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Why is it people have this adversion to children games?

PostPosted:Tue Sep 18, 2001 8:23 pm
by Don
<div style='font: 12pt ; text-align: left; '>I was having an argument with my friend over Kingdom Hearts earlier. He basically scoffed off the game because it's a Disney RPG. Never mind that Square allocated a lot of their staff for this game, and Disney has a pretty good staff too. And this is coming from a guy who went out and bought the Bouncer even though he doesn't play fighting games!

I see people do this to stuff like Yugioh, Pokemon, and of course Disney games. I mean, it's true that something that sells well to children doesn't mean it appeals to older gamers, but you've to remember that it's not like the only thing in the children market are Yugioh, Pokemon, and Disney. For those to be successful there they have to have some degree of quality to them. I watched Pokemon a couple times and I think it's certainly better than your Joe Smoe Anime.

Then again, maybe that guy is just a jerk. He broke my PSX while modding it and blame me for having a faulty mod chip because there's no way his mad expertise of 2 successful PSX mods could've screwed up... and he's still bitter about this even though I was the one who lost a PSX.</div>

PostPosted:Tue Sep 18, 2001 9:56 pm
by Sephy
<div style='font: 12pt "Times New Roman"; text-align: left; '>Joe Shmoe, Don :P</div>

PostPosted:Tue Sep 18, 2001 9:57 pm
by Eric
<div style='font: 11pt ; text-align: left; '>Kingdom Hearts? That does look quite impressive. I don't have a problem with Mickey. :P</div>

PostPosted:Tue Sep 18, 2001 11:34 pm
by Ganath
<div style='font: 12pt ; text-align: left; '>*shrugs* I dunno... which reminds me, I want to pick up that Road Runner game for SNES, that was fun.</div>

PostPosted:Wed Sep 19, 2001 12:21 am
by Don
<div style='font: 12pt ; text-align: left; '>English is not my first language. :)</div>

True...

PostPosted:Wed Sep 19, 2001 1:32 am
by FireAsh
<div style='font: 12pt Draconwick; text-align: left; '>People don't like Pokemon Puzzle League because it's Pokemon. I have seen reveiws of it, though, and it's supposed to be a very well put together puzzle game.

Although there is a reason to this aversion. Say FF7 was made with disney characters would it have been as good? This is just an example, but you have to look at both sides of the spectrum.</div>

PostPosted:Wed Sep 19, 2001 1:34 am
by FireAsh
<div style='font: 12pt Draconwick; text-align: left; '>By the way you write it's hard to tell. Very good grammar. ^_^</div>

PostPosted:Wed Sep 19, 2001 1:35 am
by Kupek
<div style='font: 10pt verdana, tahoma; text-align: left; padding: 0% 10% 0% 10%; '>The same reason you don't see adults playing on a jungle-gym? I'm not saying it's a good reason, mind you.</div>

PostPosted:Wed Sep 19, 2001 1:59 am
by Derithian/India
<div style='font: italic bold 14pt ; text-align: left; '>The daffy duck game was fucking great</div>

Depends on the game, I guess Mario Kart could be considered a childrens game but that doesn't change the fact that it's a good game that anyone can enjoy,

PostPosted:Wed Sep 19, 2001 10:49 am
by Gone to Shakers
<div style='font: 9pt ; text-align: left; '>I don't really care much about what some Computer geek thinks on games, I play what I like. Of course I'm not going to play a game about bunnies and kitties, or Sesame street characters, but, if it's a good game, I'll play it.</div>

PostPosted:Wed Sep 19, 2001 10:55 am
by Torgo
<div style='font: 9pt Arial; text-align: left; '>I won't make any finl judgements until the game is released. It has a great team working on it, but you have to admit it's gonna be pretty weird with Jafar and Captain Hook as villains. Not to mention Donald Duck is a black mage...</div>

PostPosted:Wed Sep 19, 2001 11:35 am
by Slappy White
<div style='font: 9pt ; text-align: left; '>Banjo-Kazooie could be considered a childs game as couls Mario 64 for the N64. Right? And I loved those games. Pokemon Snap was super fun (albiet was quite short).</div>

PostPosted:Wed Sep 19, 2001 3:40 pm
by Eric
<div style='font: 11pt ; text-align: left; '>Whoa whoa WHOA! JAFAR?! Jafar from Aladdin is a main villian?! AWESOME! Aladdin is my fav. disney movie of all time. :P</div>

PostPosted:Wed Sep 19, 2001 4:41 pm
by SineSwiper
<div style='font: 11pt "EngraversGothic BT", "Copperplate Gothic Light"; text-align: left; '>No, I think Mario Kart should be considered a women's game. Heh, you give them a SNES and every single game out for it, and they'll find the Mario Kart game every time.</div>

PostPosted:Wed Sep 19, 2001 6:05 pm
by Gone to Shakers
<div style='font: 9pt ; text-align: left; '>That's just because its multiplayer</div>

PostPosted:Wed Sep 19, 2001 6:05 pm
by Eric
<div style='font: 11pt ; text-align: left; '>Shu-dap Sine.</div>

PostPosted:Wed Sep 19, 2001 9:06 pm
by Kupek
<div style='font: 10pt verdana, tahoma; text-align: left; padding: 0% 10% 0% 10%; '>Eh? What? Where'd that come from? I don't see the relation...</div>

PostPosted:Wed Sep 19, 2001 9:21 pm
by SineSwiper
<div style='font: 11pt "EngraversGothic BT", "Copperplate Gothic Light"; text-align: left; '>What is? Chinese? I knew you quit Japanese recently.</div>

PostPosted:Wed Sep 19, 2001 9:29 pm
by Blotus
<div style='font: 10pt "arial narrow"; text-align: left; padding: 0% 5% 0% 5%; '>Sine sees one or two women playing/enjoying Mario Kart = Mario Kart is a woman's game.</div>

PostPosted:Wed Sep 19, 2001 9:30 pm
by G-man Joe
<div style='font: 11pt "comic sans MS"; text-align: left; '>Pssssh! Writing is one thing, saying it is another. "I speak engRish!" hehe.....oh, sorry.</div>

PostPosted:Thu Sep 20, 2001 4:06 am
by Don
<div style='font: 12pt ; text-align: left; '>Yeah Chinese. Shouldn't the last name Wang be a good clue? :)</div>

PostPosted:Thu Sep 20, 2001 9:53 am
by Ganath
<div style='font: 12pt ; text-align: left; '>"Who wanta som Wang?" Sorry... I couldn't help inserting that quote. :)</div>

PostPosted:Thu Sep 20, 2001 6:16 pm
by Torgo
<div style='font: 9pt Arial; text-align: left; '>Don't think I have a fave Disney villain, but the witch from Sleeping Beuty sticks out in my mind, mainly because she turned into a cool looking dragon...and she said "hell..."</div>

PostPosted:Fri Sep 21, 2001 7:25 am
by Crono
<div style='font: 12pt Arial; text-align: left; '>I've got nothing against Disney, so long as the product is good (which theirs often are). Most of the folks who shun games that they call "childish" are just boosting their ego or compensating for some crap.</div>

PostPosted:Fri Sep 21, 2001 9:47 am
by SineSwiper
<div style='font: 11pt "EngraversGothic BT", "Copperplate Gothic Light"; text-align: left; '>And you quit Japanese? I figured the language would be a LOT easier if you already knew a pictographical language of your own.</div>

PostPosted:Fri Sep 21, 2001 11:58 am
by Blotus
<div style='font: 10pt "arial narrow"; text-align: left; padding: 0% 5% 0% 5%; '>Has it occured to you that some of us (myself for example) just don't like children's games? Why the fuck do we need to be "boosting our egos" in not liking stuff like Pokemon?</div>

PostPosted:Fri Sep 21, 2001 2:16 pm
by SineSwiper
<div style='font: 11pt "EngraversGothic BT", "Copperplate Gothic Light"; text-align: left; '>Actually, you could probably classified most children's games as women's games because they'll go "Oh, look...how cute!" Sorta like how more women choose Sailor Moon over DBZ.</div>

PostPosted:Fri Sep 21, 2001 3:24 pm
by Kupek
<div style='font: 10pt verdana, tahoma; text-align: left; padding: 0% 10% 0% 10%; '>. . . I don't know about the rest of you, but I'm hoping that Sine will eventually reveal to us that he's a sociologist, and the real purpose of the Shrine was to observe how people reacted when presented with statements like this.</div>

PostPosted:Fri Sep 21, 2001 7:05 pm
by Ganath
<div style='font: 12pt ; text-align: left; '>Lol! Wouldn't that be a twist? :)</div>