Paul Barnett 8th April 2009

A view on gaming

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[Calistarius79]

There is Swedish saying that fits, "slit och släng". Translated: "Wear and throw", or "Wear out and Throw away" if stretched. English equivalent would be "throwaway".

For me, many games, end up in that catagory. It fit's with a huge amount of games out there. Even many mainstream, big budget, games feels like this.

Maybe it is just me though. I have been a gamer since 1990 (finally got a NES that year). So I have gone through a lot of games, and seen huge amounts of change in 19 years.

[MAUL0r1]

DID we want to go completely mainstream? Every time I see more parallels being drawn between the movie industry and the gaming industry a shiver runs down my spine... what will be the "Big Momma's House" of video games? I shutter to think that so little thought will be put into a game that gets as much publicity as any other game out there. Quality over quantity!

[ronan32]

the WII isnt a console its a marketing tool..nintendo is evil.

[cromica]

All the the games like GH and RB and everything on the Wii is not gaming, It is pure crap. Call of Duty is gaming, Command and Conquer is gaming. If you use anything other than a pc, 360 or ps3 and think you are a gamer you are nothing but a fool and a wannabe.

[jaasonkim]

I'm going to stick with the pricing for consoles and games. No matter how good something is I can't pay 70 bucks for a brand new game. I could either (for example) pay 70 bucks for an awesome Poker game for a console or pay 5 bucks for my cellphone. I think video game companies need to rethink their plans. Like you said, I want replay ability over great looking sunsets in dx10.

[Synthite]

From what you are saying, it seems that the mainstream market is not so much as a stepping stone to other various genres of games, but as an accepted concept that developers may not want to become more in depth. Maybe a poor analogy, but perhaps like a chef introducing a kid to fried rice as their first Japanese dish, bit he is too scared to offer them sushi because it would be too much of a leap in complexity of taste, so they stick to just serving the rice over and over again.

[The111DooD]

I never realised until Paul pointed out. We lost :(

[Zer11]

Paul,

What you are talking about is the natural quality verses quantity tradeoff that occurs in anything that tries to go more mass market.

[Nallkun]

Does this mean there's going to be a Rockband expansion for Warhammer Online?

[joeroxor]

This happened 20+ years ago, it was called ET on Atari. What an awful piece of crap that was.

[doomblackdragon]

yeah I got the same thing with the sudden ending in the middle of his sentince.

[doomblackdragon]

No he saying high tech games are dieing. The games on the phone are very low grade. There keep tring to make a game bigger and badder and it end up back firing. I still think the super NES had some of the best game ever made. Do to it took week if not months to finish on game. It had play back abilty. With the old favorite abilty of choose your path. Now game only have 2 ending. I remeber when games had like 10-20+ endings. They lost the game making magic and the game pay for it.