okr said:
I'm afraid you're quite wrong: none of the German adventure games I listed are big hits in Germany, most of them can't even be called hits over here. I read a few months ago (in an interview with one of Deadalic Entertainment's executives) that even the best-selling adventure games rarely sell more than 50.000 copies in Germany. This year several of the German adventure developers and publishers went bankrupt. The only franchises developed in Germany which can be called hits (i.e. 1 mio+) are Crysis, Anno and The Settlers. BTW: I didn't list these adventure games because they're made in Germany. IGN's nominee Botanicula (a great game and deserved nominee) is from Czech Republic, Yesterday was made in Spain. Sherlock Holmes (probably the 2012 adventure game release with the highest budget) in Ukraine and Primordia in USA. If all those German games I additionally listed were made in Italy or France, I'd have bought and played them as well. Germany just happens to be the country with the most adventure developers and publishers which fund them today. And no, I don't think that IGN and other NA gaming sites (not GamrReview, btw, they e.g. reviewed Deponia and Zerzura and even nominated Zerzura for best adv game) ignore those adventure games I listed because they're from small German developers or from other small developers. I think they WANT to ignore classic point&click adventure games in general as long as they're not developed by genre legends like Schafer/Gilbert or Charles Cecil (you will see huge media coverage of their upcoming games next year). Many of NA gaming journalists think and often prove in respective articles which are disguised as praise of the rise of a presumably dead genre that classic point&click is either outdated or not worth their time. Interative movies, a few visual novels (as long as they're made by Chunsoft) and the strongly overrated admired subgenre of horror adv games are the only adventure subgenres that get NA media attention these days (The Walking Dead combines two of these subgenres => winner in all adv game polls of the year). If IGN was really interested in classic adventure games, why would they nominate adventure games which are at least as little-known (Dear Esther, Lone Survivor, Thirty Flights of Loving) as the ones I've listed? |
absolutley ridiculous.
http://www.ign.com/videos/2012/12/21/the-5-recent-psn-games-you-might-have-missed
as stated in that video. even psn games are not being reviewed because of the lack of manpower. not because they "dont want to". Ign has reviewed lesser known and much shittier games in the past. Because they dont want is not the reason for why they dont review certain games
