| dib8rman said: @frybread Amazing post guy, I was considering bringing that up in refference to LBP. At first I didn't understand why people thought Little Big Planet would be huge, so I restudied to game, got into the beta and saw for myself. I can say safely that I wasn't impressed with anything except the graphics. (It looks pretty) I also like the narrator's voice and the music. But the game it self granted a beta was not something special in any way. That's when it dawned on me, myself being a PC gamer for years now had been introduced to user generated content since 1997 and a game I played back then allowed you to even develop your own game of sorts, people created shooters, rpgs, action games all within this game. A Microsoft game I believe it was dungeon siege allowed for created maps that could be added to the over all. Warcraft 3 was by far the most impressive I rushed to be the first to make a over the shoulder 3rd person shooter on that, after playing the over head version, it took several weeks to perfect it but I had a playable version up in the mean while. In the end this kind of content didn't seem so amazing as I didn't notice it missing from console games at all. |
Exactly, the first time I experienced user-created content was in 1994 - somebody had replaced all the demons in Doom with Barney. Then I started making my own levels, recreated my highschool, perfected a deathmatch map, and downloaded thousands of others.
I can completely understand why console gamers are impressed with user-created content, high-res, and online gaming. I would be too if I'd never experienced them, but all of us PC Gamers have for a looong time. We can still experience them too (COD4, Mass Effect, Bioshock, DMC IV, AC, GTA IV, FF XIII, etc.) so there's no big reason to own a 360/PS3, unless we want to play them with less detail and lower res for some reason.
But Nintendo announcing a 1:1 movement sword fighting game? I've never experienced that before. Nobody has! That's why we experienced gamers love Wii so much.
