I dont understand why those people claim they are hardcore gamers. Hardcore gamers are never afraid to take new gaming experiences. I have changed my favorite game genre several times over the last decade. Back in the nes days I would only play platformers and side-scrollers. Later I got addicted to apoint and click adventures from LucasArts. When Snes came I started playing beat em ups more than any other games. Near the end of Snes I really got into RPGs (Chrono Trigger was my first experience). At N64 and playstation era I played lots of Mario 64 clones like Banjo Kazooie and Spyro. With Playstation 2 I got really open minded to game genres. From Katamari to Shin Megami Tensei I have played genres that I had no idea that they even existed. Saying that Wii will destroy the market or developers will give up making games for the old school is not only paranoic it is retarded. There are beat em ups being made even today. Their production slowed down, but that is due to the fact that they are not hot anymore, the mainstrem players are interested in other games. Consumers tastes changes, but not so fast that they totally forget about their old ones. Mortal Kombat was the shit when I was a kid, game magazines and my friends talked like it was the best game ever. Well the series is pretty much dead nowadays considering they had MK cartoons, movies and tv series in the past. They got so low they made a Mario Kart like minigame in one of the recent MK. God of War (to use bodhesatva example) may take the same route of MK one day. I am not making a prevision, I just wanna show that even games that have a cult-like trend to them may become obsolete in the future.
Satan said:
"You are for ever angry, all you care about is intelligence, but I repeat again that I would give away all this superstellar life, all the ranks and honours, simply to be transformed into the soul of a merchant's wife weighing eighteen stone and set candles at God's shrine."
