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Caliber posted on Mar 27, 2024 8:03:12 AM - Report post

90% of new games are

survival
crafting
open world
exploration

HOW MANY VERSIONS OF THIS SAME FORMULA DO WE NEED? Please, for the love of God, developers, come up with something NEW, UNIQUE.

Rant over..

Hope everyone is having a nice day. Except developers making the same game over and over... survival open world crafting life sim exploration.. give it a rest bros..

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SmileyJ posted on Mar 27, 2024 9:04:29 AM - Report post

quote:

originally posted by Caliber

90% of new games are

survival
crafting
open world
exploration

HOW MANY VERSIONS OF THIS SAME FORMULA DO WE NEED? Please, for the love of God, developers, come up with something NEW, UNIQUE.

Rant over..

Hope everyone is having a nice day. Except developers making the same game over and over... survival open world crafting life sim exploration.. give it a rest bros..

But we made arrows magical in this one.. so it's a brand new game.

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Gangreenator posted on Mar 27, 2024 11:49:14 AM - Report post

Yeah, unfortunately that's the trend. Ubisoft is a case in point, constantly reiterating Far Cry and Assassin's Creed (black flag is a nice exception IMO) with a new skin each time.

Then there's the deluge of steam early access ones that release to much fanfare and hype but eventually get mired in development hell (dark and light) or get rushed to the finish line with most of the promised things never delivered (citadel: forged with fire).

[Edited by Gangreenator, 3/27/2024 11:56:49 AM]

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Nuorin posted on Apr 03, 2024 12:40:17 AM - Report post

LOL when I saw the title I was like -- uuhh what?

Anyway, this survival crafting formula is annoying now, and how many games we have like this? The Forest, Stranded Deep, Raft, Subnautica, Valheim, Green Hell... just to name a few.

Others are just variations of this (like open world games but you have a farm)

As for Ubisoft open world games, they ALL have exactly the same formula and they tend to get boring REALLY fast.

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Darkscale12 posted on Apr 03, 2024 1:30:52 AM - Report post

Sadly this isn't something the Developers have much of a choice on. As Companies tend to follow specific trends every year thanks to Investors. So most of the time, if something sticks and makes money, you can guarantee that the majority of the Industry will follow unless the Investing Partners see money elsewhere.

This why I am glad that a lot of Indies are following their methods and interests, heck, there are like 4 RTS coming out that I am excited for, Manor Lords included. So least some excitement for now.

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H posted on Apr 10, 2024 4:22:08 AM - Report post

I wish we had a say in the titles we work on. But recently it seems that the market has a high demand for such games and publishers don't neccessarily care if the game is fun... just as long as it sells.

[Edited by H, 4/10/2024 11:39:34 AM]

It's been a long time coming.

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wozjtf posted on Apr 24, 2024 6:51:07 PM - Report post

quote:

originally posted by Caliber

90% of new games are

survival
crafting
open world
exploration

HOW MANY VERSIONS OF THIS SAME FORMULA DO WE NEED? Please, for the love of God, developers, come up with something NEW, UNIQUE.

Rant over..

Hope everyone is having a nice day. Except developers making the same game over and over... survival open world crafting life sim exploration.. give it a rest bros..

You forgot to add Zombie games. Really why do we need so many Zombie games which are pretty much all the same.

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