Anti-Indie'ers are giving me cancer!

[-CraZed-]

Vena said:

-CraZed- said:

Distraction? Sure okay, as games in themselves are distractions. Sure they have an effect but in a positive way. They are allowing Sony's studios to take their time in developing their games while giving players games to play in the meantime.

This ensures that the developers aren't under the gun the whole development cycle and helps us get better games. Your leap towards Sony abandoning AAA titles is based on nothing but conjecture and is just wrong. The influx of indie games is better for the industry and better for those who actually like to play games.

They aren't allowing for anything, they are just distracting you from the fact that current gen consoles (at this point X1 and PS4 are no different) have next to no games on them because development time with the new architecture (x86, go go) to get super graphics is a massive black hole on time and resources. The time would have been the same one way or the other when consoles started to get into an arms race with PCs, that they lost before even started, and indies have always existed. They mask this fact by saying and doing as Sony has done: go play our vast indie line of mostly trash to mediocre piddlespit that we have prepared for you because there's muck all else to play.

You can do the same thing with Steam for less while getting more if indies were even remotely a market of interest for anyone who buys consoles. People buy consoles for AAA games (or at least they used to), we have PCs and streaming technology/laptops to play shitty little 2 hours indie projects. You don't need a 400$ console for that.

AAA development time has skyrocketed while indies get crapped out like eggs from an overstuffed coup.

This is the kind of irrationality that ssems to be driving these pompous, snobbish rants against "indie" games. If a game is fun to play who cares if it is 4 hours or 400 hours? Except with the cost of the game I don't care, I'll play them. If we were talking about these smaller bite sized games costing $59.99 then perhaps we coould take all the fervor over the indie market serious but that simply isn't the case.

And I really find your statement on PCs funny because a good gaming PC will run you more than a $400 console and you'll find a plethora of indie titles for the PC so I'm not sure how your point on price means anything here. And no the time taken for development time would most certainly NOT be the same. If there wasn't a regular release of games developers would be under the gun to deliver their games on time so that gamers would have something to buy for their consoles. I've been through all eight console generations. I can honestly say this is the BEST games drought I have ever seen on a console.

Some gamers are a curious bunch, shit on devs for pushing out shoddy half-baked games requiring patches on the backend or never actually finishing them but then rail against them taking extra time to get the games right and then blame it all on the recent surge in popularity of indie titles.

PS4 is selling very well and I think plenty of well reasoned gamers are enjoying their $400 purchases by playing all the great games, indie or AAA, that are available right now. I feel sorry for people who are so caught up in this AAA or die mentality as they are most likely suffering the worst case of buyers remorse ever.

Again, this is a good thing.