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[jibo]

maybe you should ask to formers employees of Sierra-Dynamix/MicroProse/Origin/Rowan-Empire/Jane's-EA/DID-Rage/MS Games Studios (CFS)
how roomy the niche was
With a shrinking pc market, a ongoing crisis, the rise of no brainer games etc ...
It was hard for everybody, only FPS really made it through.
The different genres are slowly crawling back (apart sub-sim which of course remains underwater) so the youth is progressively rediscovering the joy of a real rewarding game. (other rewards than angry bird stars).

It's nice to see that some good old studios are still in the place (codemasters, the creative assembly, Bioware ...)
There is also a trend of successful revivals (mass effect, soon command and conquer ...)
I was reading a interview of the Japanese lead programmer of Final Fantasy series he said the gameplay hasn't change in 10 years, eventually the market is rebuilding itself on the same basis.
And IL2 will shine for 20 years, can't you hear it approaching, trutrutrutthhhffffffffffff

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Originally Posted by jibo

maybe you should ask to formers employees of Sierra-Dynamix/MicroProse/Origin/Rowan-Empire/Jane's-EA/DID-Rage/MS Games Studios (CFS)
how roomy the niche was
With a shrinking pc market, a ongoing crisis, the rise of no brainer games etc ...

Bingo!

I hope your right about those sorts of game making a come back.. But I free the no brainer X-Box generation will allways outnumber them

[jibo]

oh my bad i forgot Novalogic the guys are still selling Comanche 4 on their website btw

@Ace of Aces some brain cells will never be recovered i agree
consoles are here to stay and the success of ModernWarfare3 with a engine older than the gamers is not a good sign.

I wanted to be a little bit optimistic there is some bright spots.
While we have fewer games available, some of them are the best ever made.
RoF is currently the best WWI game ever made, CoD/BoM will be the best WWII game ever etc ...
while the average quality is tumbling we have several jewels arising and CoD is not the only one. ( latest total war : shogun, comes to my mind)

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Originally Posted by jibo

@Ace of Aces some brain cells will never be recovered i agree consoles are here to stay and the success of ModernWarfare3 with a engine older than the gamers is not a good sign.

So true.. sad but true

Originally Posted by jibo

I wanted to be a little bit optimistic there is some bright spots. While we have fewer games available, some of them are the best ever made.

Agreed 100%

Originally Posted by jibo

RoF is currently the best WWI game ever made,

Yes.. we have come a long way since Dynamix's 1991 Red Baron! But that game will always have a special place in my hart!

Originally Posted by jibo

CoD/BoM will be the best WWII game ever etc ...

Agreed 100%.. And appears it will NOT be limited to just flying.. It has the potential to be the holy grail of games some of us have been talking about for 20+ years.. A game with it's main focus on flight simming, but includes FPS stuff for the targe.. I mean tankers out there!

Originally Posted by jibo

while the average quality is tumbling we have several jewels arising and CoD is not the only one. ( latest total war : shogun, comes to my mind)

So in essence, quality over quality! I can live with that!