Where Have All The Game Gods Gone?

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Monday June 12, 2006 @04:27AM from the fortress-of-solitude dept.

GameDailyBiz's media coverage article examines the absence of newly-minted 'game gods' from modern design. The article stems from PC Gamer's look back on the occasion of their 150th issue. One of the covers they show off is one proclaiming 'the game gods', well-known designers such as Will Wright or John Carmack. Modern game design, often with large teams, would seem to preclude elevating many new designers to such lofty heights. From the article: "Aside from a smattering of recognizable names like Naughty Dog's Jason Rubin and David Jaffe of God of War, renowned developers don't spring to mind like they once did. Even worse, Media Coverage would have trouble recognizing these two 'game celebs' if they showed up wearing matching shirts that said 'I'm with Jason Rubin' and 'I'm with David Jaffe'."

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Re:Nostalgia Trumps True Skill? by Anonymous Coward · 2006-06-12 05:08 · Score: 0, Flamebait
"I would also say that we, as consumers, are guilty of buying the same old crap over and over (Madden Football, anyone?). "

Welcome to slashdot were...
- Everything the poster doesn't like is "crap".
  The world is stuck in a time warp were we all are still using brick cell phones, and games don't evolve (just what exactly does the poster expect football or other sports to leap into?) Hey! how about Madden 2009 with live grenades?
"The producers know we'll do this and they cater to our needs with mediocre games."

I hear that open source games is changing this with completely original material like Kasteroid and Lbreakout.

"I would wager that today's games are a immensely more complex than games of yore, thus making it nearly impossible for a game to be entirely concieved in one person's head."

Translation geeks don't work well in team environments. Hint it's not the "conceiving", but the execution that's hard.