Video games today, what are they?
Most games today are going for the approach, "If grandma can't play them, nobody can." Theres no problem with this approach if you want more for marketing. It's true for everything, even First Person Shooters. It's simple, the easier the game the more you sell, the harder your game is the worse the review is so you don't get so much in marketing. It's a tough sell and it's tough to keep going in the not difficulty but the challenge of most video games today.
Take World of Warcraft for example. You can take the easy approach and just play, or you can get more indepth and then take the much more difficult approach, yet the difficult approach isn't hard enough you just go "Gah, i'm so angry because I need more skill to do this." This is fine, it reaches a much broader audience than before.
Do you have a problem with it?
No, actually I don't it may seem like I do but I don't. What really bothers me is people that play games, and don't even realise that they're playing a game that someone did specificly for you, no matter what game you play. Let me give a few examples:
Lets say you play a game on facebook, Farmville for example. You enjoy this game, this game is fun. You don't play "hardcore" games like call of duty or something along those lines. Your playing a game to enjoy it. Just because someone else plays something else doesn't mean you should shun that person as a gamer, and your a normal person. Do you know why? That's because your a gamer too. You game on facebook, it's a platform no differnt than the PS3 or Xbox.
Another good example is my sister in law. She doesn't like video games yet she plays casual games like the ones you find on Yahoo games or whatever. She doesn't like video games, yet she plays them. Kind of pointless to me because, her, herself is a gamer. We just like differnt types of games.
Game specificly for me? What do you mean?
The target audience. Simple as that, if your a casual gamer then you enjoy the casual games. So these people market on Yahoo Games, Big Fish Games, and the PC game selection at Wal-Mart.
So in conclusion what pisses me off is this:
Be it anything in the gaming industry, Casual game, FPS, RPG, Racing, Puzzle, JRPG. Whatever you enjoy, whatever you look for in a game, anything your interacting with and it enertains you. Your gaming.
Gaming isn't new, it's been around for centuries. It's a part of our human nature to compete, reach a goal, or simply saying, "I'm the best, and you can't beat me haha."
For the girlfriends who complain that they're boyfriends play too much xbox, for the mothers complaining that they're child will grow up to be a nobody. To the bitchy sister in law that complains about how her games challenge and yours don't. Rise up, everyone's a gamer, everyone's played a game. Just STFU and leave us alone. We've gotta pwn this dude and teabag him.
I have to say I totally agree with you.
ReplyDeleteIt's great that there's so much diversity in regards to target audience. Many people argue that gaming used to be a cult activity where it became something only geeks and nerds took part in whereas now it's opened to the masses and became something lacking in creativity and challenge.
But that simply isn't true; the casual gamer wouldn't be found playing games such as World of Warcraft. Opening gaming to the masses has allowed major players such as Microsoft and Sony to raise more funds to put back into the hardcore market.
-ACynicalGeek