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[HuckleCat]

I think this is the first time I agreed with something from IGN:

http://xbox360.ign.c.../1195143p1.html

An excerpt:

"Front Mission: Evolved, for instance, bears no gameplay relation to the slow-moving brilliance of the first five games in that underrated series. It fared poorly. Meanwhile, Front Mission 3 remains a cult favourite and Final Fantasy Tactics - recently released yet again in its War of the Lions form for iOS - continues to sell like the hottest of delicious cakes despite the fact it's almost 15 years old. Inexplicably or tellingly, it's also one of the most expensive games the App Store has ever seen.

Maybe the stats don't flat-out lie, but maybe they aren't telling the whole story. The West's best-sellers are ablaze with fast-moving wildfire, sure: the Call of Duties, the Gears of War, the Mass Effects, the Killzones. All signs point to Harmann being right.

Then your eyes drift up the list to the #1 selling game of 2011.

It's Pokemon Black/White. "

[theloon]

Game companies got excited about first person shooters. Gaming magazines rely on game company ad revenue and gave first person shooters great reviews. IGN might have just realised turn-based games aren't a fashion statement: it's a genre that's been overlooked.

What's even more sad is that FPS-as-RPG has itself turned into a sub-genre. Shadowrun, Warhammer and the upcoming Syndicate game fail to resemble anything but a Call of Doody with fantasy overtones.

Edited by theloon, Wed Sep 21, 2011 2:17 PM.

[Gabriel]

I agree with most of the article.

[Chuplayer]

I disagree with the article. If I wanted to wait for somebody to try to shoot me in the head with an obtusely statistical method for the bullet killing me or not before I got my opportunity to do the same to them, I'd break the rules and pull a Han Shoots First.

Edited by Chuplayer, Thu Sep 22, 2011 6:54 PM.

[Vic George 2K3]

If you're waiting for the big-name companies to produce it, you might as well be waiting forever. Or turn to religion to pray for it to happen.

[HuckleCat]

Vic George 2K3, on Sat Sep 24, 2011 3:25 PM, said:

If you're waiting for the big-name companies to produce it, you might as well be waiting forever. Or turn to religion to pray for it to happen.

I'm not so sure about that.

Unless X-Com comes out and is as successful as Fallout 3 was, then you're right. However, I predict that not only will it bomb, but folks will lose jobs over it, Like Homefront. Then the fired devs will sit and play "woulda shoulda" about it not being closer to what the game originally was.