Originally posted by: torpid
Originally posted by: CVSiN
I dont like ANY of the games you posted.. none even attract me..
I detest japanese style games... Final Fantasy is crap mario cart is not my cup of tea... prefer real cars (gran tourismo or PGR style) mario bros was fun when I was 15 not now at 35..
dont like any of the other games on your list... i also tried the sims when it was new on the DS as well as thier version of need for speed and metriod... did not like any of them..
I just dont like Nintendos or the Japanese style of games at all.. maybe this is why I tend to like the Xbox and 360 so much.. mostly american style of games..
Well, I have this theory that people who spend a great deal of time consuming a particular media go through stages of appreciation / criticism. It's very evident in movies and video games to me. I haven't fully fleshed out the details of the early interest, but needless to say in both cases you end up in cycles of addiction / interest.
Novice games often end up appreciating the same games as really hardened veterans. You seem to be at the stage where you can still appreciate slight variations on the same theme and style of game. A lot of people seem to never get beyond this stage, and boy do I wish I was still there. It's incredibly difficult for me to play any game more than 3 hours because I feel like it's the same game I've played 200 times before with different graphcis, sounds, and if I'm lucky, storyline.
Some of us have progressed to this next stage of addiction, where we have played so many games in so many variations that we get more mental stimulation from watching a cat walk around the apartment than from most games. This is the "roger ebert" stage, because that's where he seems/seemed to be at. A game might be interesting to us just for a particular facet of it. Like maybe a well done cut scene, or (in the example of company of heroes) being able to set unit facing in an RTS. But games are meant to be played for a while, and the appeal of the small variation fades after a short while. Ebert does this with some movies, where he likes one aspect of the film and if he were to answer honestly the question, "but how can you ignore all the other cliched crap?" he would respond, "I've seen so many movies that almost everything is cliched crap at this point, so I get excited by small things that make cliched crap stand out"
At this stage, a game that interests us for more than a week comes out once or twice a year, if we are lucky. Games that involve a different physical or mental technique are very interesting to us, because it feels like something totally different even if it's the same exact game with a new control scheme. Graphics and sound start to become less important. Being able to play with other people is often an important feature.
So I don't mind if mario tennis looks like moronic cartoons. Heck, I'd play a dora the explorer game if it were a unique gameplay experience. In fact, and this is a sad truth about video games these days, having watched dora the explorer, I'd say it's probably more mentally stimulating than almost every video game I've played this year.
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