Re: CRAP Poll: Favorite Era of Gaming

Mike S.  <Mike_S@nowhere.com> wrote:

These 'smaller' 'indie' titles are the only modern games I would ever
buy. The big publishers aren't making games I want to play anymore.

If big publishers make RPGs or strategy games then I'm probably still
interested in playing them, though I'm in no hurry to.  I still have a
big backlog of these games I want to play, so I'm content with waiting
for the blockbuster RPGs of the last few years to come down in price.
(I'm not sure if there are any blockbuster strategy games these days,
the Total War: Warhammer games maybe?)

I also never have really seen the "AAA" tag as being a selling point.
I remember when people would say "good enough graphics for an RPG" when
describing these games, so I don't really expect AAA-level graphics in
RPGs.  Strategy games don't need it all, the visuals being some sort of
abstract represenation that you're never going to find all that immersive
no matter how "realistic" they look.

I think it's great time for video games right now.  Small indie titles
can compete almost head to head with blockbuster AAA games.  With Steam
basically allowing any game anyone wants to make on their store, there
aren't really gatekeepers any more.  Sure, it's hard to get noticed with
an average of 50 games coming out on Steam each day, and big publishers
have easier time of this, but there's a lot of good indie games that
manage to do well.  Heck, there's a probably quite a few small and medium
budget games released in the last couple of weeks that did better on
Steam than Concord, a big budget AAA game published by Sony.

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