OK, point is it was originally on a console I never owned.

Perhaps it was because all the major hype around it being the best game of all time and topping many "100 best games of all time" lists. So when my son got 3DS I was really really excited to finally play this greatest ever game to grace any video game platform ever.

I gave the game a decent enough number of hours to impress me but there was nothing, nothing at all about it that I found engaging or entertaining. It wasn't bad, it was simply ordinary. My son loved it, so it was a worthwhile purchase, just no for me.

Pokemon is the only Nintendo game that actually drew me in, odd because I can't for the life of me figure out why kept wanting to play it. Unfortunately for Nintendo they made the game (Diamond I think) impossible to have 2 game saves on one cartridge. So basically because my son had his own game going, all I could do is basically play the game for a short time but not actually have a game save of my own. Which means once I put it down I had no desire to pick it up again. Nintendo's own form of DRM, but this time it's GRM within the family, as opposed to preventing used game sales, weird. I've had my Pokemon experience, became weirdly addicted for a brief period, and now I'm over it.

Every Pokémon game works like this, actually. And don't blame Nintendo for it - they're not the ones who make the games.

Doesn't make it right or reasonable.

Nintendo's the publisher, and if they don't own the IP directly they own all the rights to all intents and purposes. Which means DRM is ultimately the decision of Nintendo not the game maker. If Nintendo said, "make multiple game saves happen" it would happen. If they simply don't give any direction on this it means they tacitly support this form of DRM, which is as worthy of criticism as any pther form of DRM. But it's Nintendo so they get a free pass on it.

It really is one of the reasons I said "fug dis game". If I'd actually been able to play through the whole of Diamond without having to buy my own game, when my son already has it, I may have been very encouraging of (and maybe even contributed to) buying the next game, and the next and the next. As the financial powerhouse of my home I was put off and so I became negatively disposed towards future Pokemon purchases, which means no further Pokemon games have been purchased.

?... interesting story I guess. I agree that oot is overrated, but I don't see how you found it incredibly ordinary. I though it was a great game, just not number 1 of all time. Probably not even my top 10.

what nintendo do is use old ip's such as mario and add new gameplay mechanics to that franchise, take mario galaxy for example, its no where near the mario sunshine in gameplay terms, i am really suprised that splatoon does not have any major nintendo characters in it, and im really suprised its not called mario paintballing

binary solo said:

 OK, point is it was originally on a console I never owned.

Perhaps it was because all the major hype around it being the best game of all time and topping many "100 best games of all time" lists. So when my son got 3DS I was really really excited to finally play this greatest ever game to grace any video game platform ever.

I gave the game a decent enough number of hours to impress me but there was nothing, nothing at all about it that I found engaging or entertaining. It wasn't bad, it was simply ordinary. My son loved it, so it was a worthwhile purchase, just no for me.

Pokemon is the only Nintendo game that actually drew me in, odd because I can't for the life of me figure out why kept wanting to play it. Unfortunately for Nintendo they made the game (Diamond I think) impossible to have 2 game saves on one cartridge. So basically because my son had his own game going, all I could do is basically play the game for a short time but not actually have a game save of my own. Which means once I put it down I had no desire to pick it up again. Nintendo's own form of DRM, but this time it's GRM within the family, as opposed to preventing used game sales, weird. I've had my Pokemon experience, became weirdly addicted for a brief period, and now I'm over it.

There were a couple of little moments that I found to be completely ridiculous, contrived and turned to game into a bit of a joke for me. Like that dude sleeping by the castle moat(?) that you had to try to wake up, by running off and ... do something... you couldn't just kick him in the arse and tell him to move is lazy butt?

The game did absolutely nothing for me, it was like eating a bland meal. Nothing truly awful about it, but nothing good either.