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~Games Today
The State of Games Today- An Opinion
I have been using computers for about fourteen years, starting with
a Spectrum and moving onto an Amstrad CPC and now a 120 MHz Pentium.
I use them for serious reasons and for playing games.
But it is not the state of computers I want to talk about, it is the
state of games today. There appears to be a widely held view that
while graphically games have improved massively, thereÆs no denying
that they have, gameplay has suffered and that older games whilst
graphically inferior had greater gameplay, and that games have
become more expensive. All this seems to feed into a retro gaming
feeling where an Arcadian golden age of games existed when every
release was chockerblock full of gameplay and would keep you playing
for months on end, and all for a tenner. While it is true that games
were cheaper, there was just as much dross around then as there is
now.
The gaming scenario we are now in is one of change and constant flux
caused by the availability of more powerful machines, which is an
exciting situation to be in, but there will be an awful lot of
graphically beautiful but horrendous games coming out. It is up to
the games buying public to single out the quality games from the
games that should go straight into the bargain bucket, and to not be
taken in by slick visuals and advertising.
As for prices the software companies are going to charge what they
think they can get away with. Remember they are not producing games
simply for the fun of it, theyÆre in it for profit, and they were
trotting out the same reasons for increasing prices as they did ten
years ago when the Amiga and ST came out, which were increased
development, distribution costs, and piracy. Admittedly these
reasons may be true to a point, but I have noticed that whenever
there is an increase in affordable hardware while the hardware
prices tend to come down the software prices have gone up. Once
again it up to us the software buying public to exercise our right
not to buy products that appear to be overpriced.
Anyway that's enough rhetoric happy gaming.
(Dominic Corby)