Agree with this. How many games are there nowadays that feel like they've been designed "by committee"? That instead of somebody having a specific vision and trying to market it, the marketers create the vision to appeal to "target demographics"?azurine said:Yahtzee's was good, but I'm left wondering if the sock puppet will be a regular thing.
And Mr. Sterling's poem was... tragic. I mean, it's a great poem, but the subject is a tragic tale. people wonder if games really are an art form, and it sure doesn't feel like it when we hear stories of great games dropping their creative spark in favor of guns guns guns, or when people are told outright that a main character cannot under any circumstance be a female.
Agreed on the whole tragic verdict. It's almost crushing to hear how the marketing department screws everything up for Jim's fictional developer.TheMadDoctorsCat said:Agree with this. How many games are there nowadays that feel like they've been designed "by committee"? That instead of somebody having a specific vision and trying to market it, the marketers create the vision to appeal to "target demographics"?azurine said:And Mr. Sterling's poem was... tragic. I mean, it's a great poem, but the subject is a tragic tale. people wonder if games really are an art form, and it sure doesn't feel like it when we hear stories of great games dropping their creative spark in favor of guns guns guns, or when people are told outright that a main character cannot under any circumstance be a female.
Damn, that got me all maudlin. Fortunately there are games out there like "Papers Please". Y'know, a light, fun, insubstantial indie game to cheer me up and make me laugh.