07-02-2003, 03:26 PM
If I want "realism" - I go outside. 
if I want to play great games - I turn on my Gamecube.
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Besides, how can you call Metroid "cartoony"?
Zelda or "Cel-da" as they call it...fine, it does look cartoony - but, that was the intention. Game designer god Shigeru Miyamoto wanted the game to feel as if you were playing an "interactive cartoon".
GTA is indeed a great game. It really, really is. It's just that it takes more than blood and violence to get me to enjoy a game for long periods of time.
Rockstar thought they had the formula down by releasing 'State of Emergency" - a game with all the violence and none of the depth and look how well that game sold.
Back in the day, Mortal Kombat 1 was cool at first for the violence too...but Street Fighter was by far the superior playing fighting game. and ironically, MK used motion captured characters for that "realistic look" while Street Fighter used 2D animated sprites.
A more violent, "realistic" game doesn't mean it'll be better than a "cartoony" one...well, IMO at least.
However - online gaming like SOCOM is cool (if you didn't have to pay extra for it)
Playing CDs and movies is cool too...for the most part but, when I buy a gaming system, that is what I want to use it for - GAMING.
Microsoft took Sonys' idea and has one-upped it every step of the way. All XBOX needs now is that one "killer ap" that will move millions..and actually, they did score one game like that, "Halo". An excellent game...now, if only Microsoft can get legitimate 3rd party support and sales in/from Japan.
if I want to play great games - I turn on my Gamecube.
pin:Besides, how can you call Metroid "cartoony"?
Zelda or "Cel-da" as they call it...fine, it does look cartoony - but, that was the intention. Game designer god Shigeru Miyamoto wanted the game to feel as if you were playing an "interactive cartoon".
GTA is indeed a great game. It really, really is. It's just that it takes more than blood and violence to get me to enjoy a game for long periods of time.
Rockstar thought they had the formula down by releasing 'State of Emergency" - a game with all the violence and none of the depth and look how well that game sold.
Back in the day, Mortal Kombat 1 was cool at first for the violence too...but Street Fighter was by far the superior playing fighting game. and ironically, MK used motion captured characters for that "realistic look" while Street Fighter used 2D animated sprites.
A more violent, "realistic" game doesn't mean it'll be better than a "cartoony" one...well, IMO at least.
However - online gaming like SOCOM is cool (if you didn't have to pay extra for it)
Playing CDs and movies is cool too...for the most part but, when I buy a gaming system, that is what I want to use it for - GAMING.
Microsoft took Sonys' idea and has one-upped it every step of the way. All XBOX needs now is that one "killer ap" that will move millions..and actually, they did score one game like that, "Halo". An excellent game...now, if only Microsoft can get legitimate 3rd party support and sales in/from Japan.