Interesting read, I can relate to almost all points mentioned and can only hope this will start circulating around the offices of game-programmers, because some things are just not right from a gamer's perspective. http://www.pointlesswasteoftime.com/games/manifesto.html
Interesting read. Some of the points made are quite valid, while as others are clearly a lack of research on the authors part as to why they occur. None the less, it was some nice food for thought.
In regards to #5, I am tired that every time I turn around there is someone whining about gaming not catering to women or that some developer isn't bending over backwards to please females. I have a game for them I am currently developing. It starts in the kitchen with a pot, a pan, and a stove. It's called Cook Me Dinner Bitch! The game mechanics are very simple. They consist primarily of cooking me dinner bitch. [color=black][size=3][color=#4e644e][size=2][color=black][font=verdana][size=4][color=#4e644e][size=2][color=black][size=1][size=2][size=3][color=#4e644e][size=2][color=black][font=verdana][size=4][color=#4e644e][size=2][color=black][size=3][color=#4e644e][size=2][color=black][font=verdana][size=4][color=#4e644e][size=2][color=black][size=3][color=#4e644e][size=2][color=black] This is a long held myth. Women are already in game design and they are not turning the tide. Adding more of them to the mix won't change a thing. They'll continue to design the games males like since that is where the money is and that is what got them interested in designing in the first place.[/color][/size][/color][/size][/color][/size][/color][/size][/font][/color][/size][/color][/size][/color][/size][/color][/size][/font][/color][/size][/color][/size][/size][/size][/color][/size][/color][/size][/font][/color][/size][/color][/size][/color]
Damn that was a great read. I wish developers would read shit like that and say "He's right about _____".
Are you serious? I hope not. if you are, think about this: Women make up 50% of the population of all humans. So software companies can double their sales by making games that appeal to women as well as men. That's several billion dollars were talking here. Entertainment _generally_ consists of music, games, movies & TV, theater and books & magazines. All of these are enjoyed by both sexes, except games. Change that, and you stand to make a lot of money. And hey, it could be a cooking game, I doubt it, but it could be. Saying that men is where the money is at is ridiculous, it might have been several decades ago, but things have changed. The fact remains that the gaming industry has so far not succeeded very well in marketing their product to women. And neither will you with that attitude.
#12 reminded me of the good ol' days of Goldeneye, when I would kill thousands of enemies in the facility end just to create chaos and pandemonium and explosions. Good times...
Psychonaut, as... improperly executed as your comment was, you have a point. The media do bend over backwards to please the female "demographic" because they control the Spending of money at home. That's why we get Feminazi propaganda, like "according to Jim" or "my Wife and Kids" that portray men as dumb, sex-crazed, dishonest brutes that are always wrong unless they themselves bend over backwards to wise, noble, and smart women's orders. If women were portrayed on TV with that disrespect, I'm sure the Gloria Steiners of today would seriously start a riot. I consider myself an extreme left-wing liberal that seriously sides with gender equality, and that's why this patronization offends me. So yeah, while it's not "make me dinner, bitch", neither is it "give me money and bend over backwards because you're dumb and I control you, dumbass". It should be "whichever gender you are, the whole world should be available to you and nobody should use or disrespect you". Most of my friends are female, but we all have a fuckload of fun playing DOA2 on my dreamcast. My girlfriend plays Sega RPGs and my ex is addicted to old-school 2D, especially super-fami. She kicks ass at platformers. I'd say the female demographic shouldnt control YET another industry just because greedy marketers say so. Gender doesn't really matter. If a game is fun, whatever equipment you find in your pants will not stop you from enjoying it.
More proof that thanks to the internet, one need not have anything interesting to say nor have any sort of journalistic talent to play at being a pundit. Between the regurgitated, years-old greivances against the industry (women in gaming, etc.) and the ridiculous personal opinions presented somehow as feelings of gamers everywhere (crates, the absolutely inaccurate tirade against load times), I found the article to be entirely uninteresting and completely uninspired. Then again, I read it a week ago linked off of some random Livejournal, a place not entirely unfitting for an article of this quality.
I would, but I can't really bring myself to possess the hubris or arrogance to profess to speak for all gamers everywhere.
The only point I STRONGLY agree with is #6 (and if #20 is sarcasm that too). The rest were, uhh, kind of dumb. Oh and Psychonaut, calm yo ass down. You act like you run this place -_-
Well here are my opinions 1. Give us A.I. that will actually outsmart us now and then. No, assassinations and BS would happen and we wouldnt know what hit us. 2. Give us a genre of game we've never seen before. Something that's not an FPS or an RPG or Madden NFL or... There are so many more genres than those 3... 3. Don't bullshit me about your graphics Agree. Certain game companies are so full of shit about their graphics capabilities sometimes. 4. Nipples? No comment 5. And on the opposite side of the nipple coin... Don't care 6. All of the new consoles will have hard drives. Use them. SAVING ANYWHERE ROCKS!!! 7. Loading [Sarcasm]Uh, yeah, load times are so fuckin ghey[/sarcasm] 8. I understand that John Madden was raised by wild boars... WTF? 9. Immersion and the invisible hand of God [SUPER Sarcasm]Yeah, I think a whole universe on a cd can be done.[/SUPER sarcasm] 10. And while we're at it... Sort of makes sense and agree a little... 11. And while we're still at it... None bother me... 12. Don't bullshit us on the difficulty Everything on this list is true, IMO. Talking to everyone in a RPG town to advance is so dumb. 13. Don't bullshit us on the game's features Sounds like a crybaby casual gamer that don't get the "Boom" weapons first. 14. Seriously, get rid of the crates No 15. Stop the Short-Sighted Business Bullshit No comment 16. Don't use the online capability as an excuse to release broken games I never understood this one... 17. Don't let other features distract from gaming Agree 18. Don't use online play as an excuse to bleed us dry I think we are all looking at Halo 2, now. :/ 19. NO MORE JUMPING PUZZLES IN FPS GAMES Those are annoyin sometimes..
Amen to that friend, amen to that! It's good to know there are a few world-wise, collonial, gentlemanly rogues left in the world. Well done good sir. I too am sick and tired of games developers trying to cater to everyone except the gamers themselves. To heck with everyone else. Make games for gamers who play games, and not for anyone else. if other people want to join the party, they can become gamers like the rest of us. Instead of lazy-assed casuals who wouldn't know a decent software title if bit them on the rear end. I thought this topic was actually going to be about the "Scratchware Manifesto" http://www.the-underdogs.org/scratch.php It is well worth reading. Well worth reading indeed! Hell, it's why I'm only interested in retro these days, I can't stand the way the gaming world is today. EDIT: I didn't there was a patent for minigames during loading screens. Who owns it, Namco? I always wondered why early PS1 games had minigames, but later games never adopted that. Such a pity.
Some how i dont think you would be pleased with anything GSL would write if your pleased at that shitty "manifesto".
Any smart person would know that this manifesto is all for shits and giggles. Just read the other articles on that website. It's all for humor. It's that type of "funny because its true" type of humor. I got a kick out of it. At least it wasn't depressing like some of you people seem to be. Lighten up!
