back to an earlier issue
i think the sturgeons (sp.?{yeah, like i care}) law phenominon being more pronoced in video games stems from the fact that it now costs hundred of thousands or millions of dollars to produce a game from start to finish. you're not going to see a lot of ground breaking originality when the price of failure is that high. the movie industry is really similar, before the 1950's most movies were at least watchable if not down right entertaining, nowadays you have things like (ughhh) independence day raking in millions and dozens of other horrible "summer blockbusters" being made a year compared to one, or possibly 2 or 3 "ghost world"s. which brings me to the conclusion, cheaply printed indy black and white comic books, the ratio of garbage to incredibly entertaining stuff is pretty much reversed, almost every title that fantagraphics publishes is really good. i would imagine that the meager sums of money neccesray to publish a comic book (well, comparatively meager) invite creative, artistic, interesting people to make creative, artistic, interesting porducts.
the only way out i see is for all of us to buy macintosh lc5** series (also sold under the moniker of performa) and play nothing but lamprey systems and ambrosia games.
i think the sturgeons (sp.?{yeah, like i care}) law phenominon being more pronoced in video games stems from the fact that it now costs hundred of thousands or millions of dollars to produce a game from start to finish. you're not going to see a lot of ground breaking originality when the price of failure is that high. the movie industry is really similar, before the 1950's most movies were at least watchable if not down right entertaining, nowadays you have things like (ughhh) independence day raking in millions and dozens of other horrible "summer blockbusters" being made a year compared to one, or possibly 2 or 3 "ghost world"s. which brings me to the conclusion, cheaply printed indy black and white comic books, the ratio of garbage to incredibly entertaining stuff is pretty much reversed, almost every title that fantagraphics publishes is really good. i would imagine that the meager sums of money neccesray to publish a comic book (well, comparatively meager) invite creative, artistic, interesting people to make creative, artistic, interesting porducts.
the only way out i see is for all of us to buy macintosh lc5** series (also sold under the moniker of performa) and play nothing but lamprey systems and ambrosia games.