tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5979339353366878191.post8413507356714797759..comments2024-03-21T00:16:15.883+00:00Comments on Plot is Gameplay's Bitch: With Fewer Obstacles to Release and Escalating Audience Demand, is PC Gaming Becoming the Realm of the B-Game?Tom Juberthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14570661671387482872noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5979339353366878191.post-83967416442684144362011-03-09T10:03:47.136+00:002011-03-09T10:03:47.136+00:00I love the B-Games competition. I remember one of ...I love the B-Games competition. I remember one of my first ever professional articles as a games journalist was based on a game called cottage of doom that came out of it.<br /><br />http://forums.tigsource.com/index.php?topic=456.0<br /><br />In fact, that game bears more than a couple of similarities to a small project I just signed up to...Tom Juberthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14570661671387482872noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5979339353366878191.post-65525139868290054192011-03-09T07:26:10.510+00:002011-03-09T07:26:10.510+00:00And here is where I meant to put the link to the B...And here is where I meant to put the link to the B-Games Competition page.<br /><br />*http://forums.tigsource.com/index.php?board=19.0<br /><br />Hurray links!Sid Menonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01808222583111622424noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5979339353366878191.post-91998767578321615212011-03-09T07:18:42.087+00:002011-03-09T07:18:42.087+00:00It's a shame that some less-than-AAA devs act ...It's a shame that some less-than-AAA devs act as if less budget = AAA clone released at a lower price. If someone really wants to play Diablo III, they'll either save up or pirate it. The reason people go for games like Torchlight or Din's Curse is that they offer something new/better on top of something familiar.<br /><br />I find it interesting that you used the phrase "new wave" after describing b-movies, since the advent of b-movies is what helped Japanese New Wave films get into theaters in the first place. I don't think the b-movie comparison really holds, though, since budget clones (the term I'd prefer) of big names tend to copy the functional qualities of what they're aping, which is a factor films can't really have without walking a highly risky legal tightrope. Not to mention the fact that plenty of popular games fail to innovate meaningfully, practically feeling like clones themselves. In fact, what I'd consider a b-game is something like the output of TIGSource's B-Games Competition*, a game that does something cheeky with its wonkiness.<br /><br />The creative output that offers something new and interesting (like the film Fighting Elegy or Dinner Date) will be remembered and/or have an impact over a long period of time, but the fluff of the era will fade. It must be odd, choosing to fade.Sid Menonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01808222583111622424noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5979339353366878191.post-24577300318397915842011-03-07T21:06:06.692+00:002011-03-07T21:06:06.692+00:00/End cynical voice
In fairness, some of these gam.../End cynical voice<br /><br />In fairness, some of these games review well in a way that would have been entirely unfamiliar to B-movies of the period, and there are loads of reasons for why we wouldn't have had an identical movement in games, not of which being that we have a far better critical appraisal system in place such that weak product can't sell as easily as it did in the 1930s.Tom Juberthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14570661671387482872noreply@blogger.com