Maelstrom declares games are best when spoofing serious things.

[vanatos]

theprof00 said:

vanatos said:

theprof00 said:

vanatos said:
I think Maelstrom exaggerates alot which leads to misinterpretation, but we have to remember he is just posting blog posts.

I dont think he wants serious games to be totally gone, just not to be the focus of the industry.

Yeah, I pointed out earlier that I didn't think he was being serious, but that I found calling games and myself "teh suck" offensive.

The two types of games can co-exist.

 

However, from what I've gathered from Malstrom, he wants console gaming to die completely and be replaced by pc and arcade games. Maybe I'm wrong.

I do think Maelstrom might need to be talk less exaggerating and more accurately, i guess its part of the success of being read by many people, gotta make sure what one writes isn't very ambigous.

I don't think he wants console gaming to die, i think he wants the focus on high production costs+focus on game elements other then gameplay to be not the focus anymore (story).

He does acknowledge alot of things like, the general atmosphere and theme of Zelda games is important (sword and sorcery and general kid innocent image) and he disdains the godam train in the new Zelda.

 

The thing I don't understand is that arcade like gaming has never disappeared. It's always been here and super successful. Whether you want to talk about SHMups, rythm games, NBA Jam or fighters, Blitz, wii sports or puzzle games. If you look at it this way, those arcade games have always been around, and it's the storyline-based games that have been introduced.

Again, if you consider story games to be an added game type, industry sales have primarily gone up. This year is close to becoming the first time gaming industry is down YoY in a while, and it's because of less than stellar wii sales. So, in an ironic twist, it is disinterest in arcade-like games that has slowed down industry growth.

Really? i'd like to see these figures.

The game industry has been shrinking for sometime, it is most notable in Japan, but your starting to see it in U.S. and U.K., its harder to see because there are more consumers.

You say industry sales have gone up, but were these sales, due to story-games? i remember reading an article that cited the Wii to be the prime reason why the industry is doing well.

There has never been disinterest in arcade-like games (wii sports resort, mario kart, NSMBW prove this).

Real industry growth is not due to the same people buying more, but new people buying.

That is, growing the market.

The PS3/Xbox market, is primarily dominated by Ps2/SNES gamers, they have little to no NEW customers, so they are dying.

The Wii is the console that is getting new customers, theirs is the only one that is growing.

No industry can survive with just the same people, because their going to lose interest and die someday.