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Personally, for me, it seems that way.
Most games released today are:
A) Rehashes of last-gen games, with additions, stuff taken away and/or a different storyline/map. (GTA IV, PES 08, Resident Evil 5 etc.)
B) Same old shooters, just with different controls/guns/maps/storylines etc. (No point using examples, there's too many of them)
C) Games which just fail because too much emphasis is put on graphics instead of the important stuff like gameplay (FIFA 08, GRID, Gran Turismo 5).
And even then the good games are ruined by badly programmed single player AI and/or all the twats online. Most people online exploit the flaws in a game, play one-dimensional tactics or lag cheat just to win, it's as if they think they must win at all costs as if their life depended on it... Even in "unranked" matches.
The numbers of those twats has increased rapidly:
PES4 online - 90% of games were fair, with both players trying to play a fairly realistic game of football, 10% either quit on you or tried to score cutbacks. The high amount of fair games may have been down to the lack of a ranking system.
PES5 online - About 60% of matches were fair, with no cheating or quitting, however there were more twats than before.
PES6 online - About 90% of matches are cheat-fests, where the only form of attack is cutbacking and people discover and use all sorts of lag/superteam cheats to win their matches, with people also abusing each other on the text chat all the time.
Then there's the "replayability" factor in the games, which seems to be lacking in the new games. Perfect example being FIFA 08 - A game that seems fantastic, the best football simulation around, until you see that most of the goals are coming in the same way and that there are so many glitches to exploit. Even PES 08, something which is just a tweaked version of a game which I loved in PES5, has gone badly downhill and now is just a buggy mess of a game.
I have been playing PES5 again recently, and I was surprised at just how well it has aged, it's gameplay is still better than any of the football games released since, the goals all look different, the tackling/dribbling is responsive, the shooting is still the best in any game I think etc. Even after nearly 3 years of having the game, I can still see new things in it, no new games have that quality.
I think that too much effort is spent on making graphics in games good and not enough time put into making epic storylines, great gameplay improvements or innovative game modes.
Anyone agree?
It's just that I feel, well, almost robbed by game developers because what we get offered is so much below what is possible.
GTA IV is almost a tease, it's like "Look at this, you can have a big detailed city to roam around in with a great story and online play" but the story is so short and the online modes are so bland that after the story, all you can do is try various ways of dying in a funny way, play around with the physics, do stunt jumps, shoot pigeons etc.
So much more could be done with almost every game, particularly on PS3 with the blu-ray discs, yet it seems they get rushed out for a quick release to make money rather than being made carefully for a few years to make sure they are as good as they can be...
Also, needing a license to put anything in a game screws them up too - Top Spin 3 being a prime example, how much better would that game be with all of the world's top 20? How much better would PES/FIFA be with the stadia of all the Premiership teams?I certainly hope so, it's the only game on my "must buy" list, I have said a couple of times that I would play Fallout 1 and 2 and have never got round to it, I will make a point of doing that some time next week!![]()