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Children Games-Is it me or are they harder to complete then Adult games?


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#21 Matty_poo

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Posted 23 January 2013 - 01:48 AM

That's why I applaud the advent of indi gamemakers on Xbox live. Little companies can make a game and get it into mainstream audience's hands. There are a lot of programmers making good games on the interweb, but most of my friends will never even hear about them unless I give them a link.


I've played so many amazing games thanks to xbla and psn, I love journey, and no way that would have ended up nearly as big without it.

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Posted 23 January 2013 - 11:27 AM

That's why I applaud the advent of indi gamemakers on Xbox live. Little companies can make a game and get it into mainstream audience's hands. There are a lot of programmers making good games on the interweb, but most of my friends will never even hear about them unless I give them a link.


I Am Alive is a good example of that.
Though it isn't super indi (Ubisoft Shanghai and Darkworks), it still isn't a cash grab.
It is a uniquely fun game to play.

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One Friday afternoon back when I was a child my parents went out on a date and I was left at my Aunt’s for the night. She took me to the rental place (Remember when those were a thing?) to find a game. I got the very first copy of Super Mario World when the girl was putting it on the shelf. I played until midnight to only get to the fourth castle.

Now, flash forward to adulthood. A few years ago I buy a Wii at Gamestop. I pick up a few games, Dragon Quest Swords, No More Heroes, and of course, Mario Galaxy.

I beat that game in a few hours. It was a pathetic attempt at Mario. Personally, I felt betrayed. What happened to Mario? The attempt at whimsy just wasn’t on par with the Wonderland of Super Mario World’s Dino Land. The difficulty was laughable when compared to 64. That was the day that Nintendo died in my eyes.

I don’t think it’s because I’m jaded, which I am. I went into that game with eyes bright and tail bushed, excited to have a new adventure with my brother from a different mother, Mario.
Games just aren’t the same, and part of my black heart aches as I type this simple truth. RPG’s storylines aren’t as strong. Platformers are watered down. The only gametype that has truly improved is shooters.

Look at an obscure game that holds a strong grip on my heart: Harvest Moon. I loved the old ones. 64 was the best. The PS1 one was great, an improvement over 64 in many ways. I played the SNES one on an emulator. Hell, the Gameboy one was epic in it’s own way.

The Moon for the Gamecube was weaksauce. The Wii one was worse. Gameplay has improved, there are more options for farming, new animals, crops, all of that. What has changed? The ‘soul,’ if you will. That’s what changed.


They did the same thing to Sonic the Hedgehog.
No Sonic games since the original couple have held the same spirit, or even the same genre.
There is one where Sonic is a Werehedgehog of some sort and has demon monster powers.
So Mario is not unique in his failure to maintain an ideal.
A series must evolve sometimes, but they stretch that pretty thin often times.
Mario Sunshine anyone?

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Posted 23 January 2013 - 12:38 PM

I Am Alive is a good example of that.
Though it isn't super indi (Ubisoft Shanghai and Darkworks), it still isn't a cash grab.
It is a uniquely fun game to play.



They did the same thing to Sonic the Hedgehog.
No Sonic games since the original couple have held the same spirit, or even the same genre.
There is one where Sonic is a Werehedgehog of some sort and has demon monster powers.
So Mario is not unique in his failure to maintain an ideal.
A series must evolve sometimes, but they stretch that pretty thin often times.
Mario Sunshine anyone?


mario sunshine was awesome sir, and play sonic generations and 4, not perfect but he's headed in the right direction again.

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Posted 23 January 2013 - 01:44 PM

Yeah, like the sonic where he had a sword, or the racing game with Danica Patrick. Sunshine wasn't horrible, but it wasn't epic like a full-on Mario platformer should be. I got excited when 64 came out. Sunshine was the harbinger of the endtime of my love of Nintendo.

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Posted 23 January 2013 - 01:54 PM

Yeah, like the sonic where he had a sword, or the racing game with Danica Patrick. Sunshine wasn't horrible, but it wasn't epic like a full-on Mario platformer should be. I got excited when 64 came out. Sunshine was the harbinger of the endtime of my love of Nintendo.

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thats one sexy ass N64, though it seems...different than I remember. Also I have the racing game, it's not bad, nowhere near as terrible as sonic R, oh god that was bad. Also the game with a sword came out before sonic generations and 4, so my point still stands :P and I can agree that sunshine maybe wasn't the amazing incredible adventure that SMW and SM64 were, but at least they tried to innovate with it, I love that game. Same with luigi's mansion, which gets a lot of hate for some reason.

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Posted 23 January 2013 - 02:04 PM

I don't count Luigi's Mansion. I like the game, it was frikkin innovative, but I'm talking about flagship titles. Luigi's Mansion is like Mario Paint or Mario Is Missing. And if the Sonic games are to be judged in a similar fashion, then the Sonic Battle for the Gamecube was the last good one I played. My nephews got the game for Christmas last year. (I think. It might’ve been years ago) It was a sad excuse for a game. It was like they tried to make the Genesis' sidescrolling Sonics into a rail game.
The great part of Sonic Battle was the exploration. The quick-pace running was still there. (In the Sonic missions. I like Knuckle's hunting for the emeralds part too, but that's not what I'm talking about)
The kids haven’t expressed any interest in Sonic Generation, so I haven’t tried it. And I don’t even know what 4 is. My younger nephew likes Sonic more than Mario and he hasn’t said a word about the new ones.

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Posted 23 January 2013 - 02:12 PM

sonic 4 is a downloadable title on psn, xbla, and the wii....whatever wii has. only thing that pisses me off is they split it into pieces, bad enough, but now they're saying that basically because they didn't make enough money they won't release the third part online which is rumored to already be completed. The sega way, one small step forward, 20 massive leaps back.

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