Theres also all this stuff about games that extremely expensive to develope. I don't buy that bullshit for one second. If the really are as expensive as they say, than it's because they don't how to manage there resourses and they have there funding prioroties completely fucked up.
I mean how much would it cost to re-develope a game like starcraft today? It fits on 2 CDs and anybody at home can create it for little more than the cost of the electricity to run the computer.
Take MW 2 for example. The advertisement alone cost more than everything elce combined.
Graphics is also a massively unnesecary cost. Graphics quality has be stuck on a brick wall for almost 3 years now. Any improvement in any game's graphics has been marginal and barely noticable at best. Look at Alien vs Predator. I would see no difference if the system requirements was the same as a game as old as call of duty 2. (Yet my system only barely breaches AVP's minimum and I can still run the game at full settings) So stop wasting your resourses on this. Consentrate on the game and the storyline, they are begging you for attention. They would suck your ass for a little more attention.
Sound. Sound recordings are potentialy the highest concievable expence. if you want a realistic sound experience for a FPS game. The best way to do this would be to record a real gun shooting. But you can fire life arms in an enclosed studio, and using blanks don't sound the same. And going to a shooting range will have too much outside interference. So theres a big problem in trying to build a recording studio that could double as a safe fireing range.
Console Licencing. More bullshit that nobody has to take. The multiple publishers and developers can band together along with the customers to demand less extortion from Sony, Microsoft and Nintendo.
Live action cut scienes. This a game not a damn movie! That is all.
