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The Fight for Original Games

Posted by Zonk on from the down-with-movie-tie-ins! dept.

PC.IGN is running a piece by Douglass Perry on the Fight for Original Games. In the article, the author examines the trends that have led to a slew of sequels, franchises, and movie industry tie-ins in the gaming industry of late. From the article: "...depending on who you speak with, the videogame industry is either reaching the most impressive convergence of its entire 30-plus year old existence, or it's falling into a never-ending death spiral of sequel-heavy, rehashed, franchise dominated blocks of stinking cheese."

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  1. TV by martin · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Same for TV - getting and original idea out there if quite difficult. Star trek x 3, CSI x 3, Big brother, clean/decorate my house.

    500 channels all showing similar stuff...

  2. Another article by dsyu · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Related article on Gamespy from Tim Schafer's recent presentation. My favorite quote:

    What disturbed him the most was this actual quote from an executive at a large publisher: "This is really great. This is creative. It's too bad people aren't going for creative stuff right now."

  3. The reason is... by ibullard · · Score: 4, Interesting

    The game industry is funded and run by people who don't play games. At all. They read reviews and have focus groups with people off the street that play games and then make decisions based off of that data.

    Once you know that, the rest makes sense in a strange and depressing way.