Gaming Clichés That Need To Die 416
MojoKid writes "The PC and console game industry is in desperate need of an overhaul. With skyrocketing costs to develop games, consumers aren't going to accept $80-$100 game titles, especially not with mobile game prices in the 99 cent — $4.99 range. Not to mention, how games are designed these days needs some serious rethinking. This list of some of the industry's most annoying gaming clichés, from scripted sequences to impossibly incompetent NPCs, and how they might be solved, speaks to a few of the major ailments in modern gameplay with character and plot techniques that are older than dirt."
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I think that when Natalie Portman delivers my super-cheap beyond-triple-A game to my house, she should be covered in hot grits. And naked. And petrified.
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If they are delivered that way, I don't care what they cost. But yes, sooner, please.
Graphics and sound are now a cliche (Score:5, Funny)
I'd say that burning too much time and money on graphics, sound, FMV, and voice acting at the expense of mechanics, plot and bug-freeness has become a cliche in and of itself.
Obviously the solution is to go back to text-based gaming. OK, fine, EGA and the PC speaker.
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I'm not an unreasonable man; you can forego the bikini if you like.
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Please.
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If she had to show up to your house like that, she would be petrified.
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>> Perhaps you would also like to have them hand-delivered to your house by Natalie Portman in a bikini?
And tell her to bring beer.
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Well, you ignore PC gaming with your comment so I assume you're only considering consoles, due to them having static configurations that ease some of the development burdens.
So your view is that devs are being held back because the set hardware they develop for isn't changing to keep up with the times fast enough?
Yeah, you're right, probably should make it so consoles are easier to upgrade. Maybe standardized connectors on the main board so you just plug in a processor, ram, non-volatile storage, media reader, graphics processor, sound processor, input devices, and networking? And of course you should have the system software easily upgradable to take better advantage of advances in software technologies and driver bugfixes.
Current controllers are quite limiting too, they should definitely offer a 103-button controller for text input, and a separate motion sensing controller with a couple buttons of it's own (use an optical beam and sensor on the bottom of it to read the motion of the surface it rests on, that would fix the current motion controller issues).
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Hell, *I* am petrified by just reading that.
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