Comments on: Is Facebook one of the Four Horsemen of the Gaming Apocalypse? http://www.anjelsyndicate.org/2009/12/23/is-facebook-one-of-the-four-horsemen-of-the-gaming-apocalypse/ Tue, 29 Jun 2010 18:56:40 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: uberVU - social comments http://www.anjelsyndicate.org/2009/12/23/is-facebook-one-of-the-four-horsemen-of-the-gaming-apocalypse/comment-page-1/#comment-313 uberVU - social comments Fri, 25 Dec 2009 15:32:17 +0000 http://www.anjelsyndicate.org/?p=117#comment-313 <strong>Social comments and analytics for this post...</strong> This post was mentioned on Twitter by AnjelSyndicate: New #AnjelSyndicate Article Up! - Is Facebook one of the Four Horsemen of the Gaming Apocalypse? - http://bit.ly/8yS1sl #Gaming... Social comments and analytics for this post…

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]]> By: Jeff Brown http://www.anjelsyndicate.org/2009/12/23/is-facebook-one-of-the-four-horsemen-of-the-gaming-apocalypse/comment-page-1/#comment-305 Jeff Brown Wed, 23 Dec 2009 06:11:08 +0000 http://www.anjelsyndicate.org/?p=117#comment-305 I've heard of people (and some friends) say they don't play some games because the graphics suck. The friends that have said this really aren't considered 'gamers' to my standard. It sucks hearing someone say that because there are so many games out there where the gameplay makes up for the lack of graphics. I guess there's two sides to every argument and I don't know the direction everything will move. Big franchises are going to remain on top with shiny graphics, while up-and-coming juggernauts like Farmville and such are taking a whole different approach. I’ve heard of people (and some friends) say they don’t play some games because the graphics suck. The friends that have said this really aren’t considered ‘gamers’ to my standard. It sucks hearing someone say that because there are so many games out there where the gameplay makes up for the lack of graphics. I guess there’s two sides to every argument and I don’t know the direction everything will move. Big franchises are going to remain on top with shiny graphics, while up-and-coming juggernauts like Farmville and such are taking a whole different approach.

]]> By: skynes http://www.anjelsyndicate.org/2009/12/23/is-facebook-one-of-the-four-horsemen-of-the-gaming-apocalypse/comment-page-1/#comment-304 skynes Wed, 23 Dec 2009 05:31:59 +0000 http://www.anjelsyndicate.org/?p=117#comment-304 My thoughts are that gaming is advancing too fast to keep up with itself. Compare the cost of developing a game a decade ago to now. An increase of like 1000% easily. In some cases more. And for what? Shiny graphics? We could learn something from the movies here, shiny effects don't make a good film. People are still going back to classics like the original Star Wars trilogy, Aliens and Ghostbusters cause those were damn good films. Yet movies like 2012 get criticised as being pretty with no substance. Games are taking the same path. The big name games are all safe. The sequel, the franchise, the clone, the guaranteed sale. But really what does FIFA 2010 have that FIFA 2009 doesn't? Or 2008? Or 2007? What does social site games mean? Will the industry crash? I don't know. I'm not a business analyst, I couldn't possibly predict that, where I to guess I would say we're seeing the result of trying to rely solely on very expensive development when the consumer base isn't large enough to sustain it. What I am sure of is that more people playing games is a good thing. Having games more accepted as a pasttime is a good thing. There are people playing Farmville and Cafe World that would never touch a game normally. This is a good thing and helps to make games more accepted among the masses where there is still the fear and taboo of games being these awful things that turn children into murderers. My thoughts are that gaming is advancing too fast to keep up with itself. Compare the cost of developing a game a decade ago to now. An increase of like 1000% easily. In some cases more.

And for what? Shiny graphics? We could learn something from the movies here, shiny effects don’t make a good film. People are still going back to classics like the original Star Wars trilogy, Aliens and Ghostbusters cause those were damn good films. Yet movies like 2012 get criticised as being pretty with no substance. Games are taking the same path.

The big name games are all safe. The sequel, the franchise, the clone, the guaranteed sale. But really what does FIFA 2010 have that FIFA 2009 doesn’t? Or 2008? Or 2007?

What does social site games mean? Will the industry crash? I don’t know. I’m not a business analyst, I couldn’t possibly predict that, where I to guess I would say we’re seeing the result of trying to rely solely on very expensive development when the consumer base isn’t large enough to sustain it.

What I am sure of is that more people playing games is a good thing. Having games more accepted as a pasttime is a good thing. There are people playing Farmville and Cafe World that would never touch a game normally.

This is a good thing and helps to make games more accepted among the masses where there is still the fear and taboo of games being these awful things that turn children into murderers.

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