Do you hunt and grow your own food? If you don’t, you DO cut your own fire wood, right? Or at least you shift gears manually in your car, because, let’s face it: Super-markets, electricity, and automatic transmission are for sissies.
Oh my, you ARE one of those guys, aren’t you! You like doing things the easy way, taking the path of least resistance. I bet you also play games on beginners’ mode, then!
Working in the german games industry has its quirks. The market here is quite specific, with the PC still standig relatively strong. A lot of german “hardcore” gamers play their games almost exclusively on the platform and they prefer titles of certain complexity – and severity of punishment!
To get the really cool power ups in games, I usually have to be quite skilled to get them. If I’m skilled enough to get them, it’s likely that I’m skilled enough to beat the game without them. If I’m not skilled enough to get them, it’s likely that I’m not skilled enough to beat the game without them.
Since my crystal ball is in the repair shop this week, the following is based more on a gut feeling: My prediction for 2010 is that video games developers around the world will better understand how non-hardcore gamers tick! Well, either that, or they’ll skip out on or waste some money.
Arcade
Arshak Ardeshir
Gustav Ziolkowski
Severin Brettmeister
Andre Beccu
