| KruzeS said: Well, we mostly play tennis and and bowling at parties, and a little golf on our own, so I guess it doesn't bother me that much. But I do agree though that boxing controls suck, and baseball has almost nothing to it. It's just that those sports aren't even our thing to begin with. Actually we've had more of a gripe with some golf shots - putting on a very small distance can get unintuitively hard. It's not that this games are flawless, it's that the intended audience is not nearly as demanding. Take those Brain games on the DS. For some reason, one of them don't know which, simply doesn't understand a couple of my digits. I gripe about it, and am totally pissed. What does a casual do? They change the way they write their numbers and still manage to think it's a smart game, and a lot of fun. This is from people who know about PDA's with way better text input than those games. |
I think your totally wrong about this. Casual gamers are even more demanding. Gamers know what glitches are we understand problems in software code, or perhaps why something doesn't work right. Not that it makes us happy. But I found when my nongaming friends punched in boxing they didn't understand why the guy didn't punch the same way. It annoyed them, while me as a gamer knew I had to match a preset motion to one in the database and hence adjusted accordingly. In Nintendogs, my wife a total nongamer was ready to throw the game out when she had to call the dog like 40 times before it learned it's name. I was more patient realizing how sketchy voice software can be. I think since they don't know how these things work and don't know what par for the course is in these games/software they assume everything will work perfect, and when it doesn't they feel like it's a waste. Maybe I'm wrong to some extent I really can't speak for everyone, but I'm assuming the casual people they don't play games are going to be tougher judges because they need a reason to bother, while we don't, we are here because we love games, we're going to give everything a chance. My wife is not a game person so the slightest annoyance in playing and she asks herself why am I bothering with this? Because she already sees it as a waste of time. While I don't hesitate to take time and learn the controls despite some annoyance.
