“It has nothing to do with an E or an M rating, it has everything…
“It has nothing to do with an E or an M rating, it has everything to do with a traditional gaming mentality versus a casual experience meant to be enjoyed in brief spurts in a social setting.”
Oh man, you summed it up better than my rambling posts could have ever attempted to.
Want to know what the result of trying to get people who typically aren’t interested in games is? It’s a bunch of watered down mindless games that are ridiculously easy and get old once the newest game and complementing accessory come out.
In that respect, is wasn’t “me” that changed, it was Nintendo. Is it so much to ask for arcade games that were easy to pick up but required skill to master? Super Monkey Ball seems to be one of the last relics of a dead age.