There are probably hundreds of these articles, listing the best video games for 2024. What is different about this one?
We won’t blow smoke and we will tell you the truth about the video game market.
We are HiTech Creations, producers of the exciting combat simulator, Aces High. We invite you to try our free two-week download of Aces High. Decide for yourself, at no cost, whether Aces High belongs on any of these “best of” lists.
First thing you will notice about “best of” lists.
They are all different. They all have different games on their “best” list which, if you think about it, seems impossible. If a game, say a flight sim game, is the best of the best, wouldn’t it be so obvious that it would appear on every one of these lists? And yet see for yourself. Check out some of the lists. Read through, say, the best flight simulator games for 2024, and you will instantly notice the great variations.
Why is that?
“Best of” is purely subjective.
The answer is pretty simple: lists are subjective, no matter what the subject matter may be. The best state parks in America? Good luck finding consensus with that topic. The best new toys? The best SUVs? The best fast food hamburger joints? There could be some fist fights over that topic.
The problem with subjectivity is that it changes from person to person. What is challenging for one person may not be challenging to another. What is interesting historically to someone may just be boring to another. It is absolutely impossible, and you can quote us on this, to make everyone happy with any product, and that applies equally from automobiles to music to art to video games.
Take the hottest games on the market right now, the ones getting rave reviews from players, and we can show you an equal number of negative reviews, also from players. When we are talking about hundreds of millions playing video games, it is not difficult to find negative reviews. And does a negative review mean the game is horrible? Of course not; it simply means the person who wrote the review found something about that game that they did not like.
The only time we in the gaming industry worry about negative reviews is when they become overwhelmingly common, when the fast majority of reviews are negative. At that point it would be fairly obvious that we needed to make adjustments to our game.
Criteria for you, the consumer, to use in judging the best.
Still, everyone wants to know how good a game is, and we do believe there are a couple ways for you, the player, to determine if a game is for you.
Are the graphics good BY YOUR STANDARDS? Is the response time fast, BY YOUR STANDARDS? Does it feel realistic, BY YOUR STANDARDS?
How long has a game been on the market? In the case of Aces High, we have been rocking the combat flight simulator market for twenty-four years. That is an eternity in the gaming industry, and we believe that kind of longevity in a highly competitive market speaks volumes about the quality of our game.
A final word about Aces High.
We invite you to try our free trial period. Won’t cost you a penny. In fact, we don’t even ask for a credit card. We are convinced you will enjoy our game but, if you don’t, we don’t want you paying money to take it for a test-flight. And that is called confidence!
