Is Sid Meier Still Alive?

[child of Thor]

The industry has changed, it doesn't make games for me or you anymore(or rarely does). Its about making games for the chavs+their playstations these days - street racing games, movie tie-ins, bling bling gangsta games, pick-up/put-down games etc.

So imho guys like Sid have had their day in the mainstream market. We will still get the odd genius who gets through the publishing net evey now and then, but the days of good(or what you're refering too as) games+designers is fast becoming a fading memmory

we're Doomed

[DrSpike]

Wow, someone got out of the wrong side of bed this morning.

[child of Thor]

I'm just feeling Bkeelas pain, and had my opinionated view to hand

[Shogun Gunner]

The Civ franchise, and all the variants, is too big to fade away. It will live on in some form. Civ4 will likely sell more copies than any previous version of the line. I don't believe "the day" has passed by Sid or the genre.

[DrSpike]

Yes, let's be optimistic until we have reason to be otherwise.

[Skanky Burns]

No, let's be pessimistic until we are forced to do otherwise.

[Shogun Gunner]

Maybe, let's be balanced until we are convinced to do otherwise.

[child of Thor]

http://www.quartertothree.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=16577

an interesting thread for this discussion

Still give it another 5years and we'll see if were still getting a Civ designed and published for pc etc or if by then it will coming out on console first(minus the 'complexity' because the console public can't handle it), with a pc port version later

But in the interest of being balanced i think we can make a difference, and this is by not supporting the awful 'chav' games when they come out

[DaShi]

Re: Re: Is Sid Meier Still Alive?

Originally posted by Urban Ranger
I don't see Black and White as innovative. It's just the next installment in the Populus franchise.

How so? Black and White was mostly about the creatures on a real time game background. I don't remember creatures in Populus.

[DrSpike]

Plus, Populous was decent.

[DaShi]

True dat!

[hexagonian]

Originally posted by DrSpike, Skanky Burns, Shogun Gunner
Yes, let's be optimistic until we have reason to be otherwise...No, let's be pessimistic until we are forced to do otherwise...Maybe, let's be balanced until we are convinced to do otherwise.

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