Why Indie Games Are The Best

They say that the period of the little guy is over. As video games become increasingly important, surpassing things like movies, and selling a huge number of games with each new huge event, the industry has been inching ever closer to a kind of Hollywood mindset.

Grand Theft Auto Takes a Long Time to Make

To recreate the stunning experiences and 40 hours worth of incredible gameplay inside a game like the latest GTA entry, squads of legions of developers are necessary. Budgets are huge, and profits are expected to be the same. While games like GTAIV are great, they take a distortedly big part of the market, just like Hollywood blockbusters do, and they normally skew the rest of the industry in strange directions.

Films are a helpful comparison here, because it is essentially the same thing: a good film is a memorable movie, regardless of budget, and the same is applicable for the gaming industry. There are thousands of small top games out there that fundamentally don't have a way into the proper distribution methods. And how many bad films or crummy videogames—from major publishers—have you seen or bought recently?

Why Films and Videogames are Similar

One of the main problems with making entertainment on the Hollywood scale is that a proper idea of good, fun gameplay gets obscured under all the other things that have to go into a big title—just like the narrative of a big event film can often be hidden beneath layers of other concerns. With a small team of developers, this doesn't happen—it's all about the game alone, the richness of the experience—whether or not it's enjoyable to play, well made, and gives its users a reason to come back is truly all that means anything.

The fact is that just because it's heavily hyped up in the store doesn't signify it's any good. And so the question becomes: how do we find those small games, those medium developers working on quality, classic titles that aren't getting advertised on the internet or continuously reviewed?

Who Distributes Indie Games on the Internet?

Looking online is still the best solution. You can find publishers selling independent games that are created on real values: like good gameplay that keeps you coming back for more. Not facing the huge budgets, licensed movie properties, and big development teams that the big companies have, unique developers are releasing video games that don't have the privilege of exciting you through excessive visuals alone: they need to be fun to play above all else.

Although some big publishers have come to this realization, and have started encouraging small developers to go wild with their crazy dreams, most of the best, small, enjoyable games are being released by companies you've never seen before.

Don't Throw Away that Brick-and-Mortar Store Just Yet

While everyone chatters of new ways of sending out material, the ones that are already established are still totally relevant: many of the best, most under-appreciated indie movies can still be found at your video store, and many of the most fun, indie videogames can be located online, coming to you at very low prices—you get all the pluses of a box, a manual, something tangible in your hands, but you aren't shelling out insane prices.

Next time you're looking for a quality video game, don't just look for the big names. Remember that the big conglomerates churn out their fair share of high-priced junk, and that medium-sized developer you've never heard of might have just published your next all-time favorite videogame.

By: JasonLKS

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