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No. the more games the better.



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osed125 said:
Kresnik said:
Nope, not at all.

So there's a lot of them and a large amount are crap. That's games in general in a nutshell since I started gaming in ~ 1994.

I'd happily sit through this indie boom for quite a while longer as long as there's gems here and there. And not even gems. There's plenty of stuff out there that I'd say is mechanically; aesthetically or just in general quite a mediocre game that I can have a lot of fun with. Which is just the same way I feel about various Japanese or otherwise boxed releases.

I'd prefer to have the mid-tier of gaming back, but I much prefer indie as a tier to AAA.

Isn't that one of the reasons the console gaming market crashed in the U.S? hundreds of crappy and shovelware everywhere, of course there is basically no chance of that happening again, the internet is now a thing so the chances of people buying bad games is much much lower than in the 90s...although the internet didn't stop flappy bird for becoming a huge success. 

In any case, like I mentioned in my previous posts, unless you get lucky or have a marketing push, good indie games will be left in the dust, making talented developers less and less motivated to make games (after all people make games for money), and the quick cash grabbers will have a gold mine in their hands, basically what is happening right now in the mobile market.

That assumes people are willing to actually research their purchases, which, from the sounds of it is a problem for many folks here.   There are ratings and comments sections for a reason, and no it's not to troll the opposing fanbase.



I agree to an extent... more and more indie games are starting to annoy me, because they get a pass for just having an "original" story. It does not work that way. When the boom really began these games had real quality behind them, now they start to feel more like prototypes or alpha builds.

Never the less there are plenty quality and groundbreaking ones among them, and most are perfect fit for my Vita



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Intrinsic said:
I don't get whats wrong with some people these days. Why should having more options and variety ever be something bad? I mean if you hear naughty dog/ubisoft say they aren't making uncharted/assassins creed respectively cause they wanna make an indie game instead then yeah, you can get riled up.

As it stands, how about this... rather than have issues with how many of them are coming to market, how about you just don't buy or better yet, look at what you aren't interested in or want. You can stick to all your AAA games or what not.

Sometimes people talk like they are forcing anyone to do anything.

I don't want home console to become like Vita, a lot of indie and basicly any AAA games



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ktay95 said:
Raziel123 said:
ktay95 said:
I just want my mid tier back, you know the guys that once sat between Indie and AAA 😭


I don't understand why. Most of them (there are exceptions as with everything) weren't as good as the best indies or best AAAs and yet cost the same exact price as AAAs

At least indies don't rip you off

No Indies rip me off the most because if I Don't enjoy the game I Can't go return it. I'm more willing To pay full price for a game here then a cheap Indie download price because we get 1 week to Return it for a full refund at Eb Games.


Try being more careful/reasonable with your purchases then. I don't remember regretting buying any game. Maybe Guild Wars 2 i suppose..because i was fed up with MMOs and thought that game could change that but didn't. Only case i can think of in many years. And ironically it's not even an indie



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Without indie games gaming would be very boring nowadays. Mostly generic AAA games left, same old gameplay every time. They are forcing out the mid tier games though as those were the only alternative when you got tired of main stream releases. Which sucks since I like stuff like Majin and the forsaken kingdom, El Shaddai, WRC, Ferrari challenge. Plus you can return them when you don't like them.

What I don't like is the early access trend. By the time the game is finally finished (seems most never reach that stage) my interest has already evaporated. I played the demo of ksp a long time ago, had a lot of fun with it, but it's still in early access. Seems there are never any updates.



small44 said:
Intrinsic said:
I don't get whats wrong with some people these days. Why should having more options and variety ever be something bad? I mean if you hear naughty dog/ubisoft say they aren't making uncharted/assassins creed respectively cause they wanna make an indie game instead then yeah, you can get riled up.

As it stands, how about this... rather than have issues with how many of them are coming to market, how about you just don't buy or better yet, look at what you aren't interested in or want. You can stick to all your AAA games or what not.

Sometimes people talk like they are forcing anyone to do anything.

I don't want home console to become like Vita, a lot of indie and basicly any AAA games

Yeah, you merely need to glance at the rest of the entertainment industry and realize that's a completely unrealistic expectation.  Books, music, movies, TV, comics etc...  they all have content that's unimportant from person to person.  Same with the games industry. 



Why would you be tired of it? They're just games, you don't have to buy them.



Not at all. When did having options become a bad thing?

Okay yes there are quite a few bad indie games, but I have a radical solution to this tricky problem. You guys ready for it? Here it is:

Don't....buy them.



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mornelithe said:
osed125 said:

Isn't that one of the reasons the console gaming market crashed in the U.S? hundreds of crappy and shovelware everywhere, of course there is basically no chance of that happening again, the internet is now a thing so the chances of people buying bad games is much much lower than in the 90s...although the internet didn't stop flappy bird for becoming a huge success. 

In any case, like I mentioned in my previous posts, unless you get lucky or have a marketing push, good indie games will be left in the dust, making talented developers less and less motivated to make games (after all people make games for money), and the quick cash grabbers will have a gold mine in their hands, basically what is happening right now in the mobile market.

That assumes people are willing to actually research their purchases, which, from the sounds of it is a problem for many folks here.   There are ratings and comments sections for a reason, and no it's not to troll the opposing fanbase.

That's what I meant with that comment. If you have a 2 star rating on a game on the app store, chances are even if you don't know anything about video games you won't buy it. 

That however still doesn't stop for having a plethora of crappy (and sometimes successful) games available on those platforms. There is alos the thing of popular indie games are already established, just take a look at King (the developers of Candy Crush) to see where I'm going with this. All of their games are successful because they have a marketing push behind them, and they can also pay for ratings in their games, and actual talented indie developers don't even come close to have that luxury, that means their chances of getting their games popular is basically none.



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