by OL » Thu Mar 14, 2013 2:20 am
Portal is only two games, with no others yet mentioned (and as slow/selective/picky as Valve are, it's not out of the question that they might never come back to it at all). The Walking Dead may have won best game at the Spike awards or whatever, but it's certainly not on the level of CoD's popularity and sales. Same thing for Journey; critical success (and surely it hasn't bombed sales-wise), but it's hard to really consider it a particularly stand-out "blockbuster".
I think you're just misunderstanding what I'm saying. I'm speaking specifically about the big names right now. The absolute giants.
Compare them to movies, and they'd be like The Dark Knight, or The Avengers. They've made so much money and have been bought into so much that it's hard to even comprehend just how many people have actually experienced them. It'd be an astronomical number if one could even figure out the total exposure they've gotten.
In gaming nowadays, the series that fit into that echelon would be the likes of CoD, Madden, Fifa... and, miraculously, Assassin's Creed.
I say you've misunderstood me because I'm not talking about some mark of quality; just a mark of success.
The Assassin's Creed series has been amazingly successful. So successful that I'm actually seeing adverts for Black Flag on tv already... and the game comes out in October. I've only ever seen that happen with CoD or sports games before, which is why I've said anything. And the fact that AC is primarily built as a single-player experience makes it stand out within that small group.
I suppose something like Uncharted might fit into that group as well, but I get the impression that AC is the far bigger property either way.