poetic codex
Augur
- Joined
- Aug 14, 2010
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In real life?
Yeah, I know [insert joke here about codexers being people you wouldn't want to meet in real life].
But all joking aside, I don't think I've ever met anyone else in real life to have a more serious discussion about gaming.
I understand that on some level websites like this one are self-selective, and only a certain type of person would find their way here, but real life discussions can be fun too in their own way and offer some things that can't be achieved online.
However, as I've said, I haven't met one other person. In fact of all the people who play games at my workplace, only two of them play PC games, and NONE of them ever even heard of Baldur's Gate.:shock: It helps put things into perspective when you imagine that all those people who bought Oblivion likely never even knew that Morrowind existed.
Even more surprising, most of them never even heard of more recent titles like Dragon Age and Mass Effect despite all that marketing by EA.
Seriously, where are the people that make games like Mass effect get millions of sales? Obviously someone is buying them,but where the heck can they be found offline?
You might be surprised, but running into someone who has simply heard of the Witcher is like finding a needle in a haystack, let alone games like Arcanum, Fallout 1, Icewind Dale etc.
When I talked to the manager at Gamestop, he didn't even know about Neverwinter Nights 1, which I thought was a fairly popular game.Talk about putting things into perspective.
I suppose gaming is like music in the sense that lots of people listen to music, but only a select few care about things like the history of music, or music theory
Yeah, I know [insert joke here about codexers being people you wouldn't want to meet in real life].
But all joking aside, I don't think I've ever met anyone else in real life to have a more serious discussion about gaming.
I understand that on some level websites like this one are self-selective, and only a certain type of person would find their way here, but real life discussions can be fun too in their own way and offer some things that can't be achieved online.
However, as I've said, I haven't met one other person. In fact of all the people who play games at my workplace, only two of them play PC games, and NONE of them ever even heard of Baldur's Gate.:shock: It helps put things into perspective when you imagine that all those people who bought Oblivion likely never even knew that Morrowind existed.
Even more surprising, most of them never even heard of more recent titles like Dragon Age and Mass Effect despite all that marketing by EA.
Seriously, where are the people that make games like Mass effect get millions of sales? Obviously someone is buying them,but where the heck can they be found offline?
You might be surprised, but running into someone who has simply heard of the Witcher is like finding a needle in a haystack, let alone games like Arcanum, Fallout 1, Icewind Dale etc.
When I talked to the manager at Gamestop, he didn't even know about Neverwinter Nights 1, which I thought was a fairly popular game.Talk about putting things into perspective.
I suppose gaming is like music in the sense that lots of people listen to music, but only a select few care about things like the history of music, or music theory
