I prefer "annoyed". I liked the PSX and the PS2, but the combo of hype, lack of good titles for the moment, and price all have me putting the PS3 into the "when it's cheap" zone.
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I prefer "annoyed". I liked the PSX and the PS2, but the combo of hype, lack of good titles for the moment, and price all have me putting the PS3 into the "when it's cheap" zone.
Unless you own every 2D PS1 and PS2 game, you did more to kill 2D than they ever did.Quote:
Originally Posted by Cheebs
Oh come on already. Sony from the very beginning of the PS1 trying to prevent most 2d games from being released in the US did alot more to kill 2D. There's no denying that Sony did everything they could to put the nail in 2d's coffin.Quote:
Originally Posted by dog$
People acting like making 3d mainstream and bringing casual gamers to the table are actually good things are dopes. Plain and simple. To this day the playability of your average 3d game is shit to 2d games. Now we have casual shit bags who think Halo is the greatest thing ever that are now actually RUNNING the industry.
I remember Penny Arcade summing it up nicely that Sony sold out our gaming industry to the same shits who beat us up in Gym class, it's already been said here that Sony simply got lucky and while Sega and Nintendo were tripping on their own mistakes Sony had a chance to shove them under the money bus. Yoshi has it right as fuck.
Sony wasn't/isn't the best. They were just the richest and now that some one with more cash than them and with better drive to support the industry with good stuff they're failing. Hell even Nintendo seems to be making a comeback with their "Desperation Stunt" (what I like to call the DS now) trashing the PSP supposedly and the Wii still being tricky to find while buckets of PS3 are here, it looks like the vengance I've wanted since the DC days is finally here.
In my collection:Quote:
Originally Posted by dog$
In the Hunt
Gunner's Heaven
Metal SlugX
Strikers 1945
Castlevania SotN
Castlevania Chronicles
Alien Hominid
Contra Shattered Soldier
G.Darius
Sillohette Mirage
Thunderforce V
R-Types
R-Type Delta
R-Type Final
Gradius Gaiden
Gradius V
Metal Slug 4/5
Guilty Gear X2
Mobile Light Force 1
Mobile Light Force 2
ESP Galuda
Dodonpachi Dai-ou-jou
Street Fighter aniversary collection
Blowout
And that's off the top of my head. Why on Earth wouldn't I have bought the 2D PS games, and what gave you the impression I didn't?
Get off your high fucking horse. The entire industry is built on the backs of casual gamers and has been from the word go, and people thinking Halo is 100% pure sunshine and gumdrops doesn't strike me as any different from people thinking Battletoads was anything more than a mediocre TMNT cash-run with terrible game balance.Quote:
Originally Posted by Bojack
The game industry was never "more hardcore" than it is now, it was just smaller. Shitty overhyped games still sold, sports games were still a big deal, licensed titles still moved units no matter how they reviewed, and good titles slipped through the cracks. Nostalgia's a bitch.
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Originally Posted by sethsez
Did you even play that game past level 2? It's a fucking showcase of gameplay.
I never got beat up in gym class. Its not Sony's fault you're a bitter nerd.Quote:
Originally Posted by Bojack
It was never "our" gaming industry, and gaming now isn't all that different from before Sony's dominance - there are still companies churning out great games at fast paces, slow paces, and companies that are simply incapable of attaching their names to anything worth playing. The biggest differences now are having more types of games to play, as we've got the technology for incredible 2D and 3D gaming, and the games themselves being released at lower prices (and having those prices fall faster than ever before as well).
I understand. BUT, how many copies of SOCOM sell if FFVII-XII went to Nintendo or Sega? Hell, we're about to find out what a Sony console without third party exclusives looks like, and even now that they have the branding established, it's not pretty.Quote:
Originally Posted by StriderKyo