What Nintendo's Rift with the Hardcore Means for the Industry

[madkiller]

azrm2k said:

madkiller said:
This is not targetted at you teenagers that have no real experience with Nintendo or games in general.  This is aimed at the gamers like me that are late 20s, early 30s

 

This is the one thing I don't understand.  I can understand all the 14 and 15 year olds running around laughing at other kids for owning a Wii and calling it "kiddy".  At that age they want to try to appear more mature and distance themselves from what they enjoyed as younger kids.

What I don't understand is the older people who still go around talking like that.  Are they still emotionally stuck in puberty and unable to grasp that a game without blood, gore, and sex can still be a valid option for entertainment?  Does a game need to be so hard you die 50 times a level for it to be considered a "game" and not just "casual crap"?

 

 I did not say anything about a game needing to have blood, gore and sex to be a core game. However, a core game cannot be so easy and kiddy that 6 year olds can play it no problem. I want to see the majority of you people beat Mass Effect on Insanity like I have...