Transcended Gamers

o, when do you know that his whole "casual" and "hardcore" gaming thing has gone a bit too far? Probably when the casual gamers are openly mocking hard core gamers. Okay, at first it was funny, especially when casual gamers are making fun of the hypocrisy of Guitar Hero and Rock Band players saying Wii Music sucks because it's casual, but recently, I've just seen too many list that continue to spread ignorance about this whole "Casual boom" that Nintendo "supposedly" created. (No they didn't). I'm tired of everyone claiming that casual games are going to destroy hardcore gaming (c'mon, how stupid can you be).


So, I guess I want to start a new kind of gamer, one that transcends "casual" and "hardcore", hence the name "Transcended Gamer". What is a transcended gamer? A transcended gamer is a gamer who is bit deeper and more critical towards games, but ultimately judges a game based on what it is. A sports game is judged as a sports game, a shooter is judged as a shooter, etc. We basically don't use the term "casual" or "hardcore". As a transcended gamer, you realized that any game can be played hardcore-like or casual. I say this because I've seen people who play hardcore games casually and casual games very hardcore like. I have friends who will pick up GTA IV or Halo 3 every now and then, but almost religiously play Guitar Hero 2 and 3. Heck, I know some crazy people who take Wii Sports to the next level, and so why should we be bound by these stupid limits and truly miss out on some great games. At the same time, I'm tired of games of that try to look like they are triple A titles, but they suck from a game designer's point of view. So from here, games and the industry are going to be talked about from a game designer's point of view and not judged soley on it's graphics or it's violence and we don't judge games outside their parameters. We won't call Pokemon Halo 3, and we won't call Wii Music Guitar Hero IV.

The mantra of this blog: it's not what games you play, it's how you play the games.