What's the worst thing to happen to gaming?
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I am very very tempted by saying Activision but they make Guitar Hero
Console wars, just the level of stupidity and forgetting the big pictue of gaming is mind boggeling
Console wars, just the level of stupidity and forgetting the big pictue of gaming is mind boggeling
1) First off, I'm going to get flamed to hell and back for this but...The demand for Long Games. I like short games. Gimme a short game with excellent gameplay and I'm hooked. When I finish, I crave more. I don't like losing interest halfway through. It's not that I have a short attention span, it's that no matter how hard the developers try, crouching behind a wall/car/bush/kitten in Gears of War does not feel any different in the middle than it does in the beggining. Variety's nice, but there's only so much you can do with one engine. I usually have to buy three games so I can swap em' out when I get bored. It annoys my family like no ones business but there you have it.
2) Secondly, Overhype. Word of mouth Overhype. I was assaulted my entire eighth grade year by the words 'Gears' 'of' 'War' 'is' and 'Awesome'. I'm pretty damn sure I heard my whole English class collectively moan as they creamed their pants when one of the kids who sits in the back said those dirty nasty words. Then I sit down expecting some super hot asian chick to come out and spoon feed me ramen noodles while she put my moan maker in her face hole as soon as I inserted the disk and I got...Overly beefy macho men grunting and chainsawing as they grinded themselves against six hours of waist high walls. I don't mean to sound like Yahtzee, but that was one of the things that he pointed out that I agreed with.
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*caugh* Looking at you too Halo *Caugh*
2) Secondly, Overhype. Word of mouth Overhype. I was assaulted my entire eighth grade year by the words 'Gears' 'of' 'War' 'is' and 'Awesome'. I'm pretty damn sure I heard my whole English class collectively moan as they creamed their pants when one of the kids who sits in the back said those dirty nasty words. Then I sit down expecting some super hot asian chick to come out and spoon feed me ramen noodles while she put my moan maker in her face hole as soon as I inserted the disk and I got...Overly beefy macho men grunting and chainsawing as they grinded themselves against six hours of waist high walls. I don't mean to sound like Yahtzee, but that was one of the things that he pointed out that I agreed with.
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*caugh* Looking at you too Halo *Caugh*
Overhype is what became the downfall of Haze, which really was not that horrible a game.Fingerlicken said:
Not the "Halo Killer", but not horrible.
Motion sensors. They just aren't fun unless they're PERFECT. Otherwise they just end up being some crappy gimmick that the novelty runs out on all too fast. The wii's motion controls sucks, The NATAL will suck, and sony's tennis racket thing will suck.
I believe they will be the downfall of traditional gaming, as is evident by the thread i created. (feel free to post your opinion there).Guitarmasterx7 said:
Ths is NOT a gratuitous plug for my topic, no matter what you think.... (C'mon, help me get a new badge!)
Curiosity compells me to ask just how many of us have used the term's 'Hardcore' and 'Casual' ourselves? Even as some friendly banter between work or Science buddies? I honestly never even thought about it, but apparently it's alot bigger than I thought. I mean, I'd sit lunch with a couple of goof ball Gamer guys who would meticulously breakdown the Pro's and Con's of Call of Duty 4's weapons in minute and dare I say somehow illegal detail...but it only came up I'd say....Twice?
In my honest oppinion, to kill three birds with one stone:
Aren't we spreading the big noxious mass of 'Streotypical Gamer/Fan Boyism/Line drawing/Hardcore-Casual' stuff with as much force as Jack Thompsons gaming vendetta? Think about it (In fact, it's been mentioned), Jack single handedly sold more copies of Manhunt than Rockstar could have with One dollar Taiwenese Hookers posted at every busstop in America with a Tattoo of James Earl Cash on both butt cheeks. We're steamrolling this into media land even more efficiently than him, because we ARE the gamers.
So, to recap:
The big problems we have are GAMERS who tend to unintentionally spread HARDCORE-CASUAL media attention as badly as a badly groomed Zealot named JACK THOMPSON.
In my honest oppinion, to kill three birds with one stone:
Aren't we spreading the big noxious mass of 'Streotypical Gamer/Fan Boyism/Line drawing/Hardcore-Casual' stuff with as much force as Jack Thompsons gaming vendetta? Think about it (In fact, it's been mentioned), Jack single handedly sold more copies of Manhunt than Rockstar could have with One dollar Taiwenese Hookers posted at every busstop in America with a Tattoo of James Earl Cash on both butt cheeks. We're steamrolling this into media land even more efficiently than him, because we ARE the gamers.
So, to recap:
The big problems we have are GAMERS who tend to unintentionally spread HARDCORE-CASUAL media attention as badly as a badly groomed Zealot named JACK THOMPSON.