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[corduroyboy]

Originally Posted by humndislocation

It's not that Nintendo aren't more innovative, it's just annoying when a certain demographic goes on and on and on about it on their whiny blogs, and how people who bought GTA are idiots who can't understand the artistic depth of videogames or whatever

This much is true.

It is nice when games are as effective at maybe making you feel a certain way, land are almost a form of art, or have a well scripted storyline, but I would say GTA itself does that and is well scripted. It has a lot of artistic merit, I think, and it is always quick to satirise the social and political climate of the time its set in.

I just prefer quirky, new ways to play games and I think this is because the original PlayStation was mindblowing when I first saw it running some racing game in Comet, because of the jump from mainly 2D games to 3D. I guess I'm just not as impressed with technical feats as much anymore, as that was probably the most significant jump in videogame history, so now I kind of like things that put a twist on either the way you play, or some well-worn genre.

Oh, I love all my children equally except for all my Nintendo children who get more on their birthday and are privately schooled.

[corduroyboy]

Originally Posted by humndislocation

They do exist. One of them was a lead tester at my last job. They can also be found all over the internet, broadcasting their smug opinions to the entire planet.

I'm not in any way suggesting that they're the majority of Nintendo fans though. They're just a very small, but vocal, minority.

It seems to me from your post that you think I'm saying that most people that prefer Nintendo are like this. I'm not.

Hehe.. I think I prefer this type of person to the absolutely SICKENING casual gamer, owning a PS2 solely for the FIFAs and trying GTA but not being able to get their tiny minds around controlling an object in a fully 3D environment. The PS2 will be sold at a bootsale for £15 in a few years to fund his marriage to a fat girl.

Although the amount I actually play these days probably technically puts me in casual gamer category....

[humndislocation]

Casual gamers don't bother me at all, especially since they pay my wages! If anything, they're a good thing, because they've made gaming more mainstream, which means the industry gets bigger, and also that people don't think you're some kind of nerdy shut-in for playing computer games these days.

I'd consider myself more of a casual gamer to be honest. I don't take games all that seriously, they're just something fun to do. I get more annoyed when people take them too seriously. People who whine about how computer games should be accepted as an olympic sport, for example, or people who play in a FPS clan, and think that gives them the right to dictate arbitrary rules for the game on public servers, as if playing in some kind of gaming league makes them some kind of authority on the game.

[daniel_goldbloom]

Here's a link to a trailer of Red Steel. Looks really good (especially if you watch the hi-res version) and Nintendo just announced a bunch of other stuff at E3.