Homefront and beyond

I've just read a review for Homefront on eurogamer which received an average 6/10. I haven't played Homefront so I cant say anything from personal experience about actually playing the gaming however even before release or the Eurogamer review I wasn't that particularly interested in the game.

I think now a days a lot of developers or more so the publishers have gotten a bit of bankers syndrome. What I mean by that is that they pour money into something to make a quick buck but ignore the long term. Many of these modern games lack the depth that say Deus Ex or Vampire: The Masquerade had considering most of their income is coming from 2 hour singleplayer games with a multiplayer clone of modern warfare. Now you could say that Homefront did at least attempt to add some story, placing the player in the middle of a Korean occupation of the United States but besides that initial premise what else does it add besides the regular run and gun game. All I can say is that this 6/10 is a reflection of gamer/reviewer community's reaction to this blatantly lazy work of developers. The days when game companies were small is gone and I acknowledge that they now have to contend with shareholders too but that is no excuse to drag games into mindless replica of each other.

I want to use Valve as an example of a now large company which hasn't lost its roots. It still maintains that attitude that games are there to entertain so lets make them entertaining and not games are there for increased revenue. I am not naive either, I recognise that Valve equally want to get money however they have realised that in order to get the big bucks a company must think long term, make games people enjoy and they will come back for more. EA at one time missed this point entirely (being one of the first large game companies) which ripped them from their podium place to a running joke amongst gamers, a new sequel per year sort of thing. Thankfully they have realised what brought them down and have restructured accordingly. It will take a few more bubbles bursting before companies finally realise what really makes money however when they find out this very simple work ethic the gaming community will be much better off.

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