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Ever notice most Indie games are all becoming Sandboxes and/or unfinished? [Partial Rant]
I can understand games like Minecraft, they're actually fun earlier on. But after finally getting around to playing the game Octodad, how you move around his arms with your mouse, I realized "Wait, this is basically like a game-building studio like ROBLOX or G-Mod (How you move objects around with mouse) except all they did was attach an Octopus model to it than threw you in a room environment..."

What happened to more games like Super meat boy, or if you wanna talk about 3D: Mount & Blade, even Stanley Parable despite being made with a sandbox-game itself. I feel like game developers can't make a quality enough game, so they have to slap a 'sandbox' label on it, loosen the mechanics, than crap themselves in entertainment as the Youtube videos of people blowing themselves up and ragdolling everywhere come rolling in.

...Not to mention that huge amount of unfinished games. More and more I'm seeing Games featured on the Store that are 'In development'. I just viewed a space game recently, looked fun, than dug deeper and saw on their Discussions about how unfinished it was...or remember that Slenderman Horror game for free in everyone's Library? Wasn't even finished, but for some reason we should buy it now, not knowing if it'll ever be done. Thank God I'm not a compulsive buyer, that's all I can say. But the point is here: Can no studio have the courage to release a game without having to worry if there's more to add? Minecraft started this fad, that game took 3 years to OFFICIALYY release. I might be a minority opinion here, but one day the majority will start getting sick of these half finished games that are all ragdoll/sandbox/yadayada. It's stiffling innovation and is an insult to what it means to be indie.
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Zinnoy 29 Oct, 2013 @ 12:51pm 
Have you heard of the game Detective Grimoire? They announced that game for release in early 2012 and are STILL delaying the release. I agree that some games take way too long to be completed.
Originally posted by Kiss My Ass:
yes

Dude, this thread is ancient. Though at the time this was posted, OP was right. A lot of Minecraft inspired empty open world survival games with lame crafting systems were cropping up like weeds.
Nanami 23 Oct @ 6:38pm 
This thread was quite old before the recent post, so we're locking it to prevent confusion.
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