6th September 2006, 7:38 PM
I must admit there's a certain nostalgic charm to it myself, but I'd be fine if Nintendo just kept doing what they are doing now, which is plenty good enough to stay afloat which is all they need to keep doing the only thing I care about, making games I enjoy playing. That's about my attitude for all of it. I wouldn't want a "clean sweep" situation though. Being challenged is what keeps these companies doing what they do. There are downsides of course, like stupid gimics (those e-cards and game link-up used to unlock features in the game that are already in the game and should by all rights be accessible without buying the other game).
COMPLETELY DIFFERENT TOPIC, there sure are a LOT of very high quality games these days. Seriously, I can't keep up. I don't have the TIME to play it all, much less the cash, before even more come out. It's this swarm of quality. I'm used to swarms of quantity, but there were rare gems to be plucked out of that and the gaming collection may have been slow to grow due to a need for discerning the good from the massive bad. Now though... It's like you have to decide between gold or diamond. There's still way more garbage, but there's a LOT of must haves out now and that will come out.
Seriously, I think I'll need to dialate time in order to have any hope of catching up with it all. Gaming is a very big market these days, and I fear I may get to the point where I'll just have to say alright, even if it's a very good "must have" game, I don't have to have it. I'll end up having to just say "only when I feel like playing a game, I'll just pick up the newest one I'm interested in at the time". I'll end up treating games like I treat all other forms of entertainment, as a casual thing. It's getting closer...
COMPLETELY DIFFERENT TOPIC, there sure are a LOT of very high quality games these days. Seriously, I can't keep up. I don't have the TIME to play it all, much less the cash, before even more come out. It's this swarm of quality. I'm used to swarms of quantity, but there were rare gems to be plucked out of that and the gaming collection may have been slow to grow due to a need for discerning the good from the massive bad. Now though... It's like you have to decide between gold or diamond. There's still way more garbage, but there's a LOT of must haves out now and that will come out.
Seriously, I think I'll need to dialate time in order to have any hope of catching up with it all. Gaming is a very big market these days, and I fear I may get to the point where I'll just have to say alright, even if it's a very good "must have" game, I don't have to have it. I'll end up having to just say "only when I feel like playing a game, I'll just pick up the newest one I'm interested in at the time". I'll end up treating games like I treat all other forms of entertainment, as a casual thing. It's getting closer...
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)