Graphic Whores forgot what gaming really is about

[NoobSlayer92]

d21lewis said:

V-I-D-E-O (five letters) G-A-M-E-S (five letters).  Hmm.  Interesting.  It looks like there's just as much emphasis on the word "video" as there is on the word "games".  I love a good playing game.  I can also appreciate a good looking game.  As far as I can remember, I was drawn to video games.  I remember walking past games like Double Dragon, Bad Dudes, Race Driving, Afterburner, Street Fighter 2, and such in arcades and being stopped dead in my tracks by how stunning they looked.  I used to connect my Nes/Snes/and when I could get my hands on one, the Genesis and hook it up to the family VCR and record footage of various games just to look at them.  I'd spend literal hours pausing Street Fighter 2 to look at the individual frames of animation and thinking how awesome it looked and I'd watch the opening to the original Starfox or Flashback over and over again in awe of how good the animation was.

I've been gaming since the early 80's.  I'm not one of these new generation gamers that you speak of.  You name a good game, classic or new and the odds are pretty good that I've owned it or at least played it.  (that was all just to set the mood).  I own a Wii and I've been a Nintendo Fan since the beginning.  And I prefer the PS3/360 BY FAR.  You can tell me how the Wii is all about gameplay over graphics and I'll call bullshit on you.  The Wii's underpowered graphics actually hurt the experience of some games.  If believing the Wii has some sort of edge over other consoles helps you sleep well at night, so be it.  Games like Uncharted 2, Gears 2, Heavy Rain, Halo Reach, and Enslaved (buy Enslaved, kids!) etc. are great experiences and the presentation have a lot to do with it.

And even if you disagree, tell me that games like 'Splosion Man, Limbo, Braid,Flower, etc. don't benefit from impressive graphics?  Even the games like Zelda, Metal Gear Solid, Star Fox, Wave Race, Super Mario Bros. 3, Zeld LttP, Donkey Kong Country, Super Mario 64, and such benefitted from being the absolute best looking games of their time.  I think graphic whores arent the only ones who forgot what VIDEO gaming is about.

*Everybody gets up and claps*

Great speech sir!

*sobs*

Great speech!