LittleBigPlanet vs. Wii Music: Battle of the Casuals

[Paul_Warren]

"As a PC gamer I can say the exact same thing about console games, especially the shooters. Console games (exculding fighters, JRPGs, and party games) are just simpler and watered down wannabes with simple uninteresting gameplay when compared to PC games, yet they are selling more than some of the PC games. Why? I don't know, probably easy accessibility, just like Mario Kart and Wii Fit are more accessible than Zelda. So if you are gonna be dissing Nintendo, keep in mind your "awesome, hardcore" games are just as simple and funny when compared to the PC games as the Wii games are to yours."

As for this remark, PC games as a whole aren't that interesting. And they haven't been since the late eighties and early nineties. Back before the whole 3D corridor shooter era took off. PC gaming was great back in the days of SSI and their Gold Box D & D games and the Golden age of Infocom, Sierra-on-Line, and Lucas Arts Adventure games.

However, there are really only three kinds of PC games that sell these days. 3D corridor shooters and if you played Half-Life, Doom, and Wolfenstein 3D or Halo on xbox, then you've played them all. MMORPGs like World of Warcraft that some people do find addicting but to many others they are just boring loot recoveries that can't match a great single player cinematic rpg on a console for delivering a terrific story; and the rts genre which does have some games that do tell interesting stories like Warcraft (even though its storytelling is like a Marvel Comics adaptation of everything from Lovecraft to Tolkien all spliced into one story) and Starcraft; however, the rts genre is also full of many derivative games and games that just revisit the same old battles that PC strategy games have been covering year after year for the last 30 years.

The era of interesting PC games went out for the most part following the release of Loom in 1990.