SPOOFE wrote:I feel it's a very narrow brush: There most certainly is a contingent of incredibly vocal hyper-sensitive rose-colored-glasses PC gamers with a religious zeal for pushing their bigoted message, and their primary tactic is to drown out any disagreement with noise, noise, noise. And since they're so noisy, their incoherent blubbering receives more attention from game developers and publishers than cooler heads do. Hence, devs and pubs don't hear the voice of "gamers", they hear the voice of "shrill spoiled children".
You may have
meant a few of the many PC enthusiasts, but you didn't say that. I think first of all that you're giving a little too much weight to "vocal hyper-sensitive" posts if you think publishers and developers are paying so much attention to them. Your misguided attempt to call out a whole group of people when one person made the comment
is generalizing too much unless you qualify it.
I don't care if you're a console player, a PC player, or a basketball player. I suspect you're rather young and a bit naive if you think that your comments are somehow helping your cause. I don't agree with danny's "geared to a 6 year old console player" comment, but for future reference, here's how you respond a one poster's comment without alienating 90% of your audience (you do realize this is a computer hardware site?):
danny e. wrote:...geared to a 6 year old console player
What in the world does your inability to turn off "Hints" in the options menu have to do with 6-year old console players? If you didn't like the game, just say that and leave it at that. If you have to follow up your post with a "well, I meant..." it probably
means that's what you should've said in the first place.
If the textures were low-resolution, there were control issues unless you used a gamepad, etc. I would understand a reference to consoles, but nothing could be further from the truth. Why do people redefine words in their head and then expect others to know what they're thinking?