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EA Aiming For 50% Innovation
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Zonk
on Fri May 19, 2006 02:51 PM
from the i-half-care dept.
from the i-half-care dept.
Talking to 'The Street.com' EA Worldwide Studios president Paul Lee gets grilled on game delays and industry stagnation, and reaffirms EA's commitment to new IP. From the article: "There [have] been countless games in our industry that have looked great and didn't play particularly well. Going forward, there's going to be a lot of me-too products that look great -- because they all look great -- that aren't necessarily going to do great. But if you take a look at what we have -- you know, Spore is innovative game-play, and at the same time it's got great graphics. And I think that's what really knocks it out of the park. Innovative game-play helps drive [the cause] of gaming. And if you can do that, and you can have great graphics, I think that the market is bigger than just having one of the two."
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You had me reading at Spore (Score:4, Interesting)
It's the games. Seriously, I don't care how the investors think about it. I was looking at investing in EA or Nintendo, but after reading this I just don't think they get it and will miss the wave that will dominate gaming for the next two years.
I'll still buy Spore and other Will Wright projects, of course.
FUR (Score:3, Insightful)
If I can't evolve my creature to look like any REAL creature as well as imaginary, then what's the point of giving me constrained freedom. If I can't evolve a mouse into an ape into a human, then why play an evolving game.
Seriously, the scale bump mapping looks
In reality, it IS about the games... (Score:3, Insightful)
For them to keep moving forward, they have to have people want to have their games and to schedule part of their time for them. I just don't see the bulk of the stuff EA's producing of late doing that for the most part. I mean, how many more NFL/NHL/NBA 200x games are people going to be willing to keep plunk
yeah ok Spore's knocking it out of the park (Score:4, Insightful)
And it has a very great danger of doing a whole bunch of stuff Not Very Well. Sort of reminds me of City of Heroes, in everything I've seen about it - great costume designer (creature creator) but the gameplay doesn't live up to it.
Naturally, this speculation isn't that valid as I haven't played it either. But I'm not asserting it's "knocking it out of the park" or even that it will fail. I am simply skeptical that it's going to be the Only Game I Ever Play because of all the uniquely combined elements.
Re:yeah ok Spore's knocking it out of the park (Score:2)
DS and Wii versions of spore seem to make more sense to me than PS3 and 360 versions anyway, since the controller can act more like just like a pointing device.
Keeping that mindset, Will Wright could be one of EA's most valuable assets when it co
yeah that bugged me (Score:2)
Hopefully that means just one phase or something. . . like the "spore" phase.
But the idea that a Cell phone's limited interface will allow it to play the same game as a PC. . . just indicates it's not going to be that good.
Or, alternately, that Will Wright has succumbed to Molynieuxism and is over-promising. Which seems likely. . . but what parts are being overpromised? THAT'S what co
Re:yeah that bugged me (Score:2)
Well, Spore MIGHT suck. But it might also be the breath of fresh air that the gaming industry needs. It might also spark the pathway for a whole slew of Real Time Strategy Games on the Wii when people realize exactly how well suited the controller is for those sorts of games.
I'm going to buy Spore for sure. I do this knowing good and well that it's a "Sandbox" sort of game in the same way Sim City is. This helps make
Spore is going to suck (Score:5, Funny)
It's very simple, he appeared on the cover of Wired.
Push technology, SEGA, Smell-o-Vision over IP, the New Economy, Newt Gingritch, all cratered after appearing on the cover of Wired. It's sort of a Karmic slashdotting effect.
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Re:yeah ok Spore's knocking it out of the park (Score:3, Insightful)
From the sounds of TFA... (Score:4, Insightful)
It sounds to me like the basic premise for their 'innovations' is that they plan on tacking GTA-style emergent gameplay onto ever title they can. Granted, it's a nice touch in certain titles but for God's sake, don't just shove it into games where it has no purpose. Going from one marketing gimmick (yearly sequels) to another (go wherever, do whatever) just because your original tactic is failing miserably doesn't make you save any face in my book.
Title is bizarre (Score:4, Informative)
An innovation quota! (Score:5, Funny)
"Johnson, you're not innovating enough! You gotta get your innovation up another 8% by the end of the month, or I'm kicking you back down to playtesting!"
ea: please remake duck hunt (Score:2, Funny)
Re:ea: please remake duck hunt (Score:4, Informative)
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Did anyone else... (Score:5, Funny)
It's not just seeing "EA" and "innovation" in the same sentence, it's the fact they seem to be aiming for a specific percentage of "innovation" in their games. It all seems very accountanty.
Developer: I've got this great new idea for our game! It'll be revolutionary!
Boss: Sorry, I'm not sure if we've got enough innovation left in our budget for revolutionary, can you scale it down to a neat twist on an existing idea?
Re:Did anyone else... (Score:2)
Novel idea for them (Score:2)
Re:Novel idea for them (Score:2)
1)A lot of people get severe motion sickness in first person perspective. For example, myself. If a game is first person only, I won't buy it because I can't play it.
2)Where are all the 2D games at? 3D works for some genres, but platformers I still prefer in 2D. RPGs as well- by going 3D instead of 2D you might get more details in, but the worlds seem to be 1 hell of a lot smaller- there were more towns and dungeons in FF1 than FFX.
what? (Score:2)
who wrote this crap? Maybe it's just this headache I have but this article seemed practically unreadable.
Innovative Hockey (Score:2)
I'd like "open-ended" hockey (Score:2)
EA's upcoming innovative titles (Score:5, Funny)
- American Mcgee's NHL 2007
- Madden 007 2007: Goldenpunt
- Lord Of the Sims: Hobbit Date
- Harry Potter and the Milking of Franchise
- Need for Medal of Honor: Third Reich Racing
- The Burbz: Virtual Emo
- Burnout Soviet Russia: Cars Blow Up You!
- Lord of the Rings: Street
- Command and Conquer: Dubya vs. Everybody
And of course,Re:EA's upcoming innovative titles (Score:5, Funny)
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50% Innovation is really... (Score:3, Insightful)
Half empty, half full - ad naseum.
Hmm... (Score:4, Funny)