Destructoid writes:
Not satisfied with making an utter fool of itself over the Mass Effect "controversy," Fox's pathetic attempts to discredit the games industry have reached new levels of ridiculous. The "news" source's Web site has published a story that claims research is now blaming videogames for the eventual decline of Mother Nature herself. It only briefly acknowledged the fact that televisions and computers are actually what the researchers reference in their little assassination attempt.
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A look into the sad trajectory of indie games from high successful releases to complete irrelevancy in just a few weeks or months.
That's the thing with gaming there's always new experiences to have why spend months or years playing a single game when there's a new experience right around the corner.
Indie or AAA if your building your game expecting long term player counts you'll probably be disappointed as gamers often enjoy something for a few weeks and move on only to return if it's truely a classic.
Out of all the generations I've experienced there's games from 30 plus years ago I still dust off and play like super Mario bros, earthbound, vice city and san Andreas being games I treasure and revisit every few years but I'm not going back to play a game designed to keep me engaged for months on end because it's also designed to milk my wallet in most cases.
Build a great game that people love make it playable offline and ask does it matter if the concurrent player count is under 100 a year post launch more often that not it doesn't
The price of entry is too high to take chances like I used to. Was looking at V Rising and that ranges from $50-$130 CAD. That’s a lot for an indie imo. By the time it goes on sale, the player count might be dwindling. But that’s the trade-off, I guess.
GB: "We take a look at 15 amazing games that had the perfect length."
Pretty good list. Botany Manor would be the newest addition that encapsulates that title.
Wow.. Fox news is always up to something aren't they eh?
The only reason you can link Video Games with depression. Is because people with depression want to stay at home. And if you want to stay at home, what the hell else are you going to do to try and cheer yourself up? Go on the internet or play video games is what a depressed person would do to keep themselves from committing suicide. The video games aren't what cause depression.
If anything, they help keep depressed people from hitting the bottom and committing suicide.
(Btw, How does not going out in the wilderness lots effect mother nature? If anything it helps mother nature. It lets wild animals be at peace. It helps keep harmful garbage from being littered in the forest by people. It helps keep animals from getting sicknesses from humans passing by. And many other things.)
Of course!!!
It must be the videogames!!!
Not the increase in the price to travel (gas prices, etc.). Or the fact that people have a ton of stuff to do on a regular basis. Or the fact they have seen it before and don't feel like going again.
/sarcasm
They obviously wanted the general public to view them as idiots, so they wrote this article. The hypocricy is so blatant that it's not even funny. Are they not a program that is on TV every day? Did they not just use a computer to make this article?
I sincerely think that Jack Thompson bought FOX..
Thoughts???
:)
Is the greatest network ever!
The baby channel is the greatest network ever.