GoW not really about innovation says Epic Games' Fergusson |
Fergusson shared these sentiments during the GO3 Conference held this past weekend in Australia. He suggested that you can't focus on innovation too much because that will totally take away the fun. It's about finding that sweet spot between the two, the producer added. Then he moved on and talked about evolution and revolution,
By taking more evolutionary steps rather than revolutionary ones, it allows you to take something gamers know and improve on it. And I think that's what a lot of the game industry is about. Gears was able to say OK, we're going to take this, and we're going to evolve it and make it stronger. And I think a lot of games do that.
Somehow conceding, Fergusson said that on some level, the industry needs revolution. But that should be left to independent video game developers because, according to Epic's official, these people don't have to worry about selling millions of copies. According to Rod Fergusson, this is the price to pay for working with giant companies and all the commercial pressure they are imposing.
After that, Rod Fergusson somewhat shifted gears (no pun intended) and mentioned that Microsoft has been good at executing its marketing strategy for GoW. He said in length,
I think this is one of the strengths of Microsoft, that they have this continuity of message, this idea of having visual identities, making sure that their marketing is consistent. It's something relatively new but they're executing well on it. There are not a lot of games that you can put an icon up and have people immediately recognize what game it is, but we have that with the Crimson Omen.
Lastly, the game producer talked freely on the upcoming movie adaptation for Gears of War. According to Fergusson, the film would carry on the same themes as the video game but they are giving a lot of creative space to the film company handling the movie. He commented,
We had to come up with some creative guidelines where we set out the do's and don'ts of our IP. But ultimately, you have to give control to the creatives in that medium, and let them do what's best for that medium. Is it scary? Sure. But you have to allow them to create in their own space.
Via Gamespot
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u call this game fun? i played it for 5 min offline got bored. play it online and got bored . this game is so over hyped put rfom game play and gow grafix = brilliant game
Why even post? the game sold almost 4 million copies, you can't blame that ALL on hype. Some of us actually enjoy the game.
if u say resistance is better than gearz.....then ur stupid......i as well as thousands of others continually play this game even to this day. Look on anyones buddy list, and you will see GeOW is on about half of the ppl's stat message
I don't care how innovative a game is, if it isn't fun to play then I won't play it. And Gears of War is one of the most fun on the market, the online co-op is the best in any game to date. Just wish there was a little more to the multiplayer, like bigger maps and standard deathmatch.
they have announced the next DC will be a new gaeme mode, and is expected to be free.
all fanboyism aside I have enjoyed gears of war more than any other shooter in my life including halo remember that is just how I feel Ok, don't flame me and by the halo is amazing too, but I like gears better.
ok gears is fun but if anyone has loved halo online it dosent compare to it. Sure gears is fun wen it realeased but it dosent have the lasting effect like halo. The one kill spawn isnt fun, having to press LT to aim, and cheap grenade tags get annoying.
The fun I've had playing Gears pales in comparison to the fun I've had playing Halo CE on XBC and Halo 2 on Live. Maybe it's just because I'm not too good at Gears and was awesome at Halo 1/2, but anybody who's played even one match of CE on Prirsoner or Hang 'Em High on XBC knows what I'm talking about. Those matches can go on for hours, and without even being able to talk to/hear the other people, it's just so much fun.
You played it for 5 mins !!! and I bet you was also playing Mass effect, Bioshock, Forza 2 etc and then you woke up and realized that you were really just dreaming and then went and watched another movie on the Movie player console you bought. RFOM sold about 40,000 copys Gears sold 4 Million plus. Need we say anymore........
ok, the game is good. but I hope the movie is not a piece of crap like every other videogame-based movie we've seen there.
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