Reviews - Pro-Clockers! PC Reviews One MegaHertz At A Time

Since we rebooted GamePro at the beginning of the year we've spent an awful lot of time talking to game designers and creative directors in an effort to try and get into their heads and find out what makes them tick. While we've heard lots of different stories about what motivates them to get out of bed in the morning, there have been a surprising number of common threads that we've pulled from each of these conversations. Most pervasive is the notion that the games business is currently going through a once-in-a-lifetime period that should be relished as much as humanly possible. Unlike any other part of the entertainment business, gaming's auteurs and its most influential (or at least most affluent) consumers are maturing at roughly the same pace. So as the vanguard of creatives in charge of our experiences adjust to their own life changes, they are able to channel their learnings back into their products (reasonably) safe in the knowledge that they'll be well-received and broadly supported. As an overall community we've grown up together. We've gotten older, settled down, and had kids together. So as designers are deciding that they want to make different experiences to indulge their own lives, they can be fairly confident that their audience is in the same boat. This period is unique in that the industry will only be as naturally in tune with its audience as it is right now for a brief period, and its still adjusting its technology at roughly the same pace as its artistic vision.

 

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