WTF does that even mean? It's typical of the conversation in this thread though, Mr. "Serious Gamer" with a typically snide "I'm a real gamer because I play Japanese RPGs" elitist 'tude. Can you pass the Grey Poupon while you're at it?
The term your looking for is RPG fan to be honest. What defines a hardcore gamer has absolutely nothing to do with the type of games they play, but more how they play them.
They aren't evil. Just corrupt. Only a few companies are Mooby-level.
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Yeah I agree, this thread should be moved to the general gaming and industry news forum.
Why do you have to pigeon-hole everyone just because they make some statement you either don't like or don't agree with? It's simply ridiculous. FWIW, I represent many of those "evil corporations", but I don't know why I have to tell you that.So, if I had to guess.. you are the type who thinks the vast majority of corporations are evil entities?
I'm fine to trust, as long as I have a option to fall back on if that trust is broken. In this case, I did. Two in fact. (PC and PS4 respectively)
You say no promises were made, my reply would be: When have promises *ever* been made by any company of "lower prices if we do Y"? Simply because it's not that simple. Y could happen, but it could cost more then you thought, it could require more back end support, etc.. there are a ton of things to go wrong, but all the public see is you promised us lower prices if this happened. No sane executive would ever do that.
The bottom line to me is.... for the first time in the history of console gaming, we had three completely different consoles, with completely different directions, and completely different goals. Nintendo, Sony, and Microsoft were all going a different way at a intersection. That was exciting. Now? Now we've got Sony and Microsoft doing the exact same thing, and Nintendo going "But guys, what about meeeeeeee...!" because they simply cannot get any press after the explosions that were Sony/MS. (Guys?! Look guys, new smash brothers?! GUYS???? HELLLLOOOOOO)
I was there, and my name was on the petition actually(I think at the time it was one of the fastest petitions in internet history, but I could be wrong :X)
The problem with the PC market right now is everyone wants to be Steam. I know you guys think competition is fabulous and all that, but it really is hurting the PC market. As more and more publishers realize how successful steam is, they think "We want that PIE!" and here we go.... Origin is just the most widely recognized one that is a detriment to gamers in general.
It honestly would be best if we just had Steam and a non DRM equivalent (GOG or whatever your boat is). The "me too" guys need to just die in a fire.
It's too bad Microsoft had to, proverbially speaking, "take its ball and go home" by killing off the family plan for digital game releases when it backpedaled on the DRM. If Sony can do it with the PS4 sans a 24-hour requirement, not sure why Microsoft could not have kept this feature on the XBone.
I wasn't aware that asking a question was pigeon-holing everyone. This is a internet forum, where I do not know anything about you other then you apparently like Las Vegas, and are a fan of music judging by the picture.
and the line up that is more attractive to asian audiences is what, a bunch of jrps and datings sims starring effeminate male characters with large round eyes and huge drops of sweat on their foreheads, now that is really sad hahaha
You forgot 13 year olds dressed in skimpy outfits....oh, and tentacles. Everything is better in Japan with tentacles.
.Exactly. And that's why worldwide sales are so important to gamers with broad tastes--the more cultures a console is successful in, the broader the game library will be.
The skimpy clothes are only for adults, either good looking guys or hot and/or busty babes.
No offense, but I honestly don't know what the hell you're talking about either. It has nothing to do with "dudebros" whatever that is or "serious gamers".
But to some gamers, that is all that matters. I mean to someone who only plays shooters, it didn't matter jack shit that the 360 barely sold in Japan/Asia as a whole as they didn't notice as they don't care about Japanese developed games. Where as someone who loves Japanese developed games, indie games etc. will care a lot more about how it sells in other regions so they get more support from developers in those regions.
I know this is from way back, but I need to reply to it. Obviously MLG doesn't play JRPGs, It's practically only a single player genre. That was an idiotic comparison and you know it. If you ask me, a "hardcore gamer," a phrase I don't use because it sounds completely idiotic, isn't someone who "masters a few titles," it's someone who games a lot. The games that the MLG plays are more what I think of a casual gamer playing, as backwards as you're going to say that is. Just because there MLG plays it doesn't mean it's the definition of "hardcore gamer," it means those games are what it's easy to make competition out of.
My god you're oblivious. How about any games that don't star faceless suits of space armor or extra super angsty marines with ridiculously tiny heads? If you think that any and all games from Japan are either creepy love simulators or visual novels, you've obviously never heard of a little company called Nintendo.
Nope. Just wasn't sure about your above response as I was arguing the same thing. That dudebros are ethnocentric douchebags who only tout US sales as they don't give a
about the rest of the world. They just want to play their military shooters, Madden etc., and don't give a shit about "weird" japanese games (see posts above), or "gay, artsy" indie games etc.
I guess we'll have to agree to disagree then. I think it's unwillingness to admit they were wrong, possibly associated with mental illness. Some peopled just can't stand to be wrong, so they just see what the want to see from the facts and everything else is "irrelevant" in their eyes.Nope. Just wasn't sure about your above response as I was arguing the same thing. That dudebros are ethnocentric douchebags who only tout US sales as they don't give a
That's why sales arguments always come back to the "herp, derp it won in the US" point when people note that the PS3 surpassed the 360 in total worldwide sales last year despite launching a year later and botching the launch. The rest of the world is irrelevant to the average, worthless American, and with gaming it honestly doesn't matter as whatever sells best in the US will have the most games they like regardless of how it sells overseas.
It must be fun thinking you are culturally and morally superior...even though your grammar hints that you struggled to get out of 1st grade English.
Nice try. I have a Ph D. I type fast and often post from my iPad so I can't bother fixing typos and I'm bad about typing the wrong homophone (to/two, one/won etc.) when typing fast. I guess in the above post I should have put "....arguing the same thing--that dudebros..." But who cares? It's a discussion forum, I'm not going to be anal about my writing given that the bulk of my days are spent writing scholarly research articles and obsessing over every work and piece of punctuation.
great can't wait until you leave maybe move your forum posting to a forum abroad something ending in .co.jp kthnxbye
Being a xenophobe isn't something to be proud of.
Really? Couldn't tell that at all.
