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As gamers we really are being spoilt with beautiful graphics, great gameplay and many other elements that make our gaming experience phenomenal. We have got a wide range of consoles to chose from, with each console housing games that make you very poor indeed. But still with a wide range of consoles and games to feed your gaming habit we still hear people moaning about bad games. Sure if a game is suppose to be really good then you play it and find out its pants then maybe that deserves a bit of abuse. Saying that the game may not be to your taste, that is why we have a wide range of games to choose from.
Often Have I walked into a games shop and heard people saying things such as ‘don’t get that game it is only 10 hours long’ or ‘Look at the childish graphics, I bet it is easy’. Comments like that really annoy me and I don’t see the need for people to put down games due to there relatively short lifespan. To have the greatest gaming experience you need quality not always quantity in your games. Great games such as Pikmin have been brushed away from people’s gaming experience due to their desire for long lasting games. Sure we all want our moneys worth and obviously do not want to play a game once then never again.
Every game is packed full of goodness but sometimes it takes you to enjoy the game not for the game to entertain you. People expect a game to just entertain you with you the gamer not doing very much at all. This is a fair expectation but it doesn't always work with every game. If a game only has a certain lifespan you have to squeeze every last drip of enjoyment out of it if you want your money to be spent well. People often complain about games being too short and not a lot of things too accomplish, on very rare occasions this is true, but sometimes people are just too lazy.
Playing a game is not as easy as non-gamers think; it isn't a case of run to the end of the level and shoot a rocket up an enemies butt. No, there is a lot more to do than that. Sometimes the graphics of a game just make you think about all the work that went into the game or sometimes the story line grabs your mind and you feel like you really are part of the game. The game, which you are playing, could be the hardest task you have faced in your life, but people often disclose it as a sad and boring hobby playing games. None of us play games all the time, we are also very normal people and enjoy the same things as the non-gamers. When they watch movies all the time no one says anything, but people just think that gaming is easy and any old Tom Dick Or Harry could play a video game.
The launch on the Nintendo Gamecube was a great success but still I hear people (ps2 owners) saying that games are childish and look really easy. Is this true? No, I really can't imagine any five or six year-old children getting past all the levels on Super Monkey Ball. Just because the graphics may seem cartoony it doesn't mean the game is easy. I personally think the graphics on most of the Nintendo games are great, they make my gaming experience fun and not boring. Well that's what us gamers want, the fun!
Even though there are a lot of people who still think the Gamecube has childish games, it has been a great hit worldwide. As a planet we are spoilt for choice of games, there is always some games people are not going to like but there is not liking a game and ‘not liking’ a game. If the gamer just feels the game doesn’t really suit there gaming genre that they love then that is fine but what really annoys me is when people dislike games due to their ‘childish’ appearance. Some people think they are really ‘hard’ because they’ve got a copy of GTA3; some of them even laugh at the thought of getting a game that doesn’t have any violence or blood in.
Games such as Crash bandicoot and Jak and Daxter are great, they bring some fun into out gaming experience which takes us away from the life-like graphics of games such as Final Fantasy X. Don’t get me wrong I love games which are very life-like but I also love the good old cartoon graphics which have an element of fun which is sometimes left out of the life-like games. Will some people ever learn to give a game a chance if it has cell-shaded or ‘childish’ graphics? ~ I very much doubt it, but I wish they would as they are missing out on great games. If the length of the games puts you off then rent it, at least this way you will still get to play the game rather than totally missing out on pure fun. Long live fun games :)
Thanks for reading :)
**Kerrang!**
Often Have I walked into a games shop and heard people saying things such as ‘don’t get that game it is only 10 hours long’ or ‘Look at the childish graphics, I bet it is easy’. Comments like that really annoy me and I don’t see the need for people to put down games due to there relatively short lifespan. To have the greatest gaming experience you need quality not always quantity in your games. Great games such as Pikmin have been brushed away from people’s gaming experience due to their desire for long lasting games. Sure we all want our moneys worth and obviously do not want to play a game once then never again.
Every game is packed full of goodness but sometimes it takes you to enjoy the game not for the game to entertain you. People expect a game to just entertain you with you the gamer not doing very much at all. This is a fair expectation but it doesn't always work with every game. If a game only has a certain lifespan you have to squeeze every last drip of enjoyment out of it if you want your money to be spent well. People often complain about games being too short and not a lot of things too accomplish, on very rare occasions this is true, but sometimes people are just too lazy.
Playing a game is not as easy as non-gamers think; it isn't a case of run to the end of the level and shoot a rocket up an enemies butt. No, there is a lot more to do than that. Sometimes the graphics of a game just make you think about all the work that went into the game or sometimes the story line grabs your mind and you feel like you really are part of the game. The game, which you are playing, could be the hardest task you have faced in your life, but people often disclose it as a sad and boring hobby playing games. None of us play games all the time, we are also very normal people and enjoy the same things as the non-gamers. When they watch movies all the time no one says anything, but people just think that gaming is easy and any old Tom Dick Or Harry could play a video game.
The launch on the Nintendo Gamecube was a great success but still I hear people (ps2 owners) saying that games are childish and look really easy. Is this true? No, I really can't imagine any five or six year-old children getting past all the levels on Super Monkey Ball. Just because the graphics may seem cartoony it doesn't mean the game is easy. I personally think the graphics on most of the Nintendo games are great, they make my gaming experience fun and not boring. Well that's what us gamers want, the fun!
Even though there are a lot of people who still think the Gamecube has childish games, it has been a great hit worldwide. As a planet we are spoilt for choice of games, there is always some games people are not going to like but there is not liking a game and ‘not liking’ a game. If the gamer just feels the game doesn’t really suit there gaming genre that they love then that is fine but what really annoys me is when people dislike games due to their ‘childish’ appearance. Some people think they are really ‘hard’ because they’ve got a copy of GTA3; some of them even laugh at the thought of getting a game that doesn’t have any violence or blood in.
Games such as Crash bandicoot and Jak and Daxter are great, they bring some fun into out gaming experience which takes us away from the life-like graphics of games such as Final Fantasy X. Don’t get me wrong I love games which are very life-like but I also love the good old cartoon graphics which have an element of fun which is sometimes left out of the life-like games. Will some people ever learn to give a game a chance if it has cell-shaded or ‘childish’ graphics? ~ I very much doubt it, but I wish they would as they are missing out on great games. If the length of the games puts you off then rent it, at least this way you will still get to play the game rather than totally missing out on pure fun. Long live fun games :)
Thanks for reading :)
**Kerrang!**
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With every reply starting "Good post" (or equivalent), I thought I'd be more critical...
"Every game is packed full of goodness"
Now I completely disagree with this. Not only are most games not at all "packed" full of goodness, but many have so much rubbish to wade through that the game's goodness will take too much work to find.
The fact is that people have plenty of reasons for feeling cheated when buying a game. Usually it's the fact that they've paid £40 for a film based game that has for game dynamics. You also get games that are just plain bad, have poor PAL conversions or are clones.
Getting back to the topic, we are rarely spoilt by the industry. Let's face facts- most developers set out to create popularistic cloned games. The actual number of great games out there is very low indeed. That said, of course you are right in saying that people shouldn't ignore games on counts of their graphical styles.
But then again, if people bought items based on quality then Pop Idol would have never been a success.
Sonic
"Every game is packed full of goodness"
Now I completely disagree with this. Not only are most games not at all "packed" full of goodness, but many have so much rubbish to wade through that the game's goodness will take too much work to find.
The fact is that people have plenty of reasons for feeling cheated when buying a game. Usually it's the fact that they've paid £40 for a film based game that has for game dynamics. You also get games that are just plain bad, have poor PAL conversions or are clones.
Getting back to the topic, we are rarely spoilt by the industry. Let's face facts- most developers set out to create popularistic cloned games. The actual number of great games out there is very low indeed. That said, of course you are right in saying that people shouldn't ignore games on counts of their graphical styles.
But then again, if people bought items based on quality then Pop Idol would have never been a success.
Sonic
Very well written post mate, keep it up!
How can we be spoiled?!?! IN my mind we are torn apart and made emotionally unstable!! Why i hear you all ask, well i have gone through so much bother and depression over which console to get as i dont have the money for them all or the father that willl let me have them all. If we were being spoiled thay would have made one console together so that it makes gamers come together and it would be the end of the *Console War*
Think if they all did make one console they could have the catalog of the ps2 games and image, the gamecubes ideas and the xboxs power and online capabilities and Halo of course.
Think if they all did make one console they could have the catalog of the ps2 games and image, the gamecubes ideas and the xboxs power and online capabilities and Halo of course.
No, that called a JOKE.
Great post Kerrang! I always gives games a try, even if they have cel-shaded graphics, as they may/may not be good, but until I have played it, I wouldn't make an opinion on it.
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excellent post (again) Kerrang, keep it up.
El Swandre wrote:
> I think it's mountains from molehills. Anyways, the GC is still better
> than the XBOX...*points and laughs*
That called being biased.
> I think it's mountains from molehills. Anyways, the GC is still better
> than the XBOX...*points and laughs*
That called being biased.
Gamecube is teh kiddie!
Nintendo is dooOoO000oo0ooOo00Omed!
J/K, great post. The thing is, everybody is saying this. Magazines, forum users, people in the business...it's just a select few who mock Nintendo for having games like Luigi's Mansion.
I think it's mountains from molehills. Anyways, the GC is still better than the XBOX...*points and laughs*
Nintendo is dooOoO000oo0ooOo00Omed!
J/K, great post. The thing is, everybody is saying this. Magazines, forum users, people in the business...it's just a select few who mock Nintendo for having games like Luigi's Mansion.
I think it's mountains from molehills. Anyways, the GC is still better than the XBOX...*points and laughs*
If I was forced to choose: I'd go for "cartoony/cutesy" graphics every time.
It really annoys me when people class cartoony-looking games as childish.
Most of the best games I've ever played have "unrealistic" graphics.
Also, I would much prefer a game to be 10 hours long and full of varied and quality gameplay as opposed to a 100 hour game that is just panned-out in a contrived manner.
If I had a GameCube, Pikmin would be top of my list.
It really annoys me when people class cartoony-looking games as childish.
Most of the best games I've ever played have "unrealistic" graphics.
Also, I would much prefer a game to be 10 hours long and full of varied and quality gameplay as opposed to a 100 hour game that is just panned-out in a contrived manner.
If I had a GameCube, Pikmin would be top of my list.
Good post. Although i see where you are coming from when you criticise the critics of short games, i do jump on board that bandwagon. I hate short games, which is why i find Pikmin a great game, but it is just too short. It takes only around 14 hours to complete, in the same time period i would be surprised if i had completed 3 levels of Mario 64.
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