I completely disagree. I was amazed by Assassin's Creed 2. The music is amazing.
It has great acting. The art is beautiful. I lived in Italy for a semester and I know the layout of several of the locations in that game.
They did an incredibly good job at recreating the architecture down to minute detail as well as capture the history. I don't think I have played a game in Renaissance Italy like that before. You might not realize it, but you can enjoy the sights of Florence from the game, but I would encourage you to visit the city yourself so you can better appreciate what the developers did.
They must of hired an architect to help them design the games, or else they are architects themselves. I was watching G4 two days ago, and I saw a preview for a new shooting game on the kinnect. You control a skeleton marionette and flick your fingers as if shooting a gun like you did as a kid.
The kinnect can detect where on the screen you are firing your guns. As far as River City Ransom, it wasn't much different from Double Dragon. It was recycling of old mechanics and a milking of a franchise.
River City Ransom was indeed created by the guys who made Double Dragon. They just took the same idea and rehashed it. Final Fantasy 7 was a great game, but it borrowed heavily on the same themes developed in Final Fantasy IV and VI.
We will see no end to the combination of magic and machinery and the question of technology's role in the future of mankind when it comes to Final Fantasy games. I haven't purchased a Final Fantasy game since 8 as I grew tired of that franchise after that. I wouldn't call it a trend because even in the 90s we had quite a few crap games for the NES.
There were a bazillion clones of Gradius, Super Mario Bros. , and Zelda. Some developers used tried and true techniques in creating their games, others take risks.
The same can be said for movies. I see no trend, just a continuation of the same. Well funded genius isn't created every day, but it has always existed in both movies and video games.
I've been gaming since the atari and I'm still gaming to this day. Hardcore gamers never die ;) The games may change, but I'll keep playin til I'm unable to.
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