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[Holy_Diver]

Even gamesbuiding for dummies says so. The following is a quote from thier book...........
Using old technology
We're not all millionaires, but using old technology and old ways doesn't pay. Try to keep up-to-date as much as possible. Even if you can't afford to get the latest C/C++ compiler or the best 3-D modeler, at least you know that they exist. Maybe you can ask the company for a demo version or an evaluation unit. However, all excuses aside, game development is a high-tech business, and you have to be as up-to-date as possible."

I'm going to have to assume the title of the book is supposed to be read literally. If on the other hand your target demo is not "dummies" whatever esthetic/technology/paradigm you choose for conveying what it is you want to say is utterly of no importance. It's only what you do with that which matters. There are 100s of completely state of the art games produced every year not worth cleaning your toilet with. If the game industry knew how to consistently produce decent games it would have at least 10x its share of affluent people's disposable incomes and most people who grew up with video games would probably never leave the house. But the game industry can't make a decent game if it threw everything it had at it. Therefore all it takes to out do the entire game industry in all it's brilliance is to be able to make one half way decent game from beginning to end that is fun to play.

I play/love PC-88 games. Whether it's music, movies, games (thank god books are immune to technology) I can pull out a f***ing graph that will show you that quality is inversely proportional to technology. Not because technology is bad, but because people are stupid (don't know how to effectively use the technology they have / crave more of it anyway)

Besides I have a feeling, if you held up the revenue from all the new PS3 games available on the PSN (in Japan at least) versus the classic PSOne and PC-Engine games, you'd see that the PS3 games are probably not holding a candle. And people can emulate that stuff if they want but I bet they buy more of it than the new (state of the art) games anyway.

PS: I forgot how posting with IE8 was such a chore. I think I'm going to try to upgrade to SMF2.0 when I get a chance. If that fixes it I will advise Todd to do the same. I saw a forum running SMF2.0 with the old 1.0 theme anyway, which is what I fear most losing.