So I got to thinking about games communities, Intellectual Property....

[Mamoulian War]

...I think Risen is probably the best effort made from a low budget title, that I have seen in a long time...

 

google Dragon Quest IX sale numbers

[alanschu]

"I didn't like it so I don't care." It's nice that you started a "discussion" and are pretty much throwing your "opinion" around like it's the only one.

 

None of us are innocent of this.

[Monte Carlo]

There are four types of intellectual properties in any entertainment franchise, be it movies or games (etc).

 

(A) (being the most common) - wildly popular but awful commercial, lowest-common-denominator tat. This can be quite good fun now and then, but it doesn't change what it is.

 

(B) - Niche, too-cool-for-it's-own-good underground stuff.

 

© - Mainstream stuff that, like a reasonably successful soup, uses a bit of every ingredient.

 

(D) - The rarest and most holy, the IP that is of (B) but crosses over successfully into ©.

 

Nightshape, instead of mingling amongst the peons from his aerie on the M4 tech corridor, should get back to his pod and start figuring some (D) style options.

 

Cheers

MC