GameTrailers forum refugee.
This is me right now. I grew up with P2P downloading, torrents, physical games on a console, physical movies on the shelf, physical hardware in my computer. Today people use Spotify, Netflix, iPhone to game, and now Chrome. I get how old people scoffed at CDs now. "Whadda mean you listen to music in the car?!"
I. GET. IT. NOW.
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A man who is only 24 years old
I think what I'm trying to say is that I acknowledge that gaming and technology users are growing in general. All across the board. And with that growth, people don't care about the how and why. They just pay their $10 for Spotify, $15 for Netflix, $10 here, $10 there, yadda yadda, and just have these all-in-one experiences instead of really fine tuning them.
Not to speak on behalf of us all but I feel kinda like a car enthusiast who likes to tune his car whereas the general driving massing like driving something something that can get them from point A to point B cheap and efficiently. It's less about the recreation and more about the function. Where I like to immerse myself in a game world, others prefer to get 20 min of Fortnite in on the subway on their way to work.
To each their own, but by "times are changing" I mean that more people are gaming - or better - streaming (in a general sense) and its become something more practical despite how I see it as almost backwards in some ways (i.e. Spotify vs my own personal library of music files).
I don't know exactly what I think. My roommate and I talked for maybe 30 minutes about the industry in general as well as this. Here are some rambling loose thoughts.
I'm beginning to notice that as more people begin to use tech, kids and younger adults seem to be more and more tech illiterate instead of improving and Stradia is probably another example of profiting off of this. I'm 24, I'm the last group of kids born without PCs or internet in the household but most of us had them by 2004. I remember the early days of the internet, learning things from forums, and just learning about computers by doing. Converting mp4 to wmv so it can play on Media Player. Downloading music off of Kazaa, Napster, Limewire. Learning about computer tech from forums instead of magazines or books. That kinda thing.
Nowadays people don't want to learn about computers, they don't care about the prices they pay for "convenience", and they don't know what they are missing out on when they play video games on a potato phone instead of a good TV with a controller. People pay money to stream music when I grew up getting it free very easily. Same goes with video. People spend $1000-2000 on an iPhone that they pay to watch movies on and play video games on. They don't care that they're missing out on a big TV with proper surround sound. Just play it through your shitty phone speakers and watch through your scratched up screen protector.
The general masses don't care anymore, so why the hell should they care about the quality of their games? I don't think Google Stadia is for us gaming forum dwellers but for some kids who wanna play a game by pressing one button. People don't care that a PS4 is basically the best all-in-one media centre out there when they can have their Macbook or Amazon stick, and call it a day. I'll never and I mean NEVER compromise my entertainment centre. It brings me too much pleasure in life to have a nice TV, a nice set of speakers, a good game console, and a solid couch to sit on. I have friends that can live out of a backpack and I just can't do that. I need my cozy living room but they don't. They don't need anything more than a bit of space to sleep, their bag, toothbrush, bed, laptop, and phone. They don't care if the movie quality sucks on the laptop - its fine for them. I think the same goes for gaming. People in general don't care if it doesn't look as good or work as well.
Times are changing. I hate to admit it, but times are changing.
Inside The Creation Of Sekiro's Soundtrack With Yuka Kitamura
In this exclusive Game Informer video, From Software composer Yuka Kitamura takes us inside the process of creating the new soundtrack for Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice and how it compares to her work on Dark Souls and Bloodborne.
This is one for the music fans. She goes into software, instruments, hardware, collaboration.
I personally think Yuka Kitamura should be a gamer household name. Her work is incredible. I never want to press the start button in Dark Souls III or Bloodborne. Her music is so compelling.
Still not my cup of tea because I rarely play games online with friends but I have to say, Division 2 does sound like an honestly solid co-op game. The art direction is pretty solid and they gameplay systems look to make for some fun challenging scenarios.
I think of all the loot shooters, this one is the most appealing to me. I think I would have liked this back in grade 10 when I had time.
Yo this week is gonna be lit. I see Mariah Carey tomorrow night in concert, then I reunite with my friend Thursday, then I have time off work Friday to play Sekiro.
I might not move all weekend.
I've never played System Shock but intend on playing at least System Shock 2 someday. After watching this trailer, I got some serious fan fiction vibes so I looked into it.
According to Wikipedia, Night Dive Studios, a Vancouver, Washington studio who realized the IP was abandonware, made a deal to make a remake of System Shock 2 with EA and Meadowbrook Insurance Group who owned the rights to System Shock IP. Apparently, Night Dive acquired the rights to System Shock and System Shock 2. The language is ambiguous - do they own it or do they get to just release remakes??
Later, OtherSide Entertainment, a Boston Massachusettes studio headed by Warren Spector gets the rights to make a System Shock 3 from Starbreeze Studios who apparently had the rights to the franchise. Then after their financial woes last year, they sold the rights to OtherSide Entertainment.
I'm very lost in all of this . Wikipedia says "OtherSide Entertainment, founded by Looking Glass's founder Paul Neurath, had been able to acquire a license to the System Shock franchise from Night Dive Studios to develop System Shock 3" but somewhere along the lines, StarBreeze had it?? I really don't know.
All I can say is that the series is probably in good hands with the original founders of Looking Glass Technologies (System Shock, Thief) making System Shock 3. It does seem a bit like an indie game possibly cashing in on the name, but with Warren Spector directing the studio, I hope not.
That's smart to go for both film and video game rights. Based on what I've read about the Star Wars approval process where EA is removed from Disney/LucasFilm, there might be a simpler unity between film makers and game developers which can help smooth out the process of making a game based on a film or at least approving whatever the game comes up with.
007 is a franchise that could spawn all sorts of interesting games but have yet to really cross into that realm yet. Just a couple good FPS games and a few half decent action games and some cheap bad crap. It's all over the map. I feel like this franchise could get the Riddick or Batman treatment where a studio just runs away with an idea and their own universe and the game is better for it.