MrPeanutbutterz

@Martin_H Nope.

TV, film, etc. aren't spoken about in such terms because they're old, established mediums that have been in their "adult phase" for a long time now. Games are still "growing up", and the progression every ten years or so is obvious. We can see the changes, we can see the medium aging right in front of us.

Music can and is spoken about in such terms, albeit "old school" is subbed in for "retro". Like if I hear anyone talking about a modern "old school death metal band", then I know they're gonna sound like a band from 1988 to 1991. Applying "old school" to other genres like jazz, disco, R&B works too. Even recording techniques can be described as "old school" and people will know what's been spoken about.

One of them is 21 years old, the other two are 20.

Suck it up fellow dorks, GameStop are indeed correct here.

@1040STF It's already a niche product with very specific fans. Why alienate them? Not everything needs to be a reinvention of the wheel. They tried to a bit with WipEout Fusion and gave us what's considered the weakest game in the series.

Your example is poor as well. I've been playing both WipEout and GoW since their original games. GoW had to pivot to something else as most people would agree the series was exhausted and out of ideas with Ascension.

WipEout is a very different type of game though. Most fans want new tracks and shops, with tweaks to the gameplay. Whatever WipEout Zero was supposed to be wasn't it.

@X68000 Particularly annoying when the writer appears to at a minimum have originated in the UK (and could very well still be based there).

@KitsuneNight You should see how fast that freedom is rendered via Blast Processing!

@Hexapus That doesn't change the fact that the device existed as "Mega Drive" on its initial release in Japan, and is know as that everywhere else in the world bar NA where they decided to name it after a book from the Bible (or an English prog rock band).

@DanijoEX-the-Pierrot Wouldn't it make more sense for "you Americans" to get used to what the device is called literally everywhere else in the world instead of the rest of us having to accommodate your quirks?

I have completely blue balls reading all the WipEout love of late. If only Sony would show it some.

Effectively a dumbed-down game because modern gamers don't like to use their brains, be challenged, or deal with anything they can't "master" in the first five minutes.

Meh, kinda glad it never saw the light of day, because it sounds like Wipeout in name only.

He's about a quarter of a century late as Street Fighter Alpha 3 had this.

"Would you have liked to have played a WipEout karting game, as crazy as that concept sounds?"

One of the most assured and definitive "absolutely nots" of my life.

@845H Sure it was born from one of the lead designers playing Super Mario Kart while listening to race music.

I remember the outrage over this very well. I also remember my jaw being on the floor the first time I played WipEout.

Can't wait for my copy of this book to land in the letterbox next week.

What sort of tone-deaf nonsense is this? I play videogames to partially escape the fact that we live in a world where these fellas get paid half a million a week to be good at kicking a ball around a field while the rest of us fight over the scraps.

@JayJ Nods in also being a pasty Irish person who's loving but struggling with the current heat

@jimmytodgers starting a sentence with "class" and ending with "yokeeen" are the most Irish things I've seen today.