Gears of War 3: The Best Cooperative Experience of All Time?
As soon as I began to play the original GOW I realized that there was something about the game’s blend of action and tactics that set it apart from all other games in the genre. Over the years I’ve beaten both GOW campaigns with a wide various friends, family, and strangers, and still find the experience to be deeply satisfying. While some of the systems introduced in the original GOW were still in their relative infancy, the overall Gears experience was always spectacular. After playing a lot of Gears 3 over the past week I can honestly say that the Gears 1 and 2 were just an appitizer for the feast that is Gears of War 3.
Time to get Elena saddled up for Battlefield 3! “It’s the cool thing to do! Now give me covering fire!”
Micah, I think you and I discussed this before. I think the number of gamers is actually sub-dividing the culture. It also goes beyond casual and hardcore.
Yeah, how you define “gamer” is pretty important. I think polls like these are analogous to saying anyone who drives a car is a “race car driver.”
You can’t call anyone who plays farmville or Snakes XL 2034 on their Razor a gamer. I’m really not being an elitist, but if I start talking to someone, and they say, “Yeah, im a gamer…” I assume we can then talk about games and which ones are good and which are bad and for what reasons. I can’t have that discussion with my buddies at school who play Words with Friends on their iPhone.
This study says the majority of games that “gamers” play are puzzle, board games, trivia, and card games.” I think its more accurate to say that the majority of human interaction with games is with puzzle, board games, trivia, and card games… but I’m not sure that makes you a “gamer” in assumed meaning of the word.
You have a good point. Although, dealing with a lot of young people on a regular basis, I’ve seen a major shift in how people regard gaming in general. That, and a lot of young female-gamers that are very vocal about their passion. I don’t think I knew a single “out of the closet” female gamer when I was in high school.
yo, that’s crazy! i thought my dad was the oldest gamer (69) but maybe not
Al, it’s awesome that your dad plays games. I’ve been trying to get my dad to play my entire life, but he has the attention span of an 8 year old.
Over the past few weeks I’ve really started to believe that “hardcore” is a marking term invented to create a rift in the gaming community in order to sell (justify?) certain game experiences.
While I will admit that “casual” is more of meta-genre than sub-culture, I do not think “hardcore” is the antithesis to it.
I think the widespread demo data and penetration into the home is a testament that games do a better job of highlighting what makes us similar than different.