Recent content by Tragedy's Rebellion

I don't really know what you mean tbh. When is mainstream praise considered a milestone for anything? Bioware's games are also praised, but they are awful. Maybe train-wreck isn't the right word, I suppose. It's a shallow RPG with clunky mechanics, overly verbose purple prose that amounts to...

It's an RPG for the easily impressed, what more can I say? It may be a financial success, but so what? CoD is a financial success. It wasn't a triumph in anything. Neither in storytelling nor its systems. If we judge anything by popular opinion and its financial success we'll never get anything...

These kinds of declamations are getting really cliche at this point. Can you name one RPG-centric studio that hasn't said anything resembling this? Pen and paper this, player choice that, dramatic effects, controlling the outcome of the plot etc. And it never, ever works out. Just look at...

Competitions can enforce their own rules on who to allow. Making it fair is up to them and not on the definition of indie. Competitions are also a circle jerk whenever we talk about art. Mozart was in a music competition to be a church composer at one point and he didn't win.

I don't think production values have anything to do with the quality of the games - just look at what Diablo 3 turned out to be. No amount of expansions and patches is going to fix that mess. Witcher 3 is an indie game. Many people seem to equate "indie" with "low budget 1-man team" which is a...

Yes, we covered that already. It's just kind of hard to explain , since "indie" literally means independent. I.e. independent from publishers? Which the games I mentioned are, as far as I know. Either way you name them, you know what I mean, I gave plenty of examples.

Oh, yeah, definitely those as well. Though it's a bit hard to explain, isn't it? All the games you listed are also quite well made. So, basically the future isn't in the AAA industry?

Which games are these "second tier"? What does "second tier" mean in relation to the AAA-indie spectrum?

Oh, yeah, many steam greenlit games are shit, no doubt about it. Most of of the indie games are shit, my idea was that indie developers somehow manage to make better games than AAA developers. I went into a rant there without realizing it, for which I apologize. But I also think that it's fairly...

I've been thinking about this for a while now, since I've only bought indie games for the past 3 years, maybe more. The only exception is Warlords of Draenor and we all know how well that turned out. I just find the spark of creativity and talent in indie games lately and they've been able to do...

Yeap, terrible. I have no idea why you guys even keep posting stuff like this, this isn't considered "news" in the best of days. Stop demeaning gaming journalism, or even journalism in general, with these kinds of posts. I'm not trying to be mean, I just think that posting these inconsequential...

That doesn't answer my question at all. I was also clearly talking about the streamlining post-WotLK. Everything else in your post is irrelevant. I said I'm not going to try to convince you of objectivity in art (which includes game design) because it's a very complicated concept in the...

You are insistently cherry picking anything I say. "I also said that WoW might be mainstream in the same other post." Was completely disregarded. Yes, me comparing total franchise sales isn't fair. It's also irrelevant lulz. I was trying to say that mainstreamizing WoW didn't work to keep subs...

My, literally, second sentence explained that I did have some mistakes that I rectified in my other posts in this thread. Those mistakes include the 500 mil copy thing. And it's literally the least important thing I've said. Skyrim is the least RPG of the Elder Scrolls series. It's, again, an...

You seem to have missed the other 99% of my post. I had some mistakes that I rectified when called out on them, but other than that it's accurate. He is right, a piece of art doesn't diminish its value over time, that's absurd. WoW's quality as a game has declined ever since Cataclysm and that...