“Do we really choose what to play?” This was the focal point of the panel held during Termoli Comics by OldGen, the quintet formed by our dear Karim Musa (aka Yotobi), Quei Due Sul Server (organizers and creators of the fair), Sabaku and Fraws.
Hundreds flocked to Piazza Vittorio Veneto to watch the show.
The kids touched on many topics, so we will provide you with a brief summary.
The market is so saturated with big names and pretentious franchises that finding the niche pearl is now very difficult.
The ultimate goal of the production companies is to create a product to reach as many people as possible so very often you find a bit of everything, with nice graphics and so on. Only after the gamer acquires the right maturity, the same one that makes you realize the actual quality of a good or bad game, can he then have the curiosity and initiative to go and look for other genres, a bit like you do for music.
But how do you manage research without making it boring or tedious?
By making that a game too.
Spotify uses a system where it suggests radio channels that contain music similar to your tastes, and it would be good to develop a system like that.
But how do you fight the obsolescence of systems and games themselves? Fighting it is almost impossible ; we are still talking about technological progress which is a phenomenon that has always revolutionized and overturned all our habits. At the same time, however, it is not right to have to rely on emulators and third-party sites to be able to obtain old systems even just to be able to replay a game that is dear to us.
