Rock* Houser _F**k casual gaming.

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DragonLord said:

dabaus513 said:

"Yeah, fuck all this stuff about casual gaming. I think people still want games that are groundbreaking...We're hopefully going to prove that there's also a very big audience for people who want entertainment in another form, who think of games as being a narrative device that can challenge movies."

http://kotaku.com/386573/rockstars-houser-+-fuck-casual-gaming

 

Sam houser is Rockstar VP and GTA IV co-writer

Their is a market for both obviously--and that's good. I personally don't like casual gaming much, but 80% of the people in the VGchartz community do. It's nice to see different types of gaming evolving. He is right about one thing though--GTAIV will show that hardcore gaming is far from dead.

GTA4 is not hardcore gaming.

Hardcore gaming has nothing to do with killing and 'mature' audiences only labels. GTA series is a defining casual experience.

Super Mario Galaxy, ZeldaTP, and Metroid Prime are more hardcore gaming. Bioshock, Okami, resident evil, and so on are all various types of hardcore games.

Whereas GTA, GH, Wii series, Mario and Sonic Olympics, etc are all various types of casual games.

I think he is specifically talking about the over simplified minigames and obvious cash-ins.