Game critics have failed casual gamers, in my opinion. Never a great casual

[Kenryoku_Maxis]

Machina said:

Kenryoku_Maxis said:

enditall727 said:

what casual game do you think deserve's a 95%?

Depends on your definition of Casual.  But I'd say:

Sim City 3000

Super Mario Galaxy

Kirby's Canvas Curse

etc.

Anyway, its natural for sites like IGN or magazines like Game Informer to be harsh on the 'casual' games.  Not only are they appealing to the 'hardcore' market, but they themselves are people who grew up playing what they considered 'core' games.

What I'm mad about is how reviewers have been so obviously bias against Wii and DS games.  And even considering 'graphical limitations', they've obviously been downscoring both Wii and DS games with a clear bias.  And not just the 'casual' titles, but the actual good titles on the systems.

Not that this is surprising as they practically did the same think for the GBA, N64 and GC.  But never this bad...

Two out of the three highest rated games of the entire generation are Wii games. If there's systemic downgrading of Wii games then I don't see how they can be explained. If there is a bias against the console do you not think those scores would've been sabotaged by reviewers intentionally downgrading their scores?

As for DS, well, I don't buy that at all. Check out the DS's all time highest scoring games according to Metacritic, then go and pop over to the PSP section and you'll see that it gets an equally rough ride when it comes to scoring for its premier titles. When it comes to those two I think it's more a case of the bar being set high for handheld games in general.

Aside from Mario Galaxy 1 and 2, what other major games out there got above 9.0 on Wii?  Metroid Prime Trilogy, Resident Evil 4, Twilight Princess, Smash Bros Brawl....oops, that's about it.  And all those games came out over 3 years ago.

My point wasn't that Wii didn't have some high scoring games.  Its that across the board, Wii has been ignored for the HD consoles.  Hell, even Muramasa, New Super Mario Bros and Donkey Kong Country Returns got scores under 9.0 on most sites.  And those are suppose to be the 'core' games by most people.

On the flip side, these are the same people who gave games like GTAIV, Little Big Planet and MGSIV near perfect scores, mostly for graphics.  But aside from those examples, there are far more games rated above 9.0 on PS3/360 than on Wii.  And most of the time, the reasons cited are graphics and popularity (both for the HD systems and against the Wii).  Despite Wii games obviously outselling many PS3/360 games.

When it all adds up, you see a bias towards 'core' games and against Wii games.

I'm not going to say games on the HD consoles suck.  I own a PS3 and I think games like Assassins Creed, Batman: Arkham Asylum and Bayonetta should easily have scores over 9.0.  What I AM saying is, many of the good games on Wii were overlooked.