Posts Tagged ‘hardcore’
Our Gaming Tastes
My game playing habits are based on one key principle; a very good understanding of my gaming tastes and what they involve. Put simply I know the style or type of games that I’m likely to enjoy in the future based on the knowledge of the games I’ve loved before.
Varied game tastes help to sustain the thriving gaming community that we’re all a part of. Ultimately our differences and shared passions are what bring us together or fire up discussion, to me - and many others - those agreements and disagreements help to offer new and changing perspectives on games I wouldn’t have looked twice at before.
Hardcore Casual
What makes a gamer hardcore? What is the difference between a casual gamer and a hardcore gamer? These are the kind of questions that keep me up at night when I am not busy envisioning a T-Rex with Sharks for arms.
Ignoring my penchant for cryptozoology for a moment, it does seem like there is a lot of talk lately about the casual, core, and hardcore market. It seems as though every publisher and developer is worried about how to best appeal to each market. There are literally billions of dollars at stake.
But why would the rest of us care whether someone is a hardcore or a casual gamer? Shouldn’t we leave it to market researchers and corporate executives to worry about that kind of thing? If we are really gamers shouldn’t we be too busy playing games to worry about it? (more…)
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Videogame Jam of the Day Latest Podcast- Barrel Roll #169 - "Panda Games Are Their Own Genre" December 24, 2012After a brief hiatus, the Barrel Roll podcast is back to their old tricks. Jesse, Jonah, Wes, and Adam Milecki return for an in depth discussion of the burgeoning panda genre and what it brings to the table. Jonah finally dips into Tokyo Jungle to try out its panda-related DLC. Jesse fights pandas with increasingly elaborate costumes in Tekken Tag Tournament […]
