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As much as I'd like to see some truely original games on the NG consoles, sometimes you just can't beat a good button basher. Rapidly hitting the A button followed by the B button in order to make the little guy run as fast as he can, somehow can be just as satisfying as finding that out how to pull off a 32 move combo in a fighting game, or working your way through a really complex puzzle in an RPG. I do hope that with all of the new technology these basic fun features are not left behind, even if they only appear as sub games....
As much as I'd like to see some truely original games on the NG consoles, sometimes you just can't beat a good button basher. Rapidly hitting the A button followed by the B button in order to make the little guy run as fast as he can, somehow can be just as satisfying as finding that out how to pull off a 32 move combo in a fighting game, or working your way through a really complex puzzle in an RPG. I do hope that with all of the new technology these basic fun features are not left behind, even if they only appear as sub games....
I think that they would work better as sub-games and not as games in their own right though.
On a PC, it's more or less ok, because the keyboard is a lot more stable allowing you greater proficiency at button bashing, whereas the gamepad is most commonly hand-held, and therefore the technique is somewhat more difficult.
Therefore, if the sub-games were short enough, then they could be an intrinsic part of any good console game, but not as an entire game per se. Plus the fact that you have turbo fire buttons on a lot of joypads and joysticks these days makes it far to easy to cheat.
On a PC, it's more or less ok, because the keyboard is a lot more stable allowing you greater proficiency at button bashing, whereas the gamepad is most commonly hand-held, and therefore the technique is somewhat more difficult.
Therefore, if the sub-games were short enough, then they could be an intrinsic part of any good console game, but not as an entire game per se. Plus the fact that you have turbo fire buttons on a lot of joypads and joysticks these days makes it far to easy to cheat.