Vanquish

[bluestarultor]

Originally Posted by NonCon

It's supposed to be safe. Shinji Mikami made GodHand, which was the best brawler ever, only nobody bought it, so he's trying to make a more marketable game this time around. Plot will be meh, generic, and forgettable, but gameplay is looking to be a blast.

That isn't exactly a merit, buddy.

There are ways of being marketable without being shy about it. Like if they wanted to play up the innocence angle. That really hasn't been done before. Haze put you in the shoes of a rookie, but I can't really think of a game that's done innocence in the sense of its value and longing for it like he seems to be doing in that field, trying to recapture the feeling of it. That would make for great characterization! Or if they went for a value of life angle, where the MC hates killing, but knows it's necessary to protect lives. That would mesh pretty well with the terrorism bit they have there.

Granted, this may or may not even enter our household depending on how things go with school, but maybe it'll surprise me either when we get it or enough that we will.

[Kim]

Originally Posted by bluestarultor

That isn't exactly a merit, buddy.

No, but a lot of the most memorable games I've played sold like shit. Video games is a business. At this point I honestly can't get too mad at a developer for making something generic when games about Samus being put in her place by a man sell better than games that are actually worthwhile purchases simply because of the name attached.

Seeing the rest of your post, it is very clear you have no idea what sells well and is marketable. The majority of shooter fans would see what you're proposing and dismiss it as whiny Japanese bullshit. The majority of non-shooter fans would assume it's just another generic shooter. The game's sales would dip noticeably were they to do what you suggested.

Before you even begin to talk about what is and isn't marketable, I want you to go and play Halo, Call of Duty Modern Warfare, Gears of War, and Killzone until your eyes bleed, and realize that that is how shooters sell. From a business perspective, deviating from this is a bad thing to do, and if you aren't happy with it, blame everyone who didn't buy the different/unique/memorable games, which I'm fairly certain includes yourself in many cases.