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Woods@chiiyuen0109This may not be the best question to ask over here but lately few of my friends have been convincing me to stop playing Angry Birds, thats because they think Angry Birds is childlish. Right after that I got offended, but for some reason the people in my country (Malaysia) seems to think that Angry Birds is childlish too.
So I want to see how people’s thought are for Angry Birds over this website. Do you think Angry Birds is childlish? Personally I think Angry Birds is okay for all ages as its a very fun puzzle game. Remember, I’m just asking for your opinions. Thanks for reading this.
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ABEPA@abepaI’m over 40 and I play most of the AB games, so I don’t consider it childish, just fun. You have to do what you think is fun, not what your friends think is suitable!
PJng@pjngbut for some reason the people in my country (Malaysia) seems to think that Angry Birds is childlish too.
Same for me, why there are thinking AB only for children,
I don’t see any children playing with 3 star.
SweetP@sweetp@chiiyuen0109 all of Angry Birds games were developed to be enjoyed for players of ALL ages, young and old alike! You’d be surprised to know how many of the Nesters here are over 40 years old, myself included!
Sure, others who don’t fling will think it’s a childish game but that shouldn’t stop you from enjoying what you love to do! For me, it’s my “playtime” and relieves the burdens of everyday life, and it makes me laugh and cry! It’s a physics game that challenges the mind, which is the best feature of these AB games.
So fling on, my friend. Angry Birds is here to stay!
ABEPA@abepaExactly @sweetp ! It’s meant to be a fun escape. If you like it, it shouldn’t matter what others say @chiiyuen0109. For me, it’s great that you can play in tiny snippets here and there, a level at a time when I don’t have much time to play, or sitting at an appointment or whatever..
Kelani@kelani@chiiyuen0109 There have been a few market research studies done on what kinds of people play AB titles. The studies didn’t include children, and their results vary widely, but on average, the demographic breakdown was this:
18-24 34.6%
25-34 33.2%
35-44 15.8%
45-54 13.0%
55-64 3.0%
65-Up 0.4%Another study showed that the average Angry Birds player is:
45-65 years old
Is married, with children
Is working or retired from a professional field
has a Master’s degree or higher
Earns $61,000 – $141,000/yearHere’s a graphic that shows a ton of stats about players: Angry Birds Addiction
Of all the games I’ve played, the only one that I would label childish is Stella, which makes sense since it is intended for preteen to teen teen girls. Well, I’m not a teen or a girl, but I still play it. As for your friends who say negative things about it, pay no attention to them. Some people have nothing better to do than disparage things which they don’t understand. I’d be willing to bet they’ve tried the game before, and were awful at it. :)
As for why Malaysians view the game, you’d know that better than us. *please* correct me if I’m wrong, but from what I’ve read about Malaysian culture, it tends to be very structured, polite, analytical, and a bit emotionally repressive –especially in people above 35, or those who haven’t become comfortable with all this new growth and technology. People of certain ages are expected to do (and not do) certain things, and anyone other than a very young child playing an animated game seems like something that the adults would frown on.
If that profile is accurate, I don’t think it’s limited to Malaysia. I know several AB players throughout Southeast Asia, and some of them have told me they suffer a lot of kidding and occasional abuse for playing the game. Even here in the US, when I’ve told people where most of my free time goes, I get some weird looks. :)
MVNLA2@mvnla2@chiiyuen0109 — As far as I can see, AB is played more by adults than children. I’m over 65 and retired, so I have more time to play than kids in school, or people working. I suspect AB is pretty difficult for young kids and younger teens. OK, so it is sometimes difficult for me as well, and I’m pretty good at understanding the physics of the games.
I have played all Rovio games, except Plunder Pirates, which really doesn’t appeal to me. I didn’t expect Stella to appeal to me, but the new abilities of the birds was interesting and fun. I like that there is a numerical measure of how well you do in most of the games that makes it easy to compete with people all over the world.
There are several really good players in Malaysia, several of whom are adults. Take a look at the ABN Members’ Map in Groups, if you haven’t already.
The next time someone says it’s childish, ask them if they have played it, and if they got 3* on every level.
cosmo2503@cosmo2503@chiiyuen0109 AB games are appealing to people of all ages. They are difficult and challeinging to 3 starred on all levels in each of games (which is the goal for the majority of ABN members)and yet easy enough to pass for casual players. I once started a thread about seniors playing AB games and was really surprised with members response to the thread, I’d never assumed there are so many people in their 40-ties, 50-ties, 60-ies playing AB games… It’s been long time now since I started playing AB games and I still enjoy it and am excited about each new update.
cosmo2503@cosmo2503@mvnla2 do you play AB Transformers too? I gave it try, realized it wasn’t my cup of coffee and deleted it. Not only that running andshooting game isn’t appealing to me, but I also find that I really don’t need an other money grabbing freemium game in my life. Transformers will obviouslly become an other ABSW II with outrageous number of telepods and even worse toys are really needed in order to play smoothly without long waiting minutes or hours to recharge character.
MVNLA2@mvnla2@Cosmo2503 — Oops! I forgot about AB Transformers, which I didn’t even download.
To be clear, the Rovio games I play or played are:
ABO
Seasons
Rio
Space
Star Wars
Star Wars II
Epic
Go (no longer play except the daily challenge)
Friends
Stella
Bad Piggies (no new updates for a long time)
Amazing Alex (no longer played)
Icebreaker (no recent updates)
I bought the paid versions, Mighty Eagle, and special episodes when available. I do not spend money on IAPs, power-ups, or telepods.
Still getting 3* on all levels and trying for above average on all for which ABN has leaderboards.
BTW Cosmo — I still remember having a good laugh when you started the Seniors forum and defined senior as over 40.
DaBoid@daboidI am 60 and love Angry Birds. No blood, no guts, just fun.
sparkyuiop@sparkyuiopWhy do you care so much about what other people think?
Be your own man and f*** everyone else opinion apart from those that you care about the most, i.e. family.
Woods@chiiyuen0109@sparkyuiop Watch your language mate, don’t be rude.
@mvnla2 All the games I played that are from Rovio are:Angry Birds Original
Angry Birds Seasons
Angry Birds Rio
Angry Birds Space
Angry Birds Star Wars
Angry Birds Star Wars 2
Angry Birds Go!
Angry Birds Stella
Angry Birds Transformers (just came out for Android today, woohoo!)
Angry Birds Epic
Angry Birds Friends and
Bad PiggiesCurrently waiting for PlunderPirates to come out for Android.
Les Toreadors@les-toreadors@chiiyuen0109 I am from Malaysia as well and I teach physics to both large and small kids using Angry Birds and Bad Piggies. Also, plenty of halal jokes to pass around (within the family).
Ironically most of the enthusiasm I see now about Angry Birds are from old-ish kids and mothers, so it’s definitely not childish.
In the latest Rovio products like Angry Birds: Stella, I also point out that while the game and upcoming animated series is targeted at young children (well, girls, of course), it contains a great many references to social and even political challenges faced by adults as well.
This makes Angry Birds in effect a dual purpose franchise as what @kelani sorta points out. Yes, it’s cute and all. But like all great (future) classics they were designed by grown-ups and you can see a lot of added value by not judging the book by its cover!
Saying Angry Birds is childish is simply, a bit shallow in my opinion.
It’s like saying Transformers is unrealistic. Or Star Trek is “nonsense”.
In the former example, duh of course it is not meant to be realistic. Isn’t giant robots saving humanity and empowering the youth with the fate of humanity entertaining in an epic way?
In the latter, Star Trek is solely responsible for a great majority of consumer electronics and even next-generation spaceflight concepts today. Because of Star Trek, we have mobile phones and tablet computers. And NASA is conducting theoretical studies into an actual warp drive. #TrueStoryBro
Sometimes fiction is grounded in truth, and Angry Birds chronicles the struggle of two feuding animal species / civilizations in a quest for dominance – a very simple yet crucial story in the history of our planet’s evolution and a misguided and unnecessary squabble that… guess what, humans still partake in even today. That’s what makes Angry Birds fun. It’s fun BECAUSE it’s childish and we can blow up some pigs without guilt! :)
ps. Are you making your way to Angry Birds Activity Park JB anytime soon? I’ll be there this weekend once I gather my army of birds, pigs, cats and sheep fans :)
Umm, @kelani – as for Stella being childish… hehehe… look out for my upcoming review of Stella: The Animated Series shortly. It’s waiting for @birdleader approval and I drew a lot of parallels with current affairs and challenges faced by peoples of differing expectations and/or social needs. Definitely a grown up thing… once we look past the pink overtones. :)
DEDENAMIK@dedenamikWell, I’m not in a position to write about all Rovio games, but only about all Angry Birds (AB, Seasons, Rio, Space, SW, SWII and Stella).
First I can say is that they are developped for all ages.
I need to clearly express that this is very rare (being fit for all ages) in computer games.
I have seen 4/5 years old kids playing and having fun as they pop the pigs.I am 56 from Turkey, and play AB with my daughter, my son and hopefully will be playing with my granddaughter in a few years.
OK it is fun, enjoyable, but in addition to be game, it is a kind of puzzle.
First of all it forces you to think, where to aim the bird, when to release, where to leave the egg, split, accelerate etc. OK, kids play and have fun, but do not generate a strategy for 3 stars. The feature of the game to force you to generate a strategy is the most amazing side of the game for me.
I have spoken with some friends about AB, they said that they play, of course not in the way as we do as the check the comments of friends for better scores. Mostly, and I personally think over 99 %, leave playing as they reach 3 stars.
When I told a lawyer that I play at least 1 hour or more every day for better scores, she said that it is a matter of some hours for her to reach 3 stars in all levels, but she does not continue afterwards for better scores.
About Stella, yes I agree that it has a bit of different format and sounds, may be generated with reference to yourger ages, but definitely not childish but as I say, a bit different than the overall concept (I am waiting for 1.11 suprises!).
JUDGEMENT (I’m a lawyer): AB is a game which can be (and definitely should be) played by everyone in this world. It is not childish but it is for all ages and genders. Thanks Rovio for providing us such bright games.
tomason@tomason33I’m 46 years old and run a business. I’ve had a lot of life experiences (three serious careers, been all over the world, etc.) and everywhere you will go, the attitude about anything brightly colored and particularly animated items are always chucked in the bin of childish material. Rovio has furthered this child-related image with the endless marketing (which is a great $ idea) and with the animated cartoons, all of which build the brand and make money like mad while giving the uninitiated an unfortunate false impression of the game itself.
Ostensibly, Angry Birds is a pass-the-time game created with nothing too massive for the adult mind to donate significant portions of time nor thought… initially. What the designers actually produced (from my point of view and in my opinion) is an ingenious game that employs all laws of probability and of physics (as well as a provision for the “luck” factor). Those are pretty difficult concepts to get right from a design and development standpoint. This is why it is so appealing as a game for intelligent adults… IT’S COMPLEX.
So the short answer to the “is it childish” question from me would be as follows:
The game is playable and enjoyable for the wisest of all ages, but the cartoons are for the kids.Adults that don’t like the game and claim it to be unpleasant will also be confounded by the physical world and how things move around in general. So, like a chimp, instead of enjoying it – they will get mad at it , screech at it, and potentially throw some excrement at it but never ever play it again and then dismiss it as “childish”. Sour grapes!
butters@buttersKudos to all replies to the Q @chiiyuen0109 posed. A few years ago a friend my age introduced me to AB when it first came out and I was hooked! Since then I’ve shared the game with others and they are also hooked! None of us play any other games and I attribute this to the fun factor, the ease of play, awesome game idea with some thought going into each shot and no extraneous ‘shiny objects’. The anticipation for new games and levels is for me, like waiting to open presents :). Finding ABN was a total bonus, like a bike for your 10th birthday!! :)
Myself, I only really play the games based on the original concept. I can’t seem to get into the Epic, Transformers, Go, etc. Bad Piggies and the like aren’t much fun for me, and I’m back and forth with ABSW,ABS, Stella–though I do play, and enjoying them more as I improve.
So, @chiiyuen0109 , to each his own and if you are having lots of fun flinging your birds I say keep going with a smile on your face and let others wonder what they might be missing!
mspat@mspatIf it’s childish, then let me continue to be a child! Who cares what others say, if you love and enjoy the game that’s all that matters. I have been playing since AB first came out and still there are levels that I can’t 3* from the early days. I, like butters, stick with the original concept and now that I am retired from a successful career AB is played at least for a few minutes every day.
I look forward to each new release and will continue to “try” going back and getting those pesky ones that still have me stumped. Happy flinging
Les Toreadors@les-toreadorsHahaha @mspat being a giant sized baby is fun. Jeremy Clarkson would definitely agree to that lol.
Admittedly I’m not very keen to try Angry Birds at first. But then I saw the PILLOWS (ok ok, plush toys), I just had to buy one!
I started playing when the ‘pillows’ arrived. Muahahahaha, die pigs!
Moral of the story – convert the naysayers with angry bird pillow power lol.
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