If theres one thing I've learned in my short, but colourful life it's this: People are easy to trick.
People beleive almost anything you tell them as long as you LOOK like you know what your talking about, which is why anything with an "arty" or "foreign" sounding name automatically gets a free ride to some degree, regardless of what it is.
Games have come a LONG way, no doubt, but there is no escaping, escapists, that the very word "game" denotes trivial, fun little things that pass the time and are of no great importance.
I think that by simply changing what we call them, Games may avoid ALOT of the flak they cop.
By giving them a new, swanky title or description, that may be all is needed to trick people into finally realising that we arent still playing side-scrolling point hoarders or getting off on "sadistic murder simulators"
So, with all that in mind and for the sake of curiosity, if games were to be given a "better" title, what would you give them?
People beleive almost anything you tell them as long as you LOOK like you know what your talking about, which is why anything with an "arty" or "foreign" sounding name automatically gets a free ride to some degree, regardless of what it is.
Games have come a LONG way, no doubt, but there is no escaping, escapists, that the very word "game" denotes trivial, fun little things that pass the time and are of no great importance.
I think that by simply changing what we call them, Games may avoid ALOT of the flak they cop.
By giving them a new, swanky title or description, that may be all is needed to trick people into finally realising that we arent still playing side-scrolling point hoarders or getting off on "sadistic murder simulators"
So, with all that in mind and for the sake of curiosity, if games were to be given a "better" title, what would you give them?
