Path: chuka.playstation.co.uk!news From: "Peter" Newsgroups: scee.yaroze.freetalk.english Subject: Re: Dreamcast: Dead, Sega: Unstopable Date: Thu, 1 Mar 2001 01:54:26 -0000 Organization: PlayStation Net Yaroze (SCEE) Lines: 56 Message-ID: <97k9tb$i7g4@www.netyaroze-europe.com> References: <97gcoq$j2f3@www.netyaroze-europe.com> <97gvqg$j2f4@www.netyaroze-europe.com> <97ji4i$7e1@www.netyaroze-europe.com> <97k42h$i7g2@www.netyaroze-europe.com> Reply-To: "Peter" NNTP-Posting-Host: host213-1-129-178.btinternet.com X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4522.1200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4522.1200 The games industry has become very much like the movie industry in an alarmingly short space of time. The same stuff churned out time after time, same story different pictures. But I guess there is only so much that can be done when all the designers have the same 'shootit-stabit-driveit-fuckit' mentality. God I wish someone would change the formula so we could have games that challange our perceptions of the world we live in. (It'd probably piss me off no end but at least it would be interesting! ;) As for the 'GameCube vs PS2 vs X-Box' debate, maybe this'll bring back some memories 'Commodore64 vs Spectrum vs Amstrad' or maybe even 'Amiga vs Atari-ST'. Each machine appeals to a different demographic, the important thing is not who 'wins' or 'loses' but whether we end up with a monopoly. If the PS2 becomes too dominant all the developers will be making 'casual player' games and then porting them to the other machines because this way they stand to make the greatest amount of cash. If that happens original games go out the window. Thats why DirectX and the Yaroze etc are so important, it gives idiots like us a chance to play around and experiment. Its just a shame that the industry doesn't take the kind of contributions we can make seriously. Hence why we end up with such lame tools and cakky APIs, I want to write games, but that doesn't mean that I want to write rendering engines and collision detection routines and...Does the word 'middleware' ring any bells?!! Rant over. Sorry =) Hugz, Pete "Brian Baird" wrote in message news:97k42h$i7g2@www.netyaroze-europe.com... > "Max" wrote in message > news:97ji4i$7e1@www.netyaroze-europe.com... > > Is it just me or does anyone else feel like the industry is in a major > > slump? The fact that Sega have fanished off the hardware market is only > the > > start of it. > > Start of it? Look at the financial figures for any major publisher in the > last 12 months.... > > > There have been no games out recently that I have seriously wanted to own. > I > > have money in my bank and I'm really trying to save it just now but > usually > > Guess it depends what you're looking for - I'm suffering from a total > surplus of great games... > Do you have a Dreamcast? > > > >