In my perspective (that is the perspective of a gamer born in the 90's), I believe that the gaming industry is becoming so popular that the larger conglomerates like EA only see profits.
Developers will start treating their product as a source of wealth instead of a source of excitement. Part of seeing it as a source of wealth is to target the largest audience possible and you can't do this by making a game that only appeals to say, 200,000 people.
Part of this also has to deal with game companies getting larger and larger. When you are supporting a team of 100+ programmers, artists, designers, etc, you have to find ways to increase profits so you can actually pay your employees and make more games.
Indie developers are free from this burden and are, in my opinion, the future of the industry. Supporting indie games will a) give larger companies an idea of what we, as a community, are looking for b) show we'd much rather pay for content and challenge c) show we have lost some amount of faith in the major market.
Sure, i am not opposed to options, as long as i don't have to play treasure hunt just to find the guy i need to kill.
And don't say is easy .. make the combat challenging and fun. People like different type of difficulties. For me, finding things is easy and boring .. put a neon sign so i can skip it.
I agree. Even in easy-mode games, chain quests where you get a quest, run over there to do something, then have to run back to the original guy for the next part of the quest, lather, rinse, repeat... that's all boring to me. I don't want to have to keep running across the map time and time again. It's even worse if the game doesn't give you some serious hints where to go for any of it. Travelling and searching are boring. I want to be actually doing something.
Comments
In my perspective (that is the perspective of a gamer born in the 90's), I believe that the gaming industry is becoming so popular that the larger conglomerates like EA only see profits.
Developers will start treating their product as a source of wealth instead of a source of excitement. Part of seeing it as a source of wealth is to target the largest audience possible and you can't do this by making a game that only appeals to say, 200,000 people.
Part of this also has to deal with game companies getting larger and larger. When you are supporting a team of 100+ programmers, artists, designers, etc, you have to find ways to increase profits so you can actually pay your employees and make more games.
Indie developers are free from this burden and are, in my opinion, the future of the industry. Supporting indie games will a) give larger companies an idea of what we, as a community, are looking for b) show we'd much rather pay for content and challenge c) show we have lost some amount of faith in the major market.
That's my two cents, anyway.
I agree. Even in easy-mode games, chain quests where you get a quest, run over there to do something, then have to run back to the original guy for the next part of the quest, lather, rinse, repeat... that's all boring to me. I don't want to have to keep running across the map time and time again. It's even worse if the game doesn't give you some serious hints where to go for any of it. Travelling and searching are boring. I want to be actually doing something.
Played: UO, EQ, WoW, DDO, SWG, AO, CoH, EvE, TR, AoC, GW, GA, Aion, Allods, lots more
Relatively Recently (Re)Played: HL2 (all), Halo (PC, all), Batman:AA; AC, ME, BS, DA, FO3, DS, Doom (all), LFD1&2, KOTOR, Portal 1&2, Blink, Elder Scrolls (all), lots more
Now Playing: None
Hope: None