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Originally posted by: Ian Sane I'm just irritated by this buncha nothing being hailed as great third party support and how there's so much to choose from. Well if you have taste there isn't much. Anyone who is struggling to afford all the great titles now is either really broke or has low standards. And this isn't "Nintendo-only" this is merely recognizing the difference between must-rents and must-buys.
First of all, nice job belittling the opinions of people by saying "if you have taste", and by people, I mean every NWR forumer who has tried Godfather and loves it (which is, coincidentally, all of them).
Second, "must-rent/buy" is too highly subjective of a term to truly define. In my case, buying a game where my friends and I have already put 32 hours into it having only owned it for four days means that it was smart to buy it, especially considering I haven't even come CLOSE to finishing it.
In your case, a "must-buy" would be a game which somehow inspires the same feelings of nostalgia you had while enjoying games as a child, something which will very likely never happen.
Ian, you're very much like the woman who reads too many romance novels and expects to one day meet that handsome prince who will sweep her off her feet and take care of her for the rest of her life, except in your case, you're waiting for that game which magically transports you back to the "golden" age of gaming because you don't realize that the fond memories you have of these games largely stem from the fact that you played them as a
child. Everything seems better when you're a kid, and even the best games from the golden age which I remember are still fun, but they don't have that same magic because that magic was something I was personally injecting into the experience.
Thus, your standards are ridiculously high, and that doesn't mean you're a more discerning gamer with better tastes. It means that you're a snob who brushes off games he's never played on a system he doesn't even own because he wants something from gaming that it can no longer offer.
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This is like back in 2002 when the Cube had a drought (which was admitingly much worse than this one) and people were all "OMG! Cel Damage came out this week.! YES!" And if you don't remember Cel Damage that's part of the point.
I remember Cel Damage because I rented it and it sucked, but I'm going to remember Godfather as the first game that truly made the Wii remote translate directly into violent action and one that my friends and I enjoyed playing together.
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Godfather came out on other consoles a YEAR AGO so don't try to pass it off as some sort of big must play game. It's just EA dumping whatever they can on the Wii to get a sale from people itching for a new game during a lull. Maybe the game is actually pretty good but that doesn't not make it a cash-in port. It's the equivalent of Crazy Taxi on the Cube which was a good game, though an old one ported for a quick buck during a release drought. No one then said "hey the drought's over because this game is great."
See, this is where your lack of a Wii really shines through: you don't understand what Wii control can actually DO for a game.
Go read any of the Blackhand reviews. You'll notice ONE thing in common with all of them: everyone LOVES the controls, and I mean LOOOOOVES them. EA could have made a half-assed port with the Wii controls badly shoehorned in for a quick and dirty buck, but instead, they went the extra mile and made these controls so good they rival Wii Sports in responsiveness. Seriously, these controls are so good, I didn't expect them to be this responsive outside of a Nintendo-made game.
The reason why the Godfather is so fun is because of the controls, and again, because you don't own a Wii (and made no effort to acquire one, from what I remember) you don't understand just how much of a difference it can make.
I call this a flood because I WANT to try all of these games. From cooking games to more FPSes, I find the promise of these enticing enough that I wish to rent them all.
I don't expect anyone to share that opinion, but I'm completely serious when I say that the new control scheme of the Wii has breathed a second life into my desire to try games which I wouldn't have otherwise bothered with.
Topic: Drought, drought...FLOOD! (Read 22034 times)
