When I read a bit my last posts on games I really feel I’m hitting a wall. I know things now, more than I search answers or develop points of view as I was doing previously.
I think I’m pretty sick of the game industry. I go backwards into my rss game feeds folder, just looking quickly.
This is so wrong:
– The awful and crazy stupid story about Edge, the lawsuit and everything. It’s still on.
– The massive layoffs everywhere in the game industry while an ultra realistic game about current wars around the world is making shitload of money with more than 6 million sales in three weeks, proving that behind the marketing and the robust production value, despite a horrible setting and theme, a well paced and balanced game mechanic (linear but freedom is here, hard but life regeneration is here) in an involving view (first person) is just crack cocaïne.
– Seeing that after the bullshit about physics cards they’re trying to bullshit us about the 3D glasses that seem to always sprout headaches.
– About that, seeing the pain in the ass that is to design a game WITH multitouch for anything else BUT the goddamn iPhone (because of that). Android doesn’t support it officially in the US, Win7 is fully multitouch ready but we still search for good devices using it (Zune HD?). And I don’t talk about the console manufacturers and new interfaces. Oh and this year thanks to SF IV and classic vintage game pr0n, the Stick is back for good. It’s an input mess after a pretty stable period of 10 years (gamepad, keyboard/mouse).
– Seeing how this young creative industry is getting as stupid as the others.
– Closer, seeing some talented people thinking (or doing it) about leaving the game business, the game creation and the game design is sort of depressing. People like Jonatan Soderstrom, Olivier Lejade… Valuable people staying in the dark of this crazy industry or people like Petri who as talented and young as he is, does not want to work in the game industry as it is now.
I don’t know where and what to do about it. To quote a wise man,
"How often do you get to be there for a new art form? It’s less than once every hundred years," "It’s ours to fuck it up, and it would just be such an incredible shame for humanity if we did."
2 replies on “Bad times”
There are plenty of other mediums that need incredible sound and you can take that just about anywhere, my virtuoso.
Aw :)
I guess so. The thing is I care about computer games more than any medium.
Computer games are typically the number one entertainment for some generations starting with mine. It’s an incredible medium we need to use better as a creative tool now that we have the basics.