I finally understand Sonys 10 year plan!

[Grampy]

BTFeather55 said:

Grampy said:

BTFeather55 said:

Well, the Wii sure sells a lot of consoles. No one really knows why. It has had very little to with the quality of its software so far because looking at the places that are supposed to be the best judges of such things, the Wii's software library aside from four or five games hasn't been that impressive and it certainly hasn't been any more impressive than either the PS3 or 360's library in any way. It doesn't have to do with price either because the Wii isn't the most inexpensive console on the market and it does sell well at an even higher price on ebay.

I don't know why casual games sell as well as they do. It strikes me if people wanted to bowl or play ping pong, then they would go to a bowling alley or find a real ball and ping pong table.

Hopefully something will come along to change the situation or when for some reason the situation changes to where the consoles and games that actually deserve to do well will do well, but if that doesn't happen, then it doesn't happen. Not much can be done about it. Heck, maybe one of these days Nintendo will come out with a quality console and / or quality games like they had in the SNES era, so it might not even be that much of a big deal.

Or maybe, just maybe, we're not 40 million retards and Nintendo has come out with a quality console that puts control and gameplay above pixel count and gives a lot better experience than playing the same old uber-violent game in it's umteenth reincarnation whose tired old story line hasn't really changes since the SNES as have not it's same fumble fisted archaec hand controller - both of which we are not supposed to notice because we are dazzled by the pretty pictures.

And by the way, the places that are supposed to be the best judge of the quality of the games are your own brain. The reviewers will always like the types of games that made them succesful enough gamers to get a reviewing gig.

And yes I play some casual games including Wii sports and I enjoy them. Yes I could drive 30 minutes to a real bowling alley but since I use it as a 10 minute muscle stretcher, that would be self defeating. Of course,  those used to years of gaming sitting on their ass on the couch might fail to see this. Also I suspect that if i tried racing a giant Ape aound inside a shopping mall on motorcycles, the manager would probably get all pissy or something.

 

     First paragraph:  I don't think the storylines are tired and old.  GTA IV for instance has a great story and great music.  Cry by 10CC, The Stooges, Smashing Pumpkins, Fleetwood Mac, The Sisters of Mercy, Ace Frehley with "Back in the New York Groove", the Allman Brothers, "Shikki Shikki" all adds up to a terrific soundtrack even though many people that must not be able to tell good music from bad try to say that it doesn't.  And I guess I'll have to try to play a thirty to fifty hour action adventure game or rpg game on a Wii to know if the controls are really that much more comfortable than gamepads for that purpose.  You indicate in your post that you play Wii most often as a muscle stretcher for about ten minutes at a time but that is quite a bit different in duration from trying to play an FF, GTA, MGS, or even Zelda game to completion on it.

     Second paragraph:  Not really.  I don't want to walk in Game Stop buy a $50.00 to $60.00 game just because it is sitting on the shelf, then get it home, open it up, put it in the console, have my own brain tell me that I've wasted my money, and then try to take it back and have Game Stop say, "Oh, sorry, we can't take it back because you've played it."  This isn't the early eighties and the purpose of review scores is to let you know which games are worth spending your money on and which games out of similar games deserve your money the most.

Your first paragraph. To each his own, I suspose more or less gratuitous urban violence is never been my idea of great entertainment but for all that I did not think that GTA4 could be really considered even equal to San Andreas lrt slonr sny giant step forward. I'll concede the music score as it is to me irrelevant since I would have prefered listening to one of my own mp3 playlists to anything I heard in the game.

I did not say I used the Wii for ten minute breaks, you were questioning the purpose of bowling and ping pong minigames and I was expressing that I liked them for brief breaks.

If you find the often forty number spread of the game scores useful, so be it. Prince of Persia; Game Pro - 100, G4-60, what in hell am I going to get from that. With the availability of videos, rentals and game play forrums I find the Metacritic magic numbers less than helpful. Actually reading the reviews is sometimesbetter but so many cannot write, prefer to see how clever they can sound to actually being informative , or taste in games is divergent that I also find them mostly useless.