next gen is going to be really really stupid

[Joe Redifer]

So far the games for the next generation systems all suck. None of them make me want to buy a PS4, Xbox1080 or, ummm, Wii 128. Nothing but shit.

I like making judgments about things that don't even exist yet. It's fun!!!

[dragonboy]

Oh what about the new Super Mario Kart: Overdriven for the Wii 2, oh yes there's Super Mario Fishing, and you can't forget about The Ledgend of Zelda and the Link to the Time of the Ocarena Princess of Twilight's Awakening by the Waker of Wind's Hourglass. Not to mention Call of Duty 12, GameFags gave that game a perfect 10, because of the new shading technique they used. There is Madden '12 Turbo: Hyper Intercepting X2, and then there's Metriod and Halo at the Olympics Games. I almost forgot, there is a port of Call of Duty 8 for the PSP2. There are so many games comming out, AND THEY'RE ALL CRAP!!!!!!!!

[retrospiel]

Neither Windwaker nor Ocarina of Time nor Mario Kart is crap.

If you don't like 3D games, play some 2D arcade shmups on Dreamcast or PS2. Most use 3D graphics but play exactly as good as any MD shmup. Also, there's tons of 2D fighters. For DS and Wii there are new 2D Mario games. And there's the Metal Slug Anthology...

The last attempt to market new 2D games in the West failed with Dreamcast, Wii's Virtual Console might spark some more interest in 2D stuff again - like the GBA did before that.

And regarding Madden 12:

GamePro: It also seems that Japanese game developers are embracing this idea of coming up with different ideas [for the Wii]. Is this evidence that Japanese developers are more open-minded or are Western developers somehow more business-oriented?

Shigeru Miyamoto: The impression that I get is that there may be perhaps more developers in Japan where the actual development staff is making the decisions about the products that they are releasing, whereas it may be that in America that there are more companies where the sales side has a bigger say in which products are being released. I wouldn't say that is an across-the-board stereotype; it's just an impression I get about some of the companies that we have seen.

[Joe Redifer]

I have a question about your username. What is a "loeser"? Do you mean loser?

[Mr Smith]

In all actually, I have been hoping for a second videogame crash lately. I'm a tiny bit emo, so I'm like that.

I'm a tiny bit leprechaun. We should get together and exchange lifestories.

[retrospiel]

I have a question about your username. What is a "loeser"? Do you mean loser?

Actually it would be "Christus Erlöser" with an "ö". If there's no "ö" one can use "oe" so that's what I did when I chose that alias.

I explained it here:
http://dcemulation.org/phpBB/viewtopic.php?f=54&t=96970

[GameUser-16-32-128]

Well it is true that these days more and more games are just more about how a game looks than how challenging and fun it is to play. And what is up with the PS3? I don't understand how Sony can keep selling that noisy beast for that much money without any exclusive games for the money it's going for ($399.99) and still be in the console business. Thank goodness for emulators, reproductions and the homebrew scene!

[Strider]

Everybody is going to be excited about good graphics, next generation. They'll buy the same crap they already have, only with improved graphics, but NOBODY will notice ONE CRAP of a difference between this and next gen graphics, but they'll fall for it anyway.

The only reason to look forward to next gen is to see how rediculously stupid it is.

He's right, none of us should have purchased our Genesis. Glad I don't think so linear

[dragonboy]

Neither Windwaker nor Ocarina of Time nor Mario Kart is crap.

I'm sorry if I hurt your feelings. I thought that "The Ledgend of Zelda: and the Link to the Time of the Ocarena Princess of Twilight's Awakening by the Waker of Wind's Hourglass" would be a funny name for a Zelda game because it messes up every Zelda title into one really long name.

[Phantar]

I'm going to be making videogames when I grow up

Oh, please, PLEASE do.

[Joe Redifer]

Actually it would be "Christus Erlöser" with an "ö". If there's no "ö" one can use "oe" so that's what I did when I chose that alias.

Oh, OK. I thought it was supposed to be something like "Christ User Loser" (it rhymes).

[Dirt Ball Gamer]

Ive got an ulcer and a prostate the size of a HoneyDew from reading these posts!

[j_factor]

a prostate the size of a HoneyDew

That sounds really problematic. You should get that checked ASAP.

[Elusive]

Why would you buy a Mega Drive when the flagship title was ported to the Master System anyway? You're the same old blue hedgehog, running through the same old levels, even the first level music is the same -- oh, wait, it's about the graphical upgrade. FUCK next-gen stuff, seriously

[David J.]

Here's what I want to see happen, within in the next six to 12 months. And hell, not only do I want to see it, but it could happen, at the way people are pondering, and how business is.

EA ends buying out Take 2, in a VERY hostile purchase. So to counter-act the damage that will be done to Microsoft... Microsoft buys another gaming company... to take on the monopoly, and fails. Ubisoft, Midway, Activision? Pick your choice. The damage done from the EA and Take 2 merger, and the complaints of the hardware finally take it's toll. All of the problems with Microsoft not only forces Microsoft out of the gaming biz. But brings on a huge class-action lawsuit. The lawsuit could be about anything, damned if I'm going to make a guess what it's about.

Then somehow, EA becomes exclusive to Sony, and perhaps Sony and EA merge. I could see a Sony conducting hostile takeover of EA.

GAME OVER

And Nintendo is unscathed, because casual people are still in love with the wii, and there are still massive shortages and people fight over them. Sega faces even crappier sales, looses a whole shitload of money despite awesome games, well, they pull a Sunsoft - stick to the Japanese market only, and only crappy games only the japanese care about, after publishing another crappy Marvel-licensed game and it causes them to fail in the US. Sega in Europe will survive, but on a smaller scale, like Altus does in the SUA. The other big companies... Activision, Ubisoft, Midway, I dunno... well, one of them will be the companies bought out by Microsoft, as mentioned eariler, and then they go down in flames when Microsoft quits the gaming market, just like Rare did/will.

And who knows Nintendo, might just end up being number one again... and here we are, another video game crash.

Yes, I want to see this happen. That way people who bitch about gaming sucking these days are put in their place, and the mass market gets what they want. Sad but true.