Awesome Article

[Top Secret]

Found a great article on gaming at another forum I frequent.

http://www.escapistmagazine.com/issue/8/3

It focus's on bigger companies (EA/Sony/Microsoft) choking the market, choking the creativity. And really how developers need to get away from the big time and have a more casual mind set. Really interesting.

 

[VirusType2]

I read about 5 pages, christ that guy wrote a book. Well I think anyone who has been around and paid attention pretty much knew all this was going on for a long time.

yea EA comes out with football, racing, and shooter
madden, need for speed, and medal of honor

everytime, thats all they do.

But thats fine with me, thats what they do. Leave it to a company you never heard of to be making something sweet, or leave it to a company like Bethesda Softworks (morrowind, oblivion) to just do what they love and ill buy that over Need for speed or medal of honor anyday.

But I will still buy games like medal of honor and need for speed, becuase they are alot of fun too. not original but alot of fun

 

[Gargantou]

Old but good.
The scratchware manifesto on Home Of The Underdogs is definitely worth reading also.

Greedy publishers are still imo a major problem in the industry.

Developers being rushed to get out games before a certain date, etc etc.
Developers not being allowed to publish their game during a certain time period even tho it's finished due to low sales(*Cough*GSC Games, STALKER, THQ*Cough*)

 

[Gray Fox]

Scott miller on gamematter.com als has some nice writings on this.
But I don't totally agrere with them, people simply do not buy original games, teh reason publishers or any other investors will not invest in original games is because they don't sell well. Look at Psychonaust or BG&E, PoP:SoT.
In the old days the budget was way less, and the people who bought games were people who took time to read reviews. Now days to make a profit you have to mainly sell the game to the avrage joe, who knows jack shit about gaming and only buys Movie licenses. The are probably more people in absolute terms that buy original games, but in relative terms, especially to the increas in cost development it way down.