Originally Posted by Lee in Limbo
I'm pretty sure I said it before in another thread of the same flavour, but while I feel bad for anyone still awaiting payment from TAC, or anyone awaiting the next installment of the Atlantis franchise, over all, I suspect TAC had outlived its usefulness. It really does come down to the fact that they clearly had no real interest in developing and solidifying the future of Adventure Games.
I'm new to the forum so I didn't read any post similar to this but I find your opinion interesting and challenging although I'm not sure I agree with it completely.
Most of the games they published were throwbacks to the kind of games we were playing in the early 90s. Some of them were games I enjoyed greatly; others were a distinct letdown, and meaning no insult to the fans of some of the games I'm thinking of, were also an embarrassment to the genre. Nothing breeds failure more than fostering mediocrity and rewarding failure with more of the same.
I don't undesrtand if you refer to a specific game or series or to a genre of games that you find too obsolete to be created anymore. I remeber the very same discussion related to the Thief series (which I absolute adore expect for the 3rd installment). among the fans there is even now a huge debate over the necessity to develop the upcoming 4th game beyond any imagining or actually go back to the root of the game either in terms of sotryline quality or in terms of care and attention put into the playability of the game. In this case, for instance, I find myself to be quite a purist, a traditionalist and I would never enjoyed a Thief game which betraied and wrongly interterpreted the nature of the series using as scapegoat the "necessity to make it modern" wihtout, therefore, considering all the goodness that would be thrown to the trash. It's beem said all over the net that in the game market there is not space anymore for stealth games andt the fact that they constitute a small nieche reinforces in me the conviction that they need to build up a strong identity and not losing themselves in the ocean of all the other games.
It also does no one any good sacking one amateur studio to put funding into another equally green studio for the next installment. they should have had the courage of their convictions to back a team until it had the product truly ready for the current market, or halted production before costs ran too high.
Either maintain a respectable level of commitment to quality game development, or start selling toiletries, because believe me, those will always be in high demand.
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