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LNRT on 09 July 2008
Pristine20 said:
LNRT said:
There are some very well constructed counter arguments in here. I agree with the people here. This guy needs to get off his high horse and enjoy his games or did the casual games destroy GTA4, MGS4, and Halo 3 so he is no longer able to play his "hardcore" games.

 

I think his point is that there would be no more innovation on the "hardcore" front, only established franchises would remain. No more Vagrant Storys or Xenogears popping out of the blue. Only FF will remain. Get the picture?

That is his point and it is completely baseless. There are a lot of "casual" games out there but they are not nor will they stop the "hardcore" games from coming out also. My point is he needs to stop bitching and enjoy his games.



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noname2200 on 09 July 2008
LNRT said:
Pristine20 said:
LNRT said:

That is his point and it is completely baseless. There are a lot of "casual" games out there but they are not nor will they stop the "hardcore" games from coming out also. My point is he needs to stop bitching and enjoy his games.

He can't. Every time he tries, he think of those damn casuals ruining his hobby with their stupid non-games, and then he just has to pause and cry.

 



king_of_the_castle on 09 July 2008

I would think "hardcore" gamers would welcome all these "casual" games and gamers coming into the market because it provides the revenue to make better games. We've seen time and again developers state they are using casual game revenue to fund their bigger projects.

Besides, I like having casual games, it's nice having my wife ask me to play wii sports with her, she's never done that with any other game or system that before.



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noname2200 on 09 July 2008
king_of_the_castle said:
I would think "hardcore" gamers would welcome all these "casual" games and gamers coming into the market because it provides the revenue to make better games. We've seen time and again developers state they are using casual game revenue to fund their bigger projects.

Besides, I like having casual games, it's nice having my wife ask me to play wii sports with her, she's never done that with any other game or system that before.

I'm going to need you to clear out your game library and turn your snobcore card in before the end of the day. You're no longer cool, man.

 



NJ5 on 10 July 2008
RolStoppable said:
I can already see it: "Snobcore" is going to become very big here on VGC.


Sounds good to me. By the way, are you always up until this late? I'm only doing it to reduce jet lag after the flight I'm taking soon. Well, that and I hadn't packed or done the laundry yet.

 



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king_of_the_castle on 10 July 2008
noname2200 said:
king_of_the_castle said:
I would think "hardcore" gamers would welcome all these "casual" games and gamers coming into the market because it provides the revenue to make better games. We've seen time and again developers state they are using casual game revenue to fund their bigger projects.

Besides, I like having casual games, it's nice having my wife ask me to play wii sports with her, she's never done that with any other game or system that before.

I'm going to need you to clear out your game library and turn your snobcore card in before the end of the day. You're no longer cool, man.

 

 

Curse my tolerance for casual games!  Luckily, I'm used to not being cool though.



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soccerdrew17 on 10 July 2008

i have to completely agree with him.

there are two kinds of casual games: shit and good. despite what people think, guitar hero/rock band is not a hardcore game. its a casual game, that is actually made well. nintendo games are almost all casual (except zelda, metroid, and smash), but they are almost always made well.

artistic games have often sold like crap, but never before have crap games sold like they are now.



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Fonzerelli on 10 July 2008

why are we shooting the messenger ?? It is the developers fault to ignore the wii. Wii gamers have to fall back of Beach Sports, Game Party, etc .. because they do not have MGS4, Assassins Creed, Gears OF War, Virtua Fighter 4 etc.... on the Wii.

You have to accept the Wii as the market leader and give it the respect it deserves, the demand for Wii is not going to reduce just because you do not make games for it.



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sc94597 on 10 July 2008
soccerdrew17 said:
i have to completely agree with him.

there are two kinds of casual games: shit and good. despite what people think, guitar hero/rock band is not a hardcore game. its a casual game, that is actually made well. nintendo games are almost all casual (except zelda, metroid, and smash,fire emblem, mario kart(both), earthbound/mother, donkey kong, star fox,golden sun, pokemon(both),Chibi Robo,F-Zero,Advance Wars, Battalion Wars,Wario(main series),Kid Icarus, Kirby, Pikmin and many many many more), but they are almost always made well.

artistic games have often sold like crap, but never before have crap games sold like they are now.

So you were saying nintendo games are all casual except for  Mario, Metroid , and Zelda?

 



steven787 on 10 July 2008

Good for him.  I am going to go play Boom Blox.



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