15th July 2004, 8:22 PM
Or how about King of Fighters? Still great games, but does it REALLY need yearly releases? Most of them are pretty similar... Mario Party is even more so. Or how about... yup, Pokemon? Frankly, to see a franchise Nintendo could easily do that to and see them NOT do it is great. And it shows that you don't have to do that to have a successful franchise of games like that (that are easy to make many versions of)...
As for SSB... SSB:M is great. But SSB for N64 is also great. It's still very fun. Could there have been several versions in between, or after Melee? Given the fighting genre, absolutely. But it'd be like all those other fighting games which get old as they make more and more very similar sequels. Unless they change something big SSB would get old if they rehashed the game over and over with new releases. Though the games would probably still be great fun it'd still hurt if they did that. I know plenty of people tired of KOF or Mario Party (or Pokemon) when if they'd released fewer versions people might have kept more interest... releasing more versions helps with the harder core fans, but does it overall? I'd say no.
How about Mega Man... sure, it's the #1 series for this. And it's still a fun series. But plenty of people tired of the formula years ago... so they try to change things (X, Zero, Battle Network, etc) to compensate. The issue is that then they just make similar sequels of those games. Oh well, but at least they're doing something... though I can't help but think that there could have been several less Mega Man games in the past few years...
As for SSB... SSB:M is great. But SSB for N64 is also great. It's still very fun. Could there have been several versions in between, or after Melee? Given the fighting genre, absolutely. But it'd be like all those other fighting games which get old as they make more and more very similar sequels. Unless they change something big SSB would get old if they rehashed the game over and over with new releases. Though the games would probably still be great fun it'd still hurt if they did that. I know plenty of people tired of KOF or Mario Party (or Pokemon) when if they'd released fewer versions people might have kept more interest... releasing more versions helps with the harder core fans, but does it overall? I'd say no.
How about Mega Man... sure, it's the #1 series for this. And it's still a fun series. But plenty of people tired of the formula years ago... so they try to change things (X, Zero, Battle Network, etc) to compensate. The issue is that then they just make similar sequels of those games. Oh well, but at least they're doing something... though I can't help but think that there could have been several less Mega Man games in the past few years...
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