"What makes a game and/or game system great isn't how powerful it is, but how good the EXPERIENCE of playing the game is. The Wii isn't a system designed to overpower the rest, it's a system designed to redefine the way people think about games"
Wake up and pull your head outta your ass. Checkers as a game is more popular than chess. A lot of people will swear it is a better experience than chess. Truth is, chess is a lot more complicated and a lot more advanced than checkers ever will be. Simpletons that cannot afford to or are not smart enough to grasp the game will always fall back to the "its a more pleasurable experience excuse" Not! You are just not smart to realize that your pleasurable experience is a joke compared to what chess players (ps3 owners) enjoy. Again, go play with your "toy" cus that's all it is, a toy. And dont forget to scream weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee.
This is why your opinion is regarded as irrelevant, misinformed, and full of BS. Your arrogance is astounding. Are you sure you're not a Sony employee getting paid to discredit Nintendo? For someone who claims to be an "adult", you're spending a lot of time making juvenile remarks. You never dispute the point that many of the games coming out for PS3 are retreads of older titles with prettier graphics. There is no substantial change to gameplay in those titles. In a way, it's the "same sh*t, different day" mentality. The problem is that the "same sh*t" gets old after a while.
what in the hell do "non-adult" games vs. "adult" games (by whatever definition it is... which is completely subjective) have to do with chess OR checkers? it's apples and oranges!
if you are worried about the presentation of the game is not adult for you, you have certainly not allowed youself a full range of interactive entertainment.
halo is good KOTOR is good Mario 64 is good Zelda in it's MANY forms are good Guitar Hero is good Monkey ball is good TETRIS is good Half-Life 2 is good DDR is good Fallout is good
however i can think of just as many games that are horrid, regalrdless of the "adult" / "non-adult" peudo-non-existent-genre you propose (unless you mean games that are rated T and above - and that's just a rating)
it's all good... a game is good based on it's entertainment value, not if it "adult" enough or not. in fact, there are a whole class of games where the concept of "adult" or "non-adult" does not apply.
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"jack" is, IMNHO, short-sighted and represents a short list of gamers. I know a couple people just like him (as far as gaming goes) and I know numerous more people that like good digital entertainment, regarldess of its form.
A deathmatch? A little SSBM? Or maybe a multiplayer game of DEFCON? A good RPG? Yeah I like it all... as long as it is good. The Wii will deliver. So will the XBox360. In time - if the software and supply meets demand before developers abandon the system - the PS3 will hold it's own, even if it is first in sales or not.
Oh yeah, I'm getting a Wii... XBox360 :) The PS3 is just way too expensive for a single purchase right now (and I have no use for BluRay and most of the reviews, while not bad, are a bit lack-luster)
If anything, Jack, Wii is the Chess game and you're lucky if you can even get a tic-tac-toe game going.
Hrmm... let's see... do I want to play a FPS where I have to move teh control stick in order to aim, or do I want the full immersion of actually aiming my controller and shooting him in the head? Do I want to have to randomly hit buttons in order to get my swordsman to do a overhand slash followed by a thrust, or do I actually want to just do it myself?
Face it, Jack. You can have the best graphics in the world, to the point that you actually think you're watching it live, but you'll never get rid of that controller. You'll never really be the one swinging the sword, aiming the gun, flying the plane, or any one of a thousand different possibilities. You aren't a serious gamer, you're just a seriously bitter guy who knows that he spent or will spend $600 for an overhyped HD-DVD player with net access and will eventually die out and become obsolete anyway, forcing you to shell out even more money for a gaming system that will probably belong to Nintendo anyway.
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"What makes a game and/or game system great isn't how powerful it is, but how good the EXPERIENCE of playing the game is. The Wii isn't a system designed to overpower the rest, it's a system designed to redefine the way people think about games"
Wake up and pull your head outta your ass. Checkers as a game is more popular than chess. A lot of people will swear it is a better experience than chess. Truth is, chess is a lot more complicated and a lot more advanced than checkers ever will be. Simpletons that cannot afford to or are not smart enough to grasp the game will always fall back to the "its a more pleasurable experience excuse" Not! You are just not smart to realize that your pleasurable experience is a joke compared to what chess players (ps3 owners) enjoy. Again, go play with your "toy" cus that's all it is, a toy. And dont forget to scream weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee.
Jack,
This is why your opinion is regarded as irrelevant, misinformed, and full of BS. Your arrogance is astounding. Are you sure you're not a Sony employee getting paid to discredit Nintendo? For someone who claims to be an "adult", you're spending a lot of time making juvenile remarks. You never dispute the point that many of the games coming out for PS3 are retreads of older titles with prettier graphics. There is no substantial change to gameplay in those titles. In a way, it's the "same sh*t, different day" mentality. The problem is that the "same sh*t" gets old after a while.
what in the hell do "non-adult" games vs. "adult" games (by whatever definition it is... which is completely subjective) have to do with chess OR checkers? it's apples and oranges!
if you are worried about the presentation of the game is not adult for you, you have certainly not allowed youself a full range of interactive entertainment.
halo is good
KOTOR is good
Mario 64 is good
Zelda in it's MANY forms are good
Guitar Hero is good
Monkey ball is good
TETRIS is good
Half-Life 2 is good
DDR is good
Fallout is good
however i can think of just as many games that are horrid, regalrdless of the "adult" / "non-adult" peudo-non-existent-genre you propose (unless you mean games that are rated T and above - and that's just a rating)
it's all good... a game is good based on it's entertainment value, not if it "adult" enough or not. in fact, there are a whole class of games where the concept of "adult" or "non-adult" does not apply.
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"jack" is, IMNHO, short-sighted and represents a short list of gamers. I know a couple people just like him (as far as gaming goes) and I know numerous more people that like good digital entertainment, regarldess of its form.
A deathmatch? A little SSBM? Or maybe a multiplayer game of DEFCON? A good RPG? Yeah I like it all... as long as it is good. The Wii will deliver. So will the XBox360. In time - if the software and supply meets demand before developers abandon the system - the PS3 will hold it's own, even if it is first in sales or not.
Oh yeah, I'm getting a Wii... XBox360 :) The PS3 is just way too expensive for a single purchase right now (and I have no use for BluRay and most of the reviews, while not bad, are a bit lack-luster)
If anything, Jack, Wii is the Chess game and you're lucky if you can even get a tic-tac-toe game going.
Hrmm... let's see... do I want to play a FPS where I have to move teh control stick in order to aim, or do I want the full immersion of actually aiming my controller and shooting him in the head? Do I want to have to randomly hit buttons in order to get my swordsman to do a overhand slash followed by a thrust, or do I actually want to just do it myself?
Face it, Jack. You can have the best graphics in the world, to the point that you actually think you're watching it live, but you'll never get rid of that controller. You'll never really be the one swinging the sword, aiming the gun, flying the plane, or any one of a thousand different possibilities.
You aren't a serious gamer, you're just a seriously bitter guy who knows that he spent or will spend $600 for an overhyped HD-DVD player with net access and will eventually die out and become obsolete anyway, forcing you to shell out even more money for a gaming system that will probably belong to Nintendo anyway.