Denis Dyack's Quest For A New Game Biz

Just weeks after Too Human producer Denis Dyack confronted the folks at 1up, he's now talking to Gamasutra about many of the same topics, and seems to be pining for a very different games industry. Specifically, Dyack takes exception to the whole concept of incomplete games being seen by the press, the large and now-deceased glitz and glamour version of E3, and the enthusiast press in general. His big complaint seems to be that enthusiast press folks want things to be good. "I guess I'm really against the whole notion of the enthusiast press. Being so enthusiastic that they want things to be good. I think if our medium is going to become mainstream, and we're going to be considered an art form, we need true critics like the movie industry or even the music industry where people go up and literally critique something, and it's a profession to critique it. In order to critique something, it has to be done."

Comments

If???

[sqlrob]

I think if our medium is going to become mainstream

Gaming does better than the movie box office and it's not mainstream yet?

Accept mediocrity or outright incompetance?

[SpacePunk]

"I guess I'm really against the whole notion of the enthusiast press. Being so enthusiastic that they want things to be good. I think if our medium is going to become mainstream, and we're going to be considered an art form, we need true critics like the movie industry or even the music industry where people go up and literally critique something, and it's a profession to critique it. In order to critique something, it has to be done."

Yeah, the nerve of anyone wanting things to be good. Hell, we should just be glad the installer runs... kinda. When I buy a game, I expect it to be crap, and I'm upset when it's not. I always complain when my order at the local fast food place is correct, and the last time I purchased a vehicle I insisted that it be as fucked up as possible. Yeah, that's the ticket.

SNAFU

If I want to see art, I'll go to a fucking museum or fancy pants gallery. If I want to play a game, I expect it to work. When I open a box for a board game I expect it to work. When I install a computer game, I expect it to work. I know, I know... I'm a nervy kind of guy that wants things to work, and work well. If this guy were talking about the traditional game industry and said something like "Hey, people expect too much if they want play money for monopoly to be in every box!", we'd all be looking around and thinking "what the fuck?" As we should be now.