Current video games are being released in what seems to be a “broken” state -- Is this some kind of marketing tactic?
I don’t play video games anymore but I am familiar with them, and check in on groups regarding certain new releases occasionally and the over-arching trend is that many of them are faulty in multiple different ways.
Multi-player or single player, they all have obvious problems.
I have a few theories I’d like to share:
1. It’s a marketing tactic to create engaged discussion over an otherwise boring product that’s only talking points revolve, not around the story, but the glitches. Whether they be annoying, frustrating, game-breaking, funny, etc
Example for this: Recent battlefield release hovercraft defying gravity and driving vertically up buildings
2. An obvious one but games have become very very detailed and it’s no longer feasible to hash them out fully in a realistic time frame – especially if the team creating it is on a limited budget, or hasn’t the man hours to do everything required to polish it.
Games used to be very simple, and while they’d need to be fairly small size wise, they’d be easy to complete but now, as I said above, they are increasingly more detailed in every aspect related to graphics and visuals.
It’s just not realistic to expect people to make video games like this easily.
I want to go back to my point on companies generating discussion by breaking the game/releasing it broken on purpose.
Games’ story-lines have become pseudo-cinema these days and have taken this path within the past 20 years with people like David Cage attempting to recreate the feeling of film in a “playable,” digital environment.
These are often lacklustre pieces of contrived storytelling and drama.
Due to the inability of these companies to recreate stories that rival film-making, they rely on the game play, which is cut up to create a cinematic” experience, and the cycle is that everything is broken up and minimised to attempt to get the best of both worlds.
It becomes anxiety inducing to play through a game that attmepts this as it just doesn’t feel natural.
A lot of games have suffered greatly from this and are now no longer fun, with even multiplayer being broken (see recent Halo release) and I feel like this is being done in a desperate attempt to get people talking about something related to the experience, even if it is just generating negative feedback and frustration.
My solution to this would be to cut out the cinematic elements and rely on the game part, where the game is fun to play and not relying entirely on visuals and cinematic elements.
If they want to create cinema then they can go make a film and haveit compared to other films rather than expect their rag-tag abomination to get by on novelty factors related to the theatrics added to something that used to just be “run right and jump”.
It reeks of insincerity when they do this and it feels like they just expect people to be easily amused but they know these games, if made into films (with their story-lines and visuals) would not hold up against other releases and would often be very unoriginal in an obvious way.
Video games were also, always intended to be for children and are inherently childish so trying to make them for adults has proven futile.
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