For all the (often justifiable) whining and bitching you guys do about the ever increasing profit driven direction of games, it’s still clear this generation has given us lots of quality games across a variety of genres not seen in previous generations due to technological advances. So many people, especially here on SRK don’t realize or don’t care that in previous generations there were only a few highly anticipated games each year, compared to now where gamers expect to have at least a dozen or so games announced annually to be released throughout the year, and not just during Christmas. Some people here automatically assume any big budget, widely marketed, or otherwise popular game is the downfall of the medium artistically. and while the current generation has created a new host of problems gamers and industry people didn’t have to contend with in previous years, the benefits afforded to us have spoiled a lot of us to the point of not recognizing how much better the medium is now then it was in it’s earlier days.
That being said it’s recently come to my attention how much more satisfying indie games are to me then most of what is offered on store shelves. Sure, there are plenty of people just trying to profit on gamers’ sense of nostalgia but generally, indie game developers seem to understand much more clearly the experiences I crave out of a game, probably because they make games they want to enjoy themselves and I just happen to share their specific preferences. No one will deny the intentional recreation of nostalgia as a powerful intoxicant when making an indie game but it goes so far beyond that, during the black Friday steam sale I was looking through the games and saw so many that made me think “wow that sounds awesome, how come it took so long for something like this to come out?”.
TL;DR: is the steam greenlight thread that no one posts in good enough or do you think a general indie game thread would be a good idea?
