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Has anyone noticed how many games publishers rely on gimmicks to sell games?
I dont mean Lara Croft, or anyone, I mean like Conkers Bad Fur Day. Apart from the fact that the game is being released for a dead console, but the fact that people WILL buy this game for the word F*** and S***. Publishers now rely on being "Controversial", much like the music biz.
Severance uses violence as a gimmick. There is a "Look at us, weve got so much blood we have been banned by much of Europe". Until games are truely aimed at adults, then games like these will be bought by pre-pubescent boys who laugh whenever someone says "bum".
The last and most used gimmick today is lisences. The FIFA lisence is being so badly used to churn out endless indetical sequels of tired games. The award for the worst use of a lisence must go to SIMPSONS WRESTLING. The game is aimed at kids, however the people that go out and buy it (If anyone)are fickle (unlike the "bum" class) and actually have taste. If they want to hear Homer go "D'oh", then they watch the simpsons.
I dont mean Lara Croft, or anyone, I mean like Conkers Bad Fur Day. Apart from the fact that the game is being released for a dead console, but the fact that people WILL buy this game for the word F*** and S***. Publishers now rely on being "Controversial", much like the music biz.
Severance uses violence as a gimmick. There is a "Look at us, weve got so much blood we have been banned by much of Europe". Until games are truely aimed at adults, then games like these will be bought by pre-pubescent boys who laugh whenever someone says "bum".
The last and most used gimmick today is lisences. The FIFA lisence is being so badly used to churn out endless indetical sequels of tired games. The award for the worst use of a lisence must go to SIMPSONS WRESTLING. The game is aimed at kids, however the people that go out and buy it (If anyone)are fickle (unlike the "bum" class) and actually have taste. If they want to hear Homer go "D'oh", then they watch the simpsons.
I would take your post a bit more seriously if you could actually spell the word licence......
Didn't er_no say something about Lara not being in the next TR?
It isn't all gimmick related, the themes and settings of a game are all to do with
A) What people want
B) What the company are able to make and
C) Marketing
All games have gimmicks,
"Ooh, if Edgar Davids didn't help with player motion techniques in Fifa 2001 I wouldn't have bought it!"
"Lara has gone down a cup size, if this happens in TR6: A New Age then I won't buy it"
All games have to have some sort of appeal, Banjo for kids, Conker for older Ninty loyalists...(All PS2 games for graphics-wooing losers - Just Kidding)
Games have to have a certain genre, you can't have a game with no specific genre, even Harvest Moon is an RPG.
Games companies and developers don't make a dodgy games and stick a gimmick in, well other than Superman 64! Rare have done it with Banjo, think how many parents want their kids to have nice games, most say about 90%+, if they see a cute cuddly bear and a bird who have to fight a witch to save the day then they are more likely to buy it than if they see a game with blood gore and violence.
But you were talking about Conker being a cop-out for Rare to sell to the public, but you couldn't be futher from the truth. Although Conker's themes will attract more attention than say a Jet Force Gemini sequel, Rare haven't held back with any of the gameplay fun that we have seen in Banjo and Donkey Kong, the CVut-Scenes, Storylines and Overall gameplay is some of the best around. The ideas behind the game are great and if you think that rolling poo around is a pointless waste of time, think again, I have found completing whole games easier that rolling two balls of dung up a hill.
But if we leave out the crude actions on Conker for the mo, I think I have proven my point, which is basically that games, regardless of platform aren't all pushed because of a gimmick, no more than they used to be, okay so we have Cyber Tiger and Michael Owen WLS, but we ued to have other games that were football player pushed, Ronaldo did a couple.
Gimmicks will always be put alongside games but most of the time it is to set a theme, people, unlike those at Rare, can't think of a new type of game storyline, so they might take one from a movie.
Simple...
The Game
A) What people want
B) What the company are able to make and
C) Marketing
All games have gimmicks,
"Ooh, if Edgar Davids didn't help with player motion techniques in Fifa 2001 I wouldn't have bought it!"
"Lara has gone down a cup size, if this happens in TR6: A New Age then I won't buy it"
All games have to have some sort of appeal, Banjo for kids, Conker for older Ninty loyalists...(All PS2 games for graphics-wooing losers - Just Kidding)
Games have to have a certain genre, you can't have a game with no specific genre, even Harvest Moon is an RPG.
Games companies and developers don't make a dodgy games and stick a gimmick in, well other than Superman 64! Rare have done it with Banjo, think how many parents want their kids to have nice games, most say about 90%+, if they see a cute cuddly bear and a bird who have to fight a witch to save the day then they are more likely to buy it than if they see a game with blood gore and violence.
But you were talking about Conker being a cop-out for Rare to sell to the public, but you couldn't be futher from the truth. Although Conker's themes will attract more attention than say a Jet Force Gemini sequel, Rare haven't held back with any of the gameplay fun that we have seen in Banjo and Donkey Kong, the CVut-Scenes, Storylines and Overall gameplay is some of the best around. The ideas behind the game are great and if you think that rolling poo around is a pointless waste of time, think again, I have found completing whole games easier that rolling two balls of dung up a hill.
But if we leave out the crude actions on Conker for the mo, I think I have proven my point, which is basically that games, regardless of platform aren't all pushed because of a gimmick, no more than they used to be, okay so we have Cyber Tiger and Michael Owen WLS, but we ued to have other games that were football player pushed, Ronaldo did a couple.
Gimmicks will always be put alongside games but most of the time it is to set a theme, people, unlike those at Rare, can't think of a new type of game storyline, so they might take one from a movie.
Simple...
The Game
ROTFLMAO he said "bum" :)
So Lara's sex appeal wasn't a gimmick?
Has anyone noticed how many games publishers rely on gimmicks to sell games?
I dont mean Lara Croft, or anyone, I mean like Conkers Bad Fur Day. Apart from the fact that the game is being released for a dead console, but the fact that people WILL buy this game for the word F*** and S***. Publishers now rely on being "Controversial", much like the music biz.
Severance uses violence as a gimmick. There is a "Look at us, weve got so much blood we have been banned by much of Europe". Until games are truely aimed at adults, then games like these will be bought by pre-pubescent boys who laugh whenever someone says "bum".
The last and most used gimmick today is lisences. The FIFA lisence is being so badly used to churn out endless indetical sequels of tired games. The award for the worst use of a lisence must go to SIMPSONS WRESTLING. The game is aimed at kids, however the people that go out and buy it (If anyone)are fickle (unlike the "bum" class) and actually have taste. If they want to hear Homer go "D'oh", then they watch the simpsons.
I dont mean Lara Croft, or anyone, I mean like Conkers Bad Fur Day. Apart from the fact that the game is being released for a dead console, but the fact that people WILL buy this game for the word F*** and S***. Publishers now rely on being "Controversial", much like the music biz.
Severance uses violence as a gimmick. There is a "Look at us, weve got so much blood we have been banned by much of Europe". Until games are truely aimed at adults, then games like these will be bought by pre-pubescent boys who laugh whenever someone says "bum".
The last and most used gimmick today is lisences. The FIFA lisence is being so badly used to churn out endless indetical sequels of tired games. The award for the worst use of a lisence must go to SIMPSONS WRESTLING. The game is aimed at kids, however the people that go out and buy it (If anyone)are fickle (unlike the "bum" class) and actually have taste. If they want to hear Homer go "D'oh", then they watch the simpsons.