shrekfan246 said:
As another straight male who plays video games who hasn't and doesn't particularly plan on ever playing something like Gone Home, I wonder why it matters to you that it's a thing which exists. By all accounts it's actually quite a competently-made piece of entertainment, which is more than can be said for a lot of the "crappy games" being released on Steam lately, and why would any "gamer" ever begrudge the existence of more games in a far wider variety of genres, even if they happen to be genres you don't like or aren't interested in?
You might as well use Starcraft II and the RTS genre, or World of Warcraft and MMOs, or hey, Call of Duty and first-person shooters. It all has the same relevance at the end of the day.
Why is more and more new and different things a bad thing, exactly, when we're not actually losing the things we were getting in the first place?
I agree. If OP doesn't play those
other games anyway, then what does it matter? There will always be a disproportionate amount of brown haired, blue eyed white males(this coming from a guy who does have brown hair, blue eyes, and that odd designer brown/green stubble. basically an IRL Chris Redfield) in gaming. And if that's your cup of tea, great! If not, great! There should be a wide assortment of games for everyone. I for the life of me couldn't come close to understanding why a train simulator would be fun, but there they are on Steam in the Best Seller list.
Likewise
Gone Home. I remember when it came out I thought 'wow, not buying that, it looks boring.' So i didn't buy it and left it at that. Never ranted, raved or raged. Just not my thing, moving on.
But I do see where OP is coming from. I think he's saying there is a difference between having a variety of games, and being forced to play them. And not
forced forced, but peer pressure 'if you don't play this game you're a racist/sexist/jingoist' I never played Mirror's Edge, and I do know gamers who would say that's sexist.
Correct me if I'm wrong here Genocidicles, but I think that's what you're saying. Variety games are all well and good, but it shouldn't be considered a negative to
not play them. That's where us white boys get pissy; when not playing Tomb Raider is considered sexist because we're afraid of powerful women who don't need men yadda yadda
when really, it looks like a very derivative and boring game. And if that is the case, then I'd agree. Variety games would be harmful if they only serve to further polarize the community.