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DevilRising on 22 May 2013
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JayWood2010 said:
UnitSmiley said:
Change your title to "If all the consumers in the videogame market were actually passionate gamers who truly loved the hobby for the wonderful experience it can bring to people, instead of being sheep who are only concerned with what is trendy atm"

Long, but much more accurate.


So if you like Call of Duty you are a sheep?  Is that because they have sequels or because they are popular?  Or maybe just because they are good and it's why people like them.  They just don't visit forums to testify there love for them.


I'm not really sure what the hell your point is. Call of Duty is the McDonald's of the video games industry. It's a step up from Farmville on Facebook. People buy it because it IS a trend, and because "dude-bros" and people who aren't even that into games on the whole, like to shoot people online.

Saying that Wii and Motion controls wouldn't have succeeded is a bit much. Not ALL "hardcorez" kids hated/hate motion controls. It just so happens the actual APPLICATION of a lot of Wii motion games, and a vast majority of Move/Kinect games, was horrible and tacked on. There were motion games on Wii that worked very well, usually made by Nintendo themselves. It was a nice, different style to play a game. But by and large, yes, for MOST types of games buttons are just more responsive.

 

But when it comes to Madden/CoD/Battlefield/Halo, etc, is it REALLY that people just buy them because they're good? Or is it that they are franchises that have extreme visibility, even in the casual (meaning don't play games constantly) market's eyes, and it gets the shit promoted out of it. They even have CoD ads before movies in the theater for fuck's sake. So OF COURSE those games are going to sell more than something that didn't get promoted much and only dedicated gamers have ever heard of. It's called simple common sense.

 

While I hardly count myself among the "hardcore" gamers, in fact most of them fucking annoy me, I also fail to see what your whole deal was in making this thread. I play games that I like, because I like to enjoy them. Period. I'm not sure if you're trying to sound super smart, or hip, or what. But it kind of falls flat. McDonald's sells more than a quality local restaurant, because it's more visibile, better advertised, it's quick and easy, everyone knows about it. That described something like CoD perfectly. So why NOT criticize it? That's like scolding an avid movie goer, because he prefers movies with real substance over the shitty Transformers and GI Joe and Fast & The Furious sequels that come out year after year. I guess maybe those movies sell better than, say, a Wes Anderson film, because they ARE just better, and "maybe people just like them because they're good", eh?

 

See how that logic kind fo fails? Nice try though..........