Posted June 10, 2015
amok: I was speaking about game designers.... all the criticism is from users, not makers. So with the cooks allegory - the cooks like the food but the diners do not. Maybe it means cooks likes gourmet food, while the diners just want BigMac's? Maybe the allegory don't work?
YOU dont like them. YOU think they are boring (and many others too), but dont you actually think that some people have different taste than you and find other things interesting and fun? I liked Gone Home and think it was both fun and very interesting.
Off course it is not. Tolerance can very much be a one way street. it is either something you are or you are not. If the other party is not tolerant, it is not an excuse for you to not be. It just mean you are the 'better' and more adult person.
no - ebb and flows in fashion. Genre follows fashions also.
LeonardoCornejo: Not all devs like those games. I have not seen non idie devs actually praising those games. The only persons I have seen praising those games are "critics" and indie awards, however those two groups are compromised by corruption. Most of the individuals that praised Depression Quest were in fact financially or emotionally involved with Quinn. The validity of their praise is into question. YOU dont like them. YOU think they are boring (and many others too), but dont you actually think that some people have different taste than you and find other things interesting and fun? I liked Gone Home and think it was both fun and very interesting.
Off course it is not. Tolerance can very much be a one way street. it is either something you are or you are not. If the other party is not tolerant, it is not an excuse for you to not be. It just mean you are the 'better' and more adult person.
no - ebb and flows in fashion. Genre follows fashions also.
And it is not only that I don't like those games. MANY gamers, specially hardcore non hpster gamers don't like it. It is a common consesnsus that they are not fun, that even led FullMcIntosh to say games should not be fun to play.
Zabohad: About the casual vs. hardcore gamers, I thing there is no real division. More demanding "hardcore" games cater to different needs than the "casual" ones, but both can be played and loved by the same person; just on different occasions and for different reasons. it's also false dichotomy. There are also gamers invested into gaming for some outside reason: wargamers for example can be "totally hardcore" in regard of strategies and just "casual" in all other games.
Thank you for this. So many ideas of what "casual" and "hardcore" mean to each individual but a lot of the different types seem to be thought up by other gamers that don't agree with how someone else plays a game that they do or don't play so want to sound more "hardcore" instead of just...stupid at times. Everyone is going to have their idea of what this stuff means but it really doesn't mean much at all anyway. I can talk about how I'm casual in one type of game and hardcore in another...and yet be told I'm not hardcore because I haven't done things like someone else has with that very genre or whathaveyou.Post edited June 10, 2015 by Arinielle