Games for the older audience
Richard Fabian <[email protected]> Mon, 2 Jan 2006 13:52:44 +0000
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------=_Part_4958_4045801.1136209964332 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline Seeing as how we all had quite a start a year or so back when we found out about the "new age of games players" (that being the 25-35 year olds..) you'd have thought that we'd have actually tried to make some games that appeal to this audience a bit more. I class games such as GTA as being in the 18-35 year old bracket, but apart from this, i find that each person i know over 25 has found that they have = a genre that they particularly like, and have stuck with it. Each genre obviously is ageless, and that is probably where half the sales are going for the older audience, but what i want to know is: why aren't there more games that suite everyone like the GTA series? is it simply because GTA is all games that are grown up in one bag? or is it that we just haven't "seen= " any other games like it yet? MMOs are big, but the number of kids online is causing the more mature players to leave or at the least get a bit annoyed. What kind of games do you think we could all add to the mature market scene= ? Its just one of those things, I've been playing GTA:LCS, and thinking that the PSP is a great platform for the older audience who want to sit down for few minutes (15-30) and do a couple of missions, and also its much more portable than a PS2, so i'd be tempted to leave the PSP in the car to play whenever i went out for lunch / picked kids up from wherever. The problem for me is I can't like games like Lumines (a great game, just not my cup of tea), and i love big games like GTA3+, and GT4. Not really obvious "burstability" games... oh well, hope that we move away from PSP new speak soon... ------=_Part_4958_4045801.1136209964332 Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline Seeing as how we all had quite a start a year or so back when we found out = about the "new age of games players" (that being the 25-35 year o= lds..) you'd have thought that we'd have actually tried to make some games = that appeal to this audience a bit more. <br><br>I class games such as GTA as being in the 18-35 year old bracket, b= ut apart from this, i find that each person i know over 25 has found that t= hey have a genre that they particularly like, and have stuck with it. Each = genre obviously is ageless, and that is probably where half the sales are g= oing for the older audience, but what i want to know is: why aren't there m= ore games that suite everyone like the GTA series? is it simply because GTA= is all games that are grown up in one bag? or is it that we just haven't &= quot;seen" any other games like it yet? <br><br>MMOs are big, but the number of kids online is causing the more mat= ure players to leave or at the least get a bit annoyed.<br><br>What kind of= games do you think we could all add to the mature market scene?<br><br> Its just one of those things, I've been playing GTA:LCS, and thinking that = the PSP is a great platform for the older audience who want to sit down for= few minutes (15-30) and do a couple of missions, and also its much more po= rtable than a PS2, so i'd be tempted to leave the PSP in the car to play wh= enever i went out for lunch / picked kids up from wherever. The problem for= me is I can't like games like Lumines (a great game, just not my cup of te= a), and i love big games like GTA3+, and GT4. Not really obvious "burs= tability" games... <br><br>oh well, hope that we move away from PSP new speak soon...<br> ------=_Part_4958_4045801.1136209964332-- ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you grep through log files for problems? Stop! Download the new AJAX search engine that makes searching your log files as easy as surfing the web. DOWNLOAD SPLUNK! http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=7637&alloc_id=16865&op=click _______________________________________________ Gamedevlists-design mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/gamedevlists-design Archives: http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?forum_id=556