Yesterday I had ventured into a local walmart to see the selection of games and to find some on sale. A man walks up to me while I am viewing PS3 games and says, "Hey bro, what's a good game to buy?" At this point I am surprised because I only buy games when I really want one or when I see a sale. I decide to help this fellow gamer and show him Red Dead Redemption, a game adored by critics and gamers. The man continues, "Oh, never heard of it."
At this point I freeze, for about 5 seconds as the awkward turtle walks by. I recover by telling the man that he should probably rent a game before he buys it, at this time I leave the store and go home.
In the past my understanding of all gamers was that they were, well, like me, but now my understanding of the average person has changed. Majority of people do not go to different review sites and read articles, majority of people do not follow game developers on twitter to know about new games that are being released. Not only this, but the majority of people do not know about gaming technology such as the new playstation move or the new microsoft kinect. When I saw the Project Natal video with the child scanning his skateboard into a game, I literally laughed because I knew that the technology in that video would not be possible on a gaming accessory budget. When I showed some friends the same video, they thought the mysterious project natal was cool and said that they would probably get it if it could do all that, even to this day they still think they will no longer need controllers for all of their games.
Sometimes I feel sorry for these misinformed gamers, but then I realize that they help keep the industry alive, as long as they keep buying games because of the looks of the box art.
The friendly folks over at Razer recently sent us their full size Kishi Ultra mobile gaming controller, and this thing didn't disappoint.
VGChartz's Mark Nielsen: "Upon finally finishing Devil May Cry 5 recently - after it spent several years on my “I’ll play that soon” list - I considered giving it a fittingly-named Late Look article. However, considering that this was indeed the final piece I was missing in the DMC puzzle, I decided to instead take this opportunity to take a look back at the entirety of this genre-defining series and rank the entries. What also made this a particularly tempting notion was that while most high-profile series have developed fairly evenly over time, with a few bumps on the road, the history of Devil May Cry has, at least in my eyes, been an absolute roller coaster, with everything from total disasters to action game gold."
Me leaving it out should be telling of my thoughts on it. Better than 2 as a DMC game.
Still a good game though.
3,1,4,5 to me, never played 2. 5 gameplay is amazing but level design was really disappointing to me, just a bunch of plain arenas, the story felt like a worse written rehash of the 3rd and the charater models looked weird ( specially the ladies ). Another problem with 5 was that there was not enough content for 3 charaters so I could never really familiarize with any of them
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God DMC2 was an awful game.
And in case this isn't obvious it goes worst to best
TSA go hands on with the beta for Inazuma Eleven: Victory Road, but how is the game transitioning to the post-stylus era?
i worked at gamestop so i completely understand what you mean. i simply can't grasp the concept of getting into a hobby, especially one that has a fairly large price tag like gaming, but not doing even the bare minimum of research or following the news. i used to be able to rattle off release dates and whatnot but i've sort of cooled on the hobby lately. however i still follow the news and reviews.
This is not just Gamers, it's more like people in General...
Not to be harsh but the Average Consumer is pretty dumb. They buy stuff for absolutely no rhyme or reason sometimes. (the old monkey see monkey do theory) -Just meaning that some people, well a huge portion of society tend to do things because they see other people doing it...
One example of this would be 3DTV's, which are no where near watching Avatar in the Movie theaters in 3D -In fact today's 3DTV's are more of a gimmick then an actually breakthrough in the technology. (never-mind the ridiculous $249 dollar glasses which are really not that much more advance then the Red and Blue glasses of the old days..
-but they will sell because people do dumb things when buying stuff, some don't research at all, some just buy because friends are buying and some are just impulse buying were you convince yourself you need something.
In Gaming it's sometimes hard to imagine that people would be buying games without doing any research, well actually it's really easy to understand.. Look at what Activision was saying would happen if they didn't put Call of Duty in the title of Modern Warfare... (Now to a hardcore gamer that would just sound really silly as all gamers would know Modern Warfare 2 is part two and we would have no problem understanding that)
-But they keyed in on something bigger that we probably never look at, the average consumer.. the people not buying for the reason you think they are - that market is actually pretty huge, it could be as big as 25 to 45 percent of the sales.. (it's also the reason it sold 20 million copies)
-The grandma's buying the next Call of duty for their grandson, the old guy who is just waiting for the next Call of Duty game (all he knows is it's the next call of duty game), the people buying as a birthday present, gift, reward present... some who never played a COD game but heard so many people talking about it, at work at school, on the radio.. Some one just getting into gaming and heard this is the hottest game right now.
All of these things are not the hardcore gamer, but they make up a huge part of game sales, and companies know this. I have heard people say they bought it because it was the next one in the franchise... or they heard it's the biggest game everyone is playing right now... So yes, these people make up a huge part of the gaming market, and that's something that's really interesting to look at.
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Even if it isn't a hobby it applies, I mean if I go to rent a movie I have often looked at reviews on IMDB, the director or the actors involved. When I go to buy a new laptop, TV, speakers I often look up and compare specs and prices online to make sure I don't regret my decision later...and I can't fathom why people who want to have a good time playing a game don't take a brief 5-15 minutes to check whats hot and whats not so to speak.
I have a gaming neighbour who often likes to play games at my house and he often bases his gaming choice of how cool the box art looks in my collection...but this is ok for him and him alone as he is 4! When someone is older than 12 they should be able to make a decision that is based off more than the box art and the number of commercials have aired on TV about the game.
But when I go into a local game store and I see someone who's about to pick up Rogue Warrior for example, I offer my humble advice as to what other games I think are better.
On top of that PS3 recently received their video rentals, many of which are hi def, and Xbox360 had a huge library of rentals almost from the get-go.
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I agree with this. I can understand someone just walking into a store and buying cheap $10-$20 movies because they may sound interesting and have shiny box art or something, but when someone's buying $50 and up video games on impulse knowing nothing whatsoever about their purchase then that's an uninformed consumer. Even if a game is a new IP from some dev I've never heard of before I would still look up some info on it before buying it. The internet isn't just a tool for social networking it's the information super highway but apparently the average person doesn't know that.