"Have patience for even better games while enjoying the great ones already. Overhyped games differ upon who you are. To me, Halo 1 and 2 are way overhyped, and Halo 3 is even worse."
Dunno about Halo 2 and 3, but I never got into ANY console FPS mainly because of the controls. I played Halo 1 for about an hour, then went back to my PC for FPS.
"Why should you judge the worth of games based on what Sony said years ago? Why not judge them on what they are now and how good they are compared to what else is out there?"
In that case, it can't be any better (checking reviews as I write this).
"It just seems to me that you're upset by these "lies" even though it has nothing to do with now. The other companies lie as well, so what. If you were fooled then, then shame on you. I'd move on if I were you, and judge games based on other criteria."
"Btw, you didn't respond to my other post yet, but another addition to my response on this press thing:
http://www.gamesradar.com/us/wii/game/features/article.jsp?releaseId=20060308165433320026&articleId="
I've got news for you, Ms windbane, o great personal assistant to the CEO: It takes time to type. But fret not, I've read that before and I will answer, point-by-point the gamesradar article:
"And if Nintendo bites the bullet and gives the machine a visual kick in the pants, well there goes its whole mantra that graphics don't matter. There's just enough steam with this idea to last one generation, and none after that."
Right on. The problem with this argument is that Nintendo is not going to never improve on graphics again. Their philosophy is to simply make graphics that are "good enough". Perhaps (cartainly?) by the next generation of consoles, Nintendo will still be far behind the power curve compared to Sony and Microsoft. That is fine by their reckoning, because it just needs to be "good enough".
Graphics are a moving target; when Nintendo said what they said, I seriously doubt they meant "we'll stick with 480p until we die". I think they are more along the lines of "if it is going to drive the price of the console past $250, then we don't want it".
And, people buying the Wii are not really looking at graphics - if they did, they'd own a 360 or PS3.
Virtual Boy: The only thing good coming from the Virtual Boy was Gunpei Yokoi. That, and the fact that Nintendo was the only company with the "chutzpah" to try something so radically different (cue DS, Wii). The greater the risk, the greater the success or failuer. VB failed miserably. No questions there.
""Customer's don't want online games." - Nintendo president Satoru Iwata, 2004"
Dumb, dumb, dumb. Perhaps Iwata was referring to the fact that the majority gamers in Nintendo's pie don't want online (I sure as hell do). I hope they bring this out sometime, but frankly, I hate the fact that friend codes are just a thinly veiled disguist for Nintendo's paranoid belief that we all are, the greater or lesser extents, pedophiles. That's what I feel, and shame on them.
No blood = kiddy image - it's being rid of as we speak. Good riddance.
3rd Party support: It's getting better now, but back then one of the reasons Nintendo lost their dominance was due to this lack of support; the same reason why I never bought the GCN; it offered me nothing new compared to the N64, and with limited 3rd party games to boot.
N64: Apart from the superior graphics compared to the Saturn and PS1 (and the controller, which I happened to love), yes, it sucked donkey balls. Only a few choice games kept it from being an utter failure.
Of course, who can forget the folly of Nintendo and Sony co-developing the CD-ROM? Fiasco No 1, bar none. Without this panning out the way it did, the entire videogame landscape would be completely different.
There - replied.
Now how about you? Explain this to me:
"...You can experience the 4D world." I'm sorry, but where is the fourth "D" in PS3 games?
Did you " think to [yourself] 'I will work more hours to buy one'"?
Did you "feel that [you] want it, irrespective of anything else..."?
Was "discipline instilled into you after buying the PS3", or was that done by the marketing spiel alone? Hey, we all know "discipline" is, right? Were you properly disciplined?
Did you work extra hours/land an extra job like they wanted you to?
