So For the past couple years I have been trying my best to break into this industry and learn how to make professional 3D Art. I focused so hard on getting it right that I ignored several forums I used to frequent ( mostly this one .)
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Game Art and in turn Movie Art is too advanced for most people to keep up with.
In the end I failed to see some down falls that half the Games Industry has and it's biggest issue is Art. Video games cost up words of 120 million to develop and it's just going to get worse ( By Video Games I mean teh biggest ones that you hear about, clearly iPhone games and mobile ones don't cost even 10 thousand to develop lol .) But my point is that the AAA Games industry , the one that makes God of War, our Assassin's Creeds and Call of Duties has no where else to turn and they are at huge risk of crashing and burning quite literally.
Game companies are failing left and right as they fail to adapt to the changing market, meanwhile selfish gamer's are after nothing more than better graphics, always pushing the limit when they don't realize that this limit was reached. The PS4 will not look much better than the 3 and games on it will probably cost 70.00 bucks or more. Games now require 2 million + Sales in order to break even at 60 bucks a pop. ( 60 x 2 Million = 120 Million for the average games budget )
Sorry not the best written post, but I guess my point is the part of the games industry that I tried to join, well there is no place for me there and if you are a gamer hoping to join it than be careful.
For now I need to try and find a skill and a job and hopefully I could possibly design 2D games which are not going anywhere. 2D Games are booming even.
But Hopefully I can start posting more on these forums and start sounding more positive. I'm not depressed just a bit down that I tried so hard ( 8+ hours a day for 3 years - School and the occasional break ) and in the end it did me no good.
I still enjoy playing games 2D or 3D but if you are hoping that the next generation of games will look like what our eyes see as reality and that this will give us deeper games with more fun than ever, than sorry but you will be pretty disappointed.
Hopefully though we can all learn to adapt, move on and get used to a newer industry and newer games while some big companies fail ( THQ not doing so well ) and others learn to adapt. I don't mind personally sacrificing graphics for game play.
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BTW on a side note the problem is development, so don't think that digital distribution or cloud gaming can fix any of this
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