I like nintendo properties too but, the 3rd party gaming world has so much to offer as well. Some of my all-time favorite franchises are from 3rd party developers. This makes choosing a nintendo console a hard sell for me, as well as many other gamers out there.
Not for me. I buy Nintendo for Nintendo. I buy Sony for everything else. It doesn’t bother me in the slightest.
It’s kind of odd talking about third-party problems in the 3DS thread when the 3DS definitely doesn’t have that issue.
Yeah, it definitely nails the look and feel of a game from the NES era, but…is that it? If that’s the only hook, I kind of expected more. How does it iterate on those games?
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Isn’t that endemic of the problem, though?
I don’t consider it a problem. My reasoning is pretty simple which I’ve said time and time again. I don’t see what’s so hard to understand.
People buy Nintendo because they love the Nintendo characters and games. Why would they buy Nintendo for stuff that everyone has like 2k sports games, assassins creed, call of duty and whatever shovel ware sandbox game someone makes? They want Nintendo for Mario, Yoshi, Zelda, Donkey Kong…Etc…
I buy Sony for the same reason. I love how many exclusives they get compared to Nintendo and Microsoft. It may not be an in-house exclusive all the time like Uncharted or Ratchet and Clank but it’s still an exclusive which is what matters to me in systems. I want to buy a system for its unique features and it’s unique gaming library.
I don’t want to buy a system just to have everything everyone else has on every system. That just seems silly to me.
And Metroid. You forgot to mention Metroid, and you should never forget about Metroid. Even though the Wii U has, apparently ;(
Speaking of which, do we have a release date for Federation Force yet?
So has Nintendo. Plus I’ve never been a fan of the Metroid from a gameplay stand point… I love the shit out of Samus, I love the universe and the story. I’ve just never liked the gameplay.
Because it’s a vicious cycle and self-fulfilling prophecy that’s lead to Nintendo and Nintendo fans becoming increasingly insular since the N64.
You can game primarily on PC, PlayStation, or XBox because you want their exclusive content, too, but the difference there is that you’re not doing so at the exclusion of most of the general content.
you really have selective reading. I gave perfectly valid reasons for my stance and you choose to ignore them.
Not even Super Metroid? I love the Prime games, but 2D Metroid has always been my favorite. Super Metroid is easily in my top 5 games.
Not even super metroid.
But what if Nintendo had all the same 3rd party games as Sony?
What reason would there be to get them on one as opposed to the other?
What if 3rd parties just put everything on PC so I wouldn’t have to deal with DRM boxes?
They don’t though. So the question is irrelevant.
What if it were still 1995?
Maybe then I wouldn’t hate on 90% of the games released today, and could relegate my disappointment to shitty licensed games made by Acclaim.
PC will get there soon, it’s getting all kinds of unexpected ports these days.
Gotta keep chasing that dream.
Yeah crap games didn’t exist for the old consoles. Nope, all solid good fun.
Y-You don’t read very well, do you?
He’s probably high.
I’ve never been a PC gamer and I never will be. So it doesn’t bother how much it “catches up” because it will likely never have Nintendo titles except for people using emulation.
The most PC gaming I have ever done is
*Played Maple Story with 4 friends for 2 months
*Played on a friend Ragnarok Online server for 4 months in which I was one of the moderators for (which is the only reason I played)
*Played WoW with a friend for 1 month.
unless you count really, really old PC gaming like the Commander Keen series and Cosmos Cosmic Quest series.
Ive never downloaded steam and even when I get a new MacBook I doubt I will because I honestly don’t care.
I’m sorry but 90% of games in 1995 were not good. You’re really forgetting just how much straight garbage used to come out.
Winners don’t do drugs man. Sober 24/7.
I’ve never really been too into “PC gaming” as its own type of gaming. Imagine a console with more options. That’s PC gaming to me. I play the same type of games with a controller on a big ass TV they just load instantly, run without slowdown, fit a lot more on screen at a time and look better.
I played Oregon Trail in 2nd grade, and that’s the extent of my PC gaming.
It’s all good…until you die from the squirts.