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This is endemic of the games industry as a whole. SW:TOR is just World of Warcraft with lightsabers. Modern Warfare 3 is an expansion packaged as a sequel. A

by teej 15y ago

This is endemic of the games industry as a whole. SW:TOR is just World of Warcraft with lightsabers. Modern Warfare 3 is an expansion packaged as a sequel. Angry Birds is just Castle Crashers with a different firing mechanic. We've become so efficient at extracting money out of the hits, it becomes hard to truly innovate.

Fargren 15y ago
I think you are confusing Castle Crashers with some other game. Castle Crashers is and old-school beat them up with very nice art. Also, the problem you describe exists in all entertainment industries. I don't think we've innovated much in literature since Shakespeare or in cinema since Hitchcock. But there's always some work that stand above the rest in their originality. And then a lot of other works that improve on them or at least try. I don't think that's bad.
- Splines 15y ago
  Castle Crashers is and old-school beat them up with very nice art. Which is a derivative of Double Dragon (and probably something earlier), but it's a fantastic game nevertheless.
- ido 15y ago
  He is thinking of Crush the Castle: http://armorgames.com/play/3614/crush-the-castle http://armorgames.com/play/3614/crush-the-castle
reidmain 15y ago
While I agree that there is a lack of major innovation in the video games industry and there is a problem with most gamers just waiting for the next AAA title from a major publisher, I think your examples are all flawed. SW:TOR is definitely World of Warcraft with a Star Wars skin. It also has the most voice acting of any game in history and it is the first MMOs that actually has a story for each player character that is worth following. Modern Warfare 3 as an expansion is now arguing semantics. What makes it an expansion? Two years of development where they didn't really innovate but they continued to tightly tune their well oiled machine and CoD Elite is a great platform that almost every game would benefit from. Is it simply price you are annoyed with because you don't perceive the incremental improvements to be worth it? Modern Warfare 3 is definitely not going to push the video games industry forward in any major ways but Modern Warfare 1 & 2 have already done that. As another poster has stated you're confusing Castle Crashers with something else. Castle Crashers is more like Battletoads or Double Dragon or River City Ransom. The "hardcare" video game industry is moving forward albeit slowly. The "social" video game industry seems to have stagnated already and is just rehashing their current game mechanics with new graphics.
- TylerE 15y ago
  I believe the game he's referring to is "Crush the Castle".

by teej 15y ago

Fargren 15y ago

I think you are confusing Castle Crashers with some other game. Castle Crashers is and old-school beat them up with very nice art. Also, the problem you describe exists in all entertainment industries. I don't think we've innovated much in literature since Shakespeare or in cinema since Hitchcock. But there's always some work that stand above the rest in their originality. And then a lot of other works that improve on them or at least try. I don't think that's bad.

Splines 15y ago
Castle Crashers is and old-school beat them up with very nice art. Which is a derivative of Double Dragon (and probably something earlier), but it's a fantastic game nevertheless.
ido 15y ago
He is thinking of Crush the Castle: http://armorgames.com/play/3614/crush-the-castle http://armorgames.com/play/3614/crush-the-castle

reidmain 15y ago

While I agree that there is a lack of major innovation in the video games industry and there is a problem with most gamers just waiting for the next AAA title from a major publisher, I think your examples are all flawed. SW:TOR is definitely World of Warcraft with a Star Wars skin. It also has the most voice acting of any game in history and it is the first MMOs that actually has a story for each player character that is worth following. Modern Warfare 3 as an expansion is now arguing semantics. What makes it an expansion? Two years of development where they didn't really innovate but they continued to tightly tune their well oiled machine and CoD Elite is a great platform that almost every game would benefit from. Is it simply price you are annoyed with because you don't perceive the incremental improvements to be worth it? Modern Warfare 3 is definitely not going to push the video games industry forward in any major ways but Modern Warfare 1 & 2 have already done that. As another poster has stated you're confusing Castle Crashers with something else. Castle Crashers is more like Battletoads or Double Dragon or River City Ransom. The "hardcare" video game industry is moving forward albeit slowly. The "social" video game industry seems to have stagnated already and is just rehashing their current game mechanics with new graphics.

TylerE 15y ago
I believe the game he's referring to is "Crush the Castle".