Sunday, June 10, 2012

Video Game Critics Idea - Developer's Advocate

Fable : The Journey (for Kinect)

The game, Peter Molyneux, and Lionhead Studios is being lambasted by fans for not staying true to the Fable formula.

It would be nice, if when critics have a round table discussing a game, like Fable : Journey, someone among the critics played Developer's Advocate, and tried to assume the perspective of the developers and argue their possible reasoning for their choices (thinking outside the box, hardware constraints, maybe even developer woes, like Peter Molyneux leaving Lionhead, or budget constraints, etc.)

Gamers seem to think that Developers are demi-gods who create games on a whim,and make good games or bad games purely out of pique.

It would be nice if some critics, sometimes argued on the developer's behalf, to round out the whole picture.