Sdashiki
Oct 17, 2006, 09:27 AM
I was Stumblin round the 'net when I found dis:
http://www.pointlesswasteoftime.com/games/manifesto.html
had some pretty good points about "Next Gen" consoles, and as far as I can tell, nothing of a bias nature. Just a pure pissed off attitude about gaming development in general.
I especially like:
15. Stop the Short-Sighted Business ********
Patents. Did you know there's a patent held by some microscopic software company on spherical camera controls in realtime 3D, and they're starting to level lawsuits against EVERYONE? Did you ever wonder what happened to force feedback, controllers that push your hands around so you can feel the action in the game as well as see it (we're talking real force feedback, not controllers that vibrate like pagers)? Somebody has a patent, that's what. Did you know you can't have mini-games during a loading screen because of patent law?
Exclusive sports licenses. Say goodbye to NFL football anywhere but with EA. That's right, they signed a deal with the NFL saying nobody could make games but them. So every other pro football game, including Sega's, will be back to using fictional teams so get ready to play as the Dallas Zombies with all-star QB Cletus F**khat.
Cashing in on Crappy Genre Knockoffs. For every Grand Theft Auto, there is a Driv3r. For every Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic there is a Fight Club: Soup Befouler. This is no joke. A movie goer will bitch about a movie he "wasted" seven bucks on. But to leave $55 at the game store and find out you got a knockoff turd in return? That's some serious customer dissatisfaction, my friends. And it will bite the industry in the ass some day, unless somebody wakes up.
Wow, I had no idea that the force feedback controllers from the ol PC flight sims and whatnot days never made it to consoles cuz it "sucked". guess not.
and no mini game loaders? jeeez. thanks alot greed.
might have to research some of this though.
http://www.pointlesswasteoftime.com/games/manifesto.html
had some pretty good points about "Next Gen" consoles, and as far as I can tell, nothing of a bias nature. Just a pure pissed off attitude about gaming development in general.
I especially like:
15. Stop the Short-Sighted Business ********
Patents. Did you know there's a patent held by some microscopic software company on spherical camera controls in realtime 3D, and they're starting to level lawsuits against EVERYONE? Did you ever wonder what happened to force feedback, controllers that push your hands around so you can feel the action in the game as well as see it (we're talking real force feedback, not controllers that vibrate like pagers)? Somebody has a patent, that's what. Did you know you can't have mini-games during a loading screen because of patent law?
Exclusive sports licenses. Say goodbye to NFL football anywhere but with EA. That's right, they signed a deal with the NFL saying nobody could make games but them. So every other pro football game, including Sega's, will be back to using fictional teams so get ready to play as the Dallas Zombies with all-star QB Cletus F**khat.
Cashing in on Crappy Genre Knockoffs. For every Grand Theft Auto, there is a Driv3r. For every Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic there is a Fight Club: Soup Befouler. This is no joke. A movie goer will bitch about a movie he "wasted" seven bucks on. But to leave $55 at the game store and find out you got a knockoff turd in return? That's some serious customer dissatisfaction, my friends. And it will bite the industry in the ass some day, unless somebody wakes up.
Wow, I had no idea that the force feedback controllers from the ol PC flight sims and whatnot days never made it to consoles cuz it "sucked". guess not.
and no mini game loaders? jeeez. thanks alot greed.
might have to research some of this though.
