Greg Bear To Write Halo Trilogy 73
SailorSpork writes "Many gaming websites are reporting that Hugo and Nebula award winning sci-fi author Greg Bear will be writing a 100,000-year prequel trilogy to the Halo series, focusing on the Forerunners and presumably the construction of the Larry Niven knock-offs. Will he be able to balance the needs of his hard sci-fi fanbase with the Halo fans' need for a soft introduction to 'chapter books?' Despite my sarcasm, as someone who considers both of them guilty pleasures, I am actually really looking forward to seeing how he handles this."
Re:s/Larry Niven/Iain M. Banks/ (Score:2, Interesting)
Oh for god's sake. Perhaps some console gamers just happen to hold down real jobs and have lives away from the crosshair, so we don't want to spend all out time reinstalling Direct X, working out how to bypass SecureRom yet again, and upgrading our graphics card just to relax for an hour in the evening now and then.
Absolutely. But that sort of console gamer---for precisely the same reason he doesn't want to futz with DirectX---doesn't generally make his presence known on the forums and message boards of the internet at large.
The sort of console gamers who turn up on gaming forums tend to have proportionally a much larger obnoxious child/mouth-breathing adult contingent than their PC using equivalents.
To make things worse, a lot of games are being designed these days for simultaneous PC/console release, or at least early porting between the two. PC gamers who are used to the relatively complex and in-depth menu and control systems facilitated by the mouse don't always react well to the simplified systems necessitated by controller use.
It's an old example, but compare Deus Ex (PC only) with Deus Ex 2 (Xbox and PC) to see what I mean. It's a natural, if unfortunate, tendency to blame console users for the results.
It's a pity that perfectly respectable and mature console gamers get lumped in with idiots---but I think it's an understandable consequence of the skewing of the visible portion of the demographics and spite over the 'dumbing down' of games.
guilty pleasure? (Score:3, Interesting)
I guess I'm a little confused as to why someone would consider reading a guilty pleasure