Do Consumers Want Original Games?

Posted by simoniker on Sunday August 24, 2003 @07:07AM from the doom-and-gloom-the-new-black dept.

Thanks to GameCritics.com for their 'Critical Hit' editorial discussing if consumers are actually interested in buying groundbreaking/unique videogames. Giving the example of Sega's PS2/DC shooter, Rez, the author asks: "United Game Artists' answer to the cries of gamers looking for those new and original games was largely met with ambivalence by those very same gamers.... Why is Sega, or any publisher for that matter, obligated to support a game or games that no one is interested in?" The article concludes: "...how do you criticize the industry when it produces these games yet consumers repeatedly flock to the likes of Square's, Konami's and Capcom's sequels and rehashes?"

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Re:Actually, I'd like even *more* similar games by WaKall · 2003-08-24 10:23 · Score: 2, Informative

Go get Ikaruga for GameCube. Best shooter I've played in years, and it's top-down to boot. You have a control stick and three buttons, the gameplay is simple in description (shoot, dodge/block shots) but VERY difficult in practice.

Best of all, you'll start cursing the game once you get to the high levels, it gets so hard.