- eraseme
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- Exalted Mythic Member
bungie has proven that a bunch of monkeys sitting in front of keyboards can randomly type out a masterpiece. the thing is, when you go to play the masterpiece, you cant help but notice all the monkey s**t smeared all over it.
it gets real old having to wait months for someone like mlg to clean off all the monkey poo.
i read the entire time magazine article, and its not as bad as the original poster thought it was.
yes, the Time author said gaming was on the fringe of society, and that halo 3 had a chance to make gaming socially credible, both horribly worded points on his part. Gaming is no longer something done by children, for the past decade the gaming community has had significant populations of people aged 5 to 30, making a very broad range of Americas population. however, there are gamers and HARDCORE gamers, i would assume most if not all people on this forum are hardcore gamers, and us hardcore gamers would make up a fringe part of society. halo has already made gaming socially acceptable, the author is at least 5 years too late to say a flagship game is needed to introduce gaming to the outer community. i can remember back in my high school days people having lans and talking about crazy happenings in halo, and in college i have daily conversations about the next game coming out or how much bull crap happened in a recent round of halo. however the outer world still exists, i don't talk about video games with everyone because there still is a significant population (constantly decreasing) that doesn't care about a ten minute long discussion of the nub combo, who dont grasp the concept of why you need 2 joysticks, and buttons on a controller. such a discussion wouldn't relate to them.
the author's mistake was not realizing there are more copies of halo 2 floating around then there are time subscriptions to time, and that all of us younger halo fans can beat up all of his old crusty Time fans. If any Time fans wants to dispute this then i encourage him and any of his friends to meet me outside any gamestop at midnight on september 25, and we will see which group has the majority of people and is therefore the more mainstream.
also, wtf with Time calling Bungie "bungies"?