| theprof00 said: The whole reason metadarlings came up was because I suggested we find a new word to use instead of AAA. The reason I suggested that, is because I'm tired of arguing semantics of words. Yes, in the past AAA has meant many different things in many different fields. We don't know the exact origin of how it exists in the gaming world, as there is a lot of speculation. It could be a quality measure of an investment, coming from the insurance field. It could be from when EGM or whoever used a 3-person rating process, meaning that for a game to be considered AAA, it had to be given an A by 3 editors in the same review. It could be a description of the production level, ie $$$, as coming from the movie industry One thing I've been a little frustrated about with the "new gamers" in this generation is that they've insisted on renaming everything that we've been naming. So, I just skipped a couple pages of arguing by just caving in and suggesting a new word. That way, we can use that word, which was in part made by the people who had a problem with the old word. On that same topic, we still don't have a new word to use for the people who play the traditional games like platformers, fps, sports and such. We used to call them core gamers, and while I agree it's not the most intuitive description (core is a marketing term), it was the word we used and we knew what it meant. Maybe some of you have noticed in my posts but I call them "traditional gamers" now. So on one hand, maybe we need a new, more descriptive term, but on the other hand, the word we've been using for years has been fine until one side decided it was unfair. |
Frankly, all these terms, such as 'hardcore' and 'casual' or 'AAA' and 'top tier' seem to be just buzz words developed by both the internet forum goers and the reviewers who cater to them. As they have all sprung up at different times over the course of the internets lifetime and gotten popular by those that frequent the internet. At the start of last generation, terms like 'casual' and 'AAA' weren't very common. People simply called you a child for liking a game that they now call the 'casual' genre. And they used the term 'high budget' where they now call 'AAA'. But now people use them like they're second nature and you're stupid if you question their use, because everyone from reviewers to regular people outside of the internet are using them.
But mark my words, within a few more years, probably around the time we have the next set of consoles, we'll be using a whole new set of stupid buzz words to describe the same junk.
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