| Alby_da_Wolf said: 1. Guitar Hero, CoD, EA "serial" sports games about extreme milking, for example. Dumbing down happens on shooters with regenerating health, on RPGs of series that had free roaming and become linear, it happened a lot too on PC/XB multiplats due to XBox 1 limits. 2. I don't deny this, and I'm very disappointed that Ninty itself is underexploiting WMPlus higher precision features. But it's not due to Ninty if others do the same on other platforms, logic would suggest that successful "hardcore" games shouldn't be dumbed down to follow the simplest casual games, as the respective markets are very different. And not always simple means dumb, Ninty can (when it wants to) make games that are simple but excellent. Mediocre devs and publishers can mistake simplicity with stupidity looking for an inexistent cheap way to copy Nintendo's success, but it's their fault, not Nintendo's. I'm as pissed as you about dumbing down of gaming, but I don't blame Nintendo. PS: about Move, it looks to me that Sony isn't just chasing extreme casual with it, it designed it to be usable in both casual, simple games and in more complex ones, with its high precision required. |
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GH and music games I agree on. But for COD and sports games, I disagree. I want a new cod every year and sports games offer a lot of new every year (at least the ones I am buying). For example NHL series, they make it better every single year.
I don't see regenerating health as dumbing down, it makes the action more frantic. I don't see how it is any "smarter" to run around looking for med kits. Free roaming isn't always a bliss either, I don't want to wander around for hours looking for something. In fact that annoys me. :P
Of course there are some games which make me very angry, for example Dragon age 2. I just can't stand that.
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I see it like this:
Nintendo makes simple games and if they are successfull, other developers copy them. That is why I blame nintendo. I don't see any simple nintendo games as excellent, I see them as they are. Simple games.
Ps.
Any nintendo zealots reading my post, I don't need your views on nintendo games. They are not going to affect my view on their games so don't even bother.
