The SWANTONMASTER Team goes over Why Gaming is so popular
They don't make games like this anymore.
Too dated in my book. The AI is way too unpredictable to be acceptable today. It's definitely a game of its time.
Agreed with those sentiments. The quality of the CPU controlled characters make or break a stealth game and they are pretty poor in all the Splinter Cell games by today's standard. This is what led me to playing Spies vs Mercs all the time in later games just to get a better stealth experience from a real person. Arguably Sony are making better stealth games albeit not Tom Clancy stuff.
Xbox and EA have recently made baffling moves that define how bleak the future of the gaming industry is with major companies at the helm. Ryan Bates from "Last Word on Gaming" posits in this op-ed that maybe it's not ineptitude, but intention.
Name someone that isn't trying to look us these days maybe cdpr.
Take two, ubi and yes even PlayStation are pushing us to own nothing and be happy with our live service ad injected games on a sub so they can raise prices at will and take access away when they see fit.
If it keeps up I'll be a full time retro gamer and this industry will be crashing hard
As rediculas as it sounds we need government reforms to defend consumer rights
XCOM and Marvel's Midnight Suns director Jake Solomon has founded a new studio to make a life sim game. Here's a new interview with him.
because games suck less &$#@ than mainstream movies and tv and people would rather be dead than read a book so that doesn't leave many options for their entertainment dollars.
i'm being kinda facetious but i think it's more simple than the article surmises. i can see people turning towards things that offer more value for their money. a $60 game can get you unlimited hours of entertainment wheres its almost $25 minimum just to set foot into a 90 minute movie.
i also think it does have alot to do with the sheer amount of garbage that infests popular media. honestly most movies are shit, most music is shit and tv has literally become "the idiot box". it's perfectly reasonable to assume that somebody who grew up with gaming would gravitate back.
"Many of us have stress in our lives but how are you relieving it on a daily basis? Next time you are stressed out and want to get away, play a video game that you are familiar with and enjoy. This is a much easier and inexpensive than planning a vacation or even resorting to alcohol to relieve stress. Marines are encouraged to play halo in their off time, simply to relive stress."
I've heard that playing Halo is the second most popular method of stress releaving in the army. Next to uncontrolled masturbation of course.