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Reading "who believed the company’s refusal to diversify gameplay had led to creative stagnation" makes me laugh. That would be like a Call of Duty developer o

Reading "who believed the company’s refusal to diversify gameplay had led to creative stagnation" makes me laugh. That would be like a Call of Duty developer or Assassin's Creed developer complaining that the company not diversifying the gameplay leads to stagnation. I can see from an artists perspective why that's annoying. But from an investors standpoint, if you have a profitable, winning formula, you use that formula!! Telltale Games had a unique and successful storytelling formula and some extremely impressive partnerships, and it would be surprising to have seen them abandon their niche just because it got boring. Of course, they were run into the ground so it's neither here nor there...

k__ 8y ago
"Call of Duty" and "Assassin's Creed" are made by different studios and owned by big publishers I think. Activision and Ubisoft offer different games.
- kevingadd 8y ago
  CoD and AC are actually good examples because they are two of very, very few franchises that ship a game every 1-2 years like clockwork, and to do this they have multiple studios working on games at the same time. Assassin's Creed Origins and Assassin's Creed Odyssey shipped roughly 1 year apart and this required separate studios working on them, basically in parallel. At various points in time Call of Duty has been rotating between 2 or 3 different game studios, effectively making totally separate games with the same* branding. * The branding isn't really the same either, since CoD lacks strong continuity - with Black Ops and Modern Warfare basically being different games with only some shared elements.
  - Insanity 8y ago
    CoD games after COD4 are all similar enough that if you can play well on one of them, you can do the others quite good. With the exception of BO3 perhaps, because it actually added some more fun gameplay elements. (The running along walls / double jumping). But in general, the games are all quite similar. Then again, the days the COD games were actually good games are long gone (in my opinion). CoD2 remains my favourite by far, and CoD4 is a close second. Both of which are over a decade old now.
GarrisonPrime 8y ago
A successful formula? They had 1 big hit, followed by a neigh collapse of interest that only got worse every game. They then kept at this “successful” model for half a dozen games. Sounds bull headed to me.

k__ 8y ago

"Call of Duty" and "Assassin's Creed" are made by different studios and owned by big publishers I think. Activision and Ubisoft offer different games.

kevingadd 8y ago
CoD and AC are actually good examples because they are two of very, very few franchises that ship a game every 1-2 years like clockwork, and to do this they have multiple studios working on games at the same time. Assassin's Creed Origins and Assassin's Creed Odyssey shipped roughly 1 year apart and this required separate studios working on them, basically in parallel. At various points in time Call of Duty has been rotating between 2 or 3 different game studios, effectively making totally separate games with the same* branding. * The branding isn't really the same either, since CoD lacks strong continuity - with Black Ops and Modern Warfare basically being different games with only some shared elements.
- Insanity 8y ago
  CoD games after COD4 are all similar enough that if you can play well on one of them, you can do the others quite good. With the exception of BO3 perhaps, because it actually added some more fun gameplay elements. (The running along walls / double jumping). But in general, the games are all quite similar. Then again, the days the COD games were actually good games are long gone (in my opinion). CoD2 remains my favourite by far, and CoD4 is a close second. Both of which are over a decade old now.

GarrisonPrime 8y ago

A successful formula? They had 1 big hit, followed by a neigh collapse of interest that only got worse every game. They then kept at this “successful” model for half a dozen games. Sounds bull headed to me.