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MidnightRider85 on 19 August 2009
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Sorry, but I have no interest in games like FF:Dissidia (a fighting game with FF characters!) or Metal Gear Solid Peacewalker and I'm sure those two titles won't even sell half (and I'm generous) of what DQIX will sell. I really enjoyed FFIII, FFIV, DQIV and DQV even if those games are remakes, btw FFIII and DQV were never released in Occident, so I can't count them as old games because I played it for the first time on my DS.

p.s. PS2 was the King of shovelware, does that make this console a bad one?


The PS2 might have had some shovelware, but it also had over 500 green games at Metacritic (second highest losing out only to pcs which have a game library stretching back much further in time) Wii and DS are nowhere near having 500 games in the green.

Out of the 700 ds games on metacritic,  about 150 of them are in green. Out of 1600 PS2 games, the PS2 had around 550.  Now lets assume you are right about Metacritic determining quality, and that handhelds have the same criticism as consoles. When you compare the amount of games the DS has in green to it's userbas, and the PS2 with it's userbase, they aren't very different. Oh and how about we put the PSP in the mix. The PSP has 130 green games out of 450. So even that is similar to both of them. So I don't see your point as valid.

QFT!


     Well, it all comes down to if you would rather own a system with 500 good to great games or one with only 150.


The Wii is out since a little more than 2.5 years. How many ''good to great games'' were on the PS2 two years and a half after its release?

Anyway I won't let a website like metacritic decides for me if a game is great or no. Was it this same website who put GTAIV as the best game ever a couple of month ago?


     Without counting, I would say a lot more than the 97 Green games the Wii has now.  By the PS2's second Christmas it had Jak and Daxter:  The Precursor Legacy, ICO, Devil May Cry, Final Fantasy X, Metal Gear Solid 2:  Sons of Liberty, GTA III, Gran Turismo 3-Aspec, Baldur's Gate, Klonoa, and by its third (less than two and a half years into its lifespan) it had added Suikoden III, Kingdom Hearts, The Mark of Kri, GTA:  Vice City, Ratchet and Clank and these are just games that are all probably in the 9 range (there were probably many more in the 7.5 to 9 range).

GTA IV deserves to be up towards the top as much as certain other games like Zelda:  Ocarina of Time (which only had scores so high because there wasn't much else on N64.  If it had been on PS1, it probably would only have been a 9.5 at IGN) do.

Please GTAIV is the most overrated game of the gen. Why Zelda:OoT always come on #1 in those polls where PEOPLE vote (GameFaqs like) and GTAIV didnt make the top 40? The reason why Ocarina of Time always come in #1 is because it revolutionized video games while GTAIV is just another GTA with better graphics and repetitive gameplay.


     No, Zelda Ocarina of Time is always voted so highly because it is really only one of the handful of memorable N64 games.  But in reality, it is no better than FFVII which IGN gave a 9.5.  GTA IV definitely deserved its review.  For just one very basic reason, after the success of GTA SA Rockstar could have taken the easy road and just released another hiphop game; however, they had the cahones to tell a much deeper story, that might not be as appealing to as many people who probably would have been more happy with another hiphop GTA, about a much more important issue in their last game which deals with the stagnation and failure of the American Dream and the prescence that Eastern European gangsters are wanting to have on a global scale following the collapse of communism in the Soviet Uion.