[gameprogrammer] Re: Interesting commentary for independentgame developers
- From: Chris Herborth <chrish@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: gameprogrammer@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 21 Mar 2005 21:00:18 -0500
Kevin Fields wrote:
> These days, I find myself playing the games I got into 5 - 10 years ago.
> Everything these days is pretty much the same crap in different package.
> Granted, I did buy Half Life 2, but I bought it more for the experience in
> making mods and developing stuff for it. Doom 3, I will probably never even
> look at because it's the same story line as the first one I played. Once
> I've seen the screenshots, the thrill of it is gone.
I bought DOOM 3 the week it came out, and then sold it to someone (at a
loss, *sigh*) the next week because the game-play was annoying me so
much. The entire time I was playing it, I kept thinking, "I'd really
rather be playing Thief if I'm going to look at a dark screen."
I'll probably buy it again at some point though, because there are some
folks doing an awesome Thief-style mod (www.thedarkmod.com).
I'd really love to go the route of Floodgate Entertainment... being able
to do an expansion (Shadows of Undrentide) for an existing game
(Neverwinter Nights) seems like an awesome way to get started. On the
other hand, I have no idea what (if anything) they're doing now.
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Chris Herborth (chrish@xxxxxxxxx)
Never send a monster to do the work of an evil scientist.
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