Re:Xbox One: Microsoft's All-In-One Home Entertainment System
by cobrausn on Tuesday May 21, 2013 @05:11PM
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'bro gamer' is just a term used by some gamers to feel superior to the CoD demographic (which is everybody). It seems to me to be a kind of signaling used to mark themselves out as 'serious' gamers who think about 'serious' issues while they blow stuff up and shoot zombies.
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Re:Xbox One: Microsoft's All-In-One Home Entertainment System
by zurn on Wednesday May 22, 2013 @12:56AM
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It's not a a stretch to call FPS games low brow.
I don't play FPS games, but I know smart and sensitive people who do. They don't pretend it's not a badly justified gorefest though, just like smart people who listen to Manowar don't.
A lot of people are very let down by games that get reviews just gushing over the plot and the atmosphere and puzzles but end up being 90% gore and FPS (like Bioshock for example).
Re:Xbox One: Microsoft's All-In-One Home Entertainment System
by sixbrx on Wednesday May 22, 2013 @09:24AM
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But the referent of the "bro gamer" slight is not the game as you seem to be arguing, but the gamer.
Re:Xbox One: Microsoft's All-In-One Home Entertainment System
by teamonkey on Tuesday May 21, 2013 @07:08PM
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It's not everybody. CoD has a very large demographic and it encompasses a significant chunk of the console and hardcore PC gaming market, and they're better games than people give credit for, but they're far from universal appeal.