On a night of renting movies. And while watching the pumped up emotional action of Die Hard 4. And Also MI3. I turned to one buddy "without thought," and said. "Remember when video games were like this."
Yea,,back with the old MGS and RE, FFs, Tomb Raiders, and all kinds of cool stuff. It was odd. I kinda just said it. The sad part was the fact that I said remeber. And when. I could not say now. Not outside of Uncharted, anymore at least.
The story tellers of Hollywood are pretty good at what they do. Some better then others. But ones thing for sure. With the new breed of game development teams. Brought to us via the great new graduation ****s of the mid 90's to early 2000's. We may have gained a tun of development talent. But man did we loose alot of vision. Somewhere between FF7 epics "friend dies at the hands of a villain." To the now epci "Red shoot Blue. And Blue umm Shoot Red." Something has been lost. Yea we can try and pretend Bioshock, and Mass effect are good stories. But some on. Watch Lord of the Rings, or Die Hard 4. And tell me if they equal. Bio And Mass, a just another part of todays over praised "USA owns everyone" Micro "we tell you, you like it" BS.
Thing was back then, gaming did come close to movies. And even in some ways was surpassing Hollywood. That action and emotion was their. Chills ran threw you. Their was more than just shoot and run. Their was reason. And vary well written out ones.
Again I blame alot of this on this new breed. New breed of developers and game designers, new breed of 20 some game magazine editors who have no clue. New breed of everything.
Either a small team has the vision, but no devlopment talent. And no money. Or a team has the talant, and money. But no vision "EA
" So people try and buy already used up skripts of games, or talent.
Another part of the problem is basic things. Things as basic as hiring someone. Its a mathematical game. You hire 98 or 97. Just because its the higher number. People dont hire people anymore. They hire scores and numbers. And tests. They hire spelling and grammar correction lol. "Little joke." But they dont hire people and vision. So thus will proably see alot more red vs bue gaming. Before we ever really game again. Or be taken to other places via games.
Well at least for the most part it pretty stale. But in this quater of gaming, their is hope showing here and their. Some old guys still around. In fact,, Hideo Kojima's team may not be the best. But their pretty good im sure. And they have vision. His vision.
And although the attention span of the modern day teen to 20 some. Is about .5 of a second. With some form of ADD. Most of us others will understand MGS4. And will enjoy the heck out of it. Will get those Die Hard 3 and MI3 chills. And at least for one game. Will get to enjoy what vision and gaming was supposed to be by now. No offense to GTA4, they did their work vary fine. That game was not made to fit an epic story. But it almost did. Well as good as it could have done, in that type of game.
But im talking about the action and RPG games that have gotten lost. But maybe their not lost. Maybe their just still in development out east. But if not, we always got a bunch of BS from the west, on how great the story was in Red vs Blue.
Again this comes down to a simple question for gamers. Do you wanna game half as good. or full go? Do you suport BS or vision. So far most "as of the last 6 or so years." Most of you have choosen half and BS.