The gaming industry has grown significantly over the last few years. There is a huge problem with a mass market. The problem is that the masses are generally ignorant. Look at the music, movies, television. They cater to people who can't appreciate or comprehend anything deeper than what they are hearing or seeing. You can't really blame them though. People have more important things to do than gain a vast appreciation gathered through experiences in an entertainment medium. Or they don't really have anything better to do, but choose not to. Good for them. My problem with them comes in when there is this delusion of knowledge. People who limit themselves to or have only had a handful of experiences yet claim to know what "the best" is.
There is also the delusion that different opinions don't carry different weight. It is true that people have their own preference, which is something I can respect. J-RPGs don't personally do anything for me. That said, you will rarely, if ever, see me go on about what makes one better than another. A person who’s played over 100 J-RPGs is someone who's opinion on them means a whole lot more than mine, a person who's only played a small handful.
My hate for gamers stems from the people jumping on board to gaming now as the market grows. These people who are highly inexperienced in games have played the latest games that cater specifically to them and not much else. And as with mass markets go, the people being catered to think they know what "the best" is and fall back onto "well in my opinion…etc" when their opinion means less than shit due to their lack of experience. And everyone's fucking played the original Super Mario Brothers, bragging about that is like bragging about peanut butter and jelly to a Master Chef (lol getz it!?). Playing that one game 20 years ago doesn't make anyone well rounded.
It's not exactly the ignorance that gets me. No one has ever been born knowing everything. It's the conviction and dedication to ignorance.
Unfortunately this happens all too often. Not just in the gamer market as you've mentioned.
People pride themselves on being an 'individual' when the very same people are mostly mindless drones
"There is a huge problem with a mass market. The problem is that the masses are generally ignorant. Look at the music, movies, television."
This is so true and it's disgusting and annoying as shit. You know people actually WATCH Tyler Perry's stupid ass movies and show?! People are STILL watching Scary Movie spin-offs!!
It's so depressing.
Thankfully PLAYSTATION®3 is here to save gaming from the purgatory stature that it's currently located in. Dark Sniper knows he's enjoying the best that gaming has to offer for the next 10 years and b3yond.
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I agree with this blog, good read man. The Nintendo Wii is a great example of people jumping on the band wagon. Games did become popular once it became mainstream. In my honest opinion mainstream translates into 1st person shooters. Shooters run amok like a deadly virus in the gaming world these days. Most of the time a console is judged purely on the ability to satisfy the FPS crowd. Kinda like how the PS3 was judged as a "weak console" by many all because they didnt have a groundbreaking FPS until killzone. People would skip over all the great games that came out and simply say Halo and Gears are better. So i pretty much say shooters made gaming mainstream in america anyway. Americans cant appreciate a great story without a 250 pound wrestler holding a shotgun to back it up. I am one of those RPG people and would love for the RPG makers to stop catering to americans and take it back to the PS1 days. This went way off topic but thats to bad i guess. Hell i kinda 4got what the topic was about half way into my rant.. o well.
Astute observation. Snobby, but we're all snobs in some way, I suppose.
And we all know the first Ninja Gaiden 2 beats the shit out of Super Mario Bros.
Hopefully the new Ninja Gaiden Sigma 2 exclusive to the PS3 will beat the shit out of Super Mario Galaxy.
Nice blog. It was a good read. You make some really good points. :D
