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    Headline :: A bumper year for videogames industry

    It's a record start to 2007 for the videogames industry with software sales increasing by 19%, bringing the total number of game units sold in the first six months of 2007 to 26.01 million.

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    Interesting thank you. I do wonder when I see things like this, if its not really an indication of anything at all... other than increasing populations around the world. Know what I mean?

    Its like when the say the spice girls or whoever, have sold more albums that The Beatles. Well... thats because theres probably a billion more humans alive today than there where in the 60's. And generally, people are wealthier than back then too. So I suspect its the same with software/games. It might have gone up, but so has the sale of fruit, hairspray, Sky TV, jeans, etc.

    Having said that, theres no doubt gaming is a growing industry, and I'm glad about that. I just hope it manages to produce the occasional good game amongst all the repetitive crap. There seems to be so many sequels, and so many games that are basically just clones of other games, its really lame. If I see one more First Person Shooter that is pretty much exactly the same as the last 90 million FPS's only with slightly improved graphics, then I'm going to... well... buy something else. And its the same with everything. FPS's, RPG's, RTS's, etc. If a company insists on making another FPS/RTS/RPG clone, I hope they can atleast add something significantly new to the formula. Like when Deus Ex had good missions and RPG elements etc. Or when that RTS, Earth 20something-or-other, let you create your own units by mixing and matching other units to make your own custom ones suited to whatever role you had in mind for them. Etc..

    Creativity "ftw"!.

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    Quote Originally Posted by acrobat View Post
    Interesting thank you. I do wonder when I see things like this, if its not really an indication of anything at all... other than increasing populations around the world. Know what I mean?

    Its like when the say the spice girls or whoever, have sold more albums that The Beatles. Well... thats because theres probably a billion more humans alive today than there where in the 60's. And generally, people are wealthier than back then too. So I suspect its the same with software/games. It might have gone up, but so has the sale of fruit, hairspray, Sky TV, jeans, etc.

    Having said that, theres no doubt gaming is a growing industry, and I'm glad about that. I just hope it manages to produce the occasional good game amongst all the repetitive crap. There seems to be so many sequels, and so many games that are basically just clones of other games, its really lame. If I see one more First Person Shooter that is pretty much exactly the same as the last 90 million FPS's only with slightly improved graphics, then I'm going to... well... buy something else. And its the same with everything. FPS's, RPG's, RTS's, etc. If a company insists on making another FPS/RTS/RPG clone, I hope they can atleast add something significantly new to the formula. Like when Deus Ex had good missions and RPG elements etc. Or when that RTS, Earth 20something-or-other, let you create your own units by mixing and matching other units to make your own custom ones suited to whatever role you had in mind for them. Etc..

    Creativity "ftw"!.
    Yep, I know what you mean. I'd guess in the gaming industry every year will now be a bumper year. I agree about all the repetitive titles, I'm bored now with Rainbow 6, Ghost Recon and the like, but I think we should see more innovation over the next couple of years.

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    Yep. I've been annoyed with the repetition for quite a few years now, but there still manages to atleast be a few games each year that I really like.

    And in the next year or two, there seems to be some good ones I am really excited about. I am really excited about playing Spore, UT2007, Alan Wake and a few others (that Age of Conan maybe?). I am hoping Crysis will be good too. I always appreciate the graphics, but I never paid much attention because I thought it would just be yet another FPS. But I saw a movie of it recently and it has some tricks up its sleeve which could make it quite good.

    There are others too that I am expecting to be good, but I don't really know anything about them yet. I just know they are hyped a lot, and its based on good things in the past so they are fairly safe bets. Hellgate London, Bioshock, etc.

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    What you talkin aboot fool! Rainbow six is awesome!


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    Quote Originally Posted by Veles View Post
    What you talkin aboot fool! Rainbow six is awesome!
    You crazy fool! I agree, but I just fancy a change from all the Tom Clancy titles. I like where they're going with Splinter Cell: Conviction though. Assassin's Creed should be great as well.

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    I wonder how much of the profit margin is down to many of these people only selling you half a game for £39 and then making you pay another £20 if you want the other half.
    Which although desighned and made with the game released in dribs and drabs over the following 5 months?
    A little over the top.........mabee but piont made!

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    GTA 4, Halo 3, MGS4 and Assassins Creed will probably define gaming for the next year or so.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Andy3536 View Post
    I wonder how much of the profit margin is down to many of these people only selling you half a game for £39 and then making you pay another £20 if you want the other half.
    Which although desighned and made with the game released in dribs and drabs over the following 5 months?
    A little over the top.........mabee but piont made!
    Yeah I totally agree. I hate that.

    I also wonder if more and more games will try to cash in on the WoW phenomenon and start focusing on online games that you have to pay monthly to pay. You can't argue with about $150,000,000 a month.

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    Quote Originally Posted by acrobat View Post
    Yep. I've been annoyed with the repetition for quite a few years now, but there still manages to atleast be a few games each year that I really like.

    And in the next year or two, there seems to be some good ones I am really excited about. I am really excited about playing Spore, UT2007, Alan Wake and a few others (that Age of Conan maybe?). .

    you said your annoyed of repetition yet one of the games you are looking forward to is a sequal ie UT3?

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    I agree about all the repetitive titles, I'm bored now with Rainbow 6, Ghost Recon and the like,
    I'm not bored of Rainbow Six yet, but then again I've not played the first five!

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    lol good point josh, but really though, i think its extremely hard to bring something completely original and never done before to the table, games will always resemble another game, even if it is by the type of game (e.g 3rd person, 1st person, etc)

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