Comments on: David Cage: “I am fed up with space marines!”

By: woodysroundup

woodysroundup — Fri, 25 Mar 2011 01:29:51 +0000

The fact is that if he continues to make thoughtful games with not much traditional action but lots of depth and emotion, he will continue to achieve relatively low sales numbers. If he wants Avatar style numbers of players, he will need to make a game tha appeals to that many players. Last time I looked, that meant making Call of Duty.

He’s living in a fantasy land. I mean it’s fine to dream, but just recognise you’re dreaming.

By: doub7

doub7 — Tue, 22 Mar 2011 22:22:10 +0000

I find it hilarious that the same day this story drops there is a another news story about a game featuring space marines…rofl.

By: doub7

doub7 — Tue, 22 Mar 2011 19:35:26 +0000

I am really big into story in games & 1 thing I wish would go away is the silent protaganist. I know the theory that u r supposed 2 feel like the character but it just doesn’t work 4 me. It just makes me not care about the character. I mean Rico from Killzone is a douche but at least he HAS a personality.

By: PilarVIRUS

PilarVIRUS — Tue, 22 Mar 2011 17:40:55 +0000

In reply to jbg0623.

Nah… I wouldn’t compare it to Fable because Fable doesn’t sound that awesome. 😀

By: tareq salah

tareq salah — Tue, 22 Mar 2011 16:12:38 +0000

he is right, when i play new fps nowadays i tend to just keep walking and shooting because the story is either too complicated or too stupid for me to care. the problem is not the genres its the story of the game.

By: shastyxmcnasty

shastyxmcnasty — Tue, 22 Mar 2011 14:11:30 +0000

while I do agree with all previous statements I do still love the FPS genre… it is a medium that hasn’t really changed much in the last decade with space marines and rookies and war vets and silent protagonists. and for me this works… While I do love a good story from time to time what makes me love a game is the gameplay…the story is just filler to get form one set piece to another. What would Gears be without its amazing cover system. Also as gamers I feel we buy a game and spend 10% of our time in campaign and the remaining 90% of the time in mp. And as we all know, there is not story in online.

I sometimes feel that people hating on the fps genre is a sad cry for people who cant enter the market..it is a very technically demanding genre that can make and break a studio and I think some people are threatened by it.

So while I would love to see more story driven games, if it came at the cost of game play, I dont really care if a game has an amazing story.

By: shastyxmcnasty

shastyxmcnasty — Tue, 22 Mar 2011 14:05:58 +0000

In reply to jbg0623. sounds to me like an advanced form of Fable...could be very interesting if you could get a project like that off the ground

By: PilarVIRUS

PilarVIRUS — Tue, 22 Mar 2011 05:07:10 +0000

In reply to jbg0623. That does sound interesting. But, here's the thing, it's going to need a huge marketing campaign. You should start writing it, then you should go to PAX or something talk to a developer about it.

By: jbg0623

jbg0623 — Tue, 22 Mar 2011 05:00:37 +0000

I’m all for the story but there’s no one trying to write something original. I’d love to be given the chance to writ e one of these games. It’d be a masterpiece; something without good guys or bad guys. Something that mimics real life where good people die without purpose and bad things happen without reason. There’ll be no “good guys” or “bad guys” just people who are good in some ways, bad in others.

By: PilarVIRUS

PilarVIRUS — Tue, 22 Mar 2011 03:22:18 +0000

That does sound like it can be an interesting title. Anyway, he’s way beyond right. They’re always the same.