I recently interviewed Shay Casey, the developer working on the awesome looking Circuit Strike.One and this guy really speaks his mind. It is refreshing as hell to get opinions out of a studio without them being filtered through some faceless PR and marketing departments.
The interview in full will go up soon but here are some choice quotes...
"Honestly, most casual games suck. Not necessarily in quality, but definitely in content, theme, style, substance, gameplay and utter lack of innovation. They are not made for real gamers. They don't have an incentive for putting in the time to learn the rules. To find the combo or best moves. You don't need to improve your dexterity through practice. You just waste away hours on end. No risk. No reward.
Don't even get me started on fucking avatars, does MS think we are all 12 year old girls that want to play dress up. You really have to ask yourself... what the fuck? I would love to own the guy that made this up - in the arena. How much cute can we take? I am personally over the limit."
And also...
"As much as I hate down time I would rather stare at a wall than play Super Sparkle Rainbow Power Pillowfight or the next bad match three clone. Is this the best the industry can do? I still want to frag some noobs and wreck shit, I just only have 15 minutes available to do it right now!"
Somebody get this guy a soap box and a megaphone.
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