This months' games launches:
1. Grand Theft Auto for the PC (April 14th)
2. Mortal Kombat X released (April 14th)
3. Dark Souls 2 Scholar of the First Sin released (April 3rd)
These are just some of the great games that have come out this month.
We also saw the launch of a few new trailers. Such as, The Witcher 3, Deus Ex Mankind Divided, Call of Duty Black Ops 3, along with Star Wars Battlefront.
Yet, that being said. There are many other things that have happened this month as well that really didn't help the industry at all.
- Hideo Kojima left Konami
- Konami cancelled Silent Hills
- Konami removes itself from the NYSE (New York Stock Exchange)
Major corporations like Konami, were having issues with loosing some of the best minds that have ever touched gaming. It seems that companies are perfectly fine with pumping out the same titles over and over again. For example, the Metal Gear Series, or Call of Duty. Now I am a big fan of both these franchises. Yet that is what they are... franchises. It's getting to be like having a McDonald's on every corner now.
As a gamer I understand that the companies need to make money, yet, if everything is a clone of the last game, or if everything is just, well the same shooting and grind that the last game was, what is the point? With just better graphics or some new movement ability, (ExoSuits) or the ability to play the single player with your friends...this isn't 2007 people. Halo has been doing this for a long time. How is this new? How is this helping the gaming community make progress?
To me, it just seems like every shooter is the same clone of the original version of the game with a predictable plot and the same repetitive game play. Go here, shoot this guy, survive this many waves of bad guys to get extracted. You know the drill.
I love FPS's as much as the next guy, but how can I say that augmenting the player character to have an ExoSuit or be half cyborg is new? It is just a rehash of some other game that couldn't do what this game or that game can. This is due to the tech on the newer consoles, and PC's.
In my latest video on YouTube I talked about video games and trans-humanism. It seems to me that video games are pushing this idea. in a way, by all the augmented player characters. Along with all the NPC's (Non-Player Characters). It is as if the gaming industry sees this as a way to either talk about, or show the hazards of this idea and its eventual growth within society.
So, since games like Deus Ex Human Revolution, Deus Ex Mankind Divided, Call of Duty Black Ops 3, Call of Duty Advanced Warfare are more prevelent, the are showing how humans can become machines. They also seem to be promoting trans-humanism.
That isn't to say that I am for or against this idea. Yet, when the gaming industry is showing, talking about, and trying to make people think about things, it makes you wonder. Are we really human if we sit in front of a console playing these games day in and day out? Are we the man or are we the machine?
Then, we have several movies that will be coming out in the next few months. These movies ask what does it mean to be human. Along with, what is humanity worth?
Marvel: Avengers Age of Ultron
Terminator Genisys
Along with a few others.
Then there is also Ex Machina, Automata, and Transcendence as well.
It seems that the gaming industry, and Hollywood, know something that we don't. Or it is just something that everyone fears happening... I have no idea, but let that sink in for a while. Why would Hollywood and the gaming industry be promoting Artificial Intelligence, robots, and transhumanism all at the same time?
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