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Re:Releasing an indie game on 3 consoles at once and failing... by spywaregorilla on Monday June 19, 2023 @11:06AM (#36391901)
You can only play so many small narrative focused games before you realize they're pretty boring. Especially if you're saying they have few art assets. People say these things are great, but part of that appreciation is for the novelty of a game being so stripped down and devoid of gameplay that it feels interesting.
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Re:Releasing an indie game on 3 consoles at once and failing... by aleph_minus_one on Monday June 19, 2023 @12:14PM (#36392768)
> You can only play so many small narrative focused games before you realize they're pretty boring. [...] People say these things are great, but part of that appreciation is for the novelty of a game being so stripped down and devoid of gameplay that it feels interesting.

I honestly like this kind of games (and buy copies of them). But as far as I am aware (I read quite some articles about this topic) such games typically have a very small audience that is highly positive about such games. This means: such avant-garde games, if they are good, do have their niche of people who will buy and highly praise them, but outside of this group, which is quite separared from other types of gamers, hardly anybody is interested in such games. In other words: you will sell some copies and get great ratings if the game is good, but you won't sell very many copies.

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Re:Releasing an indie game on 3 consoles at once and failing... by strken on Monday June 19, 2023 @05:17PM (#36396590)
I really like narrative games and don't think they're boring, but the ones I play have hundreds of thousands of words of dialogue paired with reasonable gameplay loops, e.g. Failbetter or Spiderweb Software rather than critically acclaimed walking sims.
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Re:Releasing an indie game on 3 consoles at once and failing... by spywaregorilla on Monday June 19, 2023 @07:28PM (#36397750)
those games are not small narrative games. they're fairly large. I've only played sunless sea, which, tbh, I thought was dreadfully boring. I would have liked just reading the narratives but the forced tedium of sailing combined with ease of death was awful
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