The ideal game industry

Impossible · 2003-11-19T12:17:03

I realize that a lot of people see the games the mainstream game industry releases as uninteresting and not innovative. While I see this come up a lot of places, the Yann L leaving thread (in the graphics forums) made me decide to post this. One of his major reasons for leaving the game industry is because he feels this way. I personally believe that while there are a ton of bad games and clones out there, there are enough interesting and innovative games out there to keep me interested, but then again I generally buy and play 1-5 games a year unlike a lot of hardcore gamers that buy that many games a month. I think that most of the best selling titles are in some way innovative or at least very high quality (the rest tend to be popular liscenses, but that''s a different topic.) I also don''t think things have suddenly changed. There have always been a ton of bad games and clones and there have been, IMHO, points in time where cloning and lack of innovation has been a lot worse than it is now (when everyone was making crappy Doom clones, or when everyone was making bad Warcraft clones for example.) My question is, what would people consider an ideal game industry? What kind of products would they create? What do you consider innovative and is innovation really what the industry needs. Should there be less of a focus on technology, more of a focus on technology? It would be best to consider financial issues. For example, I would like an industry that produced a lot fewer games but spent more time on them so they would have very high production values, but this is a big risk, because even if you could guarentee that all of your products are excellent it doesn''t mean that enough people will buy them. Also try not to come up with dream technology or extremely lofty games that can''t be implemented.

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Started by Impossible November 15, 2003 12:35 PM

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Impossible

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November 19, 2003 11:28 AM

quote:Original post by Anonymous Poster
Oh wait, my company already does that!

Do you have a link to "Anonymous Poster Inc." website so I can see some of your great games that beat everything the best in the mainstream have to offer?

Alpha_ProgDes

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November 19, 2003 12:11 PM

quote:Original post by Anonymous Poster
"Mainstream" games suck. And they cost too much. They''re too expensive, have teams 10 times larger than they need to be and take 10 times longer to make than they should. They''re also never any fun to play.

The ideal game industry would see the immediate destruction and banishment of EA, Take Two, Valve, Black Isle, Hasbro, LionHead... all of those so-called "visionaries" churning out these retarded titles.

The ideal game industry would put out fun games that are affordable. It would also be fun to work in.

Oh wait, my company already does that!

EA needs a Microsoft-type solution, where it gets broken up into different companies. Take Two and Black Isle I have no grievances with, mainly because I don''t know what they''ve done. Valve... I have no idea how that even got on your list. And Hasbro... needs a one way trip to hell. And also needs to give back every software title back to Atari (IP, rights, and all). But with the stipulation that Atari won''t pull the same nonsense that Hasbro did.

Ideal game industry... that people can develop for old console systems (for profits) and use that as a stepping stone into getting the industry. Also that people make console with the adequate amount of hardware. More later

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November 19, 2003 12:17 PM

quote:Original post by Alpha_ProgDes
Take Two and Black Isle I have no grievances with, mainly because I don''t know what they''ve done.

Take Two owns Rockstar... So what they''ve published (in recent times) is GTA III, GTA: VC, Max Payne 2, Midnight Club 2, etc. I''d say they''re pretty important in mainstream gaming

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Black Isle on the other hand was responsible for Fallout and Fallout 2 and Planescape Torment. They also worked with Bioware on Baldur''s Gate, but as far as I know Black Isle isn''t really around anymore. He probably meant Bioware, the premiere American (non-MMO)RPG developer.

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