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jarrod on 18 February 2011
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mantlepiecek said:
jarrod said:

lol. So no on exclusive racing sims outside GT5 then.  Anyone serious about racing sims would be better served avoiding the watered down genre entries on consoles entirely though, and just souping up their PCs. That's really the only 'platform' that excels for them.  

Dead Nation?  Well, I guess Zombie Panic in Wonderland counts for Wii then.  So Wii and PS3 have the exact same number of exclusive zombie shooters, neat!

Still waiting on you naming an exclusive PS3 roguelike, rail shooter or sidecrolling ARPG though, but your deflections and excuses (PSN has different sidescrollers!  Rail shooters evolved!) are amusing.  PSN even if you want... you're actually missing my point, basically ALL consoles have genre deficits when you parse down enough.  And excelling in one area far past the rest (like Wii with platformers, or 360 with shooters) doesn't inherently mean the system doesn't have variety.  PS3 not really excelling above the competition in any one area doesn't mean it has the most variety, it just means it doesn't really stand out in a single area.  

PS3 excels in action games, its just that action is divided into fps/tps/arpgs/stealth/hack and slash. It has platformers and Sandbox games. 2D sidescrollers as well(on PSN), along with simulation. GT 5 and prologue are not the same game, like you think. Did I mention an srpg as well? It has arcade racers in Motorstorm 1 and 2. Motorstorm 3 is going to be released. It has a good adventure game, Last Guardian is a new adventure IP sp that's another one. Multi-player car-based game twisted metal says hi. Yakuza of the end is a zombie game that I remembered just now, will be released in Japan this year.

Even the genre in which it lacks (rpgs), it still has lots of games in it, like Demon's Souls and Valkyria Chronicles, Disgeae 3 and 4 leading the way for the other JRPGs like atelier rorona and Trinity universe. Most of the games I have listed were released in the last two years as well, or will be released this year.

Genre-deficit? LOL. Please do tell in which genre does PS3 need to have games in, which it yet hasn't? I know it doesn't have an RTS yet, which is very bad for console anyway(and PSN has under seige but anyway), it even has MMO in DC Universe online. This year, FF 14, The Agency and others are going to be released for both PS3/PC(understandable, since console is hardly the place for MMOs), just further proves my point.

Oh, and rail-shooters have definitely evolved. Look at the 360/PS3, you know the reason why they don't have rail shooters? Because they have fps'es and tps's and don't need to have them, lol @ your "Oh I can't defeat this argument so lets call this an excuse" BS.

Why will you make a rail shooter when you can make a fps? Simple, you won't. Ghost recon on the wii is supposed to be "dumbed down" into a rail shooter, I wonder why...reviewers must be biased! Yeah, that's it!

Sure PS3 has a lot of great action games, but it doesn't really excel past Wii or 360 in that regard.  It's not like 360 with FPS or Wii with platformers, both of which are "action" games anyway by the definition you're giving the genre on PS3.

Yakuza Of the End is a "zombie shooter"?  You know, the Yakuza games are actually RPGs (when you get down to it) right?

Why make a rail shooter?  Uh... why not?  People love games like REZ, Sin & Punishment, Panzer Dragoon, Star Fox, etc... Child of Eden looks fantastic, same for (at least the rail shooter portions of) Kid Icarus Uprising.  It's a different genre, with different goals from TPS/FPS.  When rail shooters fail is when they try to emulate free-roam shooter design fundamentals (like with Dead Space Extraction or the Wii Ghost Recon).

Still waiting on a PS3 exclusive roguelike, sidescrolling ARPG or rail shooter... I suspect I'll be waiting indefinitely...