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"Gaming Being More "Cool"?"

I know that over the years, gaming has got more popular. Some of the reasons as to why it has got more liked by gamers is because it has been looked at as “cool” to be playing games. Obviously, boys don’t want to be ridding a pony (Well, the non-perverted ones don’t) through a field gently picking up flowers on the way, but boys want blood, big guns, lovely women and all the rest of it. Girls on the other hand prefer something a little less violent, sometimes, and would much prefer to play something that involves thinking, when boys tried this the brain went into over load mode as soon as they saw the jig saw puzzle.

Also, companies have tried to produce games that are loved my thousands of people, football, wrestling etc.

However, I think that lately there have been a lack of ideas, and I think that the gaming would be so much better if game companies would produce games that are hot on the streets.

I appreciate that this will be a very big challenge has fashions change as much as the UK weather does, so companies have to be careful what games they choose to make.

One thing that companies have decided to do is make Pokemon games which have been very, very popular and I think it was the fastest selling game (?).

So, should companies risk making a game just to please a different audience of gamers, and maybe loosing thousands of ponds, or not?

Have your say.

How is the N64 a childs console there are plenty 15-18s out there plenty of violent games and there is around the same amount of childs based games as a PSX well maybe a handful more for the Nintendo 64.

And there are about the same amount of games that adults and kids like to play!

I hate to admit it but in my eyes it was the PLaystation that made games cool.

Why the PLaystation? Well many adultsa now own one but if you asked them to play on an N64 their immediate answer would be no! Okay I am really talking aboout people aged about 20-26 and not adults in general but anyway.

Take the game Wipeout for example. A racing game which had Club tracks in it. Suddenly games were cool and a mass agthering of clubbers came forward and bought PLaystations. Just because the music had changed so had many peoples ideas of games in general.

Rare seem to have attempted this with CBFD. The most rude downright dirty game you will find on any platform. An obvious attempt to pull older gamers to NIntendo? Yes. A bad game? No. They have managed to get peoples attention with a different approach to the cuddly platform game but at the same time created a gaming masterpeice.

Will it work we will have to see. Maybe the Gamecube willl pull all of those rich 20 year olds away from their Ps2s long enough to be sucked into the world of Nintendo.

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I think to make a succseful game you have to start off something new. Tony Hawks was the first good Skateboard game, Pokemon is the first of it's kind, and Quake was the first of it's kind and the came, out-trigger, Unreal tornament and 007.

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Time_Warp wrote:
> If you are a computer games fanatic you are seen as a geek nowadays
> but luckily I have a social life to go with my internet and computer
> games life style. IF you talk about games at school then people
> think you are a boff and don't really respect you enough.

Luckily
> I don't bother and i have a social life but still.

Sorry Time Warp, but I will have to disagree with you there mate.

I am certainly no geek, and the majority of people in my year play games, and they are all mad over it, but most of them are not as crazy as I am though, but I don’t mind. Many of them know loads about the GAMECUBE and I have loads of fun with them because on one game (Jet Force Gemini) we all bought the game on the same day and we had a competition to see who could complete it first, I had great fun with that.

Maybe it is just that the people in your school that are just not into games. However, I do not see how people who go on the Internet are seen as geeks because I would say that the third of the population in the UK have access to the Internet and that is pretty impressive, don’t you think?

er-no wrote:

I feel
> that the companies will have to get the balance just right in the
> future consoles and games, many girls will still want to 'have a
> laugh' but the boys will want the guns, the games need to stay
> 'cool' but appeal to both genders, which is a very very hard
> task.

Yeah, I would say that this is a very big problem for game companies.

Up and till recently I always thought that girls didn’t like games, but after shopping at GAME much more lately I have noticed loads of girls buying games. It’s hard to imagine girls playing games, for me anyway, but I suppose that I am just being a tad sexist. I guess that girls enjoy playing the same games as you or I do, but I would say that the majority of girls don’t have a fascination with games, like boys do. For the girls that do like playing games, I think that is very cool and I thank them because the gaming industry appreciates every single gamer, as we are the ones that provide the money for them to be made in the first place.

I can not imagine a girl playing games such as Resident Evil, because I am even scared of them games, sad I know. The atmosphere it just so tense and I feel ever so jumpy while playing the game, which at the end of the day is what the companies wanted.
I can imagine girls playing games like Mario though as the characters are cute and cuddly, I love playing Mario games as I find them so much more fun than the “serious” games, but that is just my opinion.

I have three female’s in my family that own a console and who play games, so I guess girls are starting to find playing computer games fun, but they have to wait for their nails to dry before picking up the joystick.

If you are a computer games fanatic you are seen as a geek nowadays but luckily I have a social life to go with my internet and computer games life style. IF you talk about games at school then people think you are a boff and don't really respect you enough.

Luckily I don't bother and i have a social life but still.

'Cool', a word that became more and more used after the beginning of the invasion of the Simpsons.

I remember when most things were considered 'cool', everyone used to say it, 'thats not cool' was used a lot when describing HiTec trainers, 'cool' was used when you had new Nike trainers.

The gaming world has always been in my book a 'cool' place, it was an activity that nearly everyone knew about and could talk about what games they had played/brought/completed.

The sexes do determine whether things are cool or not, and will continue to do so in the future, many girls and females like the colour pink, many boys like the colour blue or red.

Gaming has followed this trend, and for every game a girl will think is cool the boys will stay well away from it.

Although in the recent past more and more girls who are 14-16 have liked the more boyish games, like Goldeneye, I have meet a lot of girls that think that game is excellent, and when I ask them why this is its because they scream and have a right laugh....

....they used to like the Kirby games only because they found him cute, were as I liked those games because it was great because you could inherit any of the enemies abilities.

I feel that the companies will have to get the balance just right in the future consoles and games, many girls will still want to 'have a laugh' but the boys will want the guns, the games need to stay 'cool' but appeal to both genders, which is a very very hard task.

Thanks
er-no

Yeah quite a few of th eMicrosoft Simulators were cr@p!

M16 wrote:
> I know that over the years, gaming has got more popular. Some of the
> reasons as to why it has got more liked by gamers is because it has
> been looked at as “cool” to be playing games...


It was until Gates undid the whole thing with Microsoft Train Simulator. He put the whole thing back a decade at least!

What do you mean Perverted Boys ride Ponys, ZeldaPro and many others have ridden Ponys in Games , ahem :-)