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But it's not a vocal minority or games like COD and Halo and Madden wouldn't be #1 in sales every time and causing every other genre to be turned into mindless arcade vs shooters with Michael Bay direction.
These sorts of casual eye candy glamor games with no substance low risk AAA prioritized games are clearly the mainstream due to the response of the current generation and it has adversely affected genre diversity and creativity that older gamers fondly remember.
Who wants to spend 5 years making a game a paying writers and orchestras when you can just add a few more gun skins and a map to the flavor of the month shooter and it will still sell millions to an audience that cares for nothing but online competition and the number next to their e-penis?
Market behavior and the rise of companies like Activision and EA clearly show that today's generation of gamers is NOT being generalized by a vocal minority, they are the mainstream majority, and it's terrible.
We will likely never see things like Chrono Trigger, Xenogears, Conquer's Bad Fur Day, etc ever again because of it
At least I can leave Link the Past and Ocarina of Time off this list because Nintendo has so far managed to resist folding to this audience and has stuck to their niche.
