It's traditional to meet the new year with resolutions of your own, but Destructoid has put together a long list of humorous resolutions for the gaming industry. Here are a few:
Gaming Industry New Years Resolutions
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23: I will make more well-balanced games that are neither pathetically easy to attract so-called "causals" nor mindlessly hard just for the sake of being hard. I will actually employ some designing skill to create a game that is challenging but fair.
Casual Gaming Misconception?
Casual Gaming Misconception?
I really hope there's companies that will listen to that one.
It's giving a really good engine a really bad name.
That does apply to every technology though ... there's always going to be companies that will use new technology without the paradigm-shift required to make it work just so that marketing can add an extra bullet-point to the box.
OTOH one should also add :
(n) making things that are fun to play does not mean that they should look like crap from yesteryear
(n+1) anyone using the words 'next gen' without actually making something truly 'next generation'-worthy should be taken out and shot
(n+2) we will stop claiming that DRM will fix piracy, because Spore proved it did not
12: I will recognize that there are more colors than brown.
They need to stop overusing green too.
They need to stop overusing green too.
5: I will stop bitching if I get a review score of less than 9.0 or higher. I will recognize that a score of 8.0 is actually really good and that since reviews never greatly impact sales, I should stop contributing to one of the reasons why people don't feel they can trust them anymore.
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A lot of that sounds like it was ripped straight from a Zero Punctuation video. And if this happens to be the case, they forgot this one...
I will change my design philosophy to something other than "let's be like Halo" and/or "let's rip off Aliens again."
I like this one. Too bad it won't ever happen. Enough with the tedious, pointless, game-lengthening bull that doesn't actually add anything to experience just so they can save an idea for a sequel that will probably suck.
I will change my design philosophy to something other than "let's be like Halo" and/or "let's rip off Aliens again."
I like this one. Too bad it won't ever happen. Enough with the tedious, pointless, game-lengthening bull that doesn't actually add anything to experience just so they can save an idea for a sequel that will probably suck.
TheIronKnuckle
What the hell is this "ballin" thing?
There should be a gaming forum patron version of this:
1) When confronted with 0-1% of the information related to a development effort, I will refrain from believing I know everything going on.
2) "I'm sad" threads serve no purpose other than reducing my therapy bills.
3) I will not bag on how hard UE3 is to use when I've never created a mod project of any complexity, ever.
Please, add some more!
1) When confronted with 0-1% of the information related to a development effort, I will refrain from believing I know everything going on.
2) "I'm sad" threads serve no purpose other than reducing my therapy bills.
3) I will not bag on how hard UE3 is to use when I've never created a mod project of any complexity, ever.
Please, add some more!
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Lizard Of Oz
Demented Avenger
They forgot a few...
27: I will no longer consider PC's ancillary to the gaming industry, and then poorly port "designed for consoles" games to them.
28: I will no longer treat PC gamers as thieves, and burden my games with draconian and punitive copy protection schemes.
29: I will realize that not all PC gamers use the "WASD" control configuration, and design my games to have a more flexible control scheme.
30: I will no longer make console First Person Shooters until console makers produce quality keyboard and mouse controllers.
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27: I will no longer consider PC's ancillary to the gaming industry, and then poorly port "designed for consoles" games to them.
28: I will no longer treat PC gamers as thieves, and burden my games with draconian and punitive copy protection schemes.
29: I will realize that not all PC gamers use the "WASD" control configuration, and design my games to have a more flexible control scheme.
30: I will no longer make console First Person Shooters until console makers produce quality keyboard and mouse controllers.
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There should be a gaming forum patron version of this:
1) When confronted with 0-1% of the information related to a development effort, I will refrain from believing I know everything going on.
2) "I'm sad" threads serve no purpose other than reducing my therapy bills.
3) I will not bag on how hard UE3 is to use when I've never created a mod project of any complexity, ever.
Please, add some more!
4) If someone doesn't like a game I worked on, and actually criticizes it, I will not ban them from my company forums, and then ignore their user profiles on fan sites.
5) If a game I worked on bombs, I will not blame the fan base for my team's shortcomings in giving the players a sequel they wanted to play.
6) If I'm working on a game based on a gladiator tournament, I will not create a sequel that completely throws the tournament out of the game and inserts a generic war story in its place.