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Video Gaming for Grownups
Our resident old-school gamer takes on the next—generation consoles
Steve Morgenstern
From the Print Edition:
William Shatner, Sept/Oct 2006
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Why does the maturity of the gaming audience make a difference? Because we are a more demanding audience. Every year, hundreds of thousands of newcomers enter the gaming marketplace, video gaming virgins who've never flown a spaceship or decapitated a zombie before, whose blood boils and wallets open at old ideas with a shiny new facade. But if a huge percentage of your potential audience is wise in the ways of the gaming world, you're going to have to work a little harder to impress us with your creative abilities. Why, for instance, are so few truly humorous games available, when comedy is such a mainstream entertainment genre? How can you tailor the game—playing experience to grown—up lives, where we may have a half hour at a stretch to play and want to save our progress whenever we're good and ready? And how about modulating the level of difficulty so we can actually see the ending of the games we've paid for with our hard—earned money, instead of tossing away the controller in disgust after hours of frustration? The high—powered equipment needed to create fully satisfying gaming experiences is out there—now it's up to the game developers and publishers to prove they're capable of creating something more interesting than mindless explosions, superior animation and freshly painted dungeons.
Steve Morgenstern is a Cigar Aficionado contributing editor who writes often on technology issues.
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