EXCERPT: "The gaming world has been good to Conan O’Brien in the past year and a half. The late-night talk show host’s glib (and often hilarious) videogame reviews, 'Clueless Gamer,' have become a viral sensation, racking up millions of views online."
"INDIE Live Expo, Japan’s premiere online digital showcase series connecting indie game fans all over the world, highlighted more than 150 games during its Saturday broadcast introducing world premieres, new trailers, and updates during its 10th-ever digital showcase." - INDIE Live Expo.
"Following a great event in November of last year, DevGAMM Lisbon is coming back to the beautiful and sunny Cascais region to catch up with old friends, connect with game developers from around the world, hear from seasoned professionals, and have a great time all around." - DevGAMM.
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.
Well... He's Conan. He's just awesome enough to generate all those views and anyone who disagrees is just jealous they don't have his hair lol.
Seriously though, the guy is pretty entertaining to watch. The Tomb Raider one was my favorite, when he kept impaling Lara again and again.
This should be pretty obvious anyway. All that late night stuff is paid deals mostly
"One source familiar with the show’s practices said about a quarter of the games that were featured on the skit were paid endorsement deals. None of these deals are disclosed to the public."
Uh Oh!! Will N4G show the same outrage for Conan O'Brian as they did Microsoft? Or by reading the comments above it's okay because it's obvious or it's Conan.
i dont know if i would pay for that kind of exposer cause he allways mocks gamers and the game they are promoting and he acts like its the stupidest thing alot of times
He's Conan and I approve all his methods blindly as I am a follower of his Coco cult.
Have you guys seen the Spanx scetch where Andy is bleeding? It's one of the funniest things I've seen in a while :D
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