@Joe80, dont' get me wrong, i totally agree with you: i often feel almost ashamed to be labeled a gamer seeing how many 'casual' games are there that I see no interest in whatsoever... and i don't mean just like genres i don't like: i may not be nuts about car games and do try to avoid war games and never play sports games BUT I totally see amazing quality titles in those genres that i can respect in terms of production value, technology and even artwork & content... but there's these games out there these days that make me totally go like non gamers: "what strange and weird timewasters"... still if people like it, who am I to say they're wrong.
So in short i feel quite like you if i understood you right, but i can only hope that a larger industry means more oportunties too. I keep making paralels to books: while printing a book was a big deal the odds of some obscure writer cutting through with something like say Discworld or Pandora were low, but now when theoretically anybody with a passion can self publish I can only hope that out there ... still, in this example too i see an echo of what you said: for example these days great writers might have moved onto games or movies despite the many oportunities in books, because the audience has moved too.
In the end I'm afraid that as we grow and mature so do our expectations, and the general media doesn't really: there will always be the need and success of the shallow cheesy say romance movie, because there's always young people to super admire that even though the veterans of the medium have already seen 100 titles like that and wished it would be spun deeper and more complex. So on average i expect like 1-2 titles a year that i really like, and every 2-3 years a title that moves me to the point where i keep playing games hoping all games were like that
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dont' get me wrong, i totally agree with you: i often feel almost ashamed to be labeled a gamer seeing how many 'casual' games are there that I see no interest in whatsoever... and i don't mean just like genres i don't like: i may not be nuts about car games and do try to avoid war games and never play sports games BUT I totally see amazing quality titles in those genres that i can respect in terms of production value, technology and even artwork & content... but there's these games out there these days that make me totally go like non gamers: "what strange and weird timewasters"... still if people like it, who am I to say they're wrong.
So in short i feel quite like you if i understood you right, but i can only hope that a larger industry means more oportunties too. I keep making paralels to books: while printing a book was a big deal the odds of some obscure writer cutting through with something like say Discworld or Pandora were low, but now when theoretically anybody with a passion can self publish I can only hope that out there ... still, in this example too i see an echo of what you said: for example these days great writers might have moved onto games or movies despite the many oportunities in books, because the audience has moved too.
In the end I'm afraid that as we grow and mature so do our expectations, and the general media doesn't really: there will always be the need and success of the shallow cheesy say romance movie, because there's always young people to super admire that even though the veterans of the medium have already seen 100 titles like that and wished it would be spun deeper and more complex. So on average i expect like 1-2 titles a year that i really like, and every 2-3 years a title that moves me to the point where i keep playing games hoping all games were like that