New Years Resolutions for the Games Industry.

An article at Examiner.com makes for an interesting read. From my
perspective, the first two resolutions are the most salient, although
all of them have great merit.

(mind the wrap)

http://www.examiner.com/x-1412-DC-ActionAdventure-Game-Examiner~y2009m...-Game-r

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Rob

On Sat, 03 Jan 2009 07:56:33 +0000, Mr Rob
<noemailformethx.RemoveThis@jsjsaiiowppw.com> wrote:

>An article at Examiner.com makes for an interesting read. From my
>perspective, the first two resolutions are the most salient, although
>all of them have great merit.

The launch date issue is a biggie for me. As a multi format gamer, the
amount of great games that hit at the end of 2008 was stupid, there
were about 10 games I would have liked to have bought, and in the end
settled for about 3. The rest I will now rent or wait for them to be
half the price in a few months time or not bother, which I expect
loads of other gamers will also do. For the AAA titles, they do well,
but for the games like Mirrors Edge which isn't quite top notch, it
will probably fare a lot worse than it would have done if it had been
released in the middle of the year when things are quiet and people
are more open to something different.

The point regarding reviews is very difficult when it comes to the GTA
games, as in comparison everything else looks so limited in scope, so
you have to add on a few percentage points, which then takes you into
100% territory, which GTA4 doesn't deserve. You almost need a whole
different scoring scale for GTA games, but the way reviews work (or
don't) doesn't allow for this.
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