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Message: <blockquote data-quote="superballs" data-source="post: 28388" data-attributes="member: 341">In a way, I yearn for another video game crash.  Or even a return to the pre-playstation era where you had to be a pretty big nerd to play videogames that weren't based on sports.  Just felt like a purer time.  I just feel that the state of the industry is a lot like it was in 1983 where most companies just dished out derivative drivel.I'm a bit bitter.  A piece of my gaming soul was torn to shreds when the Dreamcast died.  I still game but I honestly think that the Gamecube was the last pure gaming console, even though I enjoyed my XBOX and do enjoy my 360.I think what bothers me most is the classification of gamers into the groups "hardcore" and "casual".  Ever noticed that "hardcore" usually means someone who plays first person shooters?  Is it just me?  I mean I feel like I'm a pretty hardcore gamer despite not really liking FPS games (and lately my gaming has been more geared to "casual" games).  I mean, I've been not only playing games since I was 2, but following the entire industry as much as I could since I was around 8.  I was gaming far before it was considered "cool" in any way, and I'll try almost any game.  Does anyone remember when almost any game regardless of genre was a completely new experience?  I mean even sequels back then were far more than slightly shinier graphics and a couple new features.  Look at the difference between Super Mario Bros and Super Mario Bros. 3.  You can immediately tell it is a sequel, with similar themes and characters, but it was also a complete re-imagining of the entire game.  (Super Mario Bros 2 wasn't technically a Mario game, the real Mario Bros. 2 was just Mario Bros 1 with seriously hard levels.  We got it later on as Lost Levels on the SNES).  Jump again to Super Mario World for the SNES.  It was a completely different game.  Not only was that a true era of Hardcore gamers, it was an era of Hardcore Game developers (developers developers developers).  How often do you see anything with the likeness of presentation of something like Earthworm Jim?  Boogerman? or anything like that?  Seriously?  With the loss of a Sega Platform, the era of new IP is gone and we only get original ideas at a trickle from any of the big boys.Casual gamers in my mind are the ones that play Farmville and the like (not a lot of play to these games).  The group that self refers to itself as Hardcore are far from it.  Last I checked, hardcore meant straying from the flock and going your own way.  The decline (in quality, in my opinion) of the game industry is actually a pretty emotional topic to me as it's been such a HUGE part of my life growing up and through a very large chunk of my adulthood.  But now, I play TPA almost exclusively.That said....as a huge 2K hockey fan, NHL13 by EA sports really felt to me like I was playing an older 2K hockey game and that's a good thing.  I don't like EA in the slightest but the improvements in this franchise can't go without notice.</blockquote>

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