The recent arrival of Dead Island and it's possible roll as L4D2 successor raises the question do we support games over a short term or do we support game styles over the long term? It's likely that Dead Island will be popular for a while but then fade like L4D has? We seem to like zombie games but individual games don't hold our attention for ever.
Once there was CS and that was it, we had a single game to host on a permanent basis. Now there are many multi-player games to consider and they will be popular for a while until the next better, brighter game comes along.
We're happy to update a game within it's own family i.e. L4D to LFD2, Arma to Arma 2 or CoD to CoD:BO. Would it not be an idea to update Dead L4D2 to Dead Island and breathe a bit of life back into the game style. L4D could morph into Dead Island and then maybe Dead Island could become whatever the next zombie survive/evade game that comes along. In a similar way Arma II is our big map - squad based, co-op game. While it's likely we'll drop it for Arma III we might find another game from another developer is far better than the Arma series and move over to that. So to the main point of my waffle...
Maybe we need to think about covering specific play styles rather than specific games. Take the dMr Racers. Rather than being in a Live for Speed section they reside in the Racing Section. They play a type of game and not a specific game. Likewise maybe we could cover play styles rather than individual games in our other sections? Currently we sort of live somewhere between structuring ourselves by individual games and by game types. We play Arma II:OA for example, but does Arma cover just that one game and it's successors or does it cover any huge map co-op war game we might choose to play? If another developer launches a direct competitor to Arma would it go in a completely separate section or would it be wrapped into the Arma section? Should we call the Arma section by that name or is it really the Soldier Sim Section? Do CoD:BO and Bad Company compete against each other of might they be better off living under a single FPS Section banner?
Not sure what I think personally but it's something I've been pondering? So dumb or worth a ponder :g:
Where would carmageddon fit?
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RTS, clearly. :doh:
Tis a fair point Smilo, but I'm not sure we need to limit ourselves to one game per genre. If we get good games I think we should support them, the problem to date has been lack of good games.
Over the last 12 months gaming has evolved immensely.
We have a pool of gamers here but they don't seem to hold their attention on anything new for long.
Yes bc2 and cod are successful but getting anything new going has been a real struggle this past year.
I have quoted my pm to you all that I sent earlier as your post is kinda where I was going I guess maybe the spark to your post ;).
Providing Dead Island has a multiplayer style we can actually use its worth a shot.
A bigger concern is the huge growth in browser/ online free games.
We really need to decide whether we jump on the band wagon or not.
I know battlefield heroes wasn't out cup of tea but i sense this is where games are going and so do many magazines!
QuoteHi all,
This month theres quite a big scope of things to come:
- The extensive growth of free to play games (online games via browser)- is this something we want to explore?
- Brink Trial is up and down hoping to get a game or two going soon.
- Section 8 prejudice wasn't something we wanted to adopt
- age of empires online looks like something a few of our members may like
- Dead Island- replacement for lfd?
- Dirt 3 has a LAN mode- Ninja/ Toby is this something you want to pursue?
- Bf3- further content
- MW3- more of the same do we want to carry on with mw?
- Ghost Recon Online
Thats it for now.
Will send over the magazine when I get a copy.
Regards,
Ghost