[citation][nom]A Moody Watermelon[/nom]OK, EA, that´s enough jokes from you. I know, as a big company supporting many games that have a huge fanbase, it´s hilarious to dumb them down to reach bigger audiences, and look at percentages and say ´perhaps we should just f*** the PC', focusing on gaming on iPads instead of gaming consoles/PC's, and generally trying to develop great games backward until they are so dumbed down in so many ways that Angry Birds will be considered a more hardcore title than Battlefield and Mass Effect etc.It's all jokes, right? We've had a lot of fun, now you'll get back to supporting good games again and 'ambition' won't be a taboo any longer, right? ...right?(I understand... 'dumbing down' is financially a very good choice. Is there anything we gamers can do to make companies make better and more ambitious games? I mean, we should be able to do SOMETHING, but looking at franchises like CoD and AC, and perhaps most franchises nowadays, it really seems the money is better invested in marketing than in ambition... not only does it sell better, gamers and game critics alike seem to prefer it that way.)[/citation]
please define dumbed down, because people are starting to equate dumbed down (see morrowind to oblivion move) to just not pushing graphics to the limits.
i despise games being dumbed down, but i could give a f*** if the graphics are those of 10 years ago.
lets say that you have a button for opening doors, ect... something that can all be handled with 1 button. some people would love to have to use the whole keyboard unnecessarily, many others would love it to be more streamlined. thats not dumbed down to me.
[citation][nom]SteveLord[/nom]iOS games are really just mindless timesinks for when you're on a plane, sitting in a meeting or waiting at the doctor's office.[/citation]
you realize you just insulted puzzle games at large right?
[citation][nom]amk-aka-phantom[/nom]^ EA doesn't make anything... they merely fund the great companies like BioWare, who produce the mind-blowing titles like Mass Effect, market it and take most of the profits. The "games" that they DO make, however, are repetative boring casual fillers... like the new NFS that comes out every year, EA "Sports" games and other junk. I'm looking at my desktop right now - at its right half, where the game shortcuts hang out - and realise that half of the titles there are made by BioWare, three by CryTek, and few by other companies - Infinity Ward, Avalanche, Relic... yet somehow the EA logo made its way into 90% of these games' intro movie sequences. Good for business, though.You know, I might just agree with you... nothing delivers as much as BioWare. If they have to release 1000 crappy tablet games in order to fund another kick-ass series from BioWare, why not?[/citation]
mass effect 3 was going ot be out this yea, but got pushed back to dumb it down, make it more main stream, and add multi player.
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