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Whenever a new game has just got comfortable sitting in my console and has had it’s fair bit of play, it always seems to want to jump back out by my actions towards it. Now, this doesn’t usually always happen just when the games get comfortable, it happens mostly when I’ve just put the game in for the first time, sat back on my sofa and clutched the controller in my hands.
You’ve seen it all before: The menu screen loads up, your eyes are peeled on the action you are just waiting to hit you and you just keep tapping that same old button to get on with the game. Forget the little movies, you want action my son, so you just keep tapping and tapping that little button. Then the game starts, “okay it all looks cool at the moment I’m really enjoying this” and then suddenly you think “Hold on, go back there a second…what’s going on there, that shouldn’t be like that”.
You can call me not easily pleased but sometimes there’s just little things you would change on a console game which the developer just didn’t think of. And after that you’ll be keeping a keen eye looking out for more extra cool bits you could put in and you find loads. Well, it may not happen to all of you, you may think about it just in your minds, but for me I tell my parents watching me how the game could have been made better and they are like “Yes, ok…Yes, ok”.
No matter how much you shout at that damn screen you will get nowhere, that’s the bad part. Mario won’t wear what you want him too, Snake won’t pop out and dance around like a Baboon and that extra piece of track won’t be put there for you to make a shortcut. Normally it’s not things like that I would change, it would usually be little things which would just make everything seem a bit better or add an experience. Sometimes the things are so little they would only affect me and about 0.01% of the rest of the gaming population.
My praise goes out to the developers of PC games on this one. Many PC games which have been in development have gone through a public Beta stage where normal members of the public who apply to play the game before it hits the shelves do and spot things they want in the game. Then they tell the developer and they think about putting it in. This is much like Playtesters, many of our ideal jobs yet on a larger scale which should be enforce a bit more.
Playtesting on this scale does not happen for consoles. If it did some of our games would have a bit more what ‘we’ wanted and not what ‘they’ wanted. Another thing that would help development would be something like polls online for the public to fill out about what they want in the game or just maybe some way of giving the developer feedback on what the public want from their games.
Then I wouldn’t have to shout at my poor TV so much…
You’ve seen it all before: The menu screen loads up, your eyes are peeled on the action you are just waiting to hit you and you just keep tapping that same old button to get on with the game. Forget the little movies, you want action my son, so you just keep tapping and tapping that little button. Then the game starts, “okay it all looks cool at the moment I’m really enjoying this” and then suddenly you think “Hold on, go back there a second…what’s going on there, that shouldn’t be like that”.
You can call me not easily pleased but sometimes there’s just little things you would change on a console game which the developer just didn’t think of. And after that you’ll be keeping a keen eye looking out for more extra cool bits you could put in and you find loads. Well, it may not happen to all of you, you may think about it just in your minds, but for me I tell my parents watching me how the game could have been made better and they are like “Yes, ok…Yes, ok”.
No matter how much you shout at that damn screen you will get nowhere, that’s the bad part. Mario won’t wear what you want him too, Snake won’t pop out and dance around like a Baboon and that extra piece of track won’t be put there for you to make a shortcut. Normally it’s not things like that I would change, it would usually be little things which would just make everything seem a bit better or add an experience. Sometimes the things are so little they would only affect me and about 0.01% of the rest of the gaming population.
My praise goes out to the developers of PC games on this one. Many PC games which have been in development have gone through a public Beta stage where normal members of the public who apply to play the game before it hits the shelves do and spot things they want in the game. Then they tell the developer and they think about putting it in. This is much like Playtesters, many of our ideal jobs yet on a larger scale which should be enforce a bit more.
Playtesting on this scale does not happen for consoles. If it did some of our games would have a bit more what ‘we’ wanted and not what ‘they’ wanted. Another thing that would help development would be something like polls online for the public to fill out about what they want in the game or just maybe some way of giving the developer feedback on what the public want from their games.
Then I wouldn’t have to shout at my poor TV so much…
I agree that giving developers feedback is hard to do. The only way I have done this is by writing a letter to the developers, and they DO take notice, because I was actually invited to their studio (which got cancelled in the end because other people that were invited couldn't make it). But there definatley be a way of getting our views to the developers other than writing letters!
I was actually thinking a bit about this earlier. Will we ever get to voice our opinions if you know what I mean. You can on PC games, I know you can sign up to Beta test certain games, and then you get to ask for improvements, but in consoles this isn't really the case. Some developers won't want the kind of feedback we'd offer, they'd want the game to meet their own vision if you will, however, many games won't be like this. Especially now that games are increasingly expensive to make, the publisher and developer will want the game to be a hit more often than not, rather than a great game that won't sell. So they SHOULD want our opinions...
Maybe in the future. The near future I mean...
Maybe in the future. The near future I mean...
Whenever a new game has just got comfortable sitting in my console and has had it’s fair bit of play, it always seems to want to jump back out by my actions towards it. Now, this doesn’t usually always happen just when the games get comfortable, it happens mostly when I’ve just put the game in for the first time, sat back on my sofa and clutched the controller in my hands.
You’ve seen it all before: The menu screen loads up, your eyes are peeled on the action you are just waiting to hit you and you just keep tapping that same old button to get on with the game. Forget the little movies, you want action my son, so you just keep tapping and tapping that little button. Then the game starts, “okay it all looks cool at the moment I’m really enjoying this” and then suddenly you think “Hold on, go back there a second…what’s going on there, that shouldn’t be like that”.
You can call me not easily pleased but sometimes there’s just little things you would change on a console game which the developer just didn’t think of. And after that you’ll be keeping a keen eye looking out for more extra cool bits you could put in and you find loads. Well, it may not happen to all of you, you may think about it just in your minds, but for me I tell my parents watching me how the game could have been made better and they are like “Yes, ok…Yes, ok”.
No matter how much you shout at that damn screen you will get nowhere, that’s the bad part. Mario won’t wear what you want him too, Snake won’t pop out and dance around like a Baboon and that extra piece of track won’t be put there for you to make a shortcut. Normally it’s not things like that I would change, it would usually be little things which would just make everything seem a bit better or add an experience. Sometimes the things are so little they would only affect me and about 0.01% of the rest of the gaming population.
My praise goes out to the developers of PC games on this one. Many PC games which have been in development have gone through a public Beta stage where normal members of the public who apply to play the game before it hits the shelves do and spot things they want in the game. Then they tell the developer and they think about putting it in. This is much like Playtesters, many of our ideal jobs yet on a larger scale which should be enforce a bit more.
Playtesting on this scale does not happen for consoles. If it did some of our games would have a bit more what ‘we’ wanted and not what ‘they’ wanted. Another thing that would help development would be something like polls online for the public to fill out about what they want in the game or just maybe some way of giving the developer feedback on what the public want from their games.
Then I wouldn’t have to shout at my poor TV so much…
You’ve seen it all before: The menu screen loads up, your eyes are peeled on the action you are just waiting to hit you and you just keep tapping that same old button to get on with the game. Forget the little movies, you want action my son, so you just keep tapping and tapping that little button. Then the game starts, “okay it all looks cool at the moment I’m really enjoying this” and then suddenly you think “Hold on, go back there a second…what’s going on there, that shouldn’t be like that”.
You can call me not easily pleased but sometimes there’s just little things you would change on a console game which the developer just didn’t think of. And after that you’ll be keeping a keen eye looking out for more extra cool bits you could put in and you find loads. Well, it may not happen to all of you, you may think about it just in your minds, but for me I tell my parents watching me how the game could have been made better and they are like “Yes, ok…Yes, ok”.
No matter how much you shout at that damn screen you will get nowhere, that’s the bad part. Mario won’t wear what you want him too, Snake won’t pop out and dance around like a Baboon and that extra piece of track won’t be put there for you to make a shortcut. Normally it’s not things like that I would change, it would usually be little things which would just make everything seem a bit better or add an experience. Sometimes the things are so little they would only affect me and about 0.01% of the rest of the gaming population.
My praise goes out to the developers of PC games on this one. Many PC games which have been in development have gone through a public Beta stage where normal members of the public who apply to play the game before it hits the shelves do and spot things they want in the game. Then they tell the developer and they think about putting it in. This is much like Playtesters, many of our ideal jobs yet on a larger scale which should be enforce a bit more.
Playtesting on this scale does not happen for consoles. If it did some of our games would have a bit more what ‘we’ wanted and not what ‘they’ wanted. Another thing that would help development would be something like polls online for the public to fill out about what they want in the game or just maybe some way of giving the developer feedback on what the public want from their games.
Then I wouldn’t have to shout at my poor TV so much…