Are there no new ideas left for video games? Or must we copy social gaming now? Farming Simulator 2013 just might be Farmville in a full version.
Dear valued player, Following an incredible 11 years since its initial launch back in 2009, we are officially announcing the closure of the original FarmVille game on Facebook.
The video game industry is not one where originality reigns supreme. Sure, there are definitely Big Ideas that change the landscape of gaming, but for the most part publishers are content to slowly improve on stuff that’s already proven profitable.
But sometimes imitation goes beyond mere flattery to become a fad, when seemingly the entire video game world gets fixated on a single idea and starts churning out endless copies. We’re seeing it now with Fortnite and the Battle Royale craze, but this isn’t a new thing. Let’s blow in the cartridges and revisit some of the most potent fads in video game history.
I thought that too until he mentioned "paradigm change" with the addition of a competitive two-player mode. Obvious fumble, and we all do it, but it's a pet peeve that I should work on.
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Series has been going for ages.
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>I was a gamer before it was "ok" for girls to play games.
Where she from 'north korea'
I don't get the article.
I used to play Flight Simulator II on my C64 back in 1985ish. Today I'm playing Flight Simulator X on my PC. Am I being ripped off because the gameplay (takeoff, fly, land - repeat) is exactly the same?
I could find a free 2D flash shooter or I could play BF3. Am I being ripped off because they're both shooters and BF3 obviously cost me a lot more than what a free flash shooter is ever going to cost me?
That's the feeling I'm getting from the article. That I'm being ripped off because, hey... shooting, farming, flying... whatever... is nothing new and has been done before.
Sorry, but I can't look at things in such a simple-minded way. I could never go back to FSII now that I have FSX. I could never see myself even touch Farmville, but I do in fact intend to try Farming Simulator 2013 (Possibly wait for a Steam sale) because I'm a sucker for simulators in general (Farmville is NOT a simulator). The fact that the author even tries to compare those two games just baffles me. But hey, that's just me *shrug*.