Sega: Madworld possible would have done better on 360 or ps3.

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Resident_Hazard said:

Umos-Cmos said:

Resident_Hazard said:

Exactly.  A Nintendo fan___'s excuse is almost always "it wasn't good anyway."  Sub-par (hardcore) games sell better on the Xbox360 and PS3 because their fans don't have such elitist attitudes.  Haze sold twice what The Conduit did, despite being reviewed roughly half as well on a system with little more than half the sales of the Wii.  In a way, Haze "performed" four times better than The Conduit--but then, there's actually a market for FPS titles on the PS3.

And when they don't say it "wasn't good anyway," they go this route:  "Not long enough."  There's more to MadWorld in gameplay length than titles like Pikmin, Wii Music, Wii Play, Punch-Out!!, Wii Sports Resort, etc, and all you guys bought those games.  Because Nintendo's name is plastered on it.  Pikmin can be finished in about 6 hours, if that.  Luigi's Mansion was about 3 or 4 hours.  Wii Music has no content.  Wii Play has less.  Punch-Out can be finished in two hours and has fewer multiplayer options than MadWorld.  Nintendo fans continue to not care about 3rd party content.  We used to pay $50 for a game that could be finished in a half an hour, and no one bitched if the game was still good.  And MadWorld is still good, and lasts much longer than 30 minutes.  Where'd all this elitism come from?  And where is it when Nintendo releases crap?  Pure crap like Metroid Other M, Wii Music, FlingSmash... 

Also, gamers who aren't in the industry, aren't involved in the industry, and who aren't developers need to stop talking like they know better than the people who actually work in the industry (Mr. Khan)--because you're just a consumer.  You have no reason to complain and you certainly don't know better than developers and industry insiders about the industry they are actively involved in, and of which, you are on the outskirts.  That's like judging living conditions within a city when you live on a farm fifty miles outside the city limits, and never venture in.

You really haven't seen all of the hate for Metroid Other M?  Nintendo fans tore that game apart!  I loved it, but then again, I don't recall ever complaining about a games length.  As long as it's a quality 6-8 hours I feel justified in my purchase.

Ppff, I stopped posting on here for practically a month because the over-bearing love for that shitty game got on my nerves.  I was getting attacked from all sides for correctly noting the 30,000 things wrong with the game while drooling nerds tried to claim that ham-fisted, totally cliche'd, vapidly predictable storytelling was "deep and relevant" to Samus. 

Anyway, I gotta be honest, I'm starting to like shorter games.  I breezed through Splatterhouse on the X360 pretty quickly--so fast in fact, that I went through it a second time on the hard difficulty, which is something I almost never do anymore.  I get into the game, I get through it fast, I get full enjoyment out of it, and I'm able to finish the games.  When it comes to Xbox 360 games, that means I also tend to chock up more achievements.  Splatterhouse is now my top game (percentage-wise) as I have 46 out of 50. 

Maybe the short length would bug me more if I didn't so thuroughly enjoy my time with it (sans a couple relatively small obnoxious spots), and come away feeling like I accomplished a ton of stuff in a short amount of time.  I have a fucking ton of games I'm still just trying to get to (Fable III, Bionic Commando, Mass Effect, GTA4, Orange Box, God of War: Chains of Olympus, Cursed Mountain, etc), let alone finish (Fallout: New Vegas, Ratchet & Clank: Size Matters, LittleBigPlanet PSP, Professor Layton Diabolical Box, Ninja Gaiden II, The Conduit, Twisted Metal: Small Brawl, GTA: Vice City Stories, etc).  So shorter titles don't bother me.  Unless they're short and crap.  But I still buy everything anyway...

For instance, two short titles that totally rule:  Viewtiful Joe and Pikmin.  I enjoyed them, I got through them, I was able to move on.

Man, I loved Viewtiful Joe and Pikmin.  In fact Pikmin is one of my favorite Nintendo franchises now (give me a Pikmin 3 already Nintendo!).  Viewtiful Joe kicked my arse in the latter levels but it was a blast.  I loved the quirky story and awesome design.  The slow-mo abilities were useful (and oftentimes necessary), looked cool, and never felt like a gimmick.  It was a great blend of old school beat-em-up meets new school design.  Well, enough gushing about Joe.