one would come up trumps, because that's the way Hollywood works.
We'd also have to have a single-format. It's no good games competing for each other when one will be for the GameCube and one for Xbox. Because it doesn't give choice. In Hollywood, we don't see some movie-makers creating films on different formats to each other - film has been standardised, so that's yet another issue to contend with for a gaming Hollywood.
And of course, there's location. Los Angeles is a pretty good location for the movie industry's Hollywood, because it's a huge city at the centre of attention around the world. Is there anybody you know who hasn't heard of it. But aside from that, Gaming Hollywood has to be in a place which would be recognisable. It's no good placing it in the middle of Moscow - it's away from public attention, away from the limelight. Somewhere big, bright and smack in the line of sight of the public would be great. Somewhere like the middle of Tokyo, on the River Thames or on Long Island in New York. Location, location, location. That's what put Hollywood where it is today.
As a result, do you reckon gaming would suffer? Certainly as an industry it would boom. The movie industry is absolutely huge - could you imagine a world without it? No no, if there was a Hollywood of video games, it would be all the better for the industry. But it probably would mean quality would suffer.
But think of all the spinoffs that we'd get! There would be annual awards, such as grammys and oscars. Gaming would be all over the press, and game stars - be them silicon or flesh - would be in the limelight. There would be tabloids, magazines and teenager crap spewed out for 'casuals' to read. What's more - there would be gaming branded theme parks. Like Universal Studios in LA and Florida, we might get Universal Gamers. Or something like that. Imagine watching the Mario show - a 'comedy' on an abysmal scale. Or riding the Halo ride, a futuristic space ride with all guns blazing. And let's not forget Metal Gear Solid 2 style laser quest thingies. It would be great.
Ultimately, it all boils down to publicity. Gaming has grown and grown and grown in the past few years. PlayStation 2 is smeared across footballers' t-shirts, Mario is plastered to phone booths and I've seen buses adorned with Lara Croft's weighty buxom. And to top it all, gaming IS becoming mainstream. From the start of last century, the populatiry of movies - moving pictures - grew at a phenomenal rate. And I believe gaming is doing so. And the result will be what we have now - The polypropene plastered face of celebrities. And I'm afraid it's bound to happen. Not within the next ten years, or even twenty. It will boil down to whether gaming in the mainstream survives, but to do so it needs recognisable people and characters. Yes, celebrities. Gaming will have its Hollywood - probably not different to what I've predicted. It is only a matter of time...
Films aren't necessarily focused in Hollywood. East European countries are popular for their tax breaks, and it would be hard to film an open-air tropical spot in the claustrophobic, fake environment of Hollywood. Granted, last years best film (in my opinion), Lord of the Rings, was filmed entirely in my home country New Zealand. But they are in a minority - Hollywood is the place to be for celebrity scoop, scandal and movies.
Could gaming ever become this way? Where Shigeru Miyamoto is constantly confronted with a barrage of cameramen, where programmers struggle to work in vast numbers while competing with the people next door? Well, this is certainly something strange. Gaming is a very widespread thing. There are developers in England, Japan, America, Australia, Russia, South Africa, Brazil and China. Who's to say that development is focused in on only one area?
But what if game development was in a Hollywood area? Well, for a start they'd be so much more hyped up gaming tat. Guaranteed, games would be released in sets. Where two or three games, all the same genre and indistinguishable in plot, are released within a month of each other. Imagine if SSX Tricky, Amped and Cool Boarders 5 were released within each other? Only one would come up trumps, because that's the way Hollywood works.
We'd also have to have a single-format. It's no good games competing for each other when one will be for the GameCube and one for Xbox. Because it doesn't give choice. In Hollywood, we don't see some movie-makers creating films on different formats to each other - film has been standardised, so that's yet another issue to contend with for a gaming Hollywood.
And of course, there's location. Los Angeles is a pretty good location for the movie industry's Hollywood, because it's a huge city at the centre of attention around the world. Is there anybody you know who hasn't heard of it. But aside from that, Gaming Hollywood has to be in a place which would be recognisable. It's no good placing it in the middle of Moscow - it's away from public attention, away from the limelight. Somewhere big, bright and smack in the line of sight of the public would be great. Somewhere like the middle of Tokyo, on the River Thames or on Long Island in New York. Location, location, location. That's what put Hollywood where it is today.
As a result, do you reckon gaming would suffer? Certainly as an industry it would boom. The movie industry is absolutely huge - could you imagine a world without it? No no, if there was a Hollywood of video games, it would be all the better for the industry. But it probably would mean quality would suffer.
But think of all the spinoffs that we'd get! There would be annual awards, such as grammys and oscars. Gaming would be all over the press, and game stars - be them silicon or flesh - would be in the limelight. There would be tabloids, magazines and teenager crap spewed out for 'casuals' to read. What's more - there would be gaming branded theme parks. Like Universal Studios in LA and Florida, we might get Universal Gamers. Or something like that. Imagine watching the Mario show - a 'comedy' on an abysmal scale. Or riding the Halo ride, a futuristic space ride with all guns blazing. And let's not forget Metal Gear Solid 2 style laser quest thingies. It would be great.
Ultimately, it all boils down to publicity. Gaming has grown and grown and grown in the past few years. PlayStation 2 is smeared across footballers' t-shirts, Mario is plastered to phone booths and I've seen buses adorned with Lara Croft's weighty buxom. And to top it all, gaming IS becoming mainstream. From the start of last century, the populatiry of movies - moving pictures - grew at a phenomenal rate. And I believe gaming is doing so. And the result will be what we have now - The polypropene plastered face of celebrities. And I'm afraid it's bound to happen. Not within the next ten years, or even twenty. It will boil down to whether gaming in the mainstream survives, but to do so it needs recognisable people and characters. Yes, celebrities. Gaming will have its Hollywood - probably not different to what I've predicted. It is only a matter of time...
28 days later looks great. Beats the heck out of the slow, rambling zombies of pretty much every other zombie film... :D. Long live sprinters!
½pint wrote:
>
> As a result, do you reckon gaming would suffer? Certainly as an
> industry it would boom. The movie industry is absolutely huge - could
> you imagine a world without it?
I disagree.
There used to be loads of brilliaint, original and innotive games when the SNES was around. When the Playstation made gaming 'popular' we suddenly got a huge surge of completely crap games, and we still get them now. If the industry got any bigger we'd only get even more rushed games and clones from companies trying to make some quick cash.
And I haven't been to see a film for months. And the only ones I want to see are LOTR TT and 28 Days Later.
>
> As a result, do you reckon gaming would suffer? Certainly as an
> industry it would boom. The movie industry is absolutely huge - could
> you imagine a world without it?
I disagree.
There used to be loads of brilliaint, original and innotive games when the SNES was around. When the Playstation made gaming 'popular' we suddenly got a huge surge of completely crap games, and we still get them now. If the industry got any bigger we'd only get even more rushed games and clones from companies trying to make some quick cash.
And I haven't been to see a film for months. And the only ones I want to see are LOTR TT and 28 Days Later.
Ah well. I don't think it's down to you being ignored at all, I reckon lots of people read your posts, but never reply.
:)
:)
Cheers, and I've noticed :(. I think it's because I mention everything TO mention, so nobody can reply with anything constructive ;). Or maybe I'm ignored :).
Great post! It's a shame less people read your posts, as the last one was also good.
Good luck on GAD!
:)
Good luck on GAD!
:)
Ahhh, Hollywood. The name which always brings up images of bright lights, fame and fortune. The place on this Earth where every celebrity has to be to be noticed. Hollywood is the epicentre of all things celebrity, where all the greatest films are made, and where all the gossip, rumours and voyeurism stems from. Ahhh, Hollywood, if only gaming had a place as famous as you...
Films aren't necessarily focused in Hollywood. East European countries are popular for their tax breaks, and it would be hard to film an open-air tropical spot in the claustrophobic, fake environment of Hollywood. Granted, last years best film (in my opinion), Lord of the Rings, was filmed entirely in my home country New Zealand. But they are in a minority - Hollywood is the place to be for celebrity scoop, scandal and movies.
Could gaming ever become this way? Where Shigeru Miyamoto is constantly confronted with a barrage of cameramen, where programmers struggle to work in vast numbers while competing with the people next door? Well, this is certainly something strange. Gaming is a very widespread thing. There are developers in England, Japan, America, Australia, Russia, South Africa, Brazil and China. Who's to say that development is focused in on only one area?
But what if game development was in a Hollywood area? Well, for a start they'd be so much more hyped up gaming tat. Guaranteed, games would be released in sets. Where two or three games, all the same genre and indistinguishable in plot, are released within a month of each other. Imagine if SSX Tricky, Amped and Cool Boarders 5 were released within each other? Only one would come up trumps, because that's the way Hollywood works.
We'd also have to have a single-format. It's no good games competing for each other when one will be for the GameCube and one for Xbox. Because it doesn't give choice. In Hollywood, we don't see some movie-makers creating films on different formats to each other - film has been standardised, so that's yet another issue to contend with for a gaming Hollywood.
And of course, there's location. Los Angeles is a pretty good location for the movie industry's Hollywood, because it's a huge city at the centre of attention around the world. Is there anybody you know who hasn't heard of it. But aside from that, Gaming Hollywood has to be in a place which would be recognisable. It's no good placing it in the middle of Moscow - it's away from public attention, away from the limelight. Somewhere big, bright and smack in the line of sight of the public would be great. Somewhere like the middle of Tokyo, on the River Thames or on Long Island in New York. Location, location, location. That's what put Hollywood where it is today.
As a result, do you reckon gaming would suffer? Certainly as an industry it would boom. The movie industry is absolutely huge - could you imagine a world without it? No no, if there was a Hollywood of video games, it would be all the better for the industry. But it probably would mean quality would suffer.
But think of all the spinoffs that we'd get! There would be annual awards, such as grammys and oscars. Gaming would be all over the press, and game stars - be them silicon or flesh - would be in the limelight. There would be tabloids, magazines and teenager crap spewed out for 'casuals' to read. What's more - there would be gaming branded theme parks. Like Universal Studios in LA and Florida, we might get Universal Gamers. Or something like that. Imagine watching the Mario show - a 'comedy' on an abysmal scale. Or riding the Halo ride, a futuristic space ride with all guns blazing. And let's not forget Metal Gear Solid 2 style laser quest thingies. It would be great.
Ultimately, it all boils down to publicity. Gaming has grown and grown and grown in the past few years. PlayStation 2 is smeared across footballers' t-shirts, Mario is plastered to phone booths and I've seen buses adorned with Lara Croft's weighty buxom. And to top it all, gaming IS becoming mainstream. From the start of last century, the populatiry of movies - moving pictures - grew at a phenomenal rate. And I believe gaming is doing so. And the result will be what we have now - The polypropene plastered face of celebrities. And I'm afraid it's bound to happen. Not within the next ten years, or even twenty. It will boil down to whether gaming in the mainstream survives, but to do so it needs recognisable people and characters. Yes, celebrities. Gaming will have its Hollywood - probably not different to what I've predicted. It is only a matter of time...
Films aren't necessarily focused in Hollywood. East European countries are popular for their tax breaks, and it would be hard to film an open-air tropical spot in the claustrophobic, fake environment of Hollywood. Granted, last years best film (in my opinion), Lord of the Rings, was filmed entirely in my home country New Zealand. But they are in a minority - Hollywood is the place to be for celebrity scoop, scandal and movies.
Could gaming ever become this way? Where Shigeru Miyamoto is constantly confronted with a barrage of cameramen, where programmers struggle to work in vast numbers while competing with the people next door? Well, this is certainly something strange. Gaming is a very widespread thing. There are developers in England, Japan, America, Australia, Russia, South Africa, Brazil and China. Who's to say that development is focused in on only one area?
But what if game development was in a Hollywood area? Well, for a start they'd be so much more hyped up gaming tat. Guaranteed, games would be released in sets. Where two or three games, all the same genre and indistinguishable in plot, are released within a month of each other. Imagine if SSX Tricky, Amped and Cool Boarders 5 were released within each other? Only one would come up trumps, because that's the way Hollywood works.
We'd also have to have a single-format. It's no good games competing for each other when one will be for the GameCube and one for Xbox. Because it doesn't give choice. In Hollywood, we don't see some movie-makers creating films on different formats to each other - film has been standardised, so that's yet another issue to contend with for a gaming Hollywood.
And of course, there's location. Los Angeles is a pretty good location for the movie industry's Hollywood, because it's a huge city at the centre of attention around the world. Is there anybody you know who hasn't heard of it. But aside from that, Gaming Hollywood has to be in a place which would be recognisable. It's no good placing it in the middle of Moscow - it's away from public attention, away from the limelight. Somewhere big, bright and smack in the line of sight of the public would be great. Somewhere like the middle of Tokyo, on the River Thames or on Long Island in New York. Location, location, location. That's what put Hollywood where it is today.
As a result, do you reckon gaming would suffer? Certainly as an industry it would boom. The movie industry is absolutely huge - could you imagine a world without it? No no, if there was a Hollywood of video games, it would be all the better for the industry. But it probably would mean quality would suffer.
But think of all the spinoffs that we'd get! There would be annual awards, such as grammys and oscars. Gaming would be all over the press, and game stars - be them silicon or flesh - would be in the limelight. There would be tabloids, magazines and teenager crap spewed out for 'casuals' to read. What's more - there would be gaming branded theme parks. Like Universal Studios in LA and Florida, we might get Universal Gamers. Or something like that. Imagine watching the Mario show - a 'comedy' on an abysmal scale. Or riding the Halo ride, a futuristic space ride with all guns blazing. And let's not forget Metal Gear Solid 2 style laser quest thingies. It would be great.
Ultimately, it all boils down to publicity. Gaming has grown and grown and grown in the past few years. PlayStation 2 is smeared across footballers' t-shirts, Mario is plastered to phone booths and I've seen buses adorned with Lara Croft's weighty buxom. And to top it all, gaming IS becoming mainstream. From the start of last century, the populatiry of movies - moving pictures - grew at a phenomenal rate. And I believe gaming is doing so. And the result will be what we have now - The polypropene plastered face of celebrities. And I'm afraid it's bound to happen. Not within the next ten years, or even twenty. It will boil down to whether gaming in the mainstream survives, but to do so it needs recognisable people and characters. Yes, celebrities. Gaming will have its Hollywood - probably not different to what I've predicted. It is only a matter of time...