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The Missing Link · 09-26-2006, 02:16 AM

Ah, Boo, I had forgotten how (seemingly) eclectic your gaming preferences were. X) Either way, I think that Microsoft has shown a definite push towards courting genres that were not strong on the original Xbox (e.g., all things RPGs). And I personally believe that's what sells a console anyways: good games over a large genre space. Otherwise, Call of Duty 9 will be going toe to toe against Battlefield 3042, Metal of Honor 12, Halo 7, and three baker's dozen more FPSes for supremacy, and that's too much of a good thing. (Not that those are knocks against any of those genres mind; I just think the market is a wee bit oversaturated with FPSes at the moment.) All in all, this spells good things for Microsoft down the road, and that would do much to reign in Sony's arrogance... and it is possible--given how badly their company is doing right now in every other market--that they might be crushed under the behemoth weight that they have become.

(By the way, the video of Metal Saga is awesome.)

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Codie, let's put it this way. Never, since the dawn of the Atari (and likely before that), has every game been for everyone. (Except Pong; everyone likes Pong.) I was never a fan of Pitfall for my old 2600, even though many of my friends loved the game. So it is true with the WarioWare series. Is it the greatest game in the world? Heavens no; such things are reserved for Tales of Symphonia, Chrono Trigger, and A Link to the Past. But is it still enjoyable to play? In my humble opinion, that and more. Granted, though I haven't pulled out WarioWare Touched in a while, I went through a very heavy period of playing that game non-stop. (It was actually what interrupted my winter-long obsession with Mario Kart DS.) You may not like it, and you have every reason to your opinion. Be that as it may, if people didn't like it, it would've stopped with its debut title on the GBA. (Economics is a harsh mistress indeed.)

So if you feel like a spurned lover or something and caught WarioWare in bed cheating on you with its harem of Katamari, Elebits, and Wii Sports, go ahead, be a playah hater. (You'll have no complaints from me.) But let me enjoy the games I like to play, dammit. Because I'm sure that there's some game that you obsessively fangirl over that I would not only not give the time of day to but would also throw into the middle of I-675, run over it several times, hire a tank to give it that extra special justice, and then bury whatever hadn't been reduced to subatomic particles. (Wyborn, if I've missed a step in the above game destruction process, feel free to chime in.)

09-26-2006, 02:16 AM	#55
The Missing Link Professional Lurker Join Date: Dec 2000 Location: New Hyrule, Washington, US Gender: Posts: 15,674 Thanks: 83 Thanked 294 Times in 201 Posts Points: 10,561.73 Bank: 70,170.09 Total Points: 80,731.82 Donate	Ah, Boo, I had forgotten how (seemingly) eclectic your gaming preferences were. X) Either way, I think that Microsoft has shown a definite push towards courting genres that were not strong on the original Xbox (e.g., all things RPGs). And I personally believe that's what sells a console anyways: good games over a large genre space. Otherwise, Call of Duty 9 will be going toe to toe against Battlefield 3042, Metal of Honor 12, Halo 7, and three baker's dozen more FPSes for supremacy, and that's too much of a good thing. (Not that those are knocks against any of those genres mind; I just think the market is a wee bit oversaturated with FPSes at the moment.) All in all, this spells good things for Microsoft down the road, and that would do much to reign in Sony's arrogance... and it is possible--given how badly their company is doing right now in every other market--that they might be crushed under the behemoth weight that they have become. (By the way, the video of Metal Saga is awesome.) -- Codie, let's put it this way. Never, since the dawn of the Atari (and likely before that), has every game been for everyone. (Except Pong; everyone likes Pong.) I was never a fan of Pitfall for my old 2600, even though many of my friends loved the game. So it is true with the WarioWare series. Is it the greatest game in the world? Heavens no; such things are reserved for Tales of Symphonia, Chrono Trigger, and A Link to the Past. But is it still enjoyable to play? In my humble opinion, that and more. Granted, though I haven't pulled out WarioWare Touched in a while, I went through a very heavy period of playing that game non-stop. (It was actually what interrupted my winter-long obsession with Mario Kart DS.) You may not like it, and you have every reason to your opinion. Be that as it may, if people didn't like it, it would've stopped with its debut title on the GBA. (Economics is a harsh mistress indeed.) So if you feel like a spurned lover or something and caught WarioWare in bed cheating on you with its harem of Katamari, Elebits, and Wii Sports, go ahead, be a playah hater. (You'll have no complaints from me.) But let me enjoy the games I like to play, dammit. Because I'm sure that there's some game that you obsessively fangirl over that I would not only not give the time of day to but would also throw into the middle of I-675, run over it several times, hire a tank to give it that extra special justice, and then bury whatever hadn't been reduced to subatomic particles. (Wyborn, if I've missed a step in the above game destruction process, feel free to chime in.)