Day One: Garry's Incident and the State of the Gaming Industry

Hello,
For those who don't know, the game Day One: Garry's Incident has been generating a lot of controversy in the reviewing community. This all started when TotalBiscuit's review of said game was removed by it's developer, Wild Games Studio. His review was very critical of the game, panning many aspects of it. The review was removed because of a copyright strike, Wild Games' CEO attempted to justify this by stating "Total Biscuit has no right to make advertising revenues with our license." However, he had gotten a review code for DO:GI from the CEO just a few days before, and reviews on websites such as IGN, Rock Paper Shotgun, etc. In fact, on metacritic, the developers have made untrue user reviews to allow the average to rise, thus, giving a better review. As it seems, Wild Games knows they have a terrible game, but they still want to maximize sales. The games kickstarter was mainly funded by the CEO. This has warranted many people to claim that they have violated free speech laws. They removed bad reviews, and kept good ones. They have a bad game, but they don't want to accept it, nor they justify it or have a legitimate excuse for it. Take Aliens: Colonial Marines for example. It's critical reception was extremely negative. Soon after, however, Gearbox Software (yes, the Borderlands Gearbox) issued a statement (written verbatim) that said that they had ordered an outside developer to work on A:CM while they finished up development on BL2. That outside company completely redid the design and feel of the game to fit their image. So by the time Gearbox got back to it, they had to restart much of it from scratch. Long story short, Gearbox made a bad game, but they accepted it and justified the terribleness. Which leads to my next point. How game development has changed.

A few years ago, it was quality over quantity, but now it's the other way around. Although some have balanced these two out, such as Naughty Dog's amazing work on the PS3, many developers have become lazy when it comes to making games, with Activision being one of the biggest culprits. Don't get me wrong, I still enjoy an occasional game of COD, but EA's Battlefield game series has become a far better product. COD has been accused of being a copy-paste affair since MW3.

This may be long, but my point is short. The industry has become corrupted by money. Indie game devs understand this more than anyone else. If you want more info, follow this link. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QfgoDDh4kE0#t=212

Blog Welcome

Welcome to T-Man Gaming, a new way to get reviews and news of your favorite games. I may soon have a let's play channel, so keep an eye out for that.