yes |
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16.1% (5) |
hellz yeah |
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6.5% (2) |
wtf kind of question is that |
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9.7% (3) |
No |
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25.8% (8) |
Wrong, ooh so wrong |
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6.5% (2) |
Hmm...NOO! |
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3.2% (1) |
I like pointy things... |
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32.3% (10) |
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BANNED  Posts: 6 Joined: 17 Mar 2008 | |
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Infamous Scribbler  Posts: 544 Joined: 2 Jan 2008 | I think.... you are not long for this board. - J |
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Beat Writer  Posts: 197 Joined: 21 Feb 2008 |
A part of me just died reading that monstrosity. |
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Pulitzer Laureate  Posts: 956 Joined: 28 Nov 2007 | I agree with innuendo. |
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Anonymous Source Posts: 5 Joined: 12 Mar 2008 | Now that the gaming industry is getting more attention is a normal development that the companies will try to come up with new genres to cash in with people previously not interested in games, to my judgment that is the birth of the casual genre. And yes os growing too fast, because is cheap and takes almost no time, and I do not mean only puzzle games, also racing and ither no story driven genres. I am not sure this is good or bad though. |
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Gone Gonzo  Posts: 1186 Joined: 26 Feb 2008 |
One can only hope... |
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Muckraker Posts: 251 Joined: 6 Mar 2008 | It shows all the signs of the last crash. Oversaturation, lack of quality, rush jobs, clones, etc. If it wasn't for Nintendo....we could actually have receded this gen....which might have been a good thing in hindsight. Fewer games but more quality. |
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Copy Clerk Posts: 113 Joined: 31 Jan 2008 |
I don't mean to be rude but can someone translate this into English for me. If this is meant to be a debate about the downfall of gaming I should have though the thread starter would have come in with, at least, coherent points if not intelligent. Rather than leave it to the rest of us. Back to the topic at hand. I wouldn't say there is a downfall as such, just some developers are becoming tremendously lazy and releasing crap games because they know they will get away with it. |
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Copy Clerk  Posts: 80 Joined: 16 Mar 2008 | Not only do you sound 3 to 13 you also appear to be totally oblivious to what the hell you're talking about. Know what? Forget it. You are 3 to 13. Casual gaming is a stupid idea but I'm sure whatever 1337 game you play won't be replaced with a virtual chore simulator. So shut up. |
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Anonymous Source Posts: 8 Joined: 27 Mar 2008 | I got to the sears bit and my eyes started bleeding. I would just like to take this chance to advise that I PLEDGE, as a new member of this board, to never write something like that. Ever. Thank you. |
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Beat Writer  Posts: 209 Joined: 10 Mar 2008 | I don't know what you guys are saying, i like reading these monstrosities; they make me feel smarter than others. |
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Muckraker  Posts: 289 Joined: 22 Dec 2007 | Obviously you don't know what you're talking about.
Thaaaaaaank yoooou |
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Copy Clerk  Posts: 105 Joined: 14 Feb 2008 | I do like pointy things. Also, it saddens me that I could understand that. |
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Anonymous Source  Posts: 3 Joined: 27 Mar 2008 | Hmm...lets think about this just a little bit. |
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Muckraker  Posts: 247 Joined: 14 Dec 2007 | I have to say I'm happy with myself. My body, one way or another, has developed some sort of defence against this sort of thing so that when I try to read it, my vision shuts down, and I can only take in a word here and there before I go cross-eyed and have to look away. Go me. Anyways, I will take a guess at what you are trying to suggest, and say that no. Casual games will not destroy the market and replace other games. On a side note, is it just me, or are more of these idiots popping up nowadays? It seems like ever since the epic battle against the king troll, they seem to feel the need to fill the space left by his destruction. |
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Muckraker  Posts: 292 Joined: 13 Nov 2007 |
So, not only are you incapable of expressing a coherent statement, you also have no idea what makes games fun. Your "point," as near as I could tell from your pathetic ramblings, is that casual gaming is a bad thing because you think it's made for old people, and that kid-friendly games are bad because you think they are not for hardcore gamers. Heaven forbid that any games designer could possibly want to target any other market but the hardcore gamers who stay up all night doing multiplayer marathons, living on pizza and soda pop (Note to all: I only do that on SPECIAL OCCASIONS! Plus I don't drink soda, it's toxic, but I am guilty of ordering pizza for game parties), god knows we don't want anyone who isn't a rabid games anatic playing games! There's also the possibility, of course, that you are an alias of some more sensible poster here, come to make the rest of us feel good about ourselves by reminding us all that we are not like this strawman idiot you've concocted. If so, great job. |
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Pulitzer Laureate  Posts: 936 Joined: 21 Jan 2008 |
I'd blame Yahtzee. While he did bring in some intelligent people, who can contribute decent information, written correctly (hey, now that sounds familiar...), he has also attracted raving idiots and trolls, even though they can't possibly understand Yahtzee's witty, brash humour. Now, to answer this monstrosity of text, well, I hate those people who occasionally pick up games that require no skill, play, put them down, and then call them stupid, without understanding the depth in un-casual games. If casual games, and the industry in general, continue to give us shit after shit, we might end up in a gaming recession (I really don't think we'll go ET bad, because too many people have too much stock in gaming to let it fall like that again). Now, I don't mean to say that casual games are bad, just, well, not my sort of thing. But, it seems that casual gamers (casual gamers aren't the only ones who are guilty of this) are accepting whatever shit developers pile under their noses, unfortunately fuelling shoddy workmanship, which always causes a recession in said market. |
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Gone Gonzo Posts: 1186 Joined: 26 Feb 2008 |
No, THANK YOU! I will absolve myself of all responsibility for my rude behavior by not speaking my mind for once.... I will say, I disagree, and that is it... Moron |
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Copy Clerk Posts: 105 Joined: 14 Feb 2008 |
Of course not! That would be like playing D&D in a kitchen or dining room instead of a dimly lit, odd smelling basement. And nobody can imagine the horror that would summon! |
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Paperboy  Posts: 22 Joined: 16 Jan 2008 | What I love about this poll is that most of the answers are either variations of the same thing or not answers at all. |
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Gone Gonzo  Posts: 1108 Joined: 30 Jan 2008 | O.k., I just read through what you wrote. Seriously, do you have any form of English language skills, or a concept of logical extremes? |
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Anonymous Source  Posts: 1 Joined: 14 Jan 2008 | The general poor spelling and 3|33†15|\/| commonly found in game players sets a slight incline on the market as some people thinking of picking up a game might be deterred by people like you, and people who are number-spellers |
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Gone Gonzo Posts: 1108 Joined: 30 Jan 2008 | What kind of person actually does something like that? Honestly |
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Pulitzer Laureate  Posts: 708 Joined: 13 Dec 2007 | I can't quite discern the point, but I'll guess that D0rnan C is complaining that games aren't made for hardcore gamers. Don't worry; Segata Sanshiro will set it right. |
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Infamous Scribbler  Posts: 548 Joined: 14 Sep 2007 | I have before likened the Escapist forums as a five-star restaurant floating in the middle of a sewer. This guy has come in drunk and belligerent without shoes, shirt or even a tie, and us, the monocled elite, chortle at the riff-raff that dared set foot in our gentleman's club. |
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Copy Clerk Posts: 105 Joined: 14 Feb 2008 | At least he remembered his pants. |
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Gone Gonzo Posts: 1186 Joined: 26 Feb 2008 | I wouldn't be so offended if it weren't for the fact that I make a point of not being an ass, or posting anything stupid, and this idiot comes in and posts a poll worthy of Myspace... On my beloved sanctuary from the average stupidity that is Myspace... I have made it a point to NOT answer his poll! |
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Gone Gonzo  Posts: 1134 Joined: 18 Dec 2007 |
Nah, let us pray. On a side note this drunk is correct in saying that more casual games are out there then there was before but thats ok because gamming is getting big enough to have many differant types of gamers. I hope (but not sure that) there will always be the hardcore and the intellectual gamers that enjoy those smart, witty and atmospheric games that blow us away. :EDIT: nevermind http://www.escapistmagazine.com/forums/read/9.56430?p=1#419242 |
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Anonymous Source  Posts: 5 Joined: 26 Mar 2008 | Most computer games are casual games, this is because most people see games as a way to relax and relieve stress or just to pass the time. Casual games were the staple of the gaming industry long before some people started thinking of themselves as hardcore gamers. People in first world countries are living longer and older persons have the right to enjoy games as much as any other group of people. |
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Gone Gonzo Posts: 1186 Joined: 26 Feb 2008 | There is one thing that will never change... I will still play RTS at 90, probably more than I do now. As long as there are good games, or I have a system that will run Empire At War... |
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Red Guard  Posts: 585 Joined: 16 Dec 2007 | On lightly moderated forums you will always have people who think it is funny to piss on the community. It's nothing new and there's really no reason to encourage them by giving them attention. Whether they are well established users wanting to stir up drama with a Smurf account, or a new user who has idealogical differences with the community as a whole, the end result is always the same. Those sorts of people have short attention spans, and much like a scab will go away if you don't pick at it. |
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Paperboy  Posts: 43 Joined: 4 Mar 2008 | I think it started going downhill when people started missing the 'g' out of gaming. |
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Copy Clerk  Posts: 96 Joined: 25 Mar 2008 |
I concur. |
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Copy Clerk  Posts: 51 Joined: 26 Mar 2008 |
I concur also, and hope that everyone who reads this peace of S***t does the same... |
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Infamous Scribbler Posts: 544 Joined: 2 Jan 2008 | Hi to all the new blood. I'm James and I almost never contribute anything of value. - J |
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While In our time of Oblivion fear and rockband WHAT THE HELL HAPPEND TO GAMES?! first of all gams seem to be aimed @ 3-13 year old kids who think looking at the sears catolouge is Hott and erotic the walls of true hardcore make your eyes bleed and stay up so long they should Awesomeness gaming has fallen to the Largest D- bag Gaming ever "Casual gaming" (>.<)-AHHHHH! apparently grandma needs to play firs person shooters with a wii mote in one hand and an assload of vicoden in another If gaming was meant to be for the 90 year old druged out old people it would have been in the firstplace!!!tell me what you think Okay...good