Because it gave us Nintendo outside Japan. If the NES had launched in the hypersaturated market in the US it would have failed due to so many competitors and having no foothold to establish all of those publishing guidelines that helped stamp out many issues the early 80s market faced.
E.T. officially spelled the end of corporate America making videogames. The irony is that Nintendo was merely taking the best parts and making it for Japan, and it turned into a worldwide success. Until corporate America became involved again.
Instead of being designed to be a complete, robust, satisfying experience, games are designed to be a treadmill to slowly pry money for useless cosmetics and dlc from the lowest common denominator. The best games released these days are the zeldas and baldurs gates, which are mtx free. But they're a rare breed, since everything wants to be the next fortnite.
I feel like the Dreamcast has gotta be up there. I remember when Sega wasn't a joke. That launch torpedoed the entire company, almost drove Sega into bankruptcy, and shifted the entire console market paradigm forever. The Wii U is definitely the biggest major market misstep for Nintendo though, even bigger than the Virtual Boy. If it weren't for the massive asset reserves they had due to the success of the Wii, Nintendo might have been bought out. But beyond all that, I think the biggest disaster in all of gaming was the iPhone. Not because mobile games are inherently bad, but because it spelled the beginning of Games as a Service, microtransactions, spurred parasitic companies like Zynga to insane heights, squashed creativity and competition as almost everything on the market became a rip-off of a proven concept, and overall just made gaming as an industry worse. the GaaS craze is imploding on consoles and PC, but it's never gone away on mobile, and it's been there in some form or another since the beginning.
>I feel like the Dreamcast has gotta be up there.
I personally think that the Saturn was worse in that regard. It was easily the most mishandled Sega console, and I feel like a lot of why the Dreamcast didn't do well enough to keep Sega in the console market is due to the Saturn souring people the Dreamcast.
The 1983 crash obviously
Daikatana
Fallout 76
PS3's $599 MSRP
Xbox One always online and no used games and bundled Kinect
The Wii port of any popular game
Duke Nukem Forever
Faked E3 footage for Killzone 2
GamerGate as a whole
GTA hot coffee + Clinton trying to get games banned
Mortal Kombat and the first argument about game censorship
The ABK/MS deal has nothing to do with the decline of CoD and the trainwreck that is Blizzard. They want it for King.
Candy Crush still controls the mobile market. If they successfully shift that playerbase onto a Microsoft mobile storefront, it's gg for Apple/Google. That's why they will literally nuke Seattle before this deal can close. >but it's done!
CMA are Rothschilds puppets. They will drag this out as long as possible
Microsoft. There gaming department is a joke. They have contributed nothing to gaming. Infact, they have taken things away, by paid online multiplayer. All the studios they have purchased are in shambles. Xbox gaming has made no almost no profit in last 7 years. They are only surviving from profit of Microsoft windows license fees and by microsoft cloud services.
ET set the industry back years, but I'll remember gaming's DDay as Horse Armor.
The day they decided that you could sell an incomplete game and charge for an endless trickle of content to almost make it feel complete was the day the medium died.
You've already proven yourself as a moron for putting "le dark ages" and holocaust in the same sentence, the comparison is so dumb it's insane. Adding a horse's armour is not "selling an incomplete game" and the fate of gaming was already set when Korean MMOs were making infinite money with cash shops
The spread of the internet. No internet would mean all games are complete without mtx, no company holding access over it tied to an online verification system that they can revoke at any time, multiplayer would be done between friends in person without megacorps meddling or having to play against random shitters. A world without internet is a world with better games.
How is it not E.T? It killed video games for a decade.
it's a good game
This. Or the Virtual Boy. Both were disastrous for the era.
Because it gave us Nintendo outside Japan. If the NES had launched in the hypersaturated market in the US it would have failed due to so many competitors and having no foothold to establish all of those publishing guidelines that helped stamp out many issues the early 80s market faced.
This is just speculation. What I can tell you is that E.T did in fact kill video games for a decade.
A certain game director thinking turn based rpg is an outdated genre
E.T. officially spelled the end of corporate America making videogames. The irony is that Nintendo was merely taking the best parts and making it for Japan, and it turned into a worldwide success. Until corporate America became involved again.
Microtransactions.
Unironically.
YOOOOOOOOOONG OUT
How so? It makes the industry billions every year. I know we gamers hate it but the people who make and fund games don't.
Instead of being designed to be a complete, robust, satisfying experience, games are designed to be a treadmill to slowly pry money for useless cosmetics and dlc from the lowest common denominator. The best games released these days are the zeldas and baldurs gates, which are mtx free. But they're a rare breed, since everything wants to be the next fortnite.
Giving more money to the industry to reward then for making worse games is not good for the industry or the customers
>we gamers
give it a rest chaim
I feel like the Dreamcast has gotta be up there. I remember when Sega wasn't a joke. That launch torpedoed the entire company, almost drove Sega into bankruptcy, and shifted the entire console market paradigm forever. The Wii U is definitely the biggest major market misstep for Nintendo though, even bigger than the Virtual Boy. If it weren't for the massive asset reserves they had due to the success of the Wii, Nintendo might have been bought out. But beyond all that, I think the biggest disaster in all of gaming was the iPhone. Not because mobile games are inherently bad, but because it spelled the beginning of Games as a Service, microtransactions, spurred parasitic companies like Zynga to insane heights, squashed creativity and competition as almost everything on the market became a rip-off of a proven concept, and overall just made gaming as an industry worse. the GaaS craze is imploding on consoles and PC, but it's never gone away on mobile, and it's been there in some form or another since the beginning.
>I feel like the Dreamcast has gotta be up there.
I personally think that the Saturn was worse in that regard. It was easily the most mishandled Sega console, and I feel like a lot of why the Dreamcast didn't do well enough to keep Sega in the console market is due to the Saturn souring people the Dreamcast.
The 1983 crash obviously
Daikatana
Fallout 76
PS3's $599 MSRP
Xbox One always online and no used games and bundled Kinect
The Wii port of any popular game
Duke Nukem Forever
Faked E3 footage for Killzone 2
GamerGate as a whole
GTA hot coffee + Clinton trying to get games banned
Mortal Kombat and the first argument about game censorship
That's all I got off the top of my head.
What about driv3rgate newbie?
Kek Daikatana was the first thing I thought of too
The ABK/MS deal has nothing to do with the decline of CoD and the trainwreck that is Blizzard. They want it for King.
Candy Crush still controls the mobile market. If they successfully shift that playerbase onto a Microsoft mobile storefront, it's gg for Apple/Google. That's why they will literally nuke Seattle before this deal can close.
>but it's done!
CMA are Rothschilds puppets. They will drag this out as long as possible
It's not pic related unless you suck basedny
Microsoft. There gaming department is a joke. They have contributed nothing to gaming. Infact, they have taken things away, by paid online multiplayer. All the studios they have purchased are in shambles. Xbox gaming has made no almost no profit in last 7 years. They are only surviving from profit of Microsoft windows license fees and by microsoft cloud services.
What's worse, the dark ages or the holocaust?
ET set the industry back years, but I'll remember gaming's DDay as Horse Armor.
The day they decided that you could sell an incomplete game and charge for an endless trickle of content to almost make it feel complete was the day the medium died.
You've already proven yourself as a moron for putting "le dark ages" and holocaust in the same sentence, the comparison is so dumb it's insane. Adding a horse's armour is not "selling an incomplete game" and the fate of gaming was already set when Korean MMOs were making infinite money with cash shops
Microsoft entering the console market and proving idiots will pay to use their own internet connection.
todd howard
Japan.
The spread of the internet. No internet would mean all games are complete without mtx, no company holding access over it tied to an online verification system that they can revoke at any time, multiplayer would be done between friends in person without megacorps meddling or having to play against random shitters. A world without internet is a world with better games.