Chapter 438: Niche Game
After taking her seat in the box, Claudia asked a little strangely.
"How did you come up with this idea? Let the player be the head coach of the team? Claudia chuckled softly, "I don't think it's a good experience for players. ”
After hearing Claudia's slightly mocking teasing, Jester also calmed down a little.
"You're right."
He nodded first, expressing his agreement with part of Claudia's statement, but he also had his own opinion: "This game mode should belong to the category of simulation games, I will temporarily call it a business simulation class, in fact, if you look at it from the general direction, it is not very different from the previous "SimCity" and "Railway Tycoon". ”
Hearing Jester say this, Claudia also nodded involuntarily, as the most important partner of Mars Entertainment and the head of affairs in Europe, Claudia also knows something about the two types of games that Jester said, although the sales of these two PC games can only be said to be average.
But the response was huge.
"The players of these games are niche, but loyal, and once they recognize it, they don't change their opinion about the game." Jester said in a flat tone, some of his judgments, and then he turned the conversation to the football management game.
"The game I talked about earlier that makes the player the head coach was just a preliminary idea for me, and it ......"
As she spoke, Jester laughed, which made Claudia look a little strange, and she didn't hear anything to make her laugh from what Jester had just said.
Seeing the puzzled look on Claudia's face, Jester stopped laughing, "Don't you think this game would be fun if it was designed?" And now, when I make zuò games, I don't need to think too much about things that have nothing to do with the game. ”
"That's true."
After hearing Jester say this, Claudia immediately nodded, and said casually, on this point, she really thought badly, she was thinking about it from the perspective of the person in charge of a game company, and whether the game could provide enough profits for the company.
But she ignored that Jester didn't need to be limited by these things anymore.
Jester just wanted to continue to say something, but the scene suddenly erupted into an extremely enthusiastic cheer, under the rostrum where Jester was located, was the main stand of Manchester United's home fans, Jester saw that many fans turned their heads towards the box where he was.
And she kept waving the scarf in her hand or something else at him.
At this time, Jester naturally understood that it might be the cameras on the scene that captured him, and he couldn't see the big screen outside the stadium in this place, so he couldn't find it at the first time.
"The player is out."
Claudia grew up watching football games in the field, a die-hard Newcastle United fan, and of course, with Jester becoming Manchester United's chairman, she is now a Manchester United fan, and the fans and spectators sang the Manchester United anthem in unison.
Jester is not familiar with the melody of this song, and the team song of Manchester United that he is familiar with is the one that belongs to Manchester United in 99, after Manchester United won the treble, the glory that spread all over the world belongs to Manchester United, and the future Manchester United scene is also the time when this song is remembered the most, but now Manchester United's team song does not seem to be this one.
It's a march tune that I'm not familiar with, but it's still very exciting.
"So your next game is going to make this game that you said makes the player the head coach?" At the end of a Manchester United attack, the pass was blocked by the goalkeeper, and Claudia asked casually in the gap between the corner kicks of the Manchester United players.
"It's not."
Jester shook his head: "My next game is not a big game, it's just a small game for self-entertainment, it's a minesweeper-style RPG, it's called "Rune Guardian", well, I plan to include this game, only three people to complete the development, and "Football Manager" is a game ......"
"While it may seem like a no-brainer, there's a lot to consider, such as the rights to the major leagues, and whether the current PC can do the simulation of the game content you want - and most importantly, there's still a job to be done if you want players to really like the game and make them feel like it's irreplaceable."
Claudia, who was a little curious by Jester's answer, couldn't help but ask.
"What job?"
"Huh."
Jester laughed indifferently a few times, and then said lightly: "Scouts all over the place, since I want to make a football manager game, I naturally hope to be able to get some completely realistic numbers as much as possible, think about it, if the number jù in our game, whether it is those famous players, or unknown players, or even those young players who have not yet the slightest fame, can have a relatively real number jù, then those players who like football games, Wouldn't it be ecstatic? ”
Rumble!
At this time, there was once again a cheer like a tsunami, and Jester, who was sitting in the box, suddenly felt like he was on a volcanic crater, and he had just experienced a volcanic eruption, although the box was very stable, but under the embrace of such violent cheers, Jester still felt a feeling that the ground was shaking.
Jester looked up into the middle of the pitch and saw a 1-0 score on the electronic scoreboard on the side of the pitch.
Behind one is Manchester United.
And the scorer was Brian. Robson and Jester were just talking to Claudia and were distracted and missed the highlight of the goal, but he could see a man in a red number seven shirt waving to the fans in the stadium while his teammates were celebrating beside him.
"Let's watch the game first, and then we'll talk about the game after watching the game."
Jester was still a little hesitant that he didn't see the goal just now, so he said this to Claudia and looked at the football seriously, and Claudia also covered her mouth and smiled, nodded, and didn't make a sound.
The rest of the first half has basically become Liverpool's offensive and defensive drills, after all, Liverpool are still stronger than Manchester United in terms of strength, and Manchester United seems to have arranged tactics before Ferguson, has been solid defending, and then let a fast striker roam in front.
Once you get the ball at the back, then you will kick forward to find the striker in front, and then quickly step forward in the backcourt to get a quick counterattack and play more opportunities.
Of course, the success rate of such a tactic is not high, but once it succeeds, it is fatal.
However, most of the time of such a game has also become a somewhat dull offensive and defensive drill, except that the players on both sides are more intense when they fight, which is really lacking in any highlights, and Jester also stretched his arms a little boringly.
"Let's talk a little bit about the previous game." Jester said with some embarrassment.
Claudia still smiled and nodded.
"I've heard you say before that you seem to value the game of football?" Claudia seemed to be remembering something, remembering a speech Jester gave at an annual meeting of Martian Entertainment's executives, in which Jester predicted several types of games that would dominate in the future.
Jester nodded after hearing this: "Yes, I said in that meeting last time that the future game will inevitably develop into a game pattern dominated by the simple and crude gameplay of the three major categories of cars, guns and balls, and the games that can provide players with the most intense sensory stimulation in the simplest and most direct way, as for the reasons I discussed in the last meeting, I won't go into detail here, which is why I am so concerned about the production of racing game engines." ”
"Do you think the football game of the future will be the football manager model that you want to make now?"
Claudia continued to ask, a smile on her face.
Jester smiled, he knew that this was Claudia joking with him again, he was not angry, he just waved his hand: "I said before, this kind of game can only be niche, although interesting, but the sales will not be very high, and in the future, since it can become a mainstream game genre, it must be a mainstream game type." ”
At this time, a Manchester United counter-attack almost succeeded, and the fans in the stadium erupted in a very regretful sigh.
And Claudia sighed involuntarily.
Obviously, she was still following the game while chatting with Jester.
"But I don't seem to be able to find anything from these current football games, which can become the mainstream game type, whether it is our Mars Entertainment, or EA's, or the football games of Japanese game companies, it seems that the road to a perfect simulation of a game is still very far away."
Claudia voiced her doubts, and Jester said that she agreed with gun games and racing games, but only football games, it seems that she can't see any great development in the future.
"It's just that the current hardware doesn't allow it."
Jester said casually, he felt that there was nothing to talk about about this, football games will be popular in the future, it has been verified by history, in the future, EA's FIFA series, this kind of game that can be directly equated with circle money, once a year, it almost doesn't cost EA much resources to renovate a new version of the game, and it was able to stabilize the sales of fifteen million copies per game in the years before Jester crossed. R1152