Re: Video games have been ruined forever... again!
Posted: Thu Feb 05, 2015 5:00 pm
Extra Credits guys like art games and speak against harassment. I agree, but don't think it's a bad thing, no surprise there.
This is a hyperbole, obviously.
The same sort of hyperbole would be needed to force game developers to move from entertaining games to art games ("there NEED TO BE more art games"). Developers are going to create the games they either WANT to make, or the games they're PAID to create. Preferably both at the same time!
Unless someone coughs up the dough, the only developers doing art games will do it because they want to do it, and there's no reason to stop them, is there?
And since games industry makes more money than movies as-is, no one has the money to stop entertaining games from being made.
Has anyone critisized Hatred for its gameplay? All I've seen is criticism of its story and themes. If it really was about mechanics with no story, there wouldn't have been any uproar at all. It's not. It shows really disgusting, violent acts as your goal and as your reward. That is story more than it's gameplay.
What sort of system do you propose to enforce that there won't be too many art games? Steam quotas? Special "art game developer" badges, so that only the experienced and approved creators are allowed to make them? What if you need to have released at least 10 "non-art" games before you're allowed to publish an art game?Phoenixwarrior141 wrote:Sure, art games need to exist. But they need to remain on their itty bitty little section of the industry. Let games like Hatred exist, and I'll have no problem with shit like The Walking Dead existing.
This is a hyperbole, obviously.
The same sort of hyperbole would be needed to force game developers to move from entertaining games to art games ("there NEED TO BE more art games"). Developers are going to create the games they either WANT to make, or the games they're PAID to create. Preferably both at the same time!
Unless someone coughs up the dough, the only developers doing art games will do it because they want to do it, and there's no reason to stop them, is there?
And since games industry makes more money than movies as-is, no one has the money to stop entertaining games from being made.
Has anyone critisized Hatred for its gameplay? All I've seen is criticism of its story and themes. If it really was about mechanics with no story, there wouldn't have been any uproar at all. It's not. It shows really disgusting, violent acts as your goal and as your reward. That is story more than it's gameplay.