Lord Ciansworth on 30 January 2012
| Mr Khan said: Due to the distinct efforts of the gaming media and third parties to alienate us, we Nintendo Gamers have, i think, become a community somewhat separated from the gaming community at large "enlightened" is not the term i would use. "Mutual alienation" is better. The clear bias of the gaming media against what we enjoy and their efforts to focus on everything except that which we enjoy makes it such that Nintendo Gamers can effectively get nothing out of mainstream gaming sites anymore, and must find their own communities This is what makes the Nintendo-PC gamer alliance particularly strong, since those who have really stuck by PC gaming (and not migrated to HD-faux-PC gaming) also experience this alienation |
I certainly agree with all of that. Whether or not you want to use the word "enlightened" depends on whether you believe one set of tastes can be "superior" to another. But of course they can.
Is Charles Dickens a better novelist than Lee Child, is Citizen Kane a better movie than Transformers 3, is Super Mario Galaxy 2 a richer experience than Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3? Real genius and art never needs explosions and shotguns to draw audiences. Perhaps the Nintendo gamer is, indeed, "enlightened".
