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This may be humour but he's getting to the heart of something big. Why don't we just watch all the amazing films and TV shows of the past? Why do we listen to music that's in the charts when we've got over 5 decades of complete genius waiting to be listened to? Because fundamentally these are social acts. We like listening to the music that others are listening to, to define ourselves by the films we like in common w…
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As someone who sort of kind of keeps up, it's actually pretty true, there have been a WHOLE bunch of goods games lately, and I don't think I'll ever catch up.
Are 'all' games targeted at the same market? It seems odd to me that so many games are being produced for the same people. Wouldn't it be better business to target more groups? On the other hand, if you're going to buy them anyway, I don't suppose it matters for the producers.
How do people learn about new games these days? For some reason I stopped reading the online game mags a while ago, and now to start again seems a bit overwhelming. Would be nice to only hear about the real must-play games.
Then again, the only games I've played this year are Modern Warfare 2, Dawn of War 2, Company of Heroes, Fuel of War and Red Faction Guerrilla - all but Modern Warfare 2 came on the THQ multipack I got off steam because I wanted a copy of Company of Heroes. Before this, I'd never even heard of Red Faction Guerrilla, but have been playing it a lot over the past two weeks!
An odd post from a Website that depends on many games being released per year to give people a reason to go back there.
How do people learn about new games these days? For some reason I stopped reading the online game mags a while ago, and now to start again seems a bit overwhelming. Would be nice to only hear about the real must-play games.
I personally just buy games at a lag usually they are much cheaper (after a year or two) and time proven, if you are a pc gamer steam is amazing and for consoles I really have no idea I guess I just hear word of mouth about the new games.
I think rabid video game fans should consider this point strongly. Part of having good taste is being selective because it's impossible to consume everything. Are these all good games? Maybe but you have a finite amount of time in your life. You need to plan accordingly. It may include making tough choices like playing video game X instead of video game Y but you'll survive and your life won't be significantly worse off no matter what choice you make.
How do people learn about new games these days? For some reason I stopped reading the online game mags a while ago, and now to start again seems a bit overwhelming. Would be nice to only hear about the real must-play games.
I don't follow the recent developments, but I have a few people or teams whose opinions resonate with me, so I regularly read what they say. Here's "Top 9 Games of the Decade" by Auriea Harvey of Tale of Tales, whose opinions I value very highly.
http://tale-of-tales.com/blog/2009/12/31/aurieas-top-9-games...
If you're not familiar with their games, check their blog to see if is the kind of games you're interested in. But again, to even know these people whose advice I follow, I used to read many websites, magazines and even visit conferences.
I was really surprised to hear that the number of games increased from say 15 years ago. Surely, the industry grew very much, but I thought costs and complexity of game development more than offset this, so I expected the number of games to decrease. Does anyone have numbers on that?
Also, I thought it became customary to say that newer games are not what they used to be (and the grass back when we were younger, but still). So I see Drucker's article as an opposition to the general notion of gloom and doom in the game industry, though again I am not sure how serious he is.
My Advice: Pick the platform or genre you enjoy the most and focus on those games. You will never get to sample them all.