"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

Good for them

The industry needs more people like this guy.

so wen cant casual games be groundbreaking?

Wii sports or wii fit for a example


BTW whats so groundbreaking about GTA almost the same but with improved graphics

This after Rockstar released their table tennis game. And I thought GTA IV was casual?

thats a bit unprofessional to just say fuck casual gaming isnt it?

It all depends on how you define casual.

Do you think casual means shitty games that you don't like? Then GTA is probably not casual.

Do you think casual means games that casual gamers (= people who play less often and own only a few games) like? GTA is the most casual game on the planet.

The latter is according to the hardcore gamer/casual gamer/non-gamer categorization that I prefer, but a lot of people reject it because the former makes their penis feel bigger. =/

@Baddgame he means it in the context that game companies are increasingly having to make mainstream crap just to stay afloat, games are becoming less original, and less contraversial. By saying f**k casual games, he means that rockstar aren't going to give into monetary pressures and begin making minigame compilations

I agree one-million percent with what that man just said, and am overjoyed that Rockstar intends to bring us such groundbreaking new stuff as Grand Theft Auto V while rejecting such tired casual crap as Wii Fit.

On a completely unrelated note, does anyone know when Rockstar will be bringing us Table Tennis 2?

Is Rock* planning on releasing a groundbreaking game or was he referring to that Rock* table tennis?