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Ken Levine Calls Casual Games a "Gateway Drug" Over and Over 

Ken Levine is a thinker. Which means, he thinks. A lot. And what does the BioShock designer think about casual games? This:

I think, what it is, it's a nice gateway drug. It makes people understand the principles of gaming... I think it is a nice gateway drug. I think it is going to strictly expand the market, which doesn't scare me very much... Nothing on the scale of a Wii Sports, but again, Wii Bowling is like the ultimate gateway drug and God bless them for figuring that out because there is no barrier of entry. "Hey, can you go like that?" [swings arm] That's what you do in bowling, that's what you do in Wii Sports.

elnino334 posted a lot of an interview with him here. http://www.vgchartz.com/forum/thread.php?id=19008

Note: this is old but I could not find any of it on vgchartz



"Back off, man. I'm a scientist."

Your theories are the worst kind of popular tripe, your methods are sloppy, and your conclusions are highly questionable! You are a poor scientist. Especially if you think the moon landing was faked.


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LINK - http://www.actiontrip.com/link.phtml?http://kotaku.com/362122/ken-levine-calls-casual-games-a-gateway-drug-over-and-over

Sorry I was having a lot of trouble with it.



"Back off, man. I'm a scientist."

Your theories are the worst kind of popular tripe, your methods are sloppy, and your conclusions are highly questionable! You are a poor scientist. Especially if you think the moon landing was faked.


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Pac Man was a pretty good entry point too. As for Wii Bowling, my girl tossed the Wii Remote the first time. Too realistic??



Whatever will make the gaming industry larger and help it produce more quality games that I enjoy playing, I'm down with.



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Expand that market. I tried to get my 4 year old god daughter to play Wii Sports and well... let's say tennis was ok but bowling was just too much! Maybe in 6 months we'll try it again.

HOLD DOWN B AND SWING! Then let go of B. To many steps for her... then she wanted to GHIII!

ha



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d21lewis said:
Pac Man was a pretty good entry point too. As for Wii Bowling, my girl tossed the Wii Remote the first time. Too realistic??

 I think the bowling has too many buttons and options for this analogy, but Wii Sports Tennis is the new Pac-Man.

 

Each has ZERO BUTTONS, and each is the gateway drug for a whole generation of gamers.




You have to get to first base before you get to second base, right?


fkusumot said:

You have to get to first base before you get to second base, right?

We start with third base nowadays. 



Pac Meng the next marijuana?




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Galaki said:
fkusumot said:

You have to get to first base before you get to second base, right?

We start with third base nowadays.


 So you run around backwards?