Every now and then, a comment on an article simply won’t suffice. In particular, one of our handsome readers Leinad Razalas had a few issues with the post, The Problem With Casual Gaming. If you ever have any elaborate replies to any of our content, don’t hesitate to send out an e-mail. Raul’s a tough guy, so I know he can stand the heat. Let’s see what Leinad Razalas has to say:
If Raul is such a hardcore gamer, why does he care about the casual gamers?
“Casual games tend to get a lot of shit from hardcore gamers.”
This is the basis of his argument? I really like reading your site’s articles but this one was waste of time and left me confused.
Companies have always tailored to the masses, the casual gamer.
I don’t go to Berkeley and even I know that’s where the money is at. They don’t make games at all JUST for a hardcore gamer. They would love to do that to show love for the fanbase (why do you think they came out with Metal Gear Solid VR Missions?), but they can’t always do that.
Companies tried to do that, like Raul said if Nintendo released Super Mario Bros. The Lost Levels, “You’ll be tearing out your hair 10 minutes into the game…” But he said that right after stating, “but I look to video games to release stress and help take me away from the rigors of every day life”. So why wouldn’t the casual gamer be the same?
Take a look at Blizzard with WoW (yes, I went there). They’re making the game so much easier little kids can play it or people don’t have to spend 4 hours in a raid , and now you only need 10 people for a raid. This gets the basic mixed reaction from the WoW community that any game gets from its fanbase. A) This game is too easy now what happened. B) This game is pretty fun let me try. Blizzard still has certain parts of the game that only the hardcore can even accomplish (titles/items/arena), but by tailoring the game to the masses they’re going to make so much money and that’s all they care about, not you.
It’s those small parts of a game, may it be glitches, moves, or certain elements of the game only the elite/hardcore can even dare to attempt that spawns your so-called hardcore gamer genre.
I’ll keep it in the Nintendo family for Raul. In Super Smash Brothers: Melee. Which required strategy and skill at the higher levels of play (Like tournaments for what? the very few hardcore). People had to accommodate for advanced techniques like Wave-dashing and L-canceling. All of which were of course not even real moves, just glitches and manipulations of the games physics and controls.
So of course when word got out Nintendo would make another sequel to the popular game everyone knew it wouldnt be like Melee. What was the initial response? The typical one for every game. A whole new programmer? And on the new system they were coming out with the Wii?! Nintendo knows how to get its $$$$$. They must be real idiotic, right Raul.
Raul’s first paragraph alone is the reason why I’m writing PixelatedGeek with a response. He doesn’t even tell us his definition of a hardcore gamer. Did he even bother reading his article before posting it?
“just because you can get 100% on “Through the Fire and Flames” on expert mode doesn’t make you a gamer. It means you’re better off as a guitarist.”
No Raul, you’re not better off as a guitarist, you’re hardcore at a video game. Just because you can play Guitar Hero doesn’t mean you can play the guitar and vice versa. Even Fillmatic said so on their live show which you were no where to be found because I was trying to call you out. Maybe your post should’ve been titled “Some guy beat me in Guitar Hero and he was a douchebag” because that’s all you were whining about.
Raul said companies give loyalty to the casual fanbase, and that usually leaves the hardcore looking for a challenge. Apparently he also always rises to a challenge. What do you think hardcore gaming is? They find the challenge and beat it, if you’re hardcore at a game and you love it so much you’ll find things that other people can’t do, or that you cant do yet.That’s what makes you hardcore, not whining about it.
Raul’s from east LA? He rises up to a challenge? I got 2 pairs of boxing gloves. We can play Street Fighter in my backyard and see if you’re really a hardcore gamer :D
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Why would we need boxing gloves to play Street Fighter? Are we doing a Balrog vs. Balrog match?
Out of all of the stuff I said about you throughout the whole post, the only thing you even reply to is the last part of my letter, the most random part that has nothing to do with my attacks on your views of hardcore gaming or casual gamers. At least you didnt start whining about me writing about you.
The funny thing about this (besides Leinad’s name) is that you both think you’re right.
I hate having to correct people on the misconceptions of Smash’s “Advanced Techniques” because it makes me feel like a dork, but L-Canceling is a “real” move, acknowledged as an intentionally implemented feature by Nintendo. Wavedashing is indeed a manipulation of the game’s physics, but that does not qualify it as a glitch since it is simply a byproduct of the game’s mechanics, not a programming error.