4D Gamer III said:
It was on the front page and I read it, simple as that. There is no arguing Twisted Metal got stale and faded off, but I never said it "sucked" or that this new version would suck. You're just over-reacting and exageration to force your plight of Sony victimization on me. Not only is my modest response to the topic turned into an attack on the game, but Nintendo is brought into the discussion automatically as your defense. You're just too paranoid that anything that isn't blind praise is automatically defamation of Sony and clearly Nintendo stands in stark contrast as the opposition of choice to bring up in any discussion resulting there of. I suspect desperation on Sony's part because of this huge resurgance in first party games, something they didn't need to bother with last generation when the PS2 had more than enough third party support to go around. This of course is only a theory so why you feel it such a threat is beyond me. I never attacked the topic or anyone else in it. It was you and others like you upset that someone tried to interject the high fiving with something other than blind support. Twisted Metal and Smash Brothers have nothing what-so-ever incommon so stop trying to compare them as if you have any ground to cry troll. |
First Bold: Have you never heard of Twisted Metal Black and Twisted Metal Black: Online? Both were extremely popular games on the PS2. Twisted Metal was not something that was popular at one point in time in the days of PS1. TM 3 and 4 were trash on the PS1 simply because 989 studios was working on those games instead of the original Singletrac team. In 2001 Singletrac came back together in the form of Incognito and created a great PS2 TM game that was arguably the first killer-app for the system. The game was very well done with some very smart AI for the time. The computer was well known for setting traps against you. Then about a year later the online version came out and was packed in with the Network Adapter, which were both moderately successful. Finally in 2004 the PSP was released and yet another TM came out and again we saw stellar sales. Many including myself considered it the spiritual successor to TM2. So Twisted Metal never faded away. The only reason we never saw a sequel to Black was because Jaffe wanted to work on something new, which happened to be one of his masterpieces: God of War.
As for the second bolded paragraph: Again I think you're off-base. Sony has always had a strong 1st/2nd party showing, especially in the early period of their console's launch. Like I said earlier, TM was one of the first killer-apps for the PS2. Shortly after that Gran Turismo 3 came out. After that we saw Jak and Daxter made by Naughty Dawg (who also created Uncharted). Although it wasn't a commercial success, another great 1st party title was Ico. Beyond the first year of the PS2 we saw other first party titles like: Socom, Sly Cooper, Ratchet and Clank, Killzone, God of War, Dark Cloud, Hot Shots Golf, Ico, Shadow of the Colossus, Rogue Galaxy, Syphon Filter, The Getaway. And don't forget all the sequels to those games. Sony's first party presence is slightly bigger now only because they have been buying up studios since the PS1 days. Sony's "first party resurgence" is nothing new that has sprung up out of "desperation."
My Top 5:
Shadow of the Colossus, Metal Gear Solid 3, Shenmue, Skies of Arcadia, Chrono Trigger
My 2 nex-gen systems: PS3 
and Wii 
Prediction Aug '08: We see the PSP2 released fall '09. Graphically, it's basically the same as the current system. UMD drive ditched and replaced by 4-8gb on board flash memory. Other upgrades: 2nd analog nub, touchscreen, blutooth, motion sensor. Design: Flip-style or slider. Size: Think Iphone. Cost: $199. Will be profitable on day 1.
