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"Trimble Bracegirdle" <no-spam@never.spam> looked up from reading the
entrails of the porn spammer to utter  "The Augury is good, the signs
say:
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>I've been looking around at what action games are due within a year or so.
>Interesting list "Most Anticipated" here:
>http://www.metacritic.com/feature/video-game-preview-2013
>
>Worries that I find very little I look forward to.
Well half that list is console only.

>Perhaps:
>Bioshock Infinite
Looks kinda of interesting, very atmospheric anyway.

>Tomb Raider
I have my doubts since it's the same studio that made
Legend/Anniversary/etc - very consolized version of Tomb Raider with
highly contrived levels - they forgot the first law of level design -
make it believable.

>GTA V
I wonder how many online things you'll have to be connected to to even
_install_ this much less play it.
I have yet to play GTA IV due to the forced connections to "social
clubs" and the like that I have less than zero interest in.

>Star Wars 1313
>Raven's Cry
>http://blogs.amd.com/play/2013/01/28/ravens-cry/
>seems to be the only hopefully decent Action RPG type upcoming.
>
>Thief 4 is 2014. Doom 4 is definitely, sometime not soon

I wonder if iD having been bought by Zenimax/Bethesda will result in
DOOM4 not being a "walk down a corridor in the dark" experience?

>I have very big maybes against even that short list.
>I never seem to get far in GTA's  before interest is worn out.
>The no quick save system doesn't help.
>
>I thought the 1st Bioshock unpleasant & made me progressively angry
>at being led on & on with little plot resolution in samey settings.

I still haven't played that.  Bought but have yet to install Bioshock2 -
been looking around for the first one to play first.

>The games industry seems to be increasingly stretching less & less 'new'
>out as far as possible.
>Sequels, Games into Films ...Dues Ex ...Assassins Creed...Splinter Cell

Nothing really new here, they've been doing that since the turn of the
millennia if not before.
The suits took over and only "guaranteed profitable" projects get green
lit these days.   Pity those same bean counters never seem to remember
that those franchises they're milking to death weren't guaranteed when
they started, they were something new that caught the eye of the gaming
public by doing something different.
Add in the "must cater to the widest possible audience on as many
platforms as possible" that goes with the bean counters aims to make as
much money as possible and is it any wonder that damn near all we get
now is dumbed down, consolized sequels on PC?

Hollywood seems to be doing the same - remakes and rehashes and action
films best summarized by that Robot Chicken spoof  "Michael Bay presents
EXPLOSIONS"  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v7ssUivM-eM

Oh for the gaming heyday of the 90s.

Xocyll
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