Deshara said:
sumanoskae said:
Deshara said:
Gamers are, in my experience, by nature, children. And I don't mean young. I have seen so many people acting like this, that I am convinced that a gamer that doesn't ***** and cry and whine and go full out fucking Boston tea-party and riot in the streets and pull a million man march on the capital to call for the drawing and quartering of every employee of any game company that didn't spend millions of dollars to tailor-make a game to be perfect to their own personal standards and requirements is the exception.
I think that can apply to people in general
Unfortunately, gamers are the only demographic I'm aware of in which self-entitled rage is expected. I can't think of a single fellow avid-reader who's ever boycotted any work, no matter how deserving it was of it, and yet I bet we all know thousands of gamers boycotted L4D2 as soon as it was announced, and I unfortunately know dozens of people personally who buy games and consoles of the "bad" companies just to destroy them. We can claim that our industry produces art for mature adults all we want, but as long as there are as many screaming, crying children among our numbers as there are, I simply can't buy it :/
"go full out fucking Boston tea-party". How bout politics?.
I know a few Harry Potter and Star Wars fans that do that with the movies. A few movie goers that do that to films just because they're black and white. And a shit load of "Music Lovers" who dismiss any band that makes more then minimum wage.
We can claim that our race produces mature, insightful works of art, but as long as there are this many idiotic, self centered, entitled little shits among us, I don't believe we've gotten anywhere since we were burning witches at the stake... but that's not true is it?.
You can't judge something based on how bad it get's, anything can be done badly, with that attitude you'll never be able to appreciate anything, hell, life itself has a lot more working out of it's favor then in, but that doesn't mean that it's not worth doing. You and I are both gamers, and we're not idiots. Look at this site, it stands to this day as a reminder that we gamers are not as the media portrays us.
It's not just gamers that play games, it's not just readers that read books, it's not just film buffs who watch movies. A grand majority of "Gamers" never touch anything outside of Modern Warfare, a grand majority of "Readers" never glance at anything outside Twilight, a grand majority of "Film Buffs" never go to see anything but the newest Transformers or Expendables equivalent.
You're on the internet, quality control is a joke, and so are the people it's meant to discourage.
But no matter what they do, how much they complain, how much they scream for boycotts, the artists that truly touch our hearts, engage our minds, and enrich our lives, and the people who truly appreciate and understand, will drag them kicking and screaming to the future, and in the end, they will thank us for it.
Unfortunately, the nature of games and the medias misguided portrayal of them means that they're a medium that appeals to the kind of person who spends their time bitching on forums instead of real life, as a result, it seems like there are a lot more people who ***** and complain then there actually are, because the people who don't ***** and complain have better things to do with their time.
But none the less, haven't you had at least one moment, when you were playing a favorite title, that you paused for a moment to think "This is a work of art"?
