This thread was inspired by THIS thread. It started out as just a reply, but I felt it became so long (and kinda off-topic enough) that I should make it a blog instead. Actually, many of my blogs have started out as replies to other threads. It's just my writing style, I guess you could say. So anyway, here it goes......
Ninty has brought the shovelware tsunami upon themselves by catering to the cutesy-game loving crowd and ignoring the "hardcore" gamers for far too long. I'm not sure that Ninty even knows what "hardcore" means anymore. You can site a few games here-and-there which, by today's standards, MIGHT be considered hardcore, but they are of an infinitesimal percent compared to the garbage being spewed forth on Ninty systems, and by no means match the "hardcore" games of MY past, when a walk-through was NOT just a click away and you had to figure shit out for yourself. 3rd-party companies have pounced on Nintendo system owners and have singled them out as suckers who will buy almost anything, as long as it's cutesy, kid-safe, flower-and-bunny, or just re-branded copies of other popular games. The number of DS/DSi's (and Wii's) sold is so high that even the crappiest game has a chance of making money if the boxart is alluring enough and the BS on the back of the box SOUNDS enticing enough. Sad but true. Only by sheer number of releases do we have anything worth playing at all. Previews and reviews have little bearing on the non-net-savvy who never seen those review/previews or the brainwashed fool who liked a game just because it's a certain genre, no matter how many times it's been done before.
All I know is that I won't even consider getting a 3DS until it is hacked. Shovelware, me-too and cutesy games for the brainwashed masses can be ignored with the prospect of free games, a few of which might actually be good. Region-locking the 3DS was another nail in the coffin. I don't get so angry if I download some game and it turns out to suck....I just delete it and forget about it, but if I have to pay for it to find out it sucks, or if it's good and not in my region, then I get pissed. To be honest, the DS has soured me on ever truly considering another Nintendo system for purchase as an early adopter, they will have to prove themselves first. I site the lack of KEY franchises that are inexplicably missing on the DS as my reasoning: 2D Metroid, F-Zero, Gradius, proper fighting games such as Tekken or Street Fighter...the list goes on. It started out decent enough at first, but ended in disgust. I feel the 3DS will go the same route in the long run.
While the rampant piracy on the DS/DSi MIGHT have contributed to the lack of decent titles being released on those systems, I'll bet piracy caused a LOT more DS/DSi's to be sold than would have sold if they were never hacked at all. 3rd-party companies know the install base of those systems are in the millions, and quite a high percentage of that install base are little kids who have no (or very little) say in what games they get to play on it. Clueless parents (who know nothing of piracy or good gaming) buy the system and games based on the extreme numbers of systems sold and buy games they THINK would be best for their kids, and the poor kids end up not knowing any better and play the shovelware their parents bought for them. Those kids end up loving the shovelware for lack of knowing about the better games to play they could have played. Case in point; Imagine games actually sell fairly well.
Even if the kids DON'T like the games their parents bought for them, it's too late, the game is already bought and opened. Ain't it such a great little scam video game companies have set up to not allow returns on open games? Yeah, you buy that game, it sucks, and you're stuck with it, like it or not. Oh sure, you can trade it in....for pennies on the dollar. Yeah, what a deal. Oh, but they still expect you to BUY the next crappy, regurgitated game instead of slurping it up for free on the internet, when possible. My ass! Click, click, mother f-er!
A system being hacked doesn't increase the amount of shovelware, units sold does. The only thing hacking does is possibly decrease the amount of GOOD games being produced for it, making it LOOK as if shovelware is the result of hacking. Piracy is an excuse used by the industry to continually con people into settling for mediocre games and shovelware so they don't have to try so hard to make good games. If you think otherwise, you are a brainwashed fool.
Don't be deceived. Don't let the industry brainwash you. Unfortunately, for many people (by the praise I see heaped upon some, in my opinion, really crappy and/or regurgitated games) it is too late for some of you and you have already been brainwashed to the point of no return. But I KNOW there are SOME people out there who know what I mean, who see the same trends I see in the video game world, and especially when it comes to Nintendo, it's not good.
You know what's REALLY sad? There are people who are going to argue just about everything I said. Many of you won't even read (or retain long enough to properly reply to) everything I wrote either. You'll say you read it all (and maybe you did), but you likely didn't comprehend (or remember) most of it and will pick-and-choose small sections to refute. Those are the people who don't even realize how brainwashed they actually are, which shows you just how successful Ninty (and the industry as a whole) has been at fleecing their sheep and how you've been programmed to argue against that brainwashing.
No, I won't mention any specific games that you guys seem to love and I think suck. Why? I don't want to incite a flame-fest by arguing with brainwashed suckers who have been programmed to love mediocrity. Arguing with a brainwashed person is like arguing atheism with a religious zealot, which is to say, impossible and pointless. But I will say that there is a very high percentage of brainwashed sheep here at GBAtemp and it saddens me to see just how many such members there are here. I can only hang my head in pity at how many of you have been suckered into believing crap is good and will never see how it REALLY is in today's video-game world.
I've been gaming for 30+ years. I've lived through the video game crash and experienced the resurgence of video games. I see what is going on now and so very little of it impresses me in the least. Sure, graphics have gotten prettier, but the games are mostly the same stuff I've played years ago.
Anti-hackers are just one sect of the many brainwashed fools that exist in the video game realm. So many of you have been herded into the corral of mediocrity and you don't even realize what cud the games you play actually are.....been there, done that, bored.....as my sig says.
Sigh.....
Ninty has brought the shovelware tsunami upon themselves by catering to the cutesy-game loving crowd and ignoring the "hardcore" gamers for far too long. I'm not sure that Ninty even knows what "hardcore" means anymore. You can site a few games here-and-there which, by today's standards, MIGHT be considered hardcore, but they are of an infinitesimal percent compared to the garbage being spewed forth on Ninty systems, and by no means match the "hardcore" games of MY past, when a walk-through was NOT just a click away and you had to figure shit out for yourself. 3rd-party companies have pounced on Nintendo system owners and have singled them out as suckers who will buy almost anything, as long as it's cutesy, kid-safe, flower-and-bunny, or just re-branded copies of other popular games. The number of DS/DSi's (and Wii's) sold is so high that even the crappiest game has a chance of making money if the boxart is alluring enough and the BS on the back of the box SOUNDS enticing enough. Sad but true. Only by sheer number of releases do we have anything worth playing at all. Previews and reviews have little bearing on the non-net-savvy who never seen those review/previews or the brainwashed fool who liked a game just because it's a certain genre, no matter how many times it's been done before.
All I know is that I won't even consider getting a 3DS until it is hacked. Shovelware, me-too and cutesy games for the brainwashed masses can be ignored with the prospect of free games, a few of which might actually be good. Region-locking the 3DS was another nail in the coffin. I don't get so angry if I download some game and it turns out to suck....I just delete it and forget about it, but if I have to pay for it to find out it sucks, or if it's good and not in my region, then I get pissed. To be honest, the DS has soured me on ever truly considering another Nintendo system for purchase as an early adopter, they will have to prove themselves first. I site the lack of KEY franchises that are inexplicably missing on the DS as my reasoning: 2D Metroid, F-Zero, Gradius, proper fighting games such as Tekken or Street Fighter...the list goes on. It started out decent enough at first, but ended in disgust. I feel the 3DS will go the same route in the long run.
While the rampant piracy on the DS/DSi MIGHT have contributed to the lack of decent titles being released on those systems, I'll bet piracy caused a LOT more DS/DSi's to be sold than would have sold if they were never hacked at all. 3rd-party companies know the install base of those systems are in the millions, and quite a high percentage of that install base are little kids who have no (or very little) say in what games they get to play on it. Clueless parents (who know nothing of piracy or good gaming) buy the system and games based on the extreme numbers of systems sold and buy games they THINK would be best for their kids, and the poor kids end up not knowing any better and play the shovelware their parents bought for them. Those kids end up loving the shovelware for lack of knowing about the better games to play they could have played. Case in point; Imagine games actually sell fairly well.
Even if the kids DON'T like the games their parents bought for them, it's too late, the game is already bought and opened. Ain't it such a great little scam video game companies have set up to not allow returns on open games? Yeah, you buy that game, it sucks, and you're stuck with it, like it or not. Oh sure, you can trade it in....for pennies on the dollar. Yeah, what a deal. Oh, but they still expect you to BUY the next crappy, regurgitated game instead of slurping it up for free on the internet, when possible. My ass! Click, click, mother f-er!
A system being hacked doesn't increase the amount of shovelware, units sold does. The only thing hacking does is possibly decrease the amount of GOOD games being produced for it, making it LOOK as if shovelware is the result of hacking. Piracy is an excuse used by the industry to continually con people into settling for mediocre games and shovelware so they don't have to try so hard to make good games. If you think otherwise, you are a brainwashed fool.
Don't be deceived. Don't let the industry brainwash you. Unfortunately, for many people (by the praise I see heaped upon some, in my opinion, really crappy and/or regurgitated games) it is too late for some of you and you have already been brainwashed to the point of no return. But I KNOW there are SOME people out there who know what I mean, who see the same trends I see in the video game world, and especially when it comes to Nintendo, it's not good.
You know what's REALLY sad? There are people who are going to argue just about everything I said. Many of you won't even read (or retain long enough to properly reply to) everything I wrote either. You'll say you read it all (and maybe you did), but you likely didn't comprehend (or remember) most of it and will pick-and-choose small sections to refute. Those are the people who don't even realize how brainwashed they actually are, which shows you just how successful Ninty (and the industry as a whole) has been at fleecing their sheep and how you've been programmed to argue against that brainwashing.
No, I won't mention any specific games that you guys seem to love and I think suck. Why? I don't want to incite a flame-fest by arguing with brainwashed suckers who have been programmed to love mediocrity. Arguing with a brainwashed person is like arguing atheism with a religious zealot, which is to say, impossible and pointless. But I will say that there is a very high percentage of brainwashed sheep here at GBAtemp and it saddens me to see just how many such members there are here. I can only hang my head in pity at how many of you have been suckered into believing crap is good and will never see how it REALLY is in today's video-game world.
I've been gaming for 30+ years. I've lived through the video game crash and experienced the resurgence of video games. I see what is going on now and so very little of it impresses me in the least. Sure, graphics have gotten prettier, but the games are mostly the same stuff I've played years ago.
Anti-hackers are just one sect of the many brainwashed fools that exist in the video game realm. So many of you have been herded into the corral of mediocrity and you don't even realize what cud the games you play actually are.....been there, done that, bored.....as my sig says.
Sigh.....