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Games and the 'Geek Stereotype'
ChinoH81 writes "Video games are never going to be as popular as films or music unless the people who make them concentrate on making them fun, says a leading game expert."
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Games are suppose to be fun? Since when?
I'd say more, but my guild is raiding.
Video games are never going to be as popular as films or music unless the people who make them concentrate on making them fun.
All right, show of hands. Who is a geek and exclusively plays non-fun video games?
I think that to a certain extent Games create dorks. Those dorks go on to create more games which create even more dorks who create even more games that create still more dorks that create still more games...... and slashdot.
Well.. maybe. Or Maybe not. But Definitely not sort of.
Santa: So tell your folks, "Buy me Bonestorm or go to Hell!"
Is this a joke ?!
'Leading experts agree, fun should be pleasurable.'
I nominate this article troll of the year.
Can you believe it? For the last 20+ years we've only really had BORING and FRUSTRATING games! That's why! D'oh!
To quote: "One of the main obstacles was the complicated controls of many of today's games, as well as tough levels which left many players frustrated. "You want a game that is challenging but never frustrating," said Ms Fryer.
Didn't they make the "Deer Hunter" games for those people?
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I guess I have to scrap my 'Europe-during-the-black-plague-simulator."
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A leading game expert was flogged for making stupid remarks. Fired.
that's not a 'movie cost' that's a 'girlfriend cost', a good game can last for months, but if you spend your money on videogames instead of on taking your g/f out, you know what you're gonna get (or, actually, what you are POSITIVELY NOT gonna get ;)
-- the cake is a lie
You don't KNOW fun until you've done the same flipping kick move in Enter the Matrix 4,000 times or kicked the crap out of an agent for 20 minutes, only to have him get up and kill you.
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Most current games have evolved from Strip Poker.
"I have opinions of my own, strong opinions, but I don't always agree with them." -- George H. W. Bush
Ah, but have you ever made out while playing a video game?
"Making games fun?" So I *wasn't* having fun playing games all of those years since I got an Atari 2600! I'll tell my parents to take back every yelling they gave me for not doing my homework and "having fun" instead.
I thought that group was called "linux users".