In my professional experience, if all you tell kids is ‘go to school, get into college’ and basically run their education by-the-numbers, they’ll be in for a rude awakening growing up.

Study, kids! That way you can go to a good college, graduate, and get loaded down with student loans.

We’ve seen this in the franchise before. The reveal trailer for Black Ops II, which took the franchise into the future for the first time, had the most dislikes of any reveal trailer we had ever made at that time. And that, of course, went on to become our most successful game ever.

They never found the Wii U more or less confusing than these insane naming conventions. They just made that excuse up because they hate Nintendo, Because Nintendo.

Given the amount of hinting done in the past that Nintendo doesn’t really know what to do with the series to make it popular again, the delays on this game, and the possible importance it may have for determining the fate of Zelda in the future...it kinda makes sense?

I’d say listen to this week’s GiantBomb podcast. They touch on this, and on comment that makes sense is that, E3 isn’t this mainstream event that Gamers and critics make it out to be.

Because they hate Nintendo, Because Nintendo

I’d say 3 and 4, just because I really like those, and it’s when the series began adopting its more modern mechanics. Stuff like a day/night cycle, developing relationships with other characters, etc. didn’t really get rolling til 3. I’m guessing 5 will be very similar in that regard, but with a different world to go…

Maybe that’s why I’ve liked FO4 much less than 3 or New Vegas.

maybe this is just the decade of Getting Mad About Things

That’s interesting - I grew up on console games and only got the bad end of flak for it. Didn’t experience other PC gamers who were more about talking about why they like PC.

well, Zhed was the one saying literally NOBODY says it. I don’t need to prove a percentage - I know I’ve seen it, and I know I’ve seen it in enough frequency to at least correlate that ‘casual’ is the safe word hardcore gamers use to describe the stuff they see as beneath them.

There are lots of way to determine who’s creating a new account, and if that is a previous account holder, or even preventing the creationof new accounts outright.

I’ll take your word for it...I just don’t see how opening with that is a jab at the hardcore. If anything, it reads like it reaffirms that group’s preconceived notion that the only way to enjoy games they loathe is as ‘trash novel’ status. Or...I don’t know, a guilty pleasure. Ironically. Something. But don’t you dare…

I’m not the one saying ‘casual gamers are retarded’ - I’m saying I’ve seen enough self-avowed ‘hardcore’ use the two interchangeably that, to me, the term ‘casual gamer’ is just code they use for their disgust and derision of the people who like they things they can’t stand.

I have seen plenty of comments around gaming forums (GAF, here, GiantBomb, etc.), that are outright dismissive, antagonistic, disgusted by, and insulting towards ‘casual games’ and ‘casual gamers.’ They’re Gamer-invented ghettos to effectively say, “you belong here - we think you and what you like are dumb, trashy,…

“Trash novels of casual games,” aka “I’m a Real Gamer and embarrassed to enjoy something made for ‘retard soccer moms’ (what Gamers mean every time they utter ‘casual gamer’)“

Every Year is the End of Nintendo (tm), 2016 Edition.

Because that totally helped them with the GameCube. You know, that console for ‘kiddie fags’ (Gamers terms, not mine) that had the best hardware, and still only got poor PS2 ports. Because PS2 was the weakest, but best selling, system at the time.

Except I’m having fun with it.