An eGamer journalist about the'dumbing down' of games in recent years.
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I don't agree with that. I WISH I could agree with that. But buying habits and customer opinions prove otherwise
We've seen developers in the AAA space try new things and ideas. More often than not, the customers aren't willing to give things a chance, or not enough people buy into the project for it to grow.
Creativity works better in the indie space because the budgets, pressures, and expectations aren't the same.
it's a nice idea and it worked during the PS2/PS3-era when AAA didn't cost hundreds of millions of dollars. smaller budgets and shorter development time left room for more creativity and more risk. a game didn't need to sell 4 million+ copies to break even. things are different now.
This is the guy who bragged about crunching his staff and having them work through the night. Crunch culture has lost more talent and done more damage to the industry than any other factor. Screw him.
So true. Games have become so much simpler
I think there's lots of reasons, but the two main ones are...
In the old days games were challeneges. They had to engage the player in some way - and as graphics were so poor the game play or challenege had to be there.
Now, with game budgets at multi million dollars, the emphasis has changed from being a challenge to being an 'experience'. I doubt many devs would survive long if they spent millions making a AAA game that was so challenging people gave up before the end.
Plus, when anything breaks in to the mainstream it ends up getting dumbed down... Look at music, movies and now video games.
Unfortunately the masses are dumb, but that's where the profits are.
As long as there are enough games that satiate my need for challenge and story I'll still be a happy gamer. Let the masses have their crap - that crap makes profits and those profits are sometimes directed in to more risky projects.
I agree, this has been something that has annoyed me to no end. Give us a proper challenge
I just hope it doesn't get to a point where there are no good games left to play for the real gamers.