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Appealing for the masses typically include watering down the original formula which may have made it popular originally, this happens in films too sometimes in my opinion.

[Edited on 12.23.2012 10:40 PM PST]

  • 12.23.2012 10:40 PM PDT

Posted by: XRevelationX
wider audience = filthy casuals

filthy casuals = mediocre games
Those terms are tossed around so much that people have a hard time agreeing what to call themselves. To one man he's a casual and to another man he's considered "hardcore".

In once place such as at Capcom Unity, people believe casual gamer to be the term coined with them because they only want to play a game that they can enjoy such as Resident Evil before it became action oriented. Hardcore to them is a gamer whose so into playing video games that he plays any and every game including these action-oriented RE titles.

On the opposite spectrum casuals here are Capcom Unity's definition of "hardcore". But regardless of how confusing the names can be, I understand what everyone's getting at. What I'm saying however is be careful who you call casual and who you call hardcore because white is the color of death in Japan.

Let me use one more example, though. Someone who plays indie games because they are the games that go back to what gaming's all about, fun. This type of person could consider himself "casual" and plays these types of games because he hates the direction gaming's taking. When everyone here says "casuals" are the root of all evil, you're sending the wrong message to someone who doesn't deserve it and implying that this individual does the exact opposite of what he intends.

[Edited on 12.23.2012 11:04 PM PST]

  • 12.23.2012 10:54 PM PDT

Perpetual Ninja in training.

"If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe."

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YES! they want too much money, and that hurts their core fan base because it leaves us wanting more of what we came to love, and less of what attracts more buyers. It sucks, but it makes sense, you know? They need money to live, and the more money they get, the more they get to live.

  • 12.23.2012 10:56 PM PDT
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This is the big hurdle, and it's why I don't deem video games to be art. To encompass a wide audience you give up the author's unique vision, because you're trying to create something that the consumer will be most pleased with. The more consumers you need to please the more abstract things become, until you have a shallow wishy-washy thing that won't tread on too many toes. If you think of other art forms the authors create, with no particular hindrance. When it comes to video games the authors create to please the players. The relationship between creators and the ones who appreciate is backwards.

  • 12.23.2012 11:06 PM PDT

http://www.bungie.net/Forums/posts.aspx?postID=39477223


Posted by: XRevelationX
wider audience = filthy casuals

filthy casuals = mediocre games


You understand.

  • 12.23.2012 11:08 PM PDT
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I wanted to play Dark Souls so badly but the botched PC release makes it impossible. Buying it isn't an option either (not to mention I'd rather have a GoD version).

Anyways, Halo 4 disappoints.

  • 12.23.2012 11:27 PM PDT

I mean it in my bio. I'm not going to join your clan.

I detest taking orders by some "high-ranking" guy who is just power hungry to control people's avatars over a video game.

Skyrim is guilty of dumbing down the RPG style for everyone to play it.

  • 12.23.2012 11:32 PM PDT

If Halo 2 was finished the way it was meant to be, then things would be alot different. There may have been other Halo games, but they wouldn't have turned out storywise like 3 and the others have. So we would probably have had what Halo 4 5 and 6 are doing now, a new storyline.

  • 12.24.2012 9:30 PM PDT
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But doesn't Nintendo do that all the time and succeed?

  • 12.24.2012 9:36 PM PDT

Wasn't there a post similar to this yesterday?

  • 12.24.2012 9:40 PM PDT

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