scorptile said:
i agree with you here. but mostly i think the reason for the n64 let down wasnt cause of the hardware but at the beginning games were very very few and far between. i mean the first 6 months of the n64's life there was count them 6 games total. granted mario 64 was awesome and i absolutely loved mortal kombat trilogy but you can only play those for so long before you get bored and want more. now the cartridge thing wasnt that big of deal cause now flash media is starting to revive cartridge things. what i dont get is why is the wii getting ignored for good games i mean you dont have to use motion controls. games like mortal kombat and street fighter were really good back in teh day and there was no motion controls then.
what i see as "hatred" towards the ps3 and sony fanboys now is actually from when the ps one was around. sony's tactics was dirty when it came to grabbing ip's from third parties. you know how all the sony lovers were beside themselves and upset about microsoft getting FF13? guess what the difference was when FF7 was canned for the n64 to be made for the ps one? they didnt make it multi console. during the ps2 days sony fanboys got arrogant and made fun of anyone not having a ps2. what the ps3 is feeling now is what the N64 had. at the beginning there really wasnt any support. the initial buy was decent but fell flat shortly after as the opponent sky rockets out of control.
i think all these "motion control" things are good and i loved having the more sinple controls. but i think the joystick thing is all fun for some games but for others i think it really isnt all that good. i love what nintendo did with SMBWII and what they are doing with DKCRWII if more developers did that instead of trying to make things difficult these companies can actually get along fine. i know im on a rant but oh well. just think when square had its hay day there were one game coming out once every few years not 4-6 in differnt ip's and the quality of those games were amazing now ive heard how horrible FF13 has been. maybe they ought to go back to what made them awesome. very long quests, and great stories. they didnt care what their graphics looked like until FF7 came out. ive been saying its all about gameplay not how a game looks since the ps2 came out. now with the wii proving my point now i still hear from sony lovers that the wii isnt good cause it doesnt look as good as the ps3. here is my dilema i have a pc i game on. the graphics on my pc looks amazing. it uses the same media as the xbox 360 but yet games you would think would be cool on teh pc that are for the 360 are not made. i enjoy playing SF4 on the pc. now can you imagine if you can make a mortal kombat for the pc the way that SF4 is? it would bring back what they had back in the day.
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). Nobody can take their support for granted. They WANT support, they DON'T OFFER it! Bunch of ungrateful bastards!!!
Oh, I mostly agree, and about controls, I think too that the best thing is to have the widest choice possible, to each genre its most suitable control. And I agree that the reasons for "betrayals" almost never lie in HW but in SW. HW can have an influence on the kind of user base a console can best target, though, but as each console offers classic controllers too, old style gamers shouldn't be let down by HW, it's only SW that can disappoint them. So HW novelties used at best extend user base towards still untapped groups, they don't by any means damage existing groups by themselves, HW offers capabilities, new HW extends them, but in the end it's always up to SW to use them.
The serious part of my post is not affected by the joke anyway, call the change of taste like you want, "casuals" go with whoever best meets both their tastes and spending power.
