Nobody seems to understand this so I'll just say it now;[HEADING=1]It's the popularity of Halo that ruined gaming[/HEADING]
Before you click on that beautiful red report button you should know (some of you already know) that I love Halo for what it is; Fucking fun.
Even though I love Halo, I think that gaming would be better off without it. The reason that I think it should be banned is because of what it did to the world of gaming. The first thing that it did to gaming was show companies that they can make a shitload of money by being unoriginal and so they just play it safe and just make sure that they can make their money back meaning that they won't take risks and make a game that would redeem gaming as an art form, a Citizen Kane of gaming if you will but right now they won't because if they make something that's not the exact same thing that we've all seen before the 12 year old twat demographic will be lost and they'll make shit all money which brings me nicely to my second point as to why gaming would be better off without Halo;
I couldn't really come up with a name for this group o' people so from now on lets call them the people that ruin gaming as an art form or "mainstream crowd" for short. These are the people who refuse to give a game a second thought unless it has high definition graphics and looks like coffee was spilt on it from the beginning and it is because of them that games like Killzone 2 become multi million dollar franchises while truly fantastic games like The Void (not to be confused with Dark Void) and Pathologic barely sell at all. It is because of them that Ice Pick Lodge is virtually unknown as a developer but even that's not the main reason as to why I hate them. The main reason is that if we get a Citizen Kane of gaming i.e. a game that proves that gaming can be a viable artistic medium, the overall quality of games will increase dramatically. Think of some of the greatest movies of all time, There Will be Blood or The Godfather, do you think that either of those would've been possible without Citizen Kane? So that is the main reason as to why I can't abide the mainstream crowd because it is them who are stopping us getting our Citizen Kane.
P.S. i cannot have a poll as I accidentally hit post instead of preview so do it the ol' fashioned way.
Before you click on that beautiful red report button you should know (some of you already know) that I love Halo for what it is; Fucking fun.
Even though I love Halo, I think that gaming would be better off without it. The reason that I think it should be banned is because of what it did to the world of gaming. The first thing that it did to gaming was show companies that they can make a shitload of money by being unoriginal and so they just play it safe and just make sure that they can make their money back meaning that they won't take risks and make a game that would redeem gaming as an art form, a Citizen Kane of gaming if you will but right now they won't because if they make something that's not the exact same thing that we've all seen before the 12 year old twat demographic will be lost and they'll make shit all money which brings me nicely to my second point as to why gaming would be better off without Halo;
I couldn't really come up with a name for this group o' people so from now on lets call them the people that ruin gaming as an art form or "mainstream crowd" for short. These are the people who refuse to give a game a second thought unless it has high definition graphics and looks like coffee was spilt on it from the beginning and it is because of them that games like Killzone 2 become multi million dollar franchises while truly fantastic games like The Void (not to be confused with Dark Void) and Pathologic barely sell at all. It is because of them that Ice Pick Lodge is virtually unknown as a developer but even that's not the main reason as to why I hate them. The main reason is that if we get a Citizen Kane of gaming i.e. a game that proves that gaming can be a viable artistic medium, the overall quality of games will increase dramatically. Think of some of the greatest movies of all time, There Will be Blood or The Godfather, do you think that either of those would've been possible without Citizen Kane? So that is the main reason as to why I can't abide the mainstream crowd because it is them who are stopping us getting our Citizen Kane.
P.S. i cannot have a poll as I accidentally hit post instead of preview so do it the ol' fashioned way.