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Technology Stocks : GTIS - Will it be a Phoenix or not ?
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To: Mister Pink who wrote (1826)3/26/1998 11:11:00 AM
From: RJC2006  Read Replies (2) of 2319
 
<<<I'm not sure I would go this far about game companies in general. Entertainment is big business. I think the problem is that no one is doing it *right*.>>

Then it sounds that you agree with Buddy. To me the problem isn't that no one is doing it right but rather too many people are doing it wrong. I review games so I get a myriad of packages and half I send back to the editor and tell him not to bother. If I can't say anything good then I don't bother with it. What I have noticed is that no one game company's product line is completely bad but rather almost every game company puts out a couple of products that are truly inventive and then bury them under an avalanche of clones and non-sense. For me I have been able to play any game out there on the Cyrix 150+ with a 4 meg graphic card. Quake II is a good benchmark. If you can run that game well then you are probably good to go for at least a couple of years. Where the industry stumbles is in relying on technology rather than story to sell its wares. I look at Lucas Arts offerings and I see a product line that isn't hardware intensive and yet the background of most of their games holds your interest. I look at SSI and there is a perfect example of a couple of good buried under a pile of mediocre. Imperialism I really thought was good but then you look at WarWind and Final Liberation and the old cliche "been there, done that" springs to mind. Most gamers are intelligent. For some people, logging on to a computer is daunting so playing a game usually interests computer literate people and yet many game companies produce elementary school material.
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