Ok, maybe it's not forgotten, but when a game has been expected for more than 10 years (Duke Nukem Forever) then...what else can I say? Do you really blame me? After all, it's predecessors are amongst my favorite games of all times. At least all this waiting gives me hope that it'll be one of the best games of the year (that it comes out), if not of all time, and I'm not rating best games by their amount of sales. Commercialism has ripped the gaming industry of most of it's innovation and originality but if you disagree tell me the games that actually have something really original and have become successful in the last few years.
Today the industry that was once ruled by the people who created it, the programmers, has been taken over by the cold and unfit eyes of marketing employees. Where are those who made the world of video games an empire? They are the low employees that are sucked off by corporations wanting nothing more than multiply their revenue in any way possible. Young people see todays games as a motive to become a part of the creation of new ones, but I doubt they really know what the world is really like. Well let me tell you, it's pretty ugly compared to what they probably have in mind. Management has took over and creativity is subject to certain success, in other words if it ain't got a guaranteed profit then you won't make it, your time is our money.
I don't expect this to change. Just like the majority of the world uses windows so is the industry, gaming or not, commanded by corporate managers and marketing. People will buy what is shown to them and today what they see before them is games with top of the line graphics and physics that need a new computer to run on. I guess most of you will know which game tops the list of the aforementioned example as of today. Hey, I agree, graphics and physics are good, but up to a point. I've seen many games with lame graphics compared to today standards and with nonexistent physics but had me addicted for a long time.
Where are those days I ask you, when programmers loved what they where doing and did it the way they wanted to? When people saw more than just the eye candy in games? Maybe the administrator of the-underdogs lost hope and stopped updating that magnificent site on which I got lost for hours reading through reviews and getting glimpses of the glorious past. But, I know I haven't, as long as people will have the need to create and the luxury to do so the way they want even if they get nothing in return I'll still have hope for a change.
These were a few of my thoughts and personal opinions and hopefully not the last to be posted. Maybe some of you will agree, some maybe not, and maybe for some I managed to stir a few thoughts and curiosity. Just an advice: be original people and you won't lose anything
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