To Microsoft and Nintendo fans

[MaxwellGT2000]

pearljammer said:

MaxwellGT2000 said:

d21lewis said:
Sony games have a unique feel. I can't describe it. There are only a few Sony franchises that I LOVE. Nintendo and surprisingly, Microsoft have franchises that are nearer to my heart for whatever reason. I don't know. I guess I'll say this: When Sony is good, they're very good. When they're mediocre, Sony fans still love them. And that's O.K.

This is pretty much exactly how it is.  I mean everyone has their great games, everyone has some meh stuff as well, but man oh man, if that meh game is made by Sony there's gonna be people that love it, any word that it could just be average can start a fight, and you're right it is perfectly fine, just it's crazy to me to see any fanbase defend a game from what it is. 

To be honest, this gen I really feel Sony has made far better titles than they did last gen, they're really starting to return to the Sony I enjoyed during the PS1 era, but it took necessity for it to happen.  But in the end while they've tried to compete on just about every genre, with every developer/publisher, but still they haven't REALLY matched the quality of a Halo 3/CoD4 for FPS, or the Mario platformers for 2D/3D platformers. 

It's much like Sony is the jack of all trades and makes the great games that keep you busy/buying games, but they really lack that genre they just dominate at, and it's the best game of its genre.  Don't take me the wrong way here, since some of my top games this gen are Sony made, but they have never really shown to be a dominating force in any one genre, like many people don't even want to compete with Nintendo with platformers and that says volumes, though I would argue Sony has a good hold on the monkey catching sims (I'm really wanting news on Ape Escape 4)

Just my 2 cents.

Though I wouldn't say that they dominate, as Nintendo's been known to release some notable (bit of an understatement) games, but one could claim that they go toe-to-toe with anyone in the adventure genre. Ico and SotC are both at the pinnacle of their respective genre.

I'm not huge on sim racers, but I believe GT has dominated that genre for quite some time. I could be wrong here, as I simply do not pay that much attention.

They dominate the Karaoke genre as well, if it is to be seperated from the music genre as a whole, that is.

That's all I really could think of.

OT: Both Firem Emblem and Mario are among my most consistently favourite games. However, Sony has released quite a few of my favourite games in the past 9-10 years. It's difficult to choose really. And as it has been said several times already: this isn't Microsoft's strong suit, but that's fine so long as they keep finding ways to providing qulaity experiences on their console/OS.

Very good point about GT, honestly I have my PS1 copy, not really played the series since but when you think of a Sony game dominating a genre that would be it.  I'm not sure about singing games especially when you think that's apart of Rock Band and Guitar Hero now, even then it's hard for me to give them the clear win.

Adventure is a strong point for them its true, but at least for me, they have yet to perfect it (though I've been playing SotC which is pretty awesome), but you look at things like Uncharted 1&2 and while they're really good story, graphics, and gameplay it lacked the real adventure feel to me like the original Tomb Raiders had, basically because Uncharted is fairly linear and the things you have to find are almost given to you, adventure is supposed to be venturing into the unknown and finding cool things along the way, like a secret passage that gives you a badass item.

My idea of domination though is not only scores, but a mixture of sales, scores, fans, popularity, etc.  and if you want to talk the adventure genre, no one can deny that Zelda just rules that, its got the sales, its always getting big marks, and when you ask the average joe to tell you the one adventure game he knows/wants/likes/played it'll likely be Zelda, ask a more avid gamer and you get more diverse responses like your uncharted, MGS,  or SotC.