Database expansion

[Kantor]

Rainbird said:

Kantor said:

Rainbird.

We don't have a VGC IM, ioi is working on revamping VGChartz and gamrConnect, we can't use plus signs in posts, there are no graphs, and you want us to add staff pages to the DB?

Games are different from films. Tom Cruise, Angelina Jolie and Sir Michael Caine are all famous actors. Quite a few actors are famous. There's no position in the gaming industry of equivalent fame, really. A handful of developers, like CliffyB, Kojima, Miyamoto and to a lesser extent people like Ted Price and Fumito Ueda, are famous. But the large majority aren't. Can you tell me who the Producer and Lead Designer of Naughty Bear were? Enslaved? The Force Unleashed 2? No, because you don't really care. They're not big games, and they're not overly brilliant, so nobody has any idea who made them, beyond the name of the actual development studio.

That's as far as I think we could go - pages for development studios and publishers. But that comes after all of this 3.0 2.0 stuff.

I don't expect it to come around soon, I just want to put it out there, so maybe it will be considered in the future. I'm very, very well aware that there are a ton of more important projects at hand for now and quite a while into the future, but that doesn't mean I can't suggest further improvements.

Antonidas something... He's name is really hard to remember, but believe it or not, I do care about his and Ninja Theory's projects. And Naughty Bear and TFU2 are not good games (going by critics, I haven't played them so I can't judge), so of course I won't care. I won't care who made bad movies either. But if someone I care about make a game, then I want to know about it.

Plus, this isn't just for the über hardcore fans. If David Cage makes a new game, regardless of who he does it with, you can bet your ass I will know about it, but what about that random PS3-owner who played Heavy Rain and wants to know what other games these people have been involved with? What games have Jeremy Soule scored? Nobou Uematsu? What games have Shinji Mikami directed? David Jaffe? Jason Vandenberghe? Ray Muzyka? Patrice Desilets? These are all people where I would be curious to see what projects they have made in the past and are attached to currently.

Again, I just want it to be out there, not some kind of "DO IT NOW!!!1" thing.

Well, when you put it that way, I suppose it could work.

But still, all of the Metal Gear Solids and FInal Fantasies and Marios will have full development teams detailed, and TFU II and Naughty Bear and Majin and the Forsaken Kingdom will remain blank, because nobody has the inclination to find out who developed them.