RE: [GD-Design] Indie games?

[Ivan-Assen I. <as...@ha...>]

> Of course, but that genre is a bit more realistic. Players 
> don't demand state-of-the-art multithreaded texturewhizbangs 
> with Cg and THX 6.3 sound in a teratexel DVD engine. Only 
> games with no real playable content need that. :)

Ummm, do you want a digest of the "graphics" sections of Celtic Kings
reviews (by the way, published by the aforementioned StrategyFirst)?
"outdated", "AOE clone", "not up to modern standards", "plain", etc...

Not having a whizbang teratexel engine costs you automatically on the
order of 10 (on a 100 scale) in review score.