| HappySqurriel said: Someone want to get the Waahhhmbulance ... So far this year "Hard-Core" gamers have only received Grand Theft Auto 4, Metal Gear Solid 4, Mass Effect, Burnout Paradise, Grid, Battlefield: Bad Company, Devil May Cry 4, Condemned 2, Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Vegas 2, Age of Conana: Hyborian Adventures, Gran Turismo 5 Prologue, Lost Odyssey, Frontlines: Fuel of War, Pirates of the Burning Sea, The Club, Culdcept SAGA, and Assult Heroes 2 for HD consoles or the PC. Complaining that some other group gets attention is just pathetic. |
Let's take a step back.
Look at your list. How many of those "Hard-Core" games are on the Wii? Why did you not list any of the Wii's "Hard-Core" games? Anywho, that was an aside. You don't have to answer those questions as they're rhetorical (something for you to think about at any rate).
The problem here is partially real but also partially perception. Massive efforts are selling, but not at the levels that people are seeing the so-called "shitty games" selling at. It doesn't matter whether you call yourself "Casual," "Hard-Core," or a rutabega, you get equally distressed when games you like are not meeting your expectations. You become even more distressed when games you dislike appear to be surpassing your expectations. You also begin to worry that if the people making decisions about developer resources are seeing the same thing you are (as Ubisoft proves), that the things you like will become less common in the future. Putting aside the idiotic labels, these are valid concerns.
None of that is new however. Great games have gone unnoticed in the past. The difference this generation brings is that there are now labels for things people don't like and things they do: Casual and Hard-core. Nothing has changed but people can now say "I hate that casual crap" in a blanket (often ignorant) statement and condemn a lot of games they don't like (as well as some they probably would).
The article writer isn't succeeding here because his taste is the end-all-be-all as the people above are complaining about. The writer is succeeding because he is looking past the pointless labels.
