Simulations a dying breed... No says Paradox Interactive

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Originally Posted by Blacklight

Attatching a keyboard would make it seem too complicated for their "target market".
I still think that simulation games are in a SERIOUS decline as the younger players seem to "prefer" first person shooters and simple action games. Every year, I see less and less hardcore simulations being released and more of that action crap for the attention deficite disordered non-thinkers being released to fill in the gap.
Most people, even the older gamers tend to gravitate toward those action, arcade type games. Of all my friends who I grew up gaming with, I can't name a single ONE who enjoys simulation games, yet they all LOVE their Playstation 3's and Xboxes to the point where using a PC to play a game doesn't even cross their radar.
MOST people today don't want to take the time to LEARN anything complex. I've seen a perfect NON-video game example of this as well over the past years. I've been to various game conventions (board and miniature wargames, Dungeons & Dragons and other RPG stuff, etc..) and the people there are all old like me. There is very few younger people coming in to fill in the gaps left by the older crowd because these games actually require you to do a LOT of reading to learn to play. You have to put EFFORT into learning the games. The first thing the people I know ask when I toss a game out on the table is "Am I going to have to think ?" which prompts me to just sigh and pull the game off the table and shove it back in it's box. Everything is so instant gratification now, that people are missing out on a LOT of rewarding and entertaining stuff !

The market is unfortunately following this "mindless game" trend that the people seem to want.

I agree... well, i'm not a no-life
but i enjoy sims... It seems people can't make the difference..
When i talk of a sim with a friend ( not my best friends tough ) they see in me the little no-life... I'M NOT NO-LIFE :rotfl:

first subsim i bought : Silent Hunter 2, The Guy said : Here's the big book for the hard sub game... I was like, : Cool
Time And Effort that's the solution for sims

All my friends play their Xbox and PS3... Fallout3, Oblivion, Fable2 CoD4, Battlefield Series...
forgotten many good action games. Yep they are good, i like them exept CoD4...
They see a sim they say : Uhhh bad graphics=bad game
Hard and long learning= BAd game really bad game... BORING!

I really hate people like that, it seems they can't use their brain like normal people...

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[GoldenRivet]

my preference is for PC based games, I play almost no console based games despite owning a wii and xbox.

the wii - purchased for nothing more than drunken party entertainment.

the xbox - for visits from the niece, nephew and occasionally the brother and law and myself will play NFL Fever or something.

i would estimate that 97% of my gaming is limited to PC only.

and of that percentage of PC gaming... 90% falls within the simulation genre

[Task Force]

I myself dont like a good FPS from time to time... but simulators are what I mainly play... I find simulators are the only way to do things you would want to do... but never have to DO them... would I ever be able to command a submarine in real life... no... but in a sim I can from the safty of my own chair...

[Blacklight]

I really hate people like that, it seems they can't use their brain like normal people...

You forget. THEY are the norm and WE'RE the abnormal ones. Just look at the number of people who prefer "mindless action games" compared to the numbers who like games you have to "work" to learn. WE'RE the wierdos.

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Originally Posted by Blacklight

You forget. THEY are the norm and WE'RE the abnormal ones. Just look at the number of people who prefer "mindless action games" compared to the numbers who like games you have to "work" to learn. WE'RE the wierdos.

Yep, It's true.
I've nothing more to say for now...