Comment on At Gamescom, it felt like the industry now has a plan: make games quicker | Opinion
ampersandrew@lemmy.world 22 hours agoWere you around to play games 20 to 25 years ago?
Comment on At Gamescom, it felt like the industry now has a plan: make games quicker | Opinion
ampersandrew@lemmy.world 22 hours agoWere you around to play games 20 to 25 years ago?
vane@lemmy.world 18 hours ago
Yeah living my last 25 now.
ampersandrew@lemmy.world 18 hours ago
All that to say that adapting to trends creates genres and results in honing in on better versions of the original idea. There will be bad versions along the way, but it’s good to get that much iteration. We used to get that much iteration.
vane@lemmy.world 14 hours ago
I don’t think corporate is able to follow the idea. It’s politics. If they follow the idea the idea must come from their boss. It’s just buzzwords to me.
ampersandrew@lemmy.world 13 hours ago
Fortnite is a still-very-visible version of this exact concept. They were able to iterate quickly. Mostly because they just adapted their dud of a horde mode game into a completely new genre using the same mechanics, but they still did it quickly and found that success. We’re also seeing it in the likes of Getting Over It, Lethal Company, Vampire Survivors, and plenty of other games that spawned imitators.