| sparkit34 said: I don't think the problem is Nintendo fans hoping for the downfall of hardcore gaming, i think that Nintendo recognised that hardcore gamers don't necessarily like violent games. For all the people who played Halo, i can bet that games like minesweeper, solitaire, tetris, chess, scrabble, sudoku or bejeweled have clocked twice (if not more) the hours of Halo. My mom, for example, won't not be considered a hardcore games, but she spends over twenty hours a week playing the games like the ones i mentioned on her PC. Since she got a DS last year, she must have clocked thousands of hours on it playing games like Brain Training and Picross. To some these games may be considered shovelware, but to my mom, Halo, and even Mario platformers are shovelware, and Picross is hardcore gaming. So my question is who is the hardcore gamer? I can promise you that my mom will have clocked in more gaming hours in her life than anyone under 25. Unfortunately, until the DS and now the Wii, no console was catering to her hardcore demands. So may it is not that we are seeing hardcore gaming failing, but maybe hardcore gaming is finally on the rise!!! |
I didn't like where this post was going but I must say it makes a little bit of sense (somewhat)
My mum also plays crossword games, brain training and other puzzle games on my DS and thinks that guitar hero is stupidly idiotic. As she says 'red, green, red, blue, yellow, red, green, orange, blue, red, green...' and I can see her point. She went out and bought a Wii game before christmas on her own though, at random, she came home saying she thought it'd be fun for her and my younger siblings, that game was Boogie Superstar. Why'd she buy it? Because she liked the track list, thought a singing and dancing game would be fun and looked the best quality for what she was willing to pay.
'Casuals' won't go and buy just anything and they aren't stupid... They look for games that they believe will have a high replayability and are simple fun. Mario Kart Wii is my favourite game this gen coz i can pick up the controller and jump into a few online races and leave and i have fun. I agree some games that are supposedly casual I don't like and I don't know how some games are said to be casual.. HSM? It's a game aimed at younger girls, I can remember HEAPS of PS2 games that I looked at and thought wow what crap but now that I'm older I can see that it was just aimed at a different demographic..
I get immense enjoyment out of games like Zelda, I just got Phantom Hourglass a few weeks ago and I'm loving it although some of those puzzles were tricky I got through them. I also love a bit of Wii Sports when I'm bored or some SingStar at parties.
I'm gonna go out on a limb and say I hope hardcore gaming does crash and burn. I want people to just be gamers no matter what they're taste.
You can game casually but you can't play casual games
