Forbes’ Future Best Video Games

Forbes has profiled some recently released video games that they think will be considered classics in the future, including BioShock, Puzzle Quest, and The Witcher. An excerpt about CD Projekt’s RPG:

This PC role-playing game is based on a popular Polish fantasy book series. It’s received praise for tackling social issues, including racism and sexual violence, and for forcing players to make complex moral choices.

Forbes also gives us some general predictions, with some highly unexpected takes on things. A choice quote:

Videogame graphics will continue to grow richer and more detailed. But don’t expect that photo realism alone will be enough to sell a game. Sony’s face-flop with the PS3 proves gamers aren’t obsessed with hyper-realistic graphics to the extent that game designers are.

Most gamers don’t require characters that look exactly like actors in a movie, and don’t care how realistically blood splatters; they want to play great games. Chess isn’t any more or less fun in high definition; it’s the game that counts.

PC games are going to grow in importance, especially for older, more educated gamers. After being widely dismissed as dead (or irrelevant at best) only five years ago, PC role-playing games have made a tremendous comeback.

Spotted on RPGCodex.

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