When I was first thinking of writing an article on Indie Games, I was thinking "You know, if anything sucks about the industry; it's indie games." Then I realized that... games now-a-days are what suck in general and that the few Indies that I HAVE played were generally awesome: Dust, Bastion, Braid, Super Meat Boy. To me these games are EXACTLY what we need in this day in age with the garbage that publishers keep trying to shovel out to us like we're some cattle that just enjoy the same slop we get every day.
With the 40th Street Fighter that plays exactly like the previous game, the 10th Call of Duty game, all the copycat games, all the reboots... It's refreshing to see a game where the developers literally had to put their life savings into, they put 14 hours of every day, they lost their girlfriend, their child died of loneliness... Just so your game is released on time and what is the end-result? Quality.
We gamers generally have the best ideas for games. How many times do you say to yourself, "Man, if I could make a shooter, I'd do _____ and make ____ happen and---"? Now imagine that actually HAPPENING and saying to yourself "Well, I gotta sell my car to make this happen". It just means that YOUR ideas will be put onto paper, YOUR ideas will drive you and NO ONE can tell you that they aren't good enough. This is something that I believe the industry desperately needs, in an era where graphics hail over content and everything is reused; afraid to take a chance.
What gets me is though, is that Xbox, Steam, and all these... really do a poor job advertising what could be an amazing game. And the fact that most Xbox Indie games are covered by all this garbage of Advertisements, screens, and just a really poor layout, it just shames me to see such an era of gaming where developers can bloom from nothing... are being hindered just to further advertise useless fucking DLC that no one should buy like Mass Effect 3 DLC with MORE GUNS, YAY AWESOME, GUNS. For example, Protect me, Knight is an Indie game with a ton of imagination where you protect a princess from a screen full of monsters. And level your characters further to battle. GOOD LUCK FINDING IT THOUGH.
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I'm coming to have a firm appreciation for Indie RPGs. Not all of them that I've played have been good (Legend of Grimrock and Torchlight 1 sank everything they had into gameplay and have absolutely nothing that would stimulate your higher mental functions in any way, for example), but the ratio of quality Indie RPGs I've found has been much more favorable than the ratio of quality RPGs published through "real" companies, particularly recently.
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