Comments on: 5 Casualties of Casual Games

By: Crystal

Crystal — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 01:46:55 +0000

Yes we are. But we enjoy it, as long as we aren’t playing a new-gen console, and that is the point of this conversation: The gaming industry is more into money than the entertainment of the people playing it.

By: jacob

jacob — Sat, 19 Dec 2009 14:48:28 +0000

You are all brainless

By: Griff

Griff — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 18:48:26 +0000

I agree with the Modern Warfare too length issue, I mean, we wait two years for what? A four hour experience?
I’m not into online shooters, I prefer single player so now I’ve got to wait for another 2 years, and even if they do some dlc single player story missions, how long will they be, my guess; not very long…

By: Chris

Chris — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 19:15:48 +0000

The Wii is a serious commercial success, and it’s a creditably piece of kit, especially in changing the way games are played.

However I think that the shift from immersive games which drag you in and keep you spellbound for WEEKS of real time (every single Elder Scrolls game, Baldur’s Gate, GTA3 or even San Andreas) to these infinitaly updateable mini-game fests (brain training, wii fit etc.) will hurt the industry in the long run, because the people who buy them are in it for the social-zeitgesit thing pummelled into their head by hours, nay weeks of TV advertising.

It’s like the gaming version of the X-Factor – hollow, emotionless and you can be damned sure there will be another one along in a minute.

As a commited (yet I wouldnt go so far as to say hardcore) gamer, I love the games which drag you in for weeks, which have you empathising with incidental characters, which have you frantically button bashing because Solid Snake is about to die and it’ll be YOUR FAULT…

…those in the know understand what I mean.

Of course the games with near-infinite replay (Sonic 1-3 especially) have their place, and an important one – but as someone who regards gaming as an artform, I’d rather see games which are immersive, emotive and have that sheer WOW factor getting the props that some very basic, but marvelously marketed stuff is getting at the moment.

Even the REAL games are getting shorter, how long was Modern Warfare 2 – four hours? That’s PATHETIC! Then again, I suppose we are meant to wait for the add-on pack…

By: Brian

Brian — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 00:01:42 +0000

True there are a lot of people that have owned n64s and gamecubes myself being of of them with regards to the n64 that have abandoned Nintendo but everyone I know over the age of 18 that has a Wii has either bought another console or just stoped playing it altogether because there just isnt good enough hardcore games on it. I use to respect Nintendo a lot but when I turn on the T.V. and see it advertising wii sports or wii fit week after week after week and not advertising games such as Madworld or Overkill it makes me think that all they care about is the money. I know thats what all games companies care about but when I had an N64 I honestly thought Nintendo was in it for the gamers.

By: Luke CC

Luke CC — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 15:58:47 +0000

Speaking as someone who has played games all my life – I think Nintendo’s attitude to any self-toting ‘hardcore gamer’ that rejects the Wii, should be ‘good riddance.’ If these people had stuck behind Nintendo and its N64/Gamecube efforts, Nintendo wouldn’t have had to radicalise and broaden itself out to a new market.

The sad thing is, Nintendo still does care. Hopefully the new generation growing up will have a respect for Nintendo that the older generation in the end chose not to.