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"Game Stereotypes - Look what they've done to our industry."

Remember the 16bit days of the Snes and Megadrive.
Some people argued over which one was better but I don't think that there was any name calling.

Now, the 3 major systems all have their own stereotypes.
Xbox - a bug filled, mini PC for geeks.
Gamecube - A colourful toy for kids.
PS2 - Nothing new. Just a sequel to the machine of sequels.

And apart from being funny, it also messes up the industry.

Why?

Because most devellopers try to live up to them!!

Devellopers release anything on the PS2 because they think that the owners are idiots who'll buy anything.
So many people owned a PS1 after 3 years that this was the case - that anything sold on it!
Because of this, billions of poor quality 3rd party releases have appeared on the PS2 (backed by some decent games too) and these idiots who released them have learned the hard way that only hardcore PS2 fans wanted to pay £300 for the new machine.

Look what Stereotyping did to Nintendo.
Before the N64, no one ever thought of the Snes as babyish.

Then some adult games appeared on the Playstation and most people thought they'd grown out of platformers.
Hence the N64 got it's kiddie image.

NOM went by this stereotype and aimed it's magazine at 9 year olds (I think that everyone can agree with me here)

In an early issue, they previewed Mortal Kombat Trillogy with the comment:
"You'd better hide this from you mama..."

Sheesh!

But then there's always some who like to laugh at, and ridicule these stereotypes. Take Rare.

They decided to produce a cute cartoony platformer about little kids who go around and shoot giant Ant's.
Giant Ant's that burst with limbs, heads, guts and blood flying everywhere.
Jet Force Gemini was it's name.

Nintendo didn't let them release a game with little kids commiting violence and demanded that Rare make the characters more grown up. Rare did what they said... this time.

But they weren't done yet. They decided to take the peak of the kiddie image - a little cute squirrel with big bubbly eyes.
And turned him into a a foul mouthed obnoxious character who did all the things that a platformer did but added in violence and explicit humour.


Gameplay wise, it was no more mature than say Mario 64.

Yes everyone called it an adult game. A "grown up" platformer.

Rare must be laughing at their shallow audiences!

I think that both Ninties, and Sonyphiles alike should read this.

And FM too :-P

So POP!!

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How about that French Author who used his time machine (which he stole from the future inventor) to get ideas for his books and then write them. What's his name again?

That's a good one that, I use it all the time. For example, the seven samurai obviously stole the idea from the Magnificent Seven. Actually isn't the Seven Samurai better? It's been so long since I saw the western. It was the Magnificent Seven right? Maybe I need a new example...

Alright, own up!

Who's character is the annoying git?

God, you are so thick. Resident Evil OBVIOUSLY came out before Alone in the Dark. EVERYONE knows it.

If Resident Evil 4 (on the Dreamcast) came out before Alone in the Dark 4 then I must be right.

GET YOUR FACTS RIGHT!

I played it at a friends house. Resident Evil did blatently rip it off completely from the Zombies, to the control system and the dogs jumping through windows.

Alone in the Dark was the original Survival Horror, many years before Resident Evil. You could kick Zombies in the head, why didn't this catch on? Plus the puzzles were better, but who cares because you could kick zombies in the head. Infact the combat system was better, aside from kicking zombies in the head you could also dodge them rather than having to fire your gun wildly in the hopes you kill them before they reach you. The graphics weren't great though, good for the time maybe. Did I mention you could kick Zombies in the head?

Turbo you idiot.
If you'd read the topic PROPERLY then you'd have found that it was an example of a stupid stereotype.
As stupid as the ones about "Nintendo for Kids" and "Xbox constantly crashing" which were both next to it.

Please read a bit more carefully.

The twonk that wrote this topic wrote:
> PS2 - Nothing new. Just a sequel to the machine of sequels

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!

*TBN repeatedy beats him over the head with a 1st Year until his skull caves in. He then grabs another 1st Year and carries on beating him over the head. Halfway through the 7th 1st Year, he gets tired and walks away to clean his shoes*