BLOG PIECE: Kickstarter and the mini-revolution

[freddy_farnsworth]

Hello !

 

If I did this for money, it would cease to be fun, would turn into a job..

No thank you.

 

freddy

 

Work for Free, Sure !

 

 

[Saggaris]

I must say I'm really looking forward to the new 'ELITE DANGEROUS' game, the development of Frontier from one of the biggest names in space gaming in the 80's and 90's.

[RAMpack]

I have never been so excited about niche games being made such as Star Citizen and Elite 4. However there is cause to be wary of suits messing up kickstarter, see this ultra pessimistic blog post from the bold Rab Florence. http://effingarcade.tumblr.com/post/36277287313/molyneux-and-f*#@ing-kickstarter

[AlekseyRaukov]

Amount of people that got Skyrim because of modding/modding tools is really small. Modding is sometimes good and there are good mods out there for some games. But modding itself is not redeeming factor. Skyrim is good game without or with modding. I cant see modding as some PC game savior sorry. (I think that PC gaming is doing fine if not even better than consoles atm)

[Korodic]

Might I also recommend a game I recently invested in...

 

http://www.indiegogo.com/starforge

 

I made a post about it not too long ago. Awesome dev's pushing good ideas, something we should all encourage developers to strive for. Interesting article, less business means better gains for us as well as the developers.

[JimboUK]

People should treat these things as donations and never give what they can't afford to lose.

 

Amount of people that got Skyrim because of modding/modding tools is really small. Modding is sometimes good and there are good mods out there for some games. But modding itself is not redeeming factor. Skyrim is good game without or with modding. I cant see modding as some PC game savior sorry. (I think that PC gaming is doing fine if not even better than consoles atm)

 

Over time PC sales will catch up as the hardware required to play the game becomes cheaper, people are still buying Morrowind.

[JanusForbeare]

@jore666: Then you haven't spent enough time on the forums (I see that you joined in 2007, but with 144 posts I have to assume you've mainly used the Nexus for the mod database). That's not a critique or a jab at your expense, just a suggestion that you might not have seen how strong the appeal of mods can be. I can't count how many people have posted questions about modding preceded by something along the lines of, "I played Skyrim on the X-Box/PS3, but decided to get the PC version so that I could use mods".

 

Granted, Skyrim is okay unmodded (at least for one or two playthroughs), but the appeal of modding has encouraged a sizable number of gamers to choose the PC version over the console version, even when it means paying for a game they already own.

[kitwitissues]

I had Skyrim on PS3, but when I saw how awesome some of the very early mods were, I gave that copy to a friend and bought the game brand new again for the PC, so I could Mod it.

[Deleted3462236User]

" I can't count how many people have posted questions about modding preceded by something along the lines of, "I played Skyrim on the X-Box/PS3, but decided to get the PC version so that I could use mods"."-JanusForbeare

 

Well I actually bought a new PC and Skyrim just for the mods. Now I never touch a gamepad.

 

And that game Sui Generis looks good, but I would never be able to remember or spell that name.

Edited November 26, 2012 by Guest

[volnaiskra]

I doubt Sui Generis will be any good. I get the sense that the staff have greatly underestimated what it takes to make a good story and an engaging, atmospheric world. Just having a great engine and some strong opinions on what they DON'T like in typical RPG stories is nowhere near enough. Yet that's all they've demonstrated last I checked. Still, the engine itself NEEDS to see the light of day, at the very least so that some other devs can get their hands on it. Which is why I pledged to Sui Generis weeks ago, despite having little faith in the game itself.

 

 

 

@rusty559: You really should consider going back to using a gamepad for Skyrim. I've never owned a console in my life - I'm about as PC as a gamer can get - but I much prefer playing PC Skyrim with my gamepad. It's designed for it, and on the whole I find it to be a superior experience.

 

I think it's a mistake to lock yourself to one control scheme because you think that's the 'proper' PC control scheme. That kind of limitation is not what PCs should be about, and it's actually more of a console mentality.

 

I myself own 5(!) different control peripherals - mouse+keyboard, razer nostromo, gamepad, wheel, wacom - that I use for different games, so that I always get the best possible experience. Only the PC can give give me that kind of power, flexibility and choice. Not by coincidence, that's exactly what's so great about PC modding: it gives PC gamers power, flexibility, and choice. That's what PC gaming is about, IMO.

 

/end of rant

 

Edited November 26, 2012 by volnaiskra