I'll move on, but I don't believe you were ever just blindly buying games off GP with no research, ever, at any point in your life, online or not. A bigger library of games won't cause you to get bad games because you're not looking at every game, and you never were, and never will.
Self publishing and curation is definitely an issue. Valve is working on a solution but in the meantime they have Greenlight which allows the community to vote on games that get approved and subsequently careful curation from Valve helps form what the front page looks like. Valve is slowly working to remove themselves from the equation altogether while still having a storefront that highlights things people would like to play.I know we've been hearing how great "self publishing" is since Sony announced they would be allowing it and devs all over the world rejoiced.
Form a game devs perspective self publishing and other non restrictive policies from platform holders are great. They allow you the get your game on the platform without worrying about politics/business
Form a console gamer standpoint, self publishing just allows an abundance of trash to fog up the game store standing in the way of the truly special games.
The way things are going now, the X1/PS4 online stores are gonna end up like iTunes or steam. And thats not a good thing. Your gonna have to sift through 99 copies of flappy bird, just to get to Limbo 2. The crappiest games will find tricks to make it to the top of the list, while some really good games will go unnoticed. This is somewhat acceptable for steam and mobile game customers because part of the magic is playing through the games and discovering the good ones. Console gamers have become accustomed to sitting down and playing quality games, there is no time to try out countless indie games just to make it to a good one.
I'd much rather have it where only proven/very promising games were allowed on consoles. Let them get their weight up on iphone/PC before they jump to the big time.
Seems like everyone jumped on the "self publishing" bandwagon without really thinking about what it means from a consumer standpoint.
Thoughts?
I pretty much play most the games I play thanks to the recommendations of others. IndieGAF has really made this process a lot easier.
Wait does self publishing = no curation?I know we've been hearing how great "self publishing" is since Sony announced they would be allowing it and devs all over the world rejoiced.
Form a game devs perspective self publishing and other non restrictive policies from platform holders are great. They allow you the get your game on the platform without worrying about politics/business
Form a console gamer standpoint, self publishing just allows an abundance of trash to fog up the game store standing in the way of the truly special games.
The way things are going now, the X1/PS4 online stores are gonna end up like iTunes or steam. And thats not a good thing. Your gonna have to sift through 99 copies of flappy bird, just to get to Limbo 2. The crappiest games will find tricks to make it to the top of the list, while some really good games will go unnoticed. This is somewhat acceptable for steam and mobile game customers because part of the magic is playing through the games and discovering the good ones. Console gamers have become accustomed to sitting down and playing quality games, there is no time to try out countless indie games just to make it to a good one.
I'd much rather have it where only proven/very promising games were allowed on consoles. Let them get their weight up on iphone/PC before they jump to the big time.
Seems like everyone jumped on the "self publishing" bandwagon without really thinking about what it means from a consumer standpoint.
Thoughts?
Yeah, but we are gamers, not the majority of people out there. So no shyt we're going to play games on whatever platform we can get our hands on. We game regularly. Its normal. My mom plays doodle jump and flappy bird. She doesn't play fukking Limbo. And she sure as hell isn't going to own a Xbox 360, so why would her tastes and people with tastes like hers be reflected on there?
It doesn't make any sense, breh. Everyone owns cell phones. Most of those people download bullshyt on them. And a minority of those people are actually "gamers" aka people who own a console or play on steam/whatever. It is not the case with the gaming consoles. People don't buy PS4's and Xbox One's to play doodle jump. Even the casual console owner plays shyt like Madden or Call of Duty.
This might be worse than the Ryse/Uncharted comparison.
great games always shine through, its not some bs like the music industry where the worst artists somehow win, gamers have to spend their time playing these games, gamers game for a purpose Meach...Players are going to play what they want to play in the gaming industry....
geeez....
Since Smooth's untimely passing I promised myself I wouldn't get into these arguments again.....But I don't think he would have wanted it that way
Evoking his name? How so...I dont know what everybody else does but i wasn't disrespecting him at all
Now about these games that go unnoticed...
Name them, name the games that are so great that we know nothing about.
