| Kasz216 said: I don't disagree with that... with the exception that I don't think we should discoruage developers from creating such things even if they don't find critical and commercial success. People should be free to do whatever they like, and pretty much everything has an audience or some kind... and if someone wants to make it, why the hell not?
This becomes VERY important going into the modern age of multiformats. Example... Ebooks. E books are books. If I were to release "Catcher in the Rye" for Xbox 360 and put it on an DVD, it would be no less a book. If I were to release "Catcher in the Rye" in movie theatres where every minute the "Page" turned to the next wall of text, or if it was all scrolling text... it's not a movie, it's a book. To refer to things based on there format instead of context is wrong. |
I guess I included the critical & commercial success thing because I don't think we should actually encourage developers to release critical & commercial failures. We should discourage such a thing imo. That can't be good for the industry.
As for the Heavy Rain thing, I don't want to discuss it anymore (I can see when I've lost a debate). I guess I sort of felt insulted when people kept saying HR wasn't a game & felt obliged to say something.
