Yet another Sequel!

Written by Lepruk86 and posted in the Forum

Whose fault is it that our once Jesus gaming heroes are Run-of-the-mill characters that fall into that futility simply because too many games released in a series?
The obvious answer is publishers. If we look at Activision and Guitar Hero series. It has been released so many of the games now when people seem to talk about Guitar Hero with a ton of disappointed and jokes. I remember even when the Guitar Hero and GH II graced us with his creation-the hordes of players cried more and played them all the time. In fact.Guitar Hero II is still regarded as the best in guitar rhythm game that surpassed only by the Rock Band 2 on the grounds that RB 2 offers a full band experience. If we take this angle to be true, it is actually not the developers, but the evil monitor settlement systems and their dreaded quarterly reviews, which forces the creative obtaining but out jewels until they convert to vomit. Right now, I realise that they basically have all the power and money and if they want a game made by xx/xx/xx since the game is to get out regardless of what developers really think.

But what happens to us as consumers?We live in a society where we constantly fast lane to the next-best-thing. why on earth would we want to wait three to five years for our favorite game out of nether regions when we can get them on an annual basis? So is this unit for the next best forced by publishers. or is it our own wishes, which challenges our favorite game heroes who place more frequently than we spring clean our houses?

Turning to Blizzard as an example (which is a part of the Activision chain) they seem to have a different view on this. Verify that Diablo I and II came out within a few years of each other. but now it has been for over ten years and we are still impatiently waiting for the big Diablo III to release.Similarly, their was once again a ten-year gap between StarCraft and (ii); this is an odd thing when you look at the typical gaming industry. wait as long as between game sequel would be absurd for most other companies. What if the next Guitar Hero or Rock band game are not released until the year 2020. It is strange that this is, however, that Diablo II, and StarCraft In servers is still very popular even with all that has come and gone people still logs for these ten plus years old games.

I would say that ten years is too long for a sequel [Duke Nukem Joke here insert] but on the other hand. One-Two years is not the developers enough time to think outside the box, and make intelligent but significant changes between each alliteration.Civilization series is one of the better examples of this.Verify that you have 5 games in the series, as well as additions and a pair of side projects, but the game has been going on since 1991-which means that an average of four years have passed between each sequel.

So I guess the question that take a way from these murmurings is this.How long of a gap should their be between sequel? I have a feeling that anything below 30 months or so do not leave enough time for creativity to flourish, but perhaps I am wrong.Perhaps there are those who want a new Call of duty each year or to the new Heather precisely because it has roster updates and a big OL' label that tells what is the latest release (for example, Madden 2011).
I want to leave with one final thought. Burnout Paradise, the game received support for about a year of free updates, and some pretty hefty DLC released slowly. I feel to live: P is one of the best examples of how to keep the game fresh and at the same time how to give yourself some breathing room to try to create a truly worthy successor and not some Run-of-the-mill rehash with a few small changes just to appease the masses.

Do you think that some publishers "milk" franchises which unleash sequel too early? or are you just happy to be a sequel as soon after the first game? why not head over to our forum and discuss!