Monday, March 17, 2014

Milking Birds

So... Who liked the original Angry Birds? I certainly liked it. Then they made Angry Birds Rio, Angry Birds Star Wars, and Angry Birds Space. Now they're just stretching the franchise out. They made Bad Piggies? OK. Makes a bit of sense to create a game for the opposing side. Angry Bird Go? Now you're starting to milk. A racing game based off a franchise that was originally a physics-based game about fling birds? That's ridiculous. Now they're making Angry Birds Epic. A turn based RPG using characters from the Angry Birds franchise. Damn you Angry Birds, you used to be cool.

Making Angry Birds into a turn-based RPG is bad for three reasons that come to mind right now.

  1. Angry Birds was a physics game about throwing birds at pigs
  2. Turn-based RPGs don't have interesting gameplay anymore after the countless amount of them
  3. Angry Birds is going to far and is now only crushing a loved franchise by milking it
Lots of series have been over-sequelized and milked. The App Store was special because people could make low budget gimmicks that were new and fun to play with. Seeing all those Flappy Bird rip-offs along with Rovio milking a franchise has made me lose faith in the App Store. We need more creative gameplay mechanics and fresh ideas on the plate. Not these pieces of shit given out in exchange for nothing but money.

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