I thought that sports and racing games have always had a mainly non-gamer audience, especially as traditionally most ”nerds” havent cared much about neither cars nor sports. Fighter games too, but they have a much more broad audience.
Yancakes wrote:I don't know why everyone is so shocked by the "dudebro" title, it's just a little more retarded version of "brogamer", and I've heard that thrown around a freaking tonne over the last couple of years. They're a pretty new phenomenon, they're the "cool" people that got in to games recently as they've gained more and more mainstream appeal.
Gamers and people who are into different game genres have always had different stigmas. If women (yes, I do know that there are women that played video games before the PS2/Wii era and blahablahblah ) and drunken fratboys want to their own gaming niches, they will have to learn how to deal with the same shit that roleplayers etc have had to deal for ages. Its ok to bash and make stereotypes of people who play World of Warcraft, but the same people who have been teasing gamers for ages should now be granted some sort of immunity from all slander now that they want to play games too? Some gamers are like self-loathing white knights
flex wood wrote:
Platformers were the dudebro games. Since Mario and Sonic were so successful many companies tries to copy that (ristar bubsy rocket knight).
Platformers dont have the cool factor that Madden, FPS games and possibly some fighter games have. Sure Sonic, Earthworm Jim, Crash Bandicoot and Gex etc mascots were trying to be edgy, but in a different way, with a different audience in mind.
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