Ridge Racer DS

[A Black Falcon]

That was a response to you calling Cruisin' great again. I just don't understand how any self-respecting gamer can like Cruisin'.

You ignored how I described what I meant didn't include my saying that I was using very narrow criteria in saying that, didn't you? ... yup, you did. Must I repeat again that I did not mean, and then I defined precisely how I did not mean, that I was saying that it's a great game... just that by the criteria arcades would judge games by it's a really good one. And you really can't disagree with that, no matter how much you hate the game. Remember.

1)Entertaining enough to spend some money in. (graphics/sound/etc. to draw in the audience)
2)hard enough that people don't keep playing on a little money. (this is very important! And the downfall, for instance, of Ivan Stewart's Super Off-Road... once you get good you can play for a good fifteen minuites with one quarter. Still, a classic arcade racer and one that I think is a pretty good game.)
3)maybe fun enough for those two minuites that you put some more money in. ('I almost won that race and got a free race, so let's play again!' / (for Hydro Thunder) 'Two more races and I get a free race!'/etc)

Eh, no that was not my point. My point was that pretty much everything is subjective, but that there are general leading opinions on most things.

As you love to say against some of my points, including many times in this thread, the common opinion isn't always the right ones... and that goes for both 'common popular' and whatever your "leading" opinion is.