Episode: Adventures in Gaming

3/2/2016

The Dungeon Crawlers Team returns for the 2016 years with three shows each week to fulfill your geek wants and needs with shorter running times. On this episode the Dungeon Crawlers Team talked about the Oscars, the upcoming D&D movie, Pokemon’s 20th anniversary, RPG’s, Gaming, the Star Wars games that never saw the light of day and has the concept of storytelling been lost in today’s video games?

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Jen

3/2/2016 12:31:37 pm

One of the problems with video games now days boils down to how much money it takes to make a AAA level game, such as Battlefront. A game with that level of realism in the art, and the powerful engines they run on take years and millions of dollars to make. A game like Fallout probably had a similar development budget to the movie Force Awakens. Problem is, most video games will never make back the kind of money that a hit movie will. I think the Twisted Metal game on the PS3 had a fairly modest budget, sold pretty well, but still took almost three years to break even.
A huge thing that gets great, creative, narrative driven games put on the backburner is that the producers and the people with the money don't want to take a chance on over a hundred million dollars. Frankly, I don't blame them, cause if I had that much cash I wouldn't be throwing it away on something that wasn't a sure thing.
Right now the best games are being made by indie developers that can put a lot of focus into the story. Often times they are also beautiful games, though not of the same type as a Destiny or Battlefront. Bastion and Transistor are two great games that are very driven by a unique storytelling style, and gorgeous art. But the hyper realism that some of the AAA titles have just isn't going to go along with a great story until it either costs considerably less to produce that quality of game, or until the producers holding the money are more willing to take chances.

Episode: Adventures in Gaming

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