Has Activision lost its Midas touch? Is Call Of Duty destined to suffer the same fate as Guitar Hero? GameCentral looks at where the world's biggest publisher has gone wrong.
These groundbreaking video games changed gaming forever and drew in scores of fans in the process.
The Guitar Hero franchise died in the wake of Activision's lust for Call of Duty, but we should be dusting off those plastic guitars for a new Guitar Hero game.
Guitar Hero was good. The problem was Activision started creating many versions. Guitar Hero had the every one year cycle like COD and people felt they were being robbed.
Why in the hell would one want to spend time to learn a button mashing order when you can lean to play a real guitar in the same time frame.
As the world reels from the shockwaves of the seismic news that Microsoft is acquiring the proverbial swamp of the video-game landscape, Activision Blizzard King, it only seems natural that our minds should now shift towards what the fallout will be for presumably years if not decades to come.
Another Prototype would be awesome.
As for Singularity, I don't necessarily need a sequel, I just want to see Raven be able to flex their creative muscle again; not just be relegated to assisting with CoD. A lot of the old guard is still with the company.
That's part of what I'm hoping to see come from this acquisition. Revive teams like Vicarious Visions and Ravem to actually allow them to work on their own new projects again.
I'd like to see Activision get the Transformers license again and continue the War and Fall of Cybertron games. the movie games were crap and the game that combined both movie and Fall and War of Cybertron sucked a new Prototype would also be good as well.
Re-imagining of River Raid and the original adventurer Pitfall. Oh Zork is also a great game.
Midas Touch?
In a word. Yes.
and I am saying this NOT because I am angry at them or whatever, it simply that in their stable they choose to promote only their COD and Guitar Hero properties and quite frankly they stink already.
The writing is on the wall. Military shooters are becoming as stale as 20 day old bread and GH was dead 3 years ago.
Customization, fun, exaggeration those things are coming back in spades. Duke Nuke'em will be on top of many gamers list, so will Bulletstorm and Brink.
This games are fresh, new and did I mention FUN to play. New ways to interact, new and different guns, new ways of leveling AND NO ONE knows how to introduce new properties better than EA.
That's a point of fact. Not saying they cant also make mistakes, because they have. But just look at the amount of media and hoopla they doused over Bulletstorm.
When all is said in done, Activision ACQUIRED GH, they ACQUIRED COD and they ACQUIRED Blizzard.
Hope those Blizzard boys don't ever leave cause if they do. Bobby K. wont know what to do for toupee money.
Midas Touch, also known as The Golden Touch.
WTF does Activision expect to happen when there goal is to rape and pillage franchises for everything they are worth? Of course they are going to collapse. You can't release 5 Guitar Heroes in a year and expect people to keep wanting more.
Stupid company is stupid.
I think that losing Infinity Ward was a huge blow for the Call of Duty franchise. I've definitely noticed the lack of a certain polish in Black Ops that was present in MW and MW2. Not necessarily the multiplayer game play per se but the over-all feel of the game just isn't as good in Black Ops. Don't get me wrong, the changes they've made to multiplayer have been welcome but the rest of the game's mechanics just seem off somehow and I don't think Treyarch has what it takes to match Infinity Ward in that regard.
Over all I think that if CoD is indeed run into the ground somehow it won't really matter because some one will create another clone that will replace it.