Posts by Sentura

  • Taylor's Tat

    Quote from Nerve

    I will not disagree that good stuff is made in Unity, but man some things in Unity really is a pain in the ass and are really ugly, like their terrain in example.


    I've seen loads of awesome Unity terrains. I love this: http://www.paladinstudios.com/2013/07/05/bui…ty-part-1-of-3/


    Great work Taylor


    It looks like pretty much all other Unity terrain? I don't disagree that you can put a lot of style onto a terrain (especially when you modify the shader), but for the most part it feels like putting shotgun makeup on an ugly face.

  • Xbox One

    You can change your strategies all your want, but if you don't end up making money you can't drive a business. The games industry is still just that, an industry. It doesn't owe you anything, you pay for what you would like to have/see/experience. Your demographic might not be central in all of this, which is exactly what I meant by the entitlement argument. In many, if not the majority of cases of today's most mainstream video games, none of us are the target audience anymore. So if we expect ourselves to be we're just going to get disappointed. Whether you think it is morally right or wrong is irrelevant, because it will happen regardless. Which brings me back to the first point about changing strategies: Why would people change strategies if they are already profiting from the way that they are doing things? Any potential investor or publisher doesn't care about where the money is coming from, as long as there is a lot of money coming.


    I don't disagree with the notion that it is "evil" in the sense of corporate greed, but the only way you can change the minds of publishers is to show them an even bigger pile of money.

  • Xbox One

    IMO then developers should voice their concerns to higher-ups. But even so you can't just complain about it and expect it to change. I'm not necessarily in favor of it either, I miss the time where you could get a game and an expansion and that would be it. But if the current model overtakes that in terms of financial gain, then there's no reason to revert to an earlier stage. If I had my own company I would know to do things differently, but then again I would consider my way of doing it a niche and not what would be expected.


    The bottom line is, if a majority of people financing the games are buying into microtransactions and dlc, then you have one of two options: Don't buy games that enforce this, or create a new standard where you will get even more financial gain than with microtransactions and dlc. Unfortunately it is not likely the latter is going to happen anytime soon, so the best you can do is just to not buy into the former.


    I also think there's an issue here with entitlement; that some "gamers" feel entitled to being fed an entire experience for whatever amount of money. I think it might be time to admit that the games industry is heading towards a point where the old school game players are not necessarily the target demographic anymore, and where that role is being filled by new teens/tweens, fratboys and gamer dads. I'm guessing this is why people from the AAA industry have begun to break off and become "indies" (but not really) and are making their own things because they don't feel validated as the demographic for the games they are making. I would probably do the same if I happened to be working on Halo 15 or Killzone 27. There is only so much a guy can take.


    My personal prediction for what's going to happen is that we'll begin seeing such a disparity between AAA and indie games that a new category is bound to form. The in-between games that are neither AAA but at the same time they are not indie. In essence, people who want a niche fulfilled from the AAA industry but at the same time have the means to get funds to create it as they see fit. I'd like to call these "A" games - not AAA, and not indie. I think the first Kickstarter games we've seen (Obsidian, InExile, Robert Space Industries) will fall into this category naturally, and with their success I can only predict that it will be an established category by the time we hit 2020.

  • Xbox One

    You can't really blame people for making money off of people. If someone wants to pay that much for microtransactions and all that, let them. The best you can do is not support what you don't want to see.

  • Taylor's Tat


    That level is not nearly hard enough


    Good work though, looks really cool and professional. Who would have thought I could say that about the Unity engine?

  • Steam Holiday Sale Discussion and Recommendations!

    Quote from blackdog

    Sentura: my ex collague i worked with on the mobile games with told me he got RoTT but he wasn't satisfied, reason being "it's too indie, you can tell". Does it make any sense? O.o


    Not really no? I think there's a lot of apt critique for the game, but the last thing I would call it is probably too indie.


    Either way, instead of listening to others and especially since you already bought it, why don't you just try it yourself? What does my, presumably biased, opinion matter in this?