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"Thrasher" <spectre911@hotmail.com> wrote in message 
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> On Thu, 6 Jul 2006 14:56:07 -0700, "Don Freeman" <freemand@sonic.net>
> wrote:
>
>>> A-list developers/publishers don't do space sims anymore.
>
> A-list developers don't make anything worth playing at all, and never
> did. Start-ups make the revolutionary games, and then get bought out
> by "A-List" devlopers (or they evolve into A-List devlopers) at which
> point all the creative life is sucked out of them and they start
> cranking out tedious formulaic garbage that they think they can pawn
> off to 12 year olds and retards.
>
>>>It'll take some  major resurgence in interest among the general public
>
> No, it won't. It's a niche market, as all PC games are a niche market.
> It'll take recognition that niche markets can be profitable.
>
>>> like a block-buster  major sci-fi flick (like the first "Star Wars") to 
>>> maybe
>>>fire things up  again.
>
> Interesting comment, considering the best Fantasy movies of all time
> have come out in the middle of the the longest running RPG drought in
> electronic gaming history, with no impact on aforemenntioned drought
> at all.
>
> Lord of the Rings Trilofy, Harry Potter, etc... did *what* exactly for
> the CRPG genre?
>
> Nothing.
>
>>>I don't think the Star Wars or Star Trek franchises are going to
>>> do it because both are really, IMO, stale.
>
> Of course they are stale. Just like the games are stale. And for the
> same reasons. Nobody is being creative anymore.
>
Well, I can't really disagree with what you say.  Maybe it's just me and 
age, but very few games do anything for me these days.  Not like back in the 
day, when I bought a couple of games a week.  Seems like things were really 
clicking from say about '92 to '98 or so.