5 Things Hardcore Gamers Need to Get Over

[Raven Gold]

My issues with the casual market don't revolve around games like peggle, I don't even care about them. But the games that have potential for greatness but get dumbed down for people who should go play something else, like in traffic.
Games on this list include:
Spore.
Need For Speed.
Medal of Honor: Airborne.
C&C Generals and onward.
Dead Space.
CoD: MW2.
Battlefield.
Crysis.
See the pattern? EAids!
Also note: great sales =/= great games.

Halo: I quite liked the 1st one on the pc. What I don't like about is the fact that other FPS franchises, that used to be very sophisticated are trying to copy Halo's playing style, at least when it comes to the PC versions. (MW2 is the culprit here.)

The economy: Refer back to the 1st point for the culprit.

Motion controlers: Well just like peggle, I don't give a phyling phuck. If I want to dance around like a twit waving a penis joke in my hands, I'll go to a nightclub.

And the last point I agree fully. FPS games are great! The problem is that it's being saturated with utter crap.

[powderbucket]

My issues with the casual market don't revolve around games like peggle, I don't even care about them. But the games that have potential for greatness but get dumbed down for people who should go play something else, like in traffic.
Games on this list include:
Spore.
Need For Speed.
Medal of Honor: Airborne.
C&C Generals and onward.
Dead Space.
CoD: MW2.
Battlefield.
Crysis.
See the pattern? EAids!
Also note: great sales =/= great games.

Exactly, and that is where my gripe about 'causal' gaming lies. However, it's not that there's anything particularly wrong with the games, it's the motivations behind the development that make one feel more like a consumer and less like a gamer.

[Raven Gold]

Exactly, and that is where my gripe about 'causal' gaming lies. However, it's not that there's anything particularly wrong with the games, it's the motivations behind the development that make one feel more like a consumer and less like a gamer.

Yeah. If those games were made to tier full potential, than I wouldn't care about the casual market. Everybody CAN actualy get what they want. True gamers can get great games, casuals can still get games, pubs/devs can still get lots and lots of cash. So why shaft the gamers?

The thing is that casuals are willing to accept anything and the developers ask "why bother?".

[Dan]

Raven Gold, you almost had me until you slagged off Dead Space. That's just unforgivable.

[Tsar]

Raven Gold, you almost had me until you slagged off Dead Space. That's just unforgivable.

Dead space was a good game

[Murph]

Dead space was a good game

Dead Space was and is an incredible game.
God knows what Raven's got against that one :/

[fridgevr]

Halo: I quite liked the 1st one on the pc. What I don't like about is the fact that other FPS franchises, that used to be very sophisticated are trying to copy Halo's playing style, at least when it comes to the PC versions. (MW2 is the culprit here.)

Oky in my honest opinion you are talking rubbish. How has Infinity Ward and Activision magically try to copy halo's playing style after the massive success of Cod4? My question to you is, Have you ever played MW2 MP? For more than a hour?