Re: Has today's games ever made you feel...

Ted <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
> FF7 is turn based fighting, is it not? (Vagrant Story might be as well,

not really.. it uses a real time combat system. Vagrant absolutely
isn't

> It's fine to recognize that most game companies make at least some games
> you like; it's in your own interest to find the games you like, after
> all. However, it's useful to note the companies that make lots of games
> that you like, and those that make only a few games you like. When
> Capcom or Sega makes a game, I'm more likely to try the game as I have

I havn't trusted Capcom in a long time. This is the company that
epitomizes milking a franchise. They occasionally make some original
stuff that's good, lately the things that comes to mind are Chaos
Legion, Onimusha Buraiden, but they're also likely to put out shit
titles with big hype, like DMC2 and Dino Crisis 3.

> come to trust their output (especially certain Sega subdivisions). When
> Nintendo makes a game, I've found them to be much more hit and miss (in
> the last 10 years) in terms of making a game I want to play, and am less
> likely to trust their output. This holds the possibiltiy of error, but
> that is the nature of trusting or distrusting a company based on their
> recent output. It is not incorrect to say that you are a fan of the
> companies you trust more, but that is not being a fanboy. That's simply
> making informed judgements about the world (of videogames) around you.

Possibly. But when fanboys start praising 3rd party titles just
because they appear on their console, and dismiss sequels or similar
games on other consoles, you can't call it anything else.

I don't look at it as company vs another company, I look at the total
number of games I like. I would rather take a console whose
manufacturer doesn't make alot of games that I like, but has tons of
3rd party exclusives that I like, over a company who makes more games
that I like, but in total the number of games I like from it and the
3rd party companies supporting its console isn't as high.

> Heh, playing the Project Gotham Racing 2 demo on the latest OXM demo
> disc I was thinking that I liked Metropolis Street Racer a lot more (in
> that I like MSR and didn't like the PGR2 demo at all). I can't put my

I didn't like the kudo system in PGR. Obviously there are other games
that uses the kudo system that I put up with, such as the beautiful
Kaidoh Battle, but that game uses systems other than the kudo system.

> better than JSRF and HOTD2 better than HOTD3. But then I liked Silent
> Hill better than Silent Hill 2, so that's not just a Sega console thing.

since when did a Silent Hill game came out on a Sega console? I do
agree with this statement though.

> And I do like VF4/Evo better than VF3TB, and ToeJam and Earl III better

that I imagine has alot to do with the combat system. Not many ppl
like the evade system in 3TB.