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Dave Erickson said:
When questions appear on the forums such as “What turn based wargame should I buy?” the answer comes back “Conflict Middle East.” Yes, sports fans, Conflict Middle East, circa 1991. So utterly addicted are we to the crack of the mainstream that we feel we must dig out old DOS and Windows 3.1 games, despite the multitude of great indie wargames released over the past 5 years or so. V for Victory, anyone?
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Im not sure thats a mainstream addiction. But it does point out that now is a good time to push forth the indie developers. In the gaming newsgroups (strategic, rpg, war-historical) there has been a slump which everyone is noticing. Nothing new to kick up conversation about. When someone asks for suggestions on their next game, or on whats coming up, all that gets responded are games that are 3 or 4 years old and the upcoming attractions all seem to be long awaited sequels of those same older games.
But its not just old shelfware stuff. Games from both Matrix and Shrapnel get recommended often. In that area at least it seems a beneficial situation since we arent seeing the graphic/sound comparisons to new shelfware (very irritating) but rather a recognition that here are the tried and true fallbacks we bring up whenever there is a slump in the new-games market.
It does strike me however that now is a good time to put forth the indie developers for more recognition.