Linkasf said:
Resident_Hazard said:
RolStoppable said:
I give credit where credit is due. I knew that my OP wasn't all that, so I wasn't surprised to see noname2200 and famousringo come up with something that put my idea to shame. But your post is better than all of ours put together.
Good job!
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Thank you for not twisting my words to make me come off like some kind of twisted dissenting hater. I love Nintendo, and Nintendo's machines easily represent the bulk of my collection, but I tire of seeing Nintendo fans choosing crap like Mario Party # or Pikachu's Half-Assed Whatnot or Wii Whatsitz over any quality third party efforts. Nintendo fans have, at times, come off as elitist. They complain about how "average and mundane" The Conduit was, but average and mundane titles still sell on other systems. The Conduit scored, on average, abotu 10 percentage points higher than Haze on the PS3, and that game sold vastly higher numbers.
To me, that translates to an unwillingness to buy 3rd party games, where supporters of the X360 and PS3 still buy the games. So MadWorld only lasts about 7-10 hours. It's still a high quality game and a fun and unique title. It deserved better sales, as far as I'm concerned. It's almost as if there are gamers that own Nintendo systems, and Nintendo fans. And the big difference is that the fans greatly outnumber the gamers, and the fans don't buy 3rd party games.
I know a million in sales is still pretty damn good, speaking of GTA: Chinatown Wars. But seriously, that game is a total blast, and as far as I'm concerned, the best thing on the DS. For a system with sales ready to topple the PS2, only a million--especially for such a powerfully popular franchise--is pretty sad. I can't think of any other game that kept me as glued to the DS as that one did.
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China Town Wars may have been good to you... But i bet to the millions of GTA fans it isn't like GTA 3, Vice city, SAn andreas, and GTA 4...
It may be a good game, but the main crowd would like a GTA that is similiar to the console versions on their handheld. China town wars has a different style than the other GTAs (Graphically anyway). My brother is really into GTA Vice city, but you dont see him talking about China town wars maybe because it didnt look like GTA to him even though he knows that it is a GTA game. Didn't look like it.
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I bought all five of the GTA games on the PS2, and might even try GTA IV if we get a copy, but Chinatown Wars is not the kind of game I fell in love with.
Just look at the ads. For III, VC, SA, LCS, VCS, and IV, you all see the same thing: the protagonist running around a 3D city wreaking havok. That is not what you see in the ads for CW. Heck, you barely see any gameplay at all. And from what I've seen of the first GTA games, it doesn't even feel like those.
Basically, CW is like New Coke. It's not our fault we didn't buy the game. It's Rockstar's fault for thinking that's the kind of game we wanted to buy (yes, I will say the same about any game that doesn't sell that well, and then blames the customers, even those made by Nintendo).
