Anyone else tired of the "indie boom"?

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osed125 said:

Kresnik said:
Nope, not at all.

So there's a lot of them and a large amount are crap. That's games in general in a nutshell since I started gaming in ~ 1994.

I'd happily sit through this indie boom for quite a while longer as long as there's gems here and there. And not even gems. There's plenty of stuff out there that I'd say is mechanically; aesthetically or just in general quite a mediocre game that I can have a lot of fun with. Which is just the same way I feel about various Japanese or otherwise boxed releases.

I'd prefer to have the mid-tier of gaming back, but I much prefer indie as a tier to AAA.

Isn't that one of the reasons the console gaming market crashed in the U.S? hundreds of crappy and shovelware everywhere, of course there is basically no chance of that happening again, the internet is now a thing so the chances of people buying bad games is much much lower than in the 90s...although the internet didn't stop flappy bird for becoming a huge success. 

In any case, like I mentioned in my previous posts, unless you get lucky or have a marketing push, good indie games will be left in the dust, making talented developers less and less motivated to make games (after all people make games for money), and the quick cash grabbers will have a gold mine in their hands, basically what is happening right now in the mobile market.

That assumes people are willing to actually research their purchases, which, from the sounds of it is a problem for many folks here.   There are ratings and comments sections for a reason, and no it's not to troll the opposing fanbase.