| HappySqurriel said: Yes, and Call of Duty can easily be picked up by someone who is a non-gamer ... Halo is no less complicated than the vast majority of FPS game on the market and it became so popular because local lan games created a party atmosphere that encouraged a lot of non-gamers to play it. The much derided Frat-Boy gamer, a gamer who believes that Halo was the first FPS game and thinks Madden is the pinnacle of videogames, was born from this environment. The challenge in the vast majority of "hardcore" games when played on Easy mode is to get killed ... The typical "hardcore" gamer would give up in frustration if they played the average SNES game, or a PC FPS from the 90s, but somehow believe they're special because they can beat dumbed down games designed to appeal to the previous wave of "casual" gamers. |
I know this is horribly off topic, but I recently watched James Rolfe (Angry Video Game Nerd) talk about his first time beating Contra. He was a kid, did it in the morning before school and before eating breakfast. His child self is better than 90% of the "Hardcore" gamers out there.
