CGI-Quality said:
Khuutra said:
CGI-Quality said:
Khuutra said:
That is a ridiculous sentiment. Saying "you must not want this game if you're not willingn to sink in a couple of hundred extra dollars to play it" is not defensible as a statement or as a position.
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Perhaps it does sound a little ridiculous. It sounds just as ridiculous to say you want a game but you don't want to buy the console it's on. Everything can't (and shouldn't) be expected to be on every console.
When I only owned a Genesis, I knew I was going to have to by the SNES if I wanted to play certain games. I didn't sit around twittling my thumbs hoping for the game to come to my system and then moan about it when it didn't.
This nonsense that everything should be on everything has gotten out of hand. Pretty much the pinnacle of my frustration.
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It is not at all ridiculous to want a game but not the hardware - there's nothing inherently wrong with wishing that you could get a game on hardware that you already own. That's not ridiculous, that's just preferring not to spend money you don't have to. The very intuitive nature of the statement is why your proposed sentiment is ridiculous! It is an intrinsic point.
I imagined you didn't sit around waiting, but if you didn't wish that you had the option to play those games on your hardware then you were just ignoring the quality of those games. It's a sentiment as old and as fierce as the console wars:
Your frustration is misplaced and immaterial. People wishing that they could play games that are on other systems is not new, it's not novel to this generation, and it's not unreasonable. Feeling entitled to those games is unreasonable, but that's not new to this generation either and nobody in this topic is really expressing that. The guy you replied to certainly wasn't implying that, and your response did not imply that you thought he was, so ... well I think you need to stand back and reassess what about this upsets you, and whether or not it actually should.
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You've misunderstood the point, twice now. No, it's not ridiculous to not want to buy the hardware a said game is on, got that. It IS ridiculous, however, to just expect everything to be on everything, or to sit around expecting a game to come to your console, even if it's evident that it may not/won't, and then complain about it.Everything can't/won't be on everything
No matter how often you try to rightously justify it to me, I'm stationary on the subject.
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Expecting the next Versus game from the Versus team to be on the same platform as the last Versus game from the Versus team isn't exactly ridiculous. Hell, before the game was revealed/leaked people were actually expecting the next Versus game to be on Wii.
