[GD-Design] Games for the older audience

[Richard F. <ra...@gm...>]

Seeing as how we all had quite a start a year or so back when we found out
about the "new age of games players" (that being the 25-35 year olds..)
you'd have thought that we'd have actually tried to make some games that
appeal to this audience a bit more.

I class games such as GTA as being in the 18-35 year old bracket, but apart
from this, i find that each person i know over 25 has found that they have =
a
genre that they particularly like, and have stuck with it. Each genre
obviously is ageless, and that is probably where half the sales are going
for the older audience, but what i want to know is: why aren't there more
games that suite everyone like the GTA series? is it simply because GTA is
all games that are grown up in one bag? or is it that we just haven't "seen=
"
any other games like it yet?

MMOs are big, but the number of kids online is causing the more mature
players to leave or at the least get a bit annoyed.

What kind of games do you think we could all add to the mature market scene=
?

Its just one of those things, I've been playing GTA:LCS, and thinking that
the PSP is a great platform for the older audience who want to sit down for
few minutes (15-30) and do a couple of missions, and also its much more
portable than a PS2, so i'd be tempted to leave the PSP in the car to play
whenever i went out for lunch / picked kids up from wherever. The problem
for me is I can't like games like Lumines (a great game, just not my cup of
tea), and i love big games like GTA3+, and GT4. Not really obvious
"burstability" games...

oh well, hope that we move away from PSP new speak soon...