EGM Stands Firm on their Endless Ocean Stupidity
So I get my latest free copy of EGM (no way I'm paying for this garbage), and I see that they bothered to address Endless Ocean again thanks to a letter written by one of their readers. The reader politely explains that educating people through videogames can actually be a good thing and bring credibility to the medium - A very good point all around. Well, like a typical internet asshole who tramples over any sensible points that are being made in a discussion in order to blast his stupidity, EGM says:
Certainly, and when that glorious day comes, the editors of Electronic Teaching Monthly will no doubt fall all over themselves talking about how great such games are. In the meantime, we're relegating fish petting sims to our new "Electronic Nongaming Monthly" section.
Let's go over this again folks. EGM refused to review Endless Ocean calling it a "non-game", they got the facts wrong about the game when they bashed it and now they are standing by their utter lack of reason or intelligence. +1 for TeH Hardc0r3 GamerZ!!!!11!!
Can this magazine get any more shitty? Why yes. Yes it can!
If you thought that their new section called "Nongaming Monthly" was a joke well think again. I held out some hope that this was a really bad joke, but no it isn't. They actually intend to start bashing games that don't meet their Hardc0r3 standards of what a ReALz game is. Their next target is My Horse and Me, and while they admit that it has "plenty of gamey elements" they still label it with the new Wii hating fanboy term "non-game". It doesn't get more fanboy than that folks.
Amazingly, these idiots Hardc0r3 GamerZ think they are doing some great service by attacking casual games (And yes, these are casual games, and casual games have been with us for many, many years). What they're really doing is showing the world how stupid and intolerant they are of games that don't suit their tastes. They foolishly believe that the Wii and the casual games it supports are going to destroy gaming and bring about the end of bloody, breast-filled frag fests. The fact that casual games have been around for years already proves these people wrong. The fact that the Wii has a bunch of bloody, breast-filled games doubly proves them wrong.
If you really care about gaming then you would be applauding the fact that Nintendo has spurred some diversity and change in the stagnant pool that was the videogame industry. Even today some developers refuse to broaden their horizons and keep making the same shit over and over and over and over. Now I love my sequels, but I'd be a fool to think that the industry didn't need to expand beyond Halo 10, Call of Duty 21 and Generic First Person Shooter #534,846.
Source: EGM, March '08, #226, page 10
