Skyrim is every bit as good as people thought it would be, and due to the game\u2019s sprawling environments and innumerable quests, it has a longevity which few\u00a0 can rival.<\/p>\n
This casts a large shadow on all other releases attempting to compete in the same RPG market space. Despite this, Ken Rolston, creator of 38 Studios\u2019 Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning isn\u2019t worried \u2013 good games will always find an audience.<\/p>\n
“I suspect that they won\u2019t know that they want something else,” Rolston said of the Skyrim players. “That\u2019s always the challenge when you make something that hasn\u2019t been made before, and usually it\u2019s opinion leaders who will stray outside or color outside the lines and say, ‘Hey! This is cool. You should be playing this.’<\/p>\n
“I think that\u2019s the way, very often, revolutionary products work and we\u2019re intending to be revolutionary in that sense. But I think anybody who works in the industry and who is concerned about releasing a product into the current bloodbath of blockbuster releases, it would be disingenuous to say that I didn\u2019t notice, but at the same time it\u2019s absolutely true that I don\u2019t feel uncomfortable at all.”<\/p>\n
Rolston is coming from an informed position, having worked as a lead on both Morrowind and Oblivion, but he says he worries about some of the company\u2019s fresher faces.<\/p>\n
“I know our game is wonderful, because I play it and actually I feel a lot more emotional concern for the younger people working here who haven\u2019t been everywhere and done everything, who might really care about that stuff and really – this is their first game, so this is a big deal for them.<\/p>\n
“From my point of view, a really good game always finds its audience, and role playing games more so than others because they have long shelf lives, because when you start playing them, you\u2019re going to end up playing them forever unless they\u2019re terrible. So I think I probably just have a far too adult and mature attitude about the whole thing,” Rolston added.<\/p>\n
Kingdoms of Amalur is set to release in February \u2013 will you be sticking with Skyrim, or is there room on your shelf for both?<\/p>\n
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