Budgets of games

Lode · 2009-07-02T03:16:33

Game development teams get bigger and bigger, and the budgets are as big as those of movies now. This is a huge factor of larger cost for developing games, than in the past. But, for single player games at least, this huge factor only increases the quality of what the human senses get in the game (the detail of maps, the graphics, the audio and music, realistic models and voice dialogues, ...). However, for me, the graphics and audio quality make up only a small fraction of what makes a game good (fun to play, replay value, the "want" to continue playing, ...). That what makes a game fun to play hasn't increased the last 20 years. Mario, zelda, Unreal 1, Wolfenstein 3D, Tomb Raider II, StarCraft, etc.., are all examples of games that are very good for me. I don't see an increase in fun to play, games of today are not "better" than games of 10-20 years ago, except that the cost of developing them was much bigger. Who cares how many triangles the monster you shoot has, in Doom I and Doom II the monsters were really rewarding to kill (thanks to good sounds of both the monster dying and your weapon), few games have been able to achieve that (except serious sam 1 and SE). Do you think the multi million dollar budgets on games are well spent these days?

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Started by Lode July 01, 2009 07:01 AM

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July 02, 2009 03:16 AM

Quote: Original post by RaskellIf you were to take any one of those games and do nothing more than dress them up in the best modern day graphics and audio, they would completely fail next to the latest and greatest games of today.

Hmm, actually I was thinking they WOULDN'T fail! I would like to see some old games remade with newer graphics, and some additions to levels here and there. It could be pure nostalgia, or it could be that gameplay really is just as good if you take th e graphics to the same level.

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