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MajorNova said:using 4chan memes is a sign of quality posting.
lol jk it makes you a terrible faggot
Captain Shrek said:The Kotaku article was the last straw I can bear. We are officially endangered species gentlemen. Let me put into words what I believe is the reason we will soon be extinct:
Know, O codexer, that between the years when the oceans drank Baldur's gate and the gleaming cities, and the years of the rise of the Sons of Neverwinter, there was an Age undreamed of, when shining games lay spread across the world like blue mantles beneath the stars - Fallout, Might&Magic, Planescape, Krondor with its intelligent plots and mature themes, jagged Alliance with its tactics,Deus Ex that bordered on a shooter, Morrowind with its shadow-guarded tombs, Vampires: The bloodlines whose Malkavians wore top-hats and furs. But the proudest game of the world was Arcanum, reigning supreme in the dreaming western RPGs.
So...... what happened?
These games were mostly market bombs. Even the successful one's catered audience that was measured in thousands. Then came the time of the great plague. The Sims was released. Suddenly Sales of computer games started to touch numbers then unimaginable; millions! RPG makers who couldn't dream of competing with Shooters and MMO's realized to their unholy glee that great monies were theirs if they could cater to the tastes of the damned under the guise of an RPG. Thus began the second coming of Bioware with its Waifus and Faggotry. Not that Waifus were scarce and non-existent before. But now they were the focus of the games. Mature suddenly meant Gay and immershun meant 'Romance'.
Casual gamers that played farmwille and read twilight, wanted sparkling suckers and not cool-cats of Bloodlines. The industry recognized this and supplied in abundance.
Know, that these failbookers outnumber us one to ten-thousand. They can't multiply or divide, they can't be arsed to calculate probability. Heck, they wan't a fast forward button for combat. Their weapons are rhino skin of ignorance and brain full of shit. Our weapons are reason and experience. This is a battle we can never win, unless Obsidian determines that making a good RPG is a nobler goal than making money.
Until then, our eyes will have to rest on the vapourware horizon of the Indie games.
Actually 4chan uses Codex memes :/
Know, that these failbookers outnumber us one to ten-thousand. They can't multiply or divide, they can't be arsed to calculate probability. Heck, they wan't a fast forward button for combat. Their weapons are rhino skin of ignorance and brain full of shit. Our weapons are reason and experience.
Ignorance is bliss, isn't it?
Xor said:Actually 4chan uses Codex memes :/
I was browsing /tg/ earlier and I saw a post that mentioned tasteful rape.
And now, .
Know, that these failbookers outnumber us one to ten-thousand. They can't multiply or divide, they can't be arsed to calculate probability. Heck, they wan't a fast forward button for combat. Their weapons are rhino skin of ignorance and brain full of shit. Our weapons are reason and experience.
Could you be more pretentious? For fuck's sake. It's so easy to blame the unwashed masses for the decline of your beloved "true RPGs". I've been holding back this rant since you started posting your blame-the-customer shit threads, but I can't fucking hold back any more.
It is insulting and also completely wrong to dismiss the majority of the world's population as retarded simply because they don't enjoy the same kind of entertainment as you, and doing so only exposes your ignorance. Sit down, shut up, and let me teach you a few things about the state of the game industry.
First of all, so-called "casual" gamers are people who play Farmville or Bejeweled. They don't fucking buy shit like Dragon Age. They never have and they never will. Any game targeted to that demographic tends to either do incredibly well (Wii Sports, The Sims) or incredibly poorly, and the latter is usually because developers constantly underestimate the "casual" market and assume they'll buy any shit that gets thrown at them (sound familiar?). They do not, or many of the completely shitty console games trying to draw that demographic would sell better. See the Kinect, Move, and their related games, none of which are going to have very long lifespans.
A better term for this demographic would be non-gamer, because that's what they are. They don't play video games and they don't want to, but they see these light and seemingly simple games as just another form of entertainment. It is incredibly unlikely that playing The Sims will make them transition to other forms of gaming. Games that appeal to this demographic tend to be simple on the surface so the non-gamer can spend as little time as they want playing without penalty; in the real world, adults rarely have time to sit down and play a video game for 12 hours in between working full time, maintaining a home, and raising two kids. At the same time, these games need to be complex enough for repeated play, because otherwise they become boring.
In fact, the real problem here is actually the "hardcore" gamer. They are the ones who are more likely to buy anything regardless of content; they are the ones who often praise developers no matter what the subject. When Bioware dumbed down DA2, they didn't do so in order to reach non-gamers, they did so in order to reach as many hardcore gamers as possible. Just read Laidlaw interviews leading up to the release and you'll see it. They were aiming for the Call of Duty crowd, not the Wii Fit crowd. It's that attitude - an attempt to blur genre lines to reach as many of the hardcore as possible - that has been the single biggest contributor to the decline of the game industry. Many other factors, like rising development costs and copycat games, are just symptoms of that problem. I could write an entire rant on that subject but I'm really getting off topic.
You are also part of the decline. Pretentious faggots who want to blame the collapse of the industry on non-gamers instead of looking at the industry itself. You won't fix anything attacking the masses. It isn't their fault. Blame the publishers, the developers, and the gamers.
Who is this "us" faggot?Captain Shrek said:Know, that these failbookers outnumber us one to ten-thousand.