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Originally Posted by darthmaul
The move to capture the mass market has already started. More games being made towards the casual audience... do you like that move so far?
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PW, Layton and other made a tight approach and proved.
They used DS potential and userbase, too bad the westernerz failed on that front too, made only ripoffs and bad ports.
Now they should target nextgen too, with proper investements and standard quality, not for old fans but explore new fans and potential market too.
2 years back we were discussing the bad situation of brawlers and oldschool games(on other hardcore bralwers forums). And we had same frustration what you guys feeling now. Why they don't make quality retro style games now?
What happened later , since last year, Gamedevelopers made tremendous efforts to bring 2D retro gaming back with quality , and people again got hooked and they proved hit.
Bioniccommando, top quality with coop, tight music and what not, sold nuts.
Sf2HD mix, proved hit.
SF4 announced , sold 2.4
Mkvsdc
Soulcaliber
Samuraishowdown sen
Oboromuramasa, outstanding visuals and gameplay on wii,
TvC on wii
blazblue
Kof12 , nothing comes close
boy and his blob
splenkur
cave shooters, soldnerx, trine, fatrpincess and more PSN/XBLA titles that revived oldschool retro arcade gaming in HD. So we fans are more than happy now.
My point if missed is, that developers took stance, they woke up and went for it, other developers when saw potential, followed them(it gave them hope) and now its IN which it WAS NOT, it was almost dead, specially brawlers, now this year has become year of fighters and they are selling in hot numbers too, due to matching standards of ONLINE and HD(at the very least).
So same for dead adventure genre, if it has to rise... do something drastic or be happy with B&B types and keep calling them experience of lifetime.
One more thing , since console market has better share, and PC is doomed with piracy, developers should look for console adventures, i hope syberia will do good. PSN could be a good bet, to try the potential like 2D retro arcade gaming is doing.
