Hardcore gamer = someone who plays only cinematic grizzed white dude games and/or military fetishizing FPS

Casual gamer = anyone that is not a 15-25 yo male, and/or plays anything outside of the previously mentioned games, especially if those games are colorful.

So basically the gaming community is full of gatekeeping, misogyny, toxic masculinity and general chuddery. They make sure they’re the loudest voice heard when anything about games is talked about, and won’t be happy until all games a homogenous stream of bland, hyper-realistic but with a grey filter slog of mindless action with no heart or soul. And don’t you dare force them to read any dialogue or story.

  • CannotSleep420 [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    1 year ago

    [M]ust we bow to an auteur’s artistic vision (or a community’s bigotry) about these things? Perhaps if the artistic point of the thing is to make people suffer in some way, but otherwise?

    I can’t speak for Poogona, but balancing a game for different difficulty levels while still making the game enjoyable is going to be harder for some games than others. That doesn’t mean it can’t or shouldn’t be done, just that the task is non trivial. I imagine things would be better in this regard without booj cracking the whip on devs.