'Consoles Are A Problem' and 'A Step Backwards,' Says Oddworld Creator

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greenmedic88 said:
And everyone who uses sites like addictinggames.com as their primary, or even a major source of the best quality games they play, raise their hands.

Granted, there's a lot of crap on XBL Arcade, WiiWare and PSN in terms of downloadable games, but most of the freeware games posted on free gaming sites are the equivalent of homework assignments, or hobby projects done by amateur or budding programmers/developers.

Freeware/shareware is a nice cheap alternative to retail gaming, but for the most heavy gamers, subsisting on them would be like weight lifters trying to subsist on free hors d'oeuvres.

What you'll probably see in the future is indy games being released through services like Steam, which means there will be standards for what gets the green light for distribution, just like any of the other distribution services. No need for retail copies, minimal risk, but definite quality standards.

And one uses psn/xbla/wiiware as their primary source of entertainment? Just cause I list one site doesn't mean it's the end all of gaming, It's just an example of how varied the Games on PC medium are. You can go to plenty of other sites and get full games you pay for just the same as anything on consoles, I mean cmon you don't think I could find game like braid or castle crashers or even echnochrome online. Hell newgrounds games were made into actuall console games (alien hominid). Although I do agree that most developers are gonna band under one flag online in the future I just don't know if it would be steam.