| horriblebastard said: "Limitations" often lead to creativity in general and in games specifically ... Except all systems have limitations, so the Wii isn't a special case in that respect. It's just that its upper limits are lower, but are you really going to argue that the more limited a console is, the more creative the games library? If so, you're on a slippery slope that leads you back to Pong. I didn't say the PS2's games were shit, but I expect some kind of progression in terms of graphical ability from generation to generation, otherwise I'd still have an Atari 2600 connected to my TV. I used to love games like Missile Command and Asteroids, but if I buy a game today I have higher expectations than that. |
I'll put this to you another way ...
I own an XBox 360 and the one thing I notice in Wii games that seems absent in most XBox 360 games is a willingness to step outside of the bounds of established genres and conventional gameplay design; as a result I tend to find myself having more fun playing "Shitty" Wii games than their "High" quality XBox 360 counterparts. The reason for this (in my opinion) is I have played every game on the XBox 360 before (in most cases several times) where the only difference is the earlier games have worse graphics.
Maybe its just my age, but I started playing First Person Shooters with Wolfenstein 3D and I saw a great deal of advancement up until (roughly) 1999 and after that everyone copied the formula initially produced by games like Half-Life, System Shock 2, and Counterstrike; for almost a decade all progress in these genres has been measured based on how good they look, and games like FEAR have taken this to the next level by reverting environments to be as static as they possibly can be in order to get better visuals. Basically, increased processing power has done very little to progress this genre and the "Limitations" of more powerful hardware has done nothing to encourage creativity.
First Person Shooters aren't the only genre like this, there have been very few enhancements to Japaneese RPGs since the SNES, Racing Games haven't improved much over what was available on the Dreamcast, Western RPGs haven't seen much improvement since Morrowind or Icewind Dale, Fighting Games aren't noticeably different from Playstation/Dreamcast fighting games, and most Sports games haven't improved much since the N64.
Graphics will continue to improve from Generation to generation, but the focus on graphics as the only measure of improvement has to die for the industry to progress.
