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Dear Videogame Industry, Please Stop Making Games

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Re: Dear Videogame Industry, Please Stop Making Games

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Post by nickelplate »

sjsivak wrote: post #20

Drucker's problem is that he is trying to enjoy the "kitchen sink" of the game industry. This is like saying you enjoy cooking as your hobby and then you try to learn the best culinary techniques of French, Spanish, Italian, Thai, and Creole. You can't expect to become a master and experience everything in all of these areas. My Advice: Pick the platform or genre you enjoy the most and focus on those games. You will…

You can easily get overwhelmed even if you stick to a few genres or platforms. I own Fallout 3, Dragon Age and Mass Effect 2, and I am pretty confident that I will not come close to fully exploring them before the next great RPG is released.

Re: Dear Videogame Industry, Please Stop Making Games

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Post by jerf »

nickelplate wrote: post #21
sjsivak wrote: post #20

Drucker's problem is that he is trying to enjoy the "kitchen sink" of the game industry. This is like saying you enjoy cooking as your hobby and then you try to learn the best culinary techniques of French, Spanish, Italian, Thai, and Creole. You can't expect to become a master and experience everything in all of these areas. My Advice: Pick the platform or genre you enjoy the most and focus on those games. You will…

You can easily get overwhelmed even if you stick to a few genres or platforms. I own Fallout 3, Dragon Age and Mass Effect 2, and I am pretty confident that I will not come close to fully exploring them before the next great RPG is released.

You've got just under one month (and the shortest month of the year at that); Final Fantasy 13 comes out on March 9th. That's a lot to get through.

(Yes, FF may not be to $COMMENT_READER's personal taste, but you know what I mean.)

Re: Dear Videogame Industry, Please Stop Making Games

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Post by sjsivak »

nickelplate wrote: post #21
sjsivak wrote: post #20

Drucker's problem is that he is trying to enjoy the "kitchen sink" of the game industry. This is like saying you enjoy cooking as your hobby and then you try to learn the best culinary techniques of French, Spanish, Italian, Thai, and Creole. You can't expect to become a master and experience everything in all of these areas. My Advice: Pick the platform or genre you enjoy the most and focus on those games. You will…

You can easily get overwhelmed even if you stick to a few genres or platforms. I own Fallout 3, Dragon Age and Mass Effect 2, and I am pretty confident that I will not come close to fully exploring them before the next great RPG is released.

True, but if you were also trying to play Left 4 Dead 2, Modern Warfare 2 and Bioshock 2 you would be in a worse spot.

Even if you just focused on a single game like World of Warcraft, there is enough content and stuff to do that you would probably use up all your leisure time.

I have a monstrous backlog of games I feel I should play, sitting right next to the pile of books I should read and movies I should watch. Sadly, I have accepted the fact that I will never be able to get through them all.

Re: Dear Videogame Industry, Please Stop Making Games

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Post by nickelplate »

jerf wrote: post #22
nickelplate wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You can easily get overwhelmed even if you stick to a few genres or platforms. I own Fallout 3, Dragon Age and Mass Effect 2, and I am pretty confident that I will not come close to fully exploring them before the next great RPG is released.

You've got just under one month (and the shortest month of the year at that); Final Fantasy 13 comes out on March 9th. That's a lot to get through. (Yes, FF may not be to $COMMENT_READER's personal taste, but you know what I mean.)

I am screwed.

Re: Dear Videogame Industry, Please Stop Making Games

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Post by nickelplate »

sjsivak wrote: post #23
nickelplate wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You can easily get overwhelmed even if you stick to a few genres or platforms. I own Fallout 3, Dragon Age and Mass Effect 2, and I am pretty confident that I will not come close to fully exploring them before the next great RPG is released.

True, but if you were also trying to play Left 4 Dead 2, Modern Warfare 2 and Bioshock 2 you would be in a worse spot. Even if you just focused on a single game like World of Warcraft, there is enough content and stuff to do that you would probably use up all your leisure time. I have a monstrous backlog of games I feel I should play, sitting right next to the pile of books I should read and movies I should watch. Sa…

It is pretty hard to focus on a single game or genre though. There are days when you just feel like playing something else.

Re: Dear Videogame Industry, Please Stop Making Games

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Post by ryanelkins »

nickelplate wrote: post #25
sjsivak wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

True, but if you were also trying to play Left 4 Dead 2, Modern Warfare 2 and Bioshock 2 you would be in a worse spot. Even if you just focused on a single game like World of Warcraft, there is enough content and stuff to do that you would probably use up all your leisure time. I have a monstrous backlog of games I feel I should play, sitting right next to the pile of books I should read and movies I should watch. Sa…

It is pretty hard to focus on a single game or genre though. There are days when you just feel like playing something else.

I'm pretty sure this qualifies as blasphemy against WoW.

In all serious though, if you want to truly get into the endgame of WoW, you generally don't have alot of time for other games (this is of course depending on how much time you have for gaming in general). Blizzard has definitely made it easy to spend the majority of that time in their world.

Re: Dear Videogame Industry, Please Stop Making Games

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Post by pmichaud »

bensummers wrote: post #10
pmichaud wrote: post #8

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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.

They do segment. There are games for kids, casual games, social games, everything. I think in the more or less "core" demographic though, and they produce more games than I have time to play.

Re: Dear Videogame Industry, Please Stop Making Games

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Post by LucaDuval »

Tichy wrote: post #9
ZeroGravitas wrote: post #7

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…

I think there is still some progress in the arts.

I believe that you can hope to find innovation in the arts but I doubt that you'll find any progress.

Joyce is not better than Shakespeare and Prince is not better than Mozart.

This is even truer for painting, would anybody say that we are doing better than the Altamira cave painters?

(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Altamira,_bison.jpg)

Re: Dear Videogame Industry, Please Stop Making Games

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Post by pmichaud »

jsz0 wrote: post #17

As someone who gets intensely bored with even the best video games after an hour or less I'm really amazed anyone would have the time to play that many games and expect to actually complete each one in its entirety. Video gaming has that weird addictive drive to it for some people that I do not think is healthy. You might like good wine but you don't drink wine 8 hours a day. You don't obsessively consume every good…

Your point is well taken, but here's another perspective, from a person who consumes a moderate amount of games, and actually produces games as well.

I see every new game as a chance to be inspired by the artistry that goes into them. Of course there is plenty of crap out there, but an increasing number of games are undeniably amazing works of art. I want to experience as much of that wonder as I can. I want to see every mind blowing painting. I want to hear all amazing the music the world has to offer. Games are no different for me.

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