A reader asks why publishers are obsessed with high-end graphics and complex storytelling when none of the most popular games have either.
I’m sure I’m not the only person that read the Newzoo report this week and had a bit of a shock. Not because it said anything that we didn’t already know, but because it was a real eye-opener to see all of gaming’s problems detailed in such neat little graphs.
There’s a lot to take from it, but one thing that struck me was the list of the most popular games on the various formats. Again, it’s not necessarily a surprise but what would you say are the similarities between the likes of Fortnite, Roblox, Minecraft, Counter-Strike, League Of Legends, Apex Legends, Valorant, Rocket League, and Fall Guys?
They’re all live service games, sure, some of which have been around for a decade or more, but the other thing they have in common is that none of them have particularly impressive graphics – certainly not for a non-player looking in – and none of them have any real story elements.
I’m sure there’s a backstory to all the League Of Legends and Valorant avatars, and maybe some of the others, but like fighting games it’s only going to be hardcore fans that know about that and to everyone else the games are purely about the gameplay and nothing else.
Well, maybe not nothing else. There’re clearly some other similarities, with the top…
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