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Scoobes said: You must have missed the technology part of my post. It made a difference. I know those games were available on NES and SNES, but it doesn't change the fact that the technology wasn't present to really push them and make it "cool" to play these games. Adults may have played those games but were generally seen as geeks, and in many ways the view is still present for a lot of games and gamers today even with all the marketing. |
You did say "themes" - I gave you themes, then you start spinning. What technology you're talking about? Regardless I was just messing with you, your argument still fails but for a different reason =)
First, what adults we're talking about? Second, what's end result of this "maturing" process that presumably took place since PS1 era you're implying? Well, let's look at what audiences are playing games nowadays, shall we? X360 userbase are mostly kids under 18, PS3 barely older - mostly college students 18-25. There're no substantial difference between those systems' game libraries, thus mentality, tastes and perception of games is the same for both those groups. This only underlines the whole problem of the industry, that got concentrated on one group of people and the games as much mature as gamers playing them, in other words, not even close.
It's funny to see how gamers have a hard time admitting that adults, at least those who never touched games i.e. majority of them, and actual mature people i.e. people that have kids and responsibilities, just don't give a crap about the games they love regardless of their stories, presentation, themes or whatever gamers found important =)
//BTW how old were you when you got your PS1? An adult, I guess? =)
