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**er-no thinks he has an original topic**
Here I go:
Did you see it? Rollcage...No? Well you must have missed it!
Did you see it? Banjo Tooie...No? You probably missed it!
Did you see it? Excitebike64...No? You must have missed it!
These are just a few outstanding games which in my opinion were overlooked for one reason or another, they should have been recognised but sadly they weren't, they deserved to to well but sadly in the UK they didn't!
Can you blame most gamers for going with what they know best and following the mainstream market? If a game is not selling well why should they buy it over one which is selling super with lots of promotion! Want an example? Well lets have a look at Simpsons Wrestling which was a proxy and plain crappy game, now compare the sales of Simpsons Wrestling to an amazing game like Excitebike64 which sold few copies... and I can start to see a pattarn developing.
Another? Well Crash Bandicoot3 sold very well in this country, it seemed to follow its predecessors and crowned the chart, what was there to compete with it? Well there was Rollcage, a game which had some promotion but sadly never picked itself of the mark and entered the top five! Which was the better game? Go and play both THEN answer that...
Sadly, it has always been around in the market! Overlooking is probably the worst thing that could happen to a released game (and company), its like having two games in quicksand, when the person arrives at the scene and s/he can only pick one, which one is s/he going to go for? A game which she saw on television yesterday? or a game which she has never heard of?
Sadly, its going to be the heavily promoted game and the overlooked game will (excuse the pun) get the sinking feeling!
What can we do? Well with all the money and promotion around at the moment we can do absolutely nothing.. but next time you are in a games shop and you see an obvious parent confused at what to choose.. go on.. give them a word of advice,
'..the kid may not like it at first, but they'll love it over this mainstream rubbish'
So then. Did you see it? Oh well...
Thanks
er-no
Here I go:
Did you see it? Rollcage...No? Well you must have missed it!
Did you see it? Banjo Tooie...No? You probably missed it!
Did you see it? Excitebike64...No? You must have missed it!
These are just a few outstanding games which in my opinion were overlooked for one reason or another, they should have been recognised but sadly they weren't, they deserved to to well but sadly in the UK they didn't!
Can you blame most gamers for going with what they know best and following the mainstream market? If a game is not selling well why should they buy it over one which is selling super with lots of promotion! Want an example? Well lets have a look at Simpsons Wrestling which was a proxy and plain crappy game, now compare the sales of Simpsons Wrestling to an amazing game like Excitebike64 which sold few copies... and I can start to see a pattarn developing.
Another? Well Crash Bandicoot3 sold very well in this country, it seemed to follow its predecessors and crowned the chart, what was there to compete with it? Well there was Rollcage, a game which had some promotion but sadly never picked itself of the mark and entered the top five! Which was the better game? Go and play both THEN answer that...
Sadly, it has always been around in the market! Overlooking is probably the worst thing that could happen to a released game (and company), its like having two games in quicksand, when the person arrives at the scene and s/he can only pick one, which one is s/he going to go for? A game which she saw on television yesterday? or a game which she has never heard of?
Sadly, its going to be the heavily promoted game and the overlooked game will (excuse the pun) get the sinking feeling!
What can we do? Well with all the money and promotion around at the moment we can do absolutely nothing.. but next time you are in a games shop and you see an obvious parent confused at what to choose.. go on.. give them a word of advice,
'..the kid may not like it at first, but they'll love it over this mainstream rubbish'
So then. Did you see it? Oh well...
Thanks
er-no
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**er-no thinks he has an original topic**
Here I go:
Did you see it? Rollcage...No? Well you must have missed it!
Did you see it? Banjo Tooie...No? You probably missed it!
Did you see it? Excitebike64...No? You must have missed it!
These are just a few outstanding games which in my opinion were overlooked for one reason or another, they should have been recognised but sadly they weren't, they deserved to to well but sadly in the UK they didn't!
Can you blame most gamers for going with what they know best and following the mainstream market? If a game is not selling well why should they buy it over one which is selling super with lots of promotion! Want an example? Well lets have a look at Simpsons Wrestling which was a proxy and plain crappy game, now compare the sales of Simpsons Wrestling to an amazing game like Excitebike64 which sold few copies... and I can start to see a pattarn developing.
Another? Well Crash Bandicoot3 sold very well in this country, it seemed to follow its predecessors and crowned the chart, what was there to compete with it? Well there was Rollcage, a game which had some promotion but sadly never picked itself of the mark and entered the top five! Which was the better game? Go and play both THEN answer that...
Sadly, it has always been around in the market! Overlooking is probably the worst thing that could happen to a released game (and company), its like having two games in quicksand, when the person arrives at the scene and s/he can only pick one, which one is s/he going to go for? A game which she saw on television yesterday? or a game which she has never heard of?
Sadly, its going to be the heavily promoted game and the overlooked game will (excuse the pun) get the sinking feeling!
What can we do? Well with all the money and promotion around at the moment we can do absolutely nothing.. but next time you are in a games shop and you see an obvious parent confused at what to choose.. go on.. give them a word of advice,
'..the kid may not like it at first, but they'll love it over this mainstream rubbish'
So then. Did you see it? Oh well...
Thanks
er-no
Here I go:
Did you see it? Rollcage...No? Well you must have missed it!
Did you see it? Banjo Tooie...No? You probably missed it!
Did you see it? Excitebike64...No? You must have missed it!
These are just a few outstanding games which in my opinion were overlooked for one reason or another, they should have been recognised but sadly they weren't, they deserved to to well but sadly in the UK they didn't!
Can you blame most gamers for going with what they know best and following the mainstream market? If a game is not selling well why should they buy it over one which is selling super with lots of promotion! Want an example? Well lets have a look at Simpsons Wrestling which was a proxy and plain crappy game, now compare the sales of Simpsons Wrestling to an amazing game like Excitebike64 which sold few copies... and I can start to see a pattarn developing.
Another? Well Crash Bandicoot3 sold very well in this country, it seemed to follow its predecessors and crowned the chart, what was there to compete with it? Well there was Rollcage, a game which had some promotion but sadly never picked itself of the mark and entered the top five! Which was the better game? Go and play both THEN answer that...
Sadly, it has always been around in the market! Overlooking is probably the worst thing that could happen to a released game (and company), its like having two games in quicksand, when the person arrives at the scene and s/he can only pick one, which one is s/he going to go for? A game which she saw on television yesterday? or a game which she has never heard of?
Sadly, its going to be the heavily promoted game and the overlooked game will (excuse the pun) get the sinking feeling!
What can we do? Well with all the money and promotion around at the moment we can do absolutely nothing.. but next time you are in a games shop and you see an obvious parent confused at what to choose.. go on.. give them a word of advice,
'..the kid may not like it at first, but they'll love it over this mainstream rubbish'
So then. Did you see it? Oh well...
Thanks
er-no
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