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biglittlesps on 20 February 2014
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Wright said:
aryu said:
JoeTheBro said:
aryu said:
Heavy Rain was published by Sony and for that reason, I don't consider it indie.


So Journey, The Unfinished Swan, Rime, etc. are not indie games?


Not in my opinion. I don't consider any game backed by a large publisher to be indie. For me, indie games are games developed by independent studios without the backing of huge publishers.

 

Edit: When I say backed, I mean being financially supported by a publisher. Heavy Rain was backed by Sony.


Considering Heavy Rain was supposedly to be exclusive to the Xbox 360, I can say Sony did not financially supported the dev, except for the publishing cost.

They funded the game development and they took most of the money(surely developers have some percentage) from the game sales until the game returns the funded money. Later the percentage of the profit for the developer increased and they are getting big royalties.



GAMING is not about spending hours to pass/waste our time just for fun,

its a Feeling/Experience about a VIRTUAL WORLD we can never be in real, and realizing some of our dreams (also creating new ones).

So, Feel Emotions, Experience Adventure/Action, Challenge Game, Solve puzzles and Have fun.

PlayStation is about all-round "New experiences" using new IP's to provide great diversity for everyone.

Xbox is always about Online and Shooting.

Nintendo is always about Fun games and milking IP's.