Tale of Tales: "Stop buying Gears of War 2 and Resistance 2"

9lives.be: "When asked what advice they would like to give gamers, Michaël and Auriea (from Tale of Tales, makers of The Path) acknowledged that gamers are attracted to games exactly because they are games. "Of course, it would be nice if they would look and play games on a different level and went looking for other experiences. My advice would be directed towards the developers first and foremost. They are the ones who should create something different, something challenging for gamers out there.

But if we had to give an advice to gamers, I'd keep it simple: Gamers often say that they are tired of sequels and that they want innovation… Well… stop buying Gears of War 2 or Resistance 2 then," Michaël said.

Auriea added that they didn't want to stop people from playing what they wanted, but that sometimes, they just feel the urge to shake the gamer to wake them up.

Michaël and Auriea also feel that gamers should be more respectful on the internet and that they should not always scream and shout just because someone else doesn't like their game.

Aside from the, the interview talks about their future plans, their favourite fairy tale and which platforms might see their games one day. They also respond to the common question that games are too short. They believe that this is not the case, as most non-gamers will actually say that games are still too long. Check the interview after the link to see whether they agree or not."

[WildArmed]

oh right.
8-player co-op.. 60 multiplayer isnt innovative at all ^^

Neither is horde mode i guess.

Wow, just great!

[JokesOnYou]

"Auriea added that they didn't want to stop people from playing what they wanted, but that sometimes, they just feel the urge to shake the gamer to wake them up."

I got an idea, make a better new IP, advertise it and if its good enough it will "shake" the world like Gears did, and theres no doubt "Gamers" will buy it...*wake me up when you deliver.

btw, I do agree with them that gamers should be more respectful on the internet and stop screaming and shouting because someone doesn't like their game but at the same time making comments saying gamers should stop buying Gears or Resistance sounds really out of place on his part.

JOY

[Tony P]

Why are machine translated articles accepted?

There is an entire interview here that is barely comprehensible. I am not informed by this, just confused.

[FrankenLife]

Ummm horde mode isn't innovative. They just did it well. That kind of gameplay has been around for a long time. The high player count in R2 isn't so much innovative as it was groundbreaking. It is something that hadn't been done on the console, but it isn't a new idea or concept.

[SpoonyRedMage]

They seem really pretentious from what I could actually read.

[PrimordialSoupBase]

Play their game... you ain't seen nothing yet.

[ElementX]

What's The Path? Never heard of it... And this guy is telling people to quit buying popular games?

[TheIneffableBob]

It's a very interesting adventure game. It's pretty good, in my opinion, but it's far from your conventional game.

[kaveti6616]

No, this guy is pointing out a contradiction that many gamers have. First, they yell, "We want more innovative games," but then millions go out and buy sequels like Gears 2 and Resistance 2, and this guy is basically saying that if you desire innovation then show the developers and the studios that you're not going to keep buying rehash sequels. Resistance 2 and Gears 2, while great games, are not leaps and bounds ahead of their predecessors and for the most part the innovations in resistance 2 are to the multiplayer rather than game mechanics and storytelling.

These guys sound arrogant, but I see their point.

[Syronicus]

Many of those that buy Gears and Resistance are not those complaining about innovation but love their games and their respective sequels. It's a small minority of very loud gamers that cry for innovation and it shows in sales whenever a dev steps out and makes something new and different. There are countless examples of this and if these guys in the article were truly abreast of the issue they would have already known this. Sounds like arrogance to me.

[DaTruth]

It's mostly the reviewers who use "no innovation" as a way to dock games not on their favourite system and then they don't notice the lack of innovation on games for a select system. There's a whole bunch of blogs that just pop up and hurt metacritic scores with low scores a month down the road; These guys had to buy their copy of the game to review(if they even played it).

Any review on metacritic should only be added to the average if the website has an actual gaming magazine in circulation!

[kratos17]

this is kind of idiotic there are plenty of new IP's available as well as sequel's in the near future

[aaronisbla]

who are they?

[Dsnyder]

Internet titles never give great advice.

/sarcasm.

[Nihilism]

WOW, that article was extremely boring and the guy they interviewed sounded like he thought he was one of the big guns....yeah psn games etc are great, but when they make some games that can top the games he's dissing, i may take their advice.

[Major_Tom]

You guys should at least play the Path, it's one helluva game. However this guy just comes off as a pretentious bastard (whom I kinda agree with).

[timestoby]

yeah,with xbox you gotta buy more than once,that why xbox sell so well lol

[REALgamer]

But seriously, just because games like Gears 2 and Resistance 2 aren't trying to reinvent the wheel doesn't make them bad games. Both are fantastic experiences.

I found The Path intriguing and a great experimentation in game design, but I wouldn't say we should ignore brilliant games like Gears 2 and R2 in favour of them. I enjoy both types of games - smaller innovative experimental gameplay like Flower, Braid and The Path and large-scale projects like Gears, Halo and Uncharted.

A lot of thought obviously went into the design of The Path but if anyone believes that the same or even greater effort didn't go into Resistance of Gears they are fooling themselves. Enjoyable, polished gameplay doesn't come out of nowhere. Designers in Epic or Insomniac don't just sit around and say 'yeah, how about we make a game where the player shoots guys and it's awesome. Send that off to the artists and programmers and we'll ship it!'.

Sometimes people want to play a game that really makes them think like The Path. And sometimes people want to play a game that's simply fun, and fun with friends. In those cases, I'll take Gears and Resistance.

[Saaking]

While I agree that perhaps more developers should start making new and more innovative games I disagree with the "stop buying Gears 2 and Resistance 2" comment. If a game, regardless if it's a sequel, is good then it deserves to be played.

[rockerboy]

yeah well your game stinks< so poke it up ur ass!

[eckoman11]

I think this is actually somewhat humorous. At the point where it is said to stop buying Resistance 2 or Gears of War 2 because they are "uninovative sequels." The way I see it, Gears of War practically reinvented the cover system, and the first Resistance game was an alternative history game made by Insomniac (which basically means it has ridiculously awesome weapons) with 40 player online. I'm sure we can agree that both of those games are innovative, yet when two great games release two great sequels, we're not supposed to buy them because the game isn't as innovative? The whole point of a sequel is to expand the story while improving the gameplay, not replacing the original gameplay. Otherwise, it shouldn't be considered a sequel. So, essentially what this guy is saying is that we aren't allowed to buy sequels unless the gameplay is drastically altered, thus severing the strongest connection it had to the original game.

[Menchi]

I'm getting kind of sick of this dev. He talks a lot of crap for an Indy.

Just because you're not making big hit games, and using "innovative" and niche ideas, doesn't make you a better games designer, nor does it give them the right to act like pretentious snobs.

Seriously, if you're so proud of your game, let it do the talking rather than trying to rip in to other, and arguably better, developers work.

[Gun_Senshi]

Both Resistance and Gears are just generic Shooters.

Give me SystemShock 3!

[Guitardr85]

I think he is referring to the rampant nature of the FPS! I kinda agree with him...there are too many FPSs on the market!

[Gue1]

Man I tried to understand the article but with my poor English combined with the mess of this translator I'll just give up.

[Ripyealip]

All you XBOTS ever say is sales like wtf are games are way better than yours only reason halo sold so much because its one of the 3 good games on your system.

[DaTruth]

These guys need to understand that their would be no consoles for them to make games on if not for these generic type blockbuster games; They practically made the industry.

Niche games got a couple of people to buy consoles and when they were finished with that game, the console collected dust and they went back to watching sports or collecting art or whatever.

[free2game365]

Didn't Resistance 2 sell really badly?