tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1580029372570359363.post7242693879517622825..comments2024-01-22T03:30:48.482-05:00Comments on Game Genus: Core gamers: You guys are so overStratagermhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16674545127540735737noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1580029372570359363.post-45853142206665729132011-06-16T02:53:30.999-04:002011-06-16T02:53:30.999-04:00<---Same Anonymouse
Touche.
Generalizing lik...<---Same Anonymouse<br /><br />Touche. <br /><br />Generalizing like I did in the other post was fairly narrow without considering the rapidly evolving and wildly appealing nature of interactive media that is gaming. <br /><br />Back then before electronic gaming we had board games (monopoly/snakes&ladders) that have withstood the test of time, because they gave us and facilitated the social stimuli that we as communal primates crave. <br /><br />Digital social gaming is to us what board games were to our ancestor from 3500 B.C. to the 20st century.<br /><br />It also explains the almost instantaneous appeal of social networking sites like facebook/myspace, so much so that I have plenty of friends who simply cannot live without it (or so they say).<br /><br />To clarify my stance. My hostility isn't a dejection of the rapidly evolving social media platform, but rather chagrin and disillusionment at peoples' prejudices toward every other digital game genre in the market without a massive social appeal, especially single player experiences, which in my opinion can be superior storytelling mediums to books or movies. <br /><br />E.g. ShadowoftheColossus/Psychonauts/MassEffect/Penumbra.<br /><br />You heard the stereotypes, "You're a gamer or did you mean a basement dweller antisocial outcast?"<br /><br />If you aren't playing with others thru established social norms/devices (like facebook), you aren't living life, you HAVE NO LIFE. The irony is palpable, but then again the media doesn't do the world a favor by stigmatizing FPS/MMOs/Fight/RPG genres.<br /><br />Thankfully though, technology is breaking barriers and slowly but surely the other subcategories of the gaming world are gaining greater exposure and acknowledgment from society at large.<br /><br />However, can we really solve social prejudices with more technology and digital innovation? Future will tell.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com