It's so enlightening to read what nerds have to say about things they know absolutely nothing about, namely marketing and how big corporations work. The new formats are not DOA. How can a movie company market a piece of digital information? They can market a disk package easily, but how do you market something that only exists entirely as nothing tangible. Has this idiot ever walked into a Mall and seen DVD sections in department stores? You see that's how MOST people buy things.Most people aren't techno wizards, and most importantly never will be. There's this stupid notion among computer people that one day everyone will be like them. Not happening. Most people want to do things the way they've always done them, and large companies wnat them to do that because they sell more that way. Saying the new formats are DOA simply because there is better technology around is naive and ignorant. We've had the technology to send a manned flight to Mars since the early 70s, so what?
At least it wasn't the vice president grabbing her crotch! LOL I only ever went as a journo, not as part of a big group of employees, that would have been much more fun:)
An article like this could have been written about every year since 1999. Big deal, while the big players develop themselves into oblivion self publishers and garage game developers are doing great things regardless. Who cares what the big publishers do? F**k 'em.
God I'm really starting to hate this s**t. Every intellectual gamer out there seems to think they have to come up with some great theory about something so that they don't feel guilty about being a 'gamer' "yes I'm a gamer, but look, I've got this great theory about how alternate reality gaming makes your cock turn into a vagina" Fantastic! Just what gaming needs, another twat who thinks it should be turned into a philosophical battlefield. I DONT CARE IF WOMAN DO OR DON'T PLAY GAMES!!!! I DONT GIVE A SH*T!! There are real issues out there in the world to care about, whether or not women play games ISNT ONE OF THEM!!! Pull your heads out of your arseholes and get some perspective.
The only console I know of that was sold at a profit was the failed 3DO machine (which is why it failed) 3DO didn't have any software companies and very stupidly thought they could make money from the consoles, which in turn made them cost like $AUS800 or something like that. All consoles are sold at a loss to get a many of them in homes as possible. This is ancient news and nothing new at all.
It means that it is still a non-mainstream industry! As soon as everyone understands and accepts gaming it will become as boring, banal and mundane as Hollywood. Viva La Difference!
BTW Games are also a direct competitor to Bruckheimer's style of TV, he may not like that.
Totally, I'd love to see the John Carter of Mars series done LOTR style! These days hollywood just steals from it's own past. And complains loudly when ppl pirate the results. They should be grateful that enough ppl are interested to want to steal their crap.
These two innovative strategy series had me hooked for ages and gave me lots of fun times. The Fallout games were great too, but to the guy who mentioned them I don't think they count as underrated games dude, they both sold very well and are highly regarded in RPG circles. Another unsung classic has to be Joint Strike Fighter, the funnest flight sim ever, Terra Nova showed what Mech games could be without the limiting shackles and baggage of the dreadfully overused Battle Tech Universe. Battle Tech ruined the Mech genre by making ppl think that's all it was. More recently Vietcong (and now sadly Vietcong 2) was overlooked even though it was even more immersive and atmospheric than call of duty.
Who on earth in their right mind would want to bring MORE mainstream people into gaming? The one3s we've got now have already ruined it enough. Who is this moron that thinks going more mainstream is a way to improve the games industry? Mainstream music = shite, mainstream movies = shite, mainstream anything = shite. It's trying to appeal to the lowest common denominator, the mainstream, that has made recent games so bland, predictable and boring. SO the answer is to make them even more bland, predictable and boring! Brilliant. The idot ramblings of the crazy lady that lives behind my apartment are more worthy of reportage than this idiot.
Ah of course, it's pixels that look like women that have been the cause of all their problems. I mean back before we had sexist games, and movies, and TV shows and radio programs women lived in a utopia where they frolicked hand in hand with gay compliant men dressed in floral printed smocks and floppy hats. No one ever exploited them or treated them badly back in the good 'ol days. It wasn't until the media came along that women's lives became a drudgery of washing dishes and sucking cock all day. Heck I've seen it happen myself. I watched an innocent young girl play Mario when he had to rescue princess whatsername, and before I knew it that poor little girl was begging to wash dishes and suck cock. Shocking.
What a genius, the internet hasn't peaked! Gosh, I wonder if it took him a long time to figure that out? Especially as the majority of people don't even use it yet. Again, what a genius. By the way, in case you doubt this guy, it's the same person who told us that the sun is still up in the sky and that people fall back down after they jump in the air. The guy is an f**ing GENIUS!!!!!! I wish I could have his babies. If only I had flown to Korea to hear this guy, the man has BRAINS with a capital B! I'm keen to hear his speech on why water flows downhill and why rooms go dark when you turn off the lights, should be just as insightful and magic as this one.
I don't think anyone would plan a tour like this deliberately to cancell it and make a bit from fees, anyone who thinks that is a bit paranoid and conspiracy obsessed. These people simply didn't realise that you actually need an experienced professional to organise a concert tour, not a few refugees from the games biz. They didn't hire a real tour organiser or tour manager and suffered the consequences, as did the paying fans.
Does anyone out there want to pay me a monthly fee to come and fix my fences and feed the cattle? Online farmers eh? Maybe solve the problem by walking up to them realy close and suddenly screaming at the top of your voice ARE YOU CRAZY, GET A F*ING LIFE!
Unfortunately you get one in every area, in every walk of life and this Costikyan guy is the Idiot of Indie Gaming. Where the hell does he get off saying that no one has 'got it right' until he came along, what a WANKER. There are plenty of succesful indie developers and publishers selling directly to the public. Have a look at most of the MMOG's out there Greg YOU IDIOT. Bad mouthing everyone else in indie game development is hardly a contructive way to go about trying to promote indie gaming, moron.
That's what a blog can do to a person already overburdened by an overstuffed ego. Make them think that they're some kind of legend whose every utterance is gold. Guess what Greg, I wrote an article almost identical in subject matter and conclusions to yours, except I did it TEN YEARS AGO in 1995. TEN FUCKING YEARS AGO! Does that make me ten times more legendary and cool than you? MORON.
Ego's like yours are NOT wanted in Indie games development, why don't you go and get yourself a gameshow or something?
if you send me the exact measurements of your wang I can build a contraption that will clamp the unit to it with elongated metal spikes and several rubber bands that are guaranteed to cut off your circulation. Not only will your Wang be multimedia capable but the unit will also double as a contraceptive!
E3 has ALWAYS been like this, this idiot must think that there was some 'golden age' or something. So there are too many ppl to let him do his job, boo hoo. What he doesn't tell you is that these days with video conferencing, broadband distribution of demos and extensive online access to material no one really needs to go to E3 to do their job. I have been covering E3 extensively for the last three years, from my house in Bondi Beach! Wanker
Games journalism is retarded, it has no sense of it's own history or continuity. People say the same things over and over again. I wrote an article like this a decade ago, only better:)
Yes BER-MAN must die. I have repeatedly sent his address and personal schedule to Al-Quida, Al-Jamir, the IRA, the Sandanistas, the Triads, the Yakuza, the Mafiosi and the International Tuba Players Association to no avail. If anyone out there knows how to get within arms reach please smear him with honey and I'll supply the killer ants. Or maybe a quick furtive push at the right time could see him under a bus or other equaly dangerous heavy, fast moving object. I heard talk of Babylon 5 creator J. Michael Unspellable getting his job, that would be kewl.
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It's so enlightening to read what nerds have to say about things they know absolutely nothing about, namely marketing and how big corporations work. The new formats are not DOA. How can a movie company market a piece of digital information? They can market a disk package easily, but how do you market something that only exists entirely as nothing tangible. Has this idiot ever walked into a Mall and seen DVD sections in department stores? You see that's how MOST people buy things.Most people aren't techno wizards, and most importantly never will be. There's this stupid notion among computer people that one day everyone will be like them. Not happening. Most people want to do things the way they've always done them, and large companies wnat them to do that because they sell more that way. Saying the new formats are DOA simply because there is better technology around is naive and ignorant. We've had the technology to send a manned flight to Mars since the early 70s, so what?
At least it wasn't the vice president grabbing her crotch! LOL I only ever went as a journo, not as part of a big group of employees, that would have been much more fun :)
An article like this could have been written about every year since 1999. Big deal, while the big players develop themselves into oblivion self publishers and garage game developers are doing great things regardless. Who cares what the big publishers do? F**k 'em.
God I'm really starting to hate this s**t. Every intellectual gamer out there seems to think they have to come up with some great theory about something so that they don't feel guilty about being a 'gamer' "yes I'm a gamer, but look, I've got this great theory about how alternate reality gaming makes your cock turn into a vagina" Fantastic! Just what gaming needs, another twat who thinks it should be turned into a philosophical battlefield. I DONT CARE IF WOMAN DO OR DON'T PLAY GAMES!!!! I DONT GIVE A SH*T!! There are real issues out there in the world to care about, whether or not women play games ISNT ONE OF THEM!!! Pull your heads out of your arseholes and get some perspective.
The only console I know of that was sold at a profit was the failed 3DO machine (which is why it failed) 3DO didn't have any software companies and very stupidly thought they could make money from the consoles, which in turn made them cost like $AUS800 or something like that. All consoles are sold at a loss to get a many of them in homes as possible. This is ancient news and nothing new at all.
It means that it is still a non-mainstream industry! As soon as everyone understands and accepts gaming it will become as boring, banal and mundane as Hollywood. Viva La Difference!
BTW Games are also a direct competitor to Bruckheimer's style of TV, he may not like that.
Totally, I'd love to see the John Carter of Mars series done LOTR style! These days hollywood just steals from it's own past. And complains loudly when ppl pirate the results. They should be grateful that enough ppl are interested to want to steal their crap.
These two innovative strategy series had me hooked for ages and gave me lots of fun times. The Fallout games were great too, but to the guy who mentioned them I don't think they count as underrated games dude, they both sold very well and are highly regarded in RPG circles. Another unsung classic has to be Joint Strike Fighter, the funnest flight sim ever, Terra Nova showed what Mech games could be without the limiting shackles and baggage of the dreadfully overused Battle Tech Universe. Battle Tech ruined the Mech genre by making ppl think that's all it was. More recently Vietcong (and now sadly Vietcong 2) was overlooked even though it was even more immersive and atmospheric than call of duty.
Who on earth in their right mind would want to bring MORE mainstream people into gaming? The one3s we've got now have already ruined it enough. Who is this moron that thinks going more mainstream is a way to improve the games industry? Mainstream music = shite, mainstream movies = shite, mainstream anything = shite. It's trying to appeal to the lowest common denominator, the mainstream, that has made recent games so bland, predictable and boring. SO the answer is to make them even more bland, predictable and boring! Brilliant. The idot ramblings of the crazy lady that lives behind my apartment are more worthy of reportage than this idiot.
Gee another 'insightful' and 'revealing' article about the games biz. Pity it's all obvious, banal and tedious drivel...
Ah of course, it's pixels that look like women that have been the cause of all their problems. I mean back before we had sexist games, and movies, and TV shows and radio programs women lived in a utopia where they frolicked hand in hand with gay compliant men dressed in floral printed smocks and floppy hats. No one ever exploited them or treated them badly back in the good 'ol days. It wasn't until the media came along that women's lives became a drudgery of washing dishes and sucking cock all day. Heck I've seen it happen myself. I watched an innocent young girl play Mario when he had to rescue princess whatsername, and before I knew it that poor little girl was begging to wash dishes and suck cock. Shocking.
What a genius, the internet hasn't peaked! Gosh, I wonder if it took him a long time to figure that out? Especially as the majority of people don't even use it yet. Again, what a genius. By the way, in case you doubt this guy, it's the same person who told us that the sun is still up in the sky and that people fall back down after they jump in the air. The guy is an f**ing GENIUS!!!!!! I wish I could have his babies. If only I had flown to Korea to hear this guy, the man has BRAINS with a capital B! I'm keen to hear his speech on why water flows downhill and why rooms go dark when you turn off the lights, should be just as insightful and magic as this one.
I don't think anyone would plan a tour like this deliberately to cancell it and make a bit from fees, anyone who thinks that is a bit paranoid and conspiracy obsessed. These people simply didn't realise that you actually need an experienced professional to organise a concert tour, not a few refugees from the games biz. They didn't hire a real tour organiser or tour manager and suffered the consequences, as did the paying fans.
Hmm, this "news" is over a week old, slashdot is going to the dogs man. This is crap
So a MMO developer should hire 20 000 ppl to test their games eh? You're a genius mate. The industry needs more people like you to sort it all out.
Does anyone out there want to pay me a monthly fee to come and fix my fences and feed the cattle? Online farmers eh? Maybe solve the problem by walking up to them realy close and suddenly screaming at the top of your voice ARE YOU CRAZY, GET A F*ING LIFE!
Unfortunately you get one in every area, in every walk of life and this Costikyan guy is the Idiot of Indie Gaming. Where the hell does he get off saying that no one has 'got it right' until he came along, what a WANKER. There are plenty of succesful indie developers and publishers selling directly to the public. Have a look at most of the MMOG's out there Greg YOU IDIOT. Bad mouthing everyone else in indie game development is hardly a contructive way to go about trying to promote indie gaming, moron. That's what a blog can do to a person already overburdened by an overstuffed ego. Make them think that they're some kind of legend whose every utterance is gold. Guess what Greg, I wrote an article almost identical in subject matter and conclusions to yours, except I did it TEN YEARS AGO in 1995. TEN FUCKING YEARS AGO! Does that make me ten times more legendary and cool than you? MORON. Ego's like yours are NOT wanted in Indie games development, why don't you go and get yourself a gameshow or something?
if you send me the exact measurements of your wang I can build a contraption that will clamp the unit to it with elongated metal spikes and several rubber bands that are guaranteed to cut off your circulation. Not only will your Wang be multimedia capable but the unit will also double as a contraceptive!
E3 has ALWAYS been like this, this idiot must think that there was some 'golden age' or something. So there are too many ppl to let him do his job, boo hoo. What he doesn't tell you is that these days with video conferencing, broadband distribution of demos and extensive online access to material no one really needs to go to E3 to do their job. I have been covering E3 extensively for the last three years, from my house in Bondi Beach! Wanker
Games journalism is retarded, it has no sense of it's own history or continuity. People say the same things over and over again. I wrote an article like this a decade ago, only better :)
Yes BER-MAN must die. I have repeatedly sent his address and personal schedule to Al-Quida, Al-Jamir, the IRA, the Sandanistas, the Triads, the Yakuza, the Mafiosi and the International Tuba Players Association to no avail. If anyone out there knows how to get within arms reach please smear him with honey and I'll supply the killer ants. Or maybe a quick furtive push at the right time could see him under a bus or other equaly dangerous heavy, fast moving object. I heard talk of Babylon 5 creator J. Michael Unspellable getting his job, that would be kewl.