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Look, let's be honest here: who actually wants innovative gaming to be the sole thing on the market? Anyone? Anyone at all?
Because I don't. Don't get me wrong - new IPs can be a good thing, but sequels can be good too. Plus, the last game which I purchased and felt it was truly original was... well, I don't remember.
"Papers Please" would be the most original game I've purchased in about three years - simply because in that time everything else is a spiritual successor or an actual sequel of something before that. Shovel Knight is epic, but it's still very much Megaman, Duck Tales and Castlevania rolled into one gem of a game. Even "Papers Please" harkens back to the puzzle games of yesteryear, albeit in a semi-fast paced manner.
That's the problem - innovation mattered more when gaming was a cult phenomena; but you can argue that X modern company ruined innovation all you like when you can look at our long-winded history and find the pattern much earlier. Nintendo and Sega didn't help get innovation off the ground any more than Microsoft and Sony, or EA or Activision, are accused of doing - countless years of competing franchises and being the top-selling games give us an accurate model of the soulless unthinking consumerism that dominates the market.
We don't want progress. Period. Gaming is no weird exception - the human race as it stands today hates progress. We all want to relive the glory days of yesteryear, and as time marches on, the lust to relive those glory days gets stronger and stronger. The alternative in gaming is that we just want to socialise with our friends, and if that means buying the newest version of a series to do so, so be it.
"True" gamers are just people who see the newer breed as inferior people to justify the fact that they spent or spend a long time playing video games when it wasn't the in thing or games which aren't particularly popular and only have a cult following. It's just another form of social discrimination, just like racism. And to be honest, the real problem is that the so-called "true" gamer tend to have the self-same tastes as the "casual" gamer. Unless you truly haven't purchased anything popular to the average person in the last... eight to ten years now, you've purchased something which a "casual" gamer enjoyed.
Ultimately, any "true" gamer is as guilty as the "casual" gamers - because we all bought into our chosen franchises equally. The only difference between then and now, is the costs and the quantity of releases. So stop acting all high and mighty, people.
Because I don't. Don't get me wrong - new IPs can be a good thing, but sequels can be good too. Plus, the last game which I purchased and felt it was truly original was... well, I don't remember.
"Papers Please" would be the most original game I've purchased in about three years - simply because in that time everything else is a spiritual successor or an actual sequel of something before that. Shovel Knight is epic, but it's still very much Megaman, Duck Tales and Castlevania rolled into one gem of a game. Even "Papers Please" harkens back to the puzzle games of yesteryear, albeit in a semi-fast paced manner.
That's the problem - innovation mattered more when gaming was a cult phenomena; but you can argue that X modern company ruined innovation all you like when you can look at our long-winded history and find the pattern much earlier. Nintendo and Sega didn't help get innovation off the ground any more than Microsoft and Sony, or EA or Activision, are accused of doing - countless years of competing franchises and being the top-selling games give us an accurate model of the soulless unthinking consumerism that dominates the market.
We don't want progress. Period. Gaming is no weird exception - the human race as it stands today hates progress. We all want to relive the glory days of yesteryear, and as time marches on, the lust to relive those glory days gets stronger and stronger. The alternative in gaming is that we just want to socialise with our friends, and if that means buying the newest version of a series to do so, so be it.
"True" gamers are just people who see the newer breed as inferior people to justify the fact that they spent or spend a long time playing video games when it wasn't the in thing or games which aren't particularly popular and only have a cult following. It's just another form of social discrimination, just like racism. And to be honest, the real problem is that the so-called "true" gamer tend to have the self-same tastes as the "casual" gamer. Unless you truly haven't purchased anything popular to the average person in the last... eight to ten years now, you've purchased something which a "casual" gamer enjoyed.
Ultimately, any "true" gamer is as guilty as the "casual" gamers - because we all bought into our chosen franchises equally. The only difference between then and now, is the costs and the quantity of releases. So stop acting all high and mighty, people.
To Nice Guys, Nice Girls and the like
Dear all Nice Guys and Nice Girls, including my past self,
Hello, I am a random member of the internet and/or your future self, checking in on you. How are you doing today? I'm doing okay, wish it was better, but that isn't important right now.
Anyway, I have the following piece of advice for you:
Please think about what you say or type or post before you in fact post it. Specifically, if you call out someone of x-gender, one way or the other, of being terrible because they wouldn't do y at your command... you are both an idiot and a massive piece of work.
Think about it, I'll start by making use of an example of a typical "nice guy" respo
Product of my own inadequacy
So, maybe it's about time I just call it, and say that I'm going to stick to softer, easier titles now. As in, I'm never going back to the hellish times that meant I had to grind away at a game until I could feel my soul wasting away to progress in it. The daily grind is a horrible, horrible point, but when it's so I can beat what is quintessentially a prologue because I fail at life, I think it's time to call it quits.
Case-in-point - most RPGs. I don't have a fucking clue about you, but I tend to either need a strategy guide or to play half a playthrough of an entire game as a "trial run" to actually understand the mechanics of everything
Thank fuck for that, I guess
So, I've been having a week off from work this week, and this morning I decided to look at TV Tropes (I know, five minutes longer, and suddenly it's 3am in the morning and where, oh where did the day go?), and I just remembered the fedora meme and the nice guy meme. And jaysus was I right in thinking that I used to a Nice Guy in all the worst sense of the term - someone who made out that they were lovely and kind and generous, meanwhile being this horribly bigoted and misogynistic bastard to women. I'm glad that now I tell people that I'm an asshole, and don't claim to be anything other than that, and let them decide how they feel about me an
Status Update Thingy?
So, it's been a while since I did one of these. Figured I should dust off the journal and let the few people who still follow me know I'm alive and kicking... clearly you guys aren't doing a good job at burying people alive. :D
Anyway, recap time:
1) Still in the same job, in the same town, doing pretty much the same thing. Though I did get promoted to Duty Manager, which in layman's terms means that I can run the shop without my Store Manager or Store Supervisor in. Effectively, I sometimes get paid an extra £2.30 odd to be in charge and have a lot more responsibility in general. -shrugs- Is what it is.
2) Hobbies... still pretty muc
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