I picked up Blast Works for the Wii a bit ago (before the $20 price drop 
), and just picked up Bangai-O Spirits today. In conjunction with the forthcoming release of LittleBigPlanet, it seems as if console (and handheld) user-generated content is just beginning to flourish, and I can only envision more of it in the future. Granted, mods for PC games have existed for quite some time, but this seems to be a fairly new phenomenon for consoles, and if LBP indeed lives up to the hype, with the community-building aspects and all, we might see quite a few more games being released with this aspect in the forefront of developers' consciousness when creating a game.
Yeah, I'm not mentioning Halo's Forge or GH:WT's ability to create songs, because it does not really have a bearing on the question at hand.
The question, then, is, if and when the next console RPGM is released, and if this user-generated content thing really picks up steam (and everything I've read says that's the next big thing for console games), what impact do you think it may or may not have on the RPGM community?
Will we get a sudden influx of new members? Will it go largely ignored by the mainstream as it has in the past? Will we see a renaissance or a "second (or third, or fourth, depending on how you view the history of the community) golden age" of RPGM games being created? Will it become a lot bigger (meaning, a lot more popular) than it currently is, and will that put a strain on our fairly tight-knit community? Will numerous other RPGM sites pop up in its wake?
Or is this all speculation and conjecture? Discuss if you deem it necessary to do so.
), and just picked up Bangai-O Spirits today. In conjunction with the forthcoming release of LittleBigPlanet, it seems as if console (and handheld) user-generated content is just beginning to flourish, and I can only envision more of it in the future. Granted, mods for PC games have existed for quite some time, but this seems to be a fairly new phenomenon for consoles, and if LBP indeed lives up to the hype, with the community-building aspects and all, we might see quite a few more games being released with this aspect in the forefront of developers' consciousness when creating a game.Yeah, I'm not mentioning Halo's Forge or GH:WT's ability to create songs, because it does not really have a bearing on the question at hand.
The question, then, is, if and when the next console RPGM is released, and if this user-generated content thing really picks up steam (and everything I've read says that's the next big thing for console games), what impact do you think it may or may not have on the RPGM community?
Will we get a sudden influx of new members? Will it go largely ignored by the mainstream as it has in the past? Will we see a renaissance or a "second (or third, or fourth, depending on how you view the history of the community) golden age" of RPGM games being created? Will it become a lot bigger (meaning, a lot more popular) than it currently is, and will that put a strain on our fairly tight-knit community? Will numerous other RPGM sites pop up in its wake?
Or is this all speculation and conjecture? Discuss if you deem it necessary to do so.
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