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RE: Forget Saddam and Osama, CASUAL GAMERS are the new face of EVIL

It`s quite funny to see how most of you seem to take the matter personally and seriously and not appreciate the comedy value of my postings :-)

RE: Forget Saddam and Osama, CASUAL GAMERS are the new face of EVIL

Ah yes, I can see that I touched a nerve with casual marketing-victims like our friend Steve over there. And at long last, the almighty (yet slightly IGNORANT) Washu joins the fray.

I really don`t want to offend anybody on a personal level (the SELL-OUT has exclusive rights to that kind of abuse) but I have to say I`m amazed at the sight of the LEGIONS OF THE CASUAL rushing to defend their pitiful kind. I somehow feel that cockroaches wouldn`t be the only creatures to survive a nuclear holocaust. The CASUAL ZOMBIES would also join them.

I`ll only comment on Washu`s comment about The Official Nintendo Magazine, ermmm…sorry, I mean Edge. I read Edge every month and I think it`s the only games mag worth getting. I mainly read it for the comedy value though, as they are biased and full of themselves and I prefer to make up my own mind about games by actually renting and playing them before buying rather than accept the word of a minimum-wage paid high-school drop-out, sorry I mean Edge reviewer. Only a few years ago Edge was one of the first mags to jump on the casual public bandwagon that eventually led to the Saturn`s untimely death (Sega was killing the Saturn just fine without any outside help, mind you) yet in a recent article of theirs they practically called it THE BEST THING EVER. What a bunch of hypocrites. Anyway, Edge only wants to play Nintendo kids platform games (I`m playing and enjoying Mario Sunshine at the moment so Nintendo zealots need not apply) or games that are unfair and bad-programmed therefore, in their twisted logic, "hardcore".

Mario Sunshine is fun (if pointlessly frustrating and shallow at points) but one of the best 3 games of the year? Don`t think so! And Edge actually picks Timesplitters 2 as one of the games of the year over the far superior Red Faction 2 and also includes that Deadbox softcore volleyball game over Pro Evolution Soccer 2! They truly don`t have a clue! Honestly Steve, you would fit right in with the Edge editorial team!

The good thing with Edge is that they don`t give a 96% score to every franchise game like the rest of the idiotic mags. And they don`t hype crap games as much as their peers. The bad thing is that Edge gives a 9/10 to almost every boring Nintendo game and that they are too full of themselves to realise how short-sighted, predictable and down-right ridiculous they can get.

Come to think of it, let Edge burn on the same stake as the Casual Many!

RE: Forget Saddam and Osama, CASUAL GAMERS are the new face of EVIL

Hmmm, the forums seem to be overrun by the casual. I feel a bit like Jill in the mansion being surrounded by the hordes of the casual undead. Anyhoo, glad to see the ESTEEMED SCAPEGOAT, i.e. T.G.C.M.O.O.T. rearing his ugly, casual head. Now, before rightly slagging him off, I`d like to point out he`s a bitter little focker. Master Bruce kept beating his times at Screamer back in 95, Sega Rally in 97, FIFA in 99, Marvel Vs Capcom 2 in 2000 and god knows he`s p***ing his panties at the thought of me crushing his sell-out Chelsea at PES2 right now.

But all you casual zombie fellas got one thing wrong. What makes a gamer CASUAL is not how many hours per week he spends playing. I really don`t care if you spend 3 or 30 hours playing. What makes a gamer CASUAL is his choice of games and his attitude towards them.

T.G.C.M.O.O.T. says he only buys one good game per month. Like fock he does! He buys more than that and what all his purchases have in common is their LOW-QUALITY. This is the same guy that played Silent Hill 2 for TWO MONTHS and he still couldn`t finish it (even though it takes about 12 hours to complete). It was TOO SCARY and INVOLVING for him. He quickly run back to the safety of his Colin McBoring and Gran Boredom 3 mass-market friendly racing games.

And he doesn`t give a rat`s ass about the story of a game. He wouldn`t know a good story if it bit him on the leg. He actually thought The Scorpion King made a great movie (…). His idea of a deep, involving storyline is, SHOCK-HORROR, Mario Sunshine. Please don`t mention the likes of Flashback, FF VIII or Silent Hill to him. The thought of great stories and characterisation OFFENDS him.

T.G.C.M.O.O.T. spends many hours per week playing games and he`s been playing them ever since he was a little focker. So it`s not the amount of time you put in, it`s the kind of games you play. Thanks to casual gamers, utter crap like Harry Potter, Turok Evolution, Scooby Doo, Rayman etc make it to the top of OPS2`s sales charts and thanks to casual gamers PAL FFX had horrendous borders cause having a second DVD of worthless extras was more important to the casual than having a 60Hz option. And all the idiotic mags that cater to the needs of the casual didn`t say a word about FFX being a bordered monstrosity. They didn`t want to "confuse" their ignorant readership by stating the obvious or bite the corporate hand that feeds them and provides them with their half-baked "exclusives". Of course Square is as much to blame for this insult but we`ll leave that for another time.

The bottom line is, casual gamers don`t care about great stories, characterisation, proper PAL conversions, innovation or the like. Just give them the latest bordered "hip" game and a catchy ad campaign and they`re happy little puppies. And they`re dragging the games industry down with them. That`s why games may look better than ever but don`t play as well as they used to.

So, what are we waiting for, somebody get the stake and the fire ready, PRONTO!

Forget Saddam and Osama, CASUAL GAMERS are the new face of EVIL

Casual gamers are the new face of EVIL. They live and walk among us and, worst of all, because of their sheer numbers they are dragging our beloved games industry down the low-quality road of Hollywood movies and vomit-inducing chart music (casual gamers are also the same "people" that watch Hollywood crap like any Arnie film of the last decade you care to mention or listen to mass market tosh like Madonna`s new album - HELLO DEAR JUDAS!!!).

The casual gamer is the new PLAGUE. He`s an ignorant marketing-victim that unfortunately has more money than sense. He helped to build the Army Men franchise, he brought Tony Hawks up to its fourth instalment (last time I checked), he`s the guy that keeps buying crap platform, rally and "stealth-em-up" (i.e. HIDE AND SEEK) games. He wouldn`t touch games like FF VIII or the original Shadowman with a stick. They`re just TOO DEEP and INVOLVING for him.

Yes, the games industry has grown significantly thanks to the legions of the casual but game-quality has nose-dived. Thanks to the marketing-victimised casual gamer Devil May Cry gets all the sales and hype while the infinitely superior Gungrave doesn`t even make it to the top-20 chart. Thanks to the casual gamer, the Dreamcast died a horrible death while being years ahead of its time. You see, when the DC came out, the casual gamer didn`t want to play 128-bit 60Hz games, he preferred sticking to his bordered, mass-market-friendly, PSOne franchises. 3-year old DC Code Veronica still looks and plays better than Gamecube Zero. DC SoulCalibur still looks and plays better than any PS2, Xbox, or Deadcube 3D fighter. The DC Shenmue games still look better than anything on next-gen consoles. And DC Jet Set Radio still remains one of the most innovative, fresh, enjoyable experiences ever.

But hey, the casual gamer doesn`t care about quality and originality, he`s just an ignorant victim of the marketing juggernaut! Just give him the latest crap movie tie-in game (Harry Potter, Rugrats, James Bond, rush me the sick-bucket) and he`s a happy little focker™.

In short, casual gamers are the SARS of video-games, a deadly virus killing our beloved pastime and sadly those funny little face masks don`t seem to be working either. So, should casual gamers get stoned to death or burn at the stake or even better get stoned while slowly burning? Choices, choices…

RE: Have VIDEOGAMES reached there Peak??????

Judas, you BUFFOON, you forgot to mention the Dreamcast, the best console EVER. Your ignorance really knows no bounds. And did you tell the world you were TOO CASUAL to finish games like SH2 and FF VII? Sigh...

RE: X2 - The Washu Opinion

Washu you`re pretty spot on, as per usual. X2 was OK but not a patch on the first one. Too many characters and too many plot-lines crammed in it. It was a film for casual marketing-victims just like the infamous *Judas*

This item was edited on Tuesday, 13th May 2003, 21:04