ToadOfSteel wrote:
twoshots wrote:
people don't want to have to be completely tech savvy just to play video games. It's a waste of time and effort.
It's people like these that I find most annoying. I paid a heavy price to be a gamer in the early 90s in the form of being constantly bullied in school because I was one of those "video game nerds" instead of wanting to go out and play football with people or something. All those people that bullied me then are now gaming, except they don't want to learn the technology like I did to become a gamer, so they use pre-packaged systems that are all uniform so they don't have to bother with getting into the technology. And, as usual, they use their overwhelming numbers to get their way, in this case to force true gamers off their own market. At least in the 90s I was able to retreat back to my room and game to escape the world. Now even that avenue looks like it's going to be closed...
I'm not saying that you fall under that category, though... I just dont like what that category is doing to us...
I'm not so sure I understand the claim that not so many people didn't enjoy prepackaged systems even back then. I mean, I'm pretty sure plenty of people were trying to get their NES to work (and failing...) before id finally even got PC sidescrollers off the ground (1990). Now, I guess, you could claim that videogames are mainstream and that's a problem that couldn't happen without consoles, but I hardly see how that makes PC gamers in any worse a position than die hard shmup fans (and shmups, being largely a Japanese genre, are console based). I mean, hardcore console/arcade gamers aren't exactly in their prime, at least for old schoolers.
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08 Aug 2008, 2:16 pm
