Should crowd funding for games be used just as a preorder ?

So i have been on sites like kickstarter and indiegogo and backed a few projects and i have noticed development of games fall into these categories (there are probably more though)

Development from scratch perhaps with concept or a idea that is either so new or based on something that most publishers would not touch such as pillars of eternity, kingdom come or project nimbus. This i am a fan .I get the games i really love  and do not see but because they are starting from scratch the community can often help and influence the design.

Games that have been started perhaps the basic engine is there and design but they either do not have the man power or budget to finish or perhaps it is just a few people working in there spare time so it is taking to long like with grim dawn and beasts fury. Again i can get behind this same as before you see the game grow.

Games that need the final polishing off .Game is near enough complete but due to lack of funds they do not have quite enough to get the game finished like project giana. Now this i am not to a big of fan of and while in the end it is more likely you will get a finished game what you see pretty much is the finished project nothing much will change.Community feedback will not alter what we see in the game as it is to close to completion. Now granted most of these type of projects only just make there budget but i would like to see if those games got far more money then requested they would push the development back to improve it more.

Now that final one i mentioned there is also some games that i really wonder why they need a kickstarter as they plan to release them so soon after funded one example was slain which was funded last month and planned to be released very soon.

In the end i feel funding games purely to act as a preorder is not really in the spirit of what it was set up for i feel some are just using the sites to act as there advertisement for it.

When in a takeaway i noticed something

when i saw the photos of the food it stuck me someone must have taken these photos

Then it got me thinking do people have a career as a food photographer ?

Are there courses you take to do that ?

Of course in the end the finished food looks nothing like the photos so i wonder if there photoshopped aswell ?

Is it ironic when ?

You trip over a sign saying mind your step ?

You crash into a sign saying thank you for driving carefully through our village ?

Antibiotics make you feel sicker then the bug you have ?

A cat blocks your view of the monitor while you are trying to watch a program about cats ?

A fortune teller has a sign saying closed due to unforeseen circumstances ?

A weatherman sets the date for his wedding and it rains ?

Having a meeting to discuss if they should have meetings ?

Being late to a meeting about the importance of time management ?

Workers at a bakers want a rise ?

Things i see in Games crowd funding i hate and a tip at the end

1. Lackluster pitch video. Which shows to me no effort or worse no pitch video at all.

2.Ties in with the first one but i would say lack of effort with details of the game or how they budget it and general lack of information.

3.When funded you do not actually get the game. I was surprised as i actually had seen a few games where no matter how much you donated you do not get the game you either got a beta version or a demo. Of course they changed that so you did get full games but that is a mistake should not have been made.

4. Companies with no history. When you put money into a project with a developer where they do not show a track record i really feel they have to show the company and the people and what they have done before.

5. Multiplayer only or focused. Now i am not a fan of multiplayer but i think having that as the main feature is a bad idea for starters not everyone can play multiplayer but everyone can play single player. Plus you have the added cost of running servers.

6.Wrong priority for stretch goals.This is something that does bug me a bit. While art books and orchestral scores and releasing it on other formats may be nice i still think they should put all the money into making the game as good as it could be.And worse then that is when they put stretch goals up high that should have been in the game anyway. Also would say do not put stretch goals into the project until it is actually funded or close to being funded.

7. Very soon releases. Seen a few games where the release of the game is actually very soon after funding has finished. You can see a few games on kickstarter where there due for release before the end of the year and i have seen some games where they plan to release a few months after funding. I have mixed opinions about that first i feel there more likely to be released as progress is already well under way. But my issue is if the funding was alot more then requested they will stick to that release date and will not push it back for improvements.

8. Pixelated look. It has really been done to death now and i fear a lot of  developers are using it as a quick way to make a game rather then a design aesthetic i want HD art. But then you have a game like dust the elysian tale which has great HD art and it was done by one person.

9.No promotions . If you just leave it advertised on indie gogo or kickstarter it is asking for trouble i would say go to as many sites as possible to get them to promote it. If you have a budget for it then pay for a PR company to help out.

10. Before you put the project up for funding go to as many websites and people first and ask them opinions before it goes live. I have seen lots of projects that have died on the first impression and even when they went back to fix it was to late.

Could PC gaming really take off ?

As i have said before i do not follow consoles or computers i just go where the games are. And i have noticed past few years pc gaming has taken up a lot of my time.

First you have steam/origin/gog.com and some of the deals i have seen have been far cheaper then console games

Then you have the backward compatibility while granted you are not going to run everything on windows 7/8 a lot of games have been patched to work and you could always try installing xp.

But the thing that makes me think pc gaming is going to get bigger is you are getting games that i never would expect come to pc the amount of fighting games that are out now and are coming soon but then you have games from japan such as the newer final fantasy/dark souls/even a metal gear solid. And then of course you have the modding issues can be fixed and games can be improved beyond what the developers did.

In the end i just hope pc gaming continues to grow  

A couple of gaming Youtuber’s that should be massive

I really like to promote youtuber’s who i think should be a lot bigger as i enjoy there content a lot either for there banter or the shear amount of effort put in.

First up is retro core now i was a fan of his website before he went to you tube the mount of effort he puts into videos is amazing here are a couple of vids

Next is banjo guy ollie a guy from ireland who does cover music and retro games very entertaining

So i would say if you like please sub to them if you do not like still share as i am sure they can be big

i am a casual gamer that plays hardcore games

I do not have a huge amount of patience so i would play games perhaps complete (but not often) and move on to the next one.

But the games i play are definitely not casual blazblue/final fantasy series/baldurs gate/the witcher/godhand. I notice however i never get that good at them i may get to a level where i can do ok but there is no game i can say i am a master at

To give a example with fighting games they have often have challenge modes where you have to complete a certain combo and on average i can probably do 50 to 60% of them but i find my skill level tops out there now i am sure i could do better but will probably take far more hours then i am prepared to put in

So really it is just i play hardcore games casually  it takes a rare game for me to try to master it

Just a few things that make me chuckle

I wonder why with fortune teller hotlines they never call me ?

I phoned a wedding dress shop and it was engaged.

Saw a sign saying caution school children so i said to a child be careful

There was a sign saying traffic calming ahead but i was still angry

Someone on a buy and sell forum  just had down Age 3 €10 boys bundle .I think selling kids is wrong though

When i worked at a call center tried to talk someone through computer things i said click on the bottom left of the screen they asked “your left or my left”

Someone worked for cadbury’s i thought that was a sweet job

Why reviews should get rid of the scores

I have never been a fan of scores for reviewing games reason being i think games just fall into these categories.

Excellent : One of the best games of its type with little flaws.

Good: Has a few flaws keeping it from excellent.

Good if you like that type of game : Would often be for sports  or specific genres that while doing it fine is nothing new.

Average: It has some good things has some bad will pass the time but probably will never play again

Bad : Basically anything that is below average where the bad outweighs any good

And of course there are variations on that such as Bugged: Need to wait for patches before buying. And one play though that regardless of quality is only good for one play through.

I just think that gives more use then a simple score would

If you can wait buy games at discount

Over the past few years something has been happening a lot and its infuriating.. You buy a game (usually digital) and then within a month the same game is discounted.

And for me recently i decided to save a bit of money by going for a years gold membership and what was announced today….price cut for xbox gold.

And its happened with so many games now thing is for me dunno if i am just unlucky but seems to happen within a week of me buying a game.

And i preordered under night in birth and its on its way but it got a digital discount BEFORE THE GAME WAS RELEASED.

In the end if think they should do something for people who bought the game within a certain period of buying.