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HappySqurriel on 28 December 2007
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jlrx said:
HappySqurriel said:

Who would have thought that a pimply faced angst filled teenager would prefer the Xbox 360 over the Wii? I guess we’re going to see a thread soon from another teenager who things My Chemical Romance is the greatest band ever and The Beatles are ‘Phuckin Ghey’

I recognise the frustration that many Sony/Microsoft fans must feel because the Xbox 360 and PS3 perfectly appeal to them and no one seems to ‘get it.’ What you fail to realize is you’re not the majority, and you’re no longer the special little snowflake that gets all of the attention; certainly, you will continue to get games developed for you but not at the expense of other (equally important) groups.

I have seen this exact same kind of tantrum dozens of times, after people in a subculture get their deepest darkest desire and their passion becomes mainstream. Punk fans, Rap/Hip-Hop fans, Yoga fans, and pretty much every major trend that has ever existed has claimed that the ‘newbs’ destroyed what was great and pure about their medium.

What people never seem to get is the alternative to this undesirable popularity is stagnation and eventual death … I suspect that some of them would prefer death to popularity.


If thats the case, your talking about a sub-sub-culture, because gameplay was all important in the beginning, and then graphic whores supposedly took over (along with marketing and hype BS). I like pretty graphics like anyone else, but boring is boring, even if it looked good at first.

I think Nintendo is bringing us back to our roots, and the usurpers of the phrase "gamers" dont like it. I am a gamer, I was a gamer, and I will always be so, I enjoy lots of games, even big ol productions with story, but I also want to have fun and that is primary, if I can get more fun out of a smaller dose, thats what I'll enjoy the most.


Well, that's always the case ...

If you look at music as an example, most genres of music have some popularity when they're new simply because they're new; there is always a certain segment of the population who is tired of what has been done before and is looking for something fresh. Over time a certain (dedicated) segment of the fan base tends to warp the genre to match their personal tastes, which typically destroys its mainstream appeal. Often what pushes the genre back into the mainstream is a return to its roots or a re-imagining of what the genre means.

If you look at certain genre’s early days (punk, rap, hip hop, metal, or whatever) their sound is drastically different than what it has become, but any change away from what it currently is, is seen by the fan base as losing touch with the roots of the genre; which often isn’t true because the genre has already lost touch with its roots.