Path: chuka.playstation.co.uk!news From: "Brian Baird" Newsgroups: scee.yaroze.freetalk.english Subject: Re: Dreamcast: Dead, Sega: Unstopable Date: Thu, 1 Mar 2001 17:41:31 -0600 Organization: PlayStation Net Yaroze (SCEE) Lines: 31 Message-ID: <97mmlu$frq1@www.netyaroze-europe.com> References: <97gcoq$j2f3@www.netyaroze-europe.com> <97gvqg$j2f4@www.netyaroze-europe.com> <97ji4i$7e1@www.netyaroze-europe.com> <97k42h$i7g2@www.netyaroze-europe.com> <97k9tb$i7g4@www.netyaroze-europe.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: formica.pe-i.com X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2919.6700 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.6700 "Peter" wrote in message news:97k9tb$i7g4@www.netyaroze-europe.com... > The games industry has become very much like the movie industry in an > alarmingly short space of time. The same stuff churned out time after time, > same story different pictures. But I guess there is only so much that can be > done when all the designers have the same 'shootit-stabit-driveit-fuckit' > mentality. God I wish someone would change the formula so we could have > games that challange our perceptions of the world we live in. (It'd probably > piss me off no end but at least it would be interesting! ;) This might make me unpopular, but originality by & large doesn't sell. The public *wants* WWTBAM and Fifa0X etc. The public gets what the public wants by & large. And don't go blaming designers for producing 'unoriginal' games - a lot of the time it's the publishers pushing for these things. Change the formula? Have you missed games like Jet Set Radio, PSO, Tony Hawk, SSX etc that have came out recently? There's no shortage of quality games out there at the moment. Are you a PS2 owner by any chance? Heck - there's even some really quality new releases for the N64 - Mario Tennis, Zelda MM, Conker, Star Wars Naboo, Paper Mario etc.