Tokyo Video Game Tycoon: Chapter 932 Controversy over formulaic games

Chapter 932 The dispute over formulaic games

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At a friend’s party held by a family in Japan, several people were gathered around a game console to watch one of them play a game.

Most of the people watching are people who have never been exposed to video games before.

 What they usually do is to do things that they think are meaningful, but video games are considered meaningless by them and their families.

But at a friend’s party, you just have to find something interesting to do, and watching other people play games seems to be a very interesting thing, because they who have never played video games in the past suddenly see such a realistic video game world. Sometimes, there will be a kind of trance illusion.

At this moment, a person not far away walked over curiously, and after carefully distinguishing the game on the screen, he showed some surprise and a little disdain.

 “Huh? Are you playing Assassin’s Creed?”

"yes."

“Well, it’s indeed called Assassin’s Creed, and the game is pretty good.”

The person who asked the question nodded: "It's indeed pretty good, but to be honest, this game is a bit too formulaic. With such a formula, the game loses a little bit of charm, but of course it can still be regarded as a good game."

 At this moment this person is playing Brotherhood, the second installment in the Assassin’s Creed Ezio trilogy.

As Youxing Electronic Entertainment develops more and more games, now Youxing Electronic Entertainment no longer even releases game numbers to iterate, and can only rely solely on players to name them themselves.

  Anyway, Youxing Electronic Entertainment just doesn’t count to 2 by itself, and you have no temper.

At first, many people rumored that Dragon Quest was suspended after the tenth part, probably because they did not want to hit the number of Dragon Quest 12.

But then Final Fantasy directly released a 12, which made everyone stunned for a long time.

  Final Fantasy can be released to version 12 because Zhu Yusei himself quite approves of this 12th-generation work. It is quite rare in this world for a series of games to reach the twelfth part and you can count them on your fingers.

In addition to Youxing Electronic Entertainment, Surui Electronics and Brown Entertainment each have one or two games that can reach this record.

Several people who were watching the game turned to look at the person who had just commented on Assassin's Creed.

 “Asakusa, have you played this game before?”

The person called Asakusa said with a little pride: "Of course, I have played quite a few games. My father grew up playing games when he was young. Of course I want to inherit his father's legacy. "

Someone immediately complained in a low voice: "Is this how a son inherits his father's inheritance?"

After Asakusa finished boasting, he immediately added: "I told you guys, it's okay to play games like Assassin's Creed, but this game has released three games in a row, and there will be one every year in the future. It seems that there are also plans to play one every year in the future." Launching games with high efficiency. This kind of game that is released one game a year seems to be a bit rushed. In fact, it is even a bit of a loss if you play it."

 “Do you have any game recommendations?”

“Of course, it looks like you haven’t played many video games in the past, so my first recommendation is definitely Super Mario.”

Someone immediately said enthusiastically: "Oh, I have heard of this name. This game seems to be quite famous in the gaming circle."

“Hey, how can you be so famous? This series of games is simply world-dominating. In the past, this series of games set records every time they were released!”

 “Are there any other games you would recommend?”

Asakusa asked: "What kind of game do you want to play?"

One of them looked at the TV screen and said, "It's like Assassin's Creed. I think it's pretty cool."

Asakusa immediately said: "What's the point of playing this? The game is cool and can't be eaten. Now the industry has recognized that Assassin's Creed is a formulaic 'canned' game. In the future, other game companies will have no limit on this kind of game." Production, you actually don’t need to play such a game.”

At this time, the man who was playing Assassin's Creed put down his controller. Someone was mocking the game he was playing, and he couldn't help it anymore.

“Asakusa, you don’t know anything about Assassin’s Creed.”

"Why don't I understand?" Asakusa said with a chuckle, "The Assassin's Creed series of games has long been recognized as a learning benchmark for open-ended canned games in the gaming industry. This series is also the standard game produced by Yuxing Electronic Entertainment for external display. template."

Asakusa barely hesitated when he answered.

However, considering that he is only fifteen years old, it is indeed a bit unusual for him to start analyzing the internal affairs of the video game industry like an adult.

 The fact is that these are indeed not his opinions, but the content discussed by people in the game forums that he usually likes to watch.

It was a forum for a game review website. People here spoke fiercely and were constantly researching trends in the game industry.

 There always seems to be something for them to take out and point at.

The child who was playing Assassin's Creed blushed and was very unconvinced. Then he suddenly remembered something and said immediately: "Then you definitely didn't know that the next Assassin's Creed work will be released before Christmas this year. This work has already been confirmed." It will be a brand new innovative work and will add some new mechanisms.”

 “A completely new mechanism? I don’t believe it.”

 “Just wait and see!”

 …

 Time has advanced to December 2014, and Assassin’s Creed was released on time as scheduled.

This does not surprise anyone in the industry, because this series of games is a standard industrial game template, which tells game developers that such development can represent the basic capabilities of a game company.

 In other words, Assassin's Creed is the bottom line for Youxing Electronic Entertainment to show the overall strength of a company.

If they can develop this standard Assassin's Creed like Yuxing Electronic Entertainment, then they will enter the ranks of upper-level game development companies and have the opportunity to get a larger share of the game development cake.

And if the development capabilities are not able to make Assassin's Creed, it will have to linger in the middle and lower reaches of the game industry, unless there are occasional hit games among independent games in the original world.

“President, today is the release day of Assassin’s Creed by Youxing Electronic Entertainment. Do we want to buy a copy and experience it?”

In the game development division within Surui Electronics, the head of the game development department personally accompanied Hayakawa Ueto to inspect the development progress of his department’s games and console-related products.

Since it was reported not long ago that Yuxing Electronic Entertainment will launch a new generation of next-generation home game consoles instead of portable devices like switch, Surui Electronics is naturally not to be left behind, because once it falls behind in this aspect, the sales of electronic games will definitely increase. discount.

“Assassin’s Creed? Is it that formulaic game from Yuxing Electronic Entertainment?”

 “That’s right, President.”

 “What do you think?”

 (End of this chapter)