Legendary quotes from the presenter of Gamesmaster

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I found these in Edge a couple of months back:

Diamond on Casual Gamers:

“I’m a massive comic fan. I like the idea that it’s not massively mainstream, because the day they start writing comics for some 22-year-old posh rugby playing moron is the day the whole culture dies. The fact is that people who read comics… well I find them more intelllegent than those who don’t, and the same with videogames. So why cater to people who aren’t intrested? It’s not a massive market anyway, so let’s not taint it by dumbing down for the fuckwits”

Diamond on Eyetoy:

“There is always a problem withany game that you look like a twat playing. I would feel less embarrassed if my missus walked in to find me masturbating over bukkake porn than if she saw me play Eyetoy”

Diamond on VR:

“There are about five-gazillion soft porn films about VR, but they never managed to get that cock-based interface. It would have flown of the shelves”

Diamond on Videogame Magazines:

“I’m appalled by the lack of writing and intelligence in the magazines in general. I think the more mass amrket a machine the worse the writing. When you get the likes of official console magazines… they’ve always got fantastic covers and they’ve got stuff on the CD and you think ‘Oh great!’ and you go buy them and then they’ve got that plastic bag. The plastic bag was the most fantastic marketing invention as far as games magazines go, because you thought, ‘Fucking hell, there must be something brilliant in there because they’ve wrapped it in a plastic bag!’ Then you open it and it’s just screenshot, screenshot, screenshot, screenshot and then you come to the review and it’s just a rewording of the instruction manual.”

Diamond on Gamezville:

“I’ve got more respect for suicide bombers than I do for the people who are involved with Gamezville. It think it is just… It’s not just car crash TV, it’s a motorway pile-up involving a busload of nuns and a truckload of orphans. I just think… Fucking hell, oh, words cannot express… It’s all fucking ‘Yo mate’ I mean these guys can’t even speak fucking english. And that’s not a racist thing, they’re just morons, ugh.”

Diamond on “the intellectualisation of games”:

“[Sighs] Well, if it gives you a chubby. It’s like Nick Hornby. I think some of these things are designed to make people less guilty about enjoying things, but the fact is… Well, Nick Hornby can wirte what he likes about football, but the fact is that the greatest football player in the world, Wayne Rooney, has only basic motor neurone functions and can’t even read a traffic sign”

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I don’t know what to think of the casual gamers who have more or less taken over the games industry. Some sources even point to more publishers shifting all their efforts to cater to them. After all, the fate of the industry rests tilted in the palm of their hands.

The games industry needs a few more hardcore gamers’ companies if you ask me. It is also my fervant hope that Sega can find some kind of middle ground between developing games for hardcore and casual fans. I just don’t see that happening now.

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When the best thing about a TV show is a white man posing as some ultra-wise monk from the East, you know there’s something wrong.

Oh, and: “We’re holding a championship to find the best games playa…IN THE WORLD.” Yes, that’s why no-one from outside of the UK is involved.

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gamezville is so terrible… when the player faces one of the staff and never loses.
I actually watched one of the 1 on 1s and watched the staffs persons screen, he was in the lead and he did a really bad mistake on purpose.

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[quote=“Scott”]gamezville is so terrible… when the player faces one of the staff and never loses.
I actually watched one of the 1 on 1s and watched the staffs persons screen, he was in the lead and he did a really bad mistake on purpose.[/quote]

Well gamezville is in the chav market “niche” (more a fully fledged social group), but its about the only regular games show…

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I think I lost all my respect for that Diamond person even though I don’t know him. XD

He could also use less obscenities. >.>;; Those to me are a sign of non-intelligence.

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[quote=“Pedro The Hutt”]
He could also use less obscenities. >.>;; Those to me are a sign of non-intelligence.[/quote]

Aw, **** off. Why do you think that? :stuck_out_tongue:

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Gamezville pretty much sums up the casual gamers market though.

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Yeah, it’s chav TV, like Trisha :slight_smile: .

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Yeah but it’s for kids in the main people like DD forget that. Also I hate it when people swear all the time trying to act cool.

And DD isn’t that hardcore as he might try and make out. He said the Saturn the 5th worst console of all time. Wonder if he got to play any of the it’s JP only gems. I really doubt it

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[quote=“Team Andromeda”]
And DD isn’t that hardcore as he might try and make out. He said the Saturn the 5th worst console of all time. Wonder if he got to play any of the it’s JP only gems. I really doubt it[/quote]

What were the other four, I wonder? The Jaguar, the 32X…?

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People swear profusely to sound cool? Huh. I just do it to relieve frustration. Works wonders.

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[quote=“Arcie”]

[quote=“Team Andromeda”]
And DD isn’t that hardcore as he might try and make out. He said the Saturn the 5th worst console of all time. Wonder if he got to play any of the it’s JP only gems. I really doubt it[/quote]

What were the other four, I wonder? The Jaguar, the 32X…?[/quote]

Think it was

  1. Saturn
  2. Jaguar
  3. 3DO
  4. Virtual Boy

Can’t remember what #2 was. The 32X was not in the top 5 even though it was a sh8t console

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I’d say more of a… missed oppurtunity. XD