As game developers, their job is to provide the players with a fun, fresh and interesting experience (apparently the COD devs never got the message) But recently, there is a trend of...copping out, shall we say? As I said, Call of Duty will sell millions of copies, even if they don't change the gameplay (which they don't) This is becoming a common tactic these days. This franchise is so popular that no matter what we do, it will sell. Call of Duty and Assassin's Creed do this quite a lot. Another sign of laziness is unnecessary relaunches. Nintendo released all three original Mario games on the Wii, but in fact, they just re-released the same compilation package that they did on the SNES. Even the menu's had SNES buttons on it. Halo is re-releasing the same game they did in 2001 with the same single player as Combat Evolved and the same Multiplayer as Reach. Not very incentive. Re-releasing games can be a cool tactic, but if that becomes the normal selling point for game devs, we'll be in an industry where nothing moves forward at all and we'll be doing the same things we did 20 years ago.
i spent about 15 seconds staring at the 'not very incentive' sentence trying to figure out what it meant before i realised it was just a spelling mistake. disappointment.
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