Squeeze the Fish wrote...
This has probably been said before (I hope it has anyway) but I find myself incredibly put-off by most of what the OP was saying. By his reasoning, despite the fact that I have been playing videogames for the better part of TWO DECADES (dating myself, so what) I am somehow inferior because I prefer console games to PC? I prefer sitting on my couch, watching “the action” unfold on 50in of hi-def glory to sitting at my desk, watching 23in of hi-def glory…and that makes me “mainstream” discounts my opinions- whatever they may be- and demands that I worship COD? (Which I have never played, btw, not a fan of FPS).
I can’t even take the rest of what he’s saying into account.
Don’t get me wrong, I like my PC, I would even say I enjoy the gameplay of the PC better than the console, but I simply prefer the comforts my living room provides when I’m embarking on a 40+hr gameplay journey.
I didn’t realize that made me “more of a casual-type of players who are into the COD and button-mashing wave”. And I realize he put “mostly” in the next line, as if that means he wasn't lumping us all together.
Because clearly, I have a totally different experience in my games based on the number of button hits I make vs the number of mouse clicks a PC player makes?
Hi
Please re-read carefully what I've written as well as other posts written by me on this thread as follow-up replies.
I'm a console player myself, not a PC elitist, I've made that clear from the get-go.
It's not that I myself see console players as dumb and PC players as the pinnacle of Mankind. You've completely misundertstood my post then.
I'm writing that's the vision EA and BioWare seem to have of us mainstream console players. They equate console players to casual button-masher players. And not all of us are like this. Some are, of course.
I specifically wrote that COD players, such as myself, are not dumb. It's a mistake they (EA and Bioware) are making on misjudging their target audience, the larger slice of the cake, not to mention how they've misjudged the hardcore PC RPG gamers.
As an Xbox gamer I have no interest in my DA being "consolized" or casualized just because...I specifically wrote I'm not interested in a "Dragon Calls to Duty". I want the real deal, I want an RPG as good as PC players get. I want something similar to my DA:O experience again, not identical of course. Sequels require changes and improvements but not to the point that the game no longer feels and plays like the original DA:O as its meant to be a sequel, otherwise call it something else if its a spin-off.
In my post I was mostly being ironic putting myself in their shoes (EA's). I already made clear in a number of posts that there are bright people playing either on PC, console or both.
Precisely my argument hinges on the idea that we (= console players) are not dumb. We do not require the hand-holding and watered-down version of an RPG. We are perfectly capable of coping and grasping a complex game without resorting to a PC's 103 keys. I do not want to play a game that has been streamlined to the point its dumbed-down. RPG players, like myself, like a deeper gameplay. Hence my comment on water and oil. You cannot stick all of us in one bag.
To each his own, let us RPG lovers have our
classic RPGs, and let the casual button-mashers have their action hack-n-slash games. You cannot cater to both crowds because we do not mix. And as I write a crowd of RPG lovers can be either a PC player or a console player such as myself. You cannot equate console = dumb player and PC = pinnacle of Mankind.
Now please, go and re-read my post again. You are making us console players look bad.
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), but will look into these as I know he would like to have those elements in the game. 
