By Kate Gray
Is there anything more repellent than becoming mainstream? You spend your whole life carefully curating your hobbies and tastes to make sure that they tread the thin line between “good” and “popular”, and then suddenly people start liking a thing that you like. Don’t they know that you got there first? Don’t they know that them liking it makes you not like it? Don’t they know that your opinion and good favour is all they need to get by!?
Anyway, video games are becoming mainstream and obviously that’s a terrible thing. You used to turn up to a midnight launch and it would just be you, your mum (who drove you there) and a large sweaty man who you would later learn was getting the collector’s edition because he wanted the lifesize statue of the game’s protagonist’s torso. Now you turn up for the release of Shootman III: Shoot Them All and it’s all children and fans and women, and you have to leave because none of them recognise your cosplay. It’s OBVIOUSLY Wing Commander Endjapes, who was written out of the second game for not being muscley enough. Fakers.
The past few days have been full of video game-related news stories …read more
Source:: techradar.com – Gaming
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