13th May 2007, 12:37 PM
No I don't think you understand. When Okami came out, we knew, because we keep up with "gaming news". My little brother? Completely in the dark. You can't assume everyone is up to date on our little hobbies. No one outside of Star Wars geeks even KNOWS that "Han shot first", except those exposed to that information against their will like myself. This is the sort of thing I'm talking about. The majority? They just don't HAVE this information, and the reason is they never even HEARD of Okami or similar games.
You seem to assume that just because the info is THERE, people instantly know it IS there.
Tell me, what's the spin of an up quark? The info is right THERE man, why didn't you look it up? Probably because you never even heard of them until now.
The fact is, for a lot of people going into a store, the odd games are still "that box over there they didn't see before", but they played one of those Zelda games so they know that's good. It isn't because they are "stupid" either. You just can't expect everyone to know about that stuff. Further, YOU CAN'T EVEN EXPECT THEM TO KNOW THAT STUFF IS THERE TO BE KNOWN. It's not that they are willingly ignoring information on Okami, they don't even know that information exists to be researched, because they never even heard of it.
You seem to assume that just because the info is THERE, people instantly know it IS there.
Tell me, what's the spin of an up quark? The info is right THERE man, why didn't you look it up? Probably because you never even heard of them until now.
The fact is, for a lot of people going into a store, the odd games are still "that box over there they didn't see before", but they played one of those Zelda games so they know that's good. It isn't because they are "stupid" either. You just can't expect everyone to know about that stuff. Further, YOU CAN'T EVEN EXPECT THEM TO KNOW THAT STUFF IS THERE TO BE KNOWN. It's not that they are willingly ignoring information on Okami, they don't even know that information exists to be researched, because they never even heard of it.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)