About 6 months back the 'buzzword' in the gaming market WAS 'Episodic Gaming'. And for a couple of weeks the buzzword has turned into 'Episodic Gaming is a Failure'. First Ritual was acquired by MumboJumbo as their 'precise' plan of Episodic Gaming didn't work. Now Valve is putting more and more delays for it's release of EP2.
Here's my very personal take on this very issue:-
"Episodic Gaming can only be maintained if it can be served to the consumers IN TIME. The developers have to forget any previous ideologies of 'W.I.D.' when they are working on episodes. Either you do it this way, or you DONT do it at all".
The main problem in episodic gaming is to strike the quality with such tight deadlines. On the other hand if the developer is strictly maintaining the deadline, the quality would be something like one of those episodes of an 'Ekta Kapoor TV Series'. I do not completely dislike episodic ideologies, but there are things that needs to be maintained. Maybe it would take some time for developers to figure out the perfect balance so it can be maintained.
Anyways here's the source of the original information which is a bit old by now.
2 comments:
wht bout god of war 2/3??
GOW2 is in development. Check out this preview:- http://ps2.gamespy.com/playstation-2/god-of-war-2-divine-retribution/706099p1.html
Though it's a PS2 preview.
To be frank I never got some free time out to 'get' and 'play' GOW. Everybody's saying it's really good. Maybe I should try it. :)
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