This week the staff here at VGCITY takes a look at the current gaming crisis that affects people at this very moment. Well it isn’t that serious but still, some of these game licenses just need to go away and come back another day when they are fresh and new again.
"What Game License Do You Feel Is Being Overused?”
BRANDON PARKER:
The license to kill, taken right out of the James Bond film (of... of the same name), this license has been used and abused in nearly every game, be it Super Mario Brothers -- jumping on enemies, with extreme prejudice! -- and the Legend of Zelda. I say game developers give up this tired old license and make room for the real games like Bubble Bobble and Elmo's Letter Adventure. The way Elmo learns the alphabet and finds all those letters is just badass, man.
CHAD PHILLIPS:
Those large, bouncy melons that Core has made entirely too many games of! Oh wait; there is a person behind them? Lara Croft you say? Yeah, basically, Lara Croft and her non-anatomically correct self needs to be shut down. It all went downhill after the first game and it could not get better. GET OVER IT CORE! No one cares about Lara anymore! Dead or Alive is also way over-used lately... I mean, come on, and why not just start a business making CG large-chested women? It would be a lot easier and it really is rather hard to play a game with one hand. Brandon, I'm going to get my horde of chomps and gorons and see what you say when 30 tons of lumbering titles bear upon you and you’re letter-counting.... Elmo boy.
JOSEPH MAYER:
Gonna have to say Tony Hawk. They've been milking this thing like there's no tomorrow. What's there been like four games in the last four years, five if you count that Xbox game. Also there have been a couple on the game boy. Tony needs a break. Something needs to be done with the WWE license as well. Every year we see four new titles released, GC, PS2, Xbox, and GBA. More if they continue with the spin-offs, Crush hour.
DAVID GRIGGS:
Hmm... after giving this much thought and deliberation (6 seconds as opposed to the typical 5), I must say that the racing games have worsened (if possible) in the past couple years. Mario Kart was one of a kind and set the bar in the beginning, and other games quickly followed suite due to the enormous sales. Diddy Kong is the first to mind, and that really REALLY REALLY sucked... Unfortunately recently, all the racing games have been really realistic and boring. If you want a good, high sales, race game, make it a high flyer! Jumps and fast are the way to go. That, some weapons or some way to smack your opponent to the ground, and you'll have a really good game. Add a couple hot chicks, and you've got half the gaming population right there!
JOSEPH BENNETT:
I personally believe that First Person Shooters are becoming too formulatic. It’s basically taking a gun or some sort of laser blaster and blowing it up. I do admit that Unreal Tournament 2003 and Battlefield 1942 have raised the bar but aside from those two games, not much is worth discussing in that genre anymore. Unless something really innovative happens in the next couple of years, this genre will sink into its already growing grave.
