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Do Consumers Want Original Games?

Posted by simoniker on from the doom-and-gloom-the-new-black dept.

Thanks to GameCritics.com for their 'Critical Hit' editorial discussing if consumers are actually interested in buying groundbreaking/unique videogames. Giving the example of Sega's PS2/DC shooter, Rez, the author asks: "United Game Artists' answer to the cries of gamers looking for those new and original games was largely met with ambivalence by those very same gamers.... Why is Sega, or any publisher for that matter, obligated to support a game or games that no one is interested in?" The article concludes: "...how do you criticize the industry when it produces these games yet consumers repeatedly flock to the likes of Square's, Konami's and Capcom's sequels and rehashes?"

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  1. Re:Depends by Babbster · · Score: 1, Troll
    How many good PS2 games can I name? Quite a few, actually.

    SSX/Tricky
    Dragon Warrior VII
    Hot Shots Golf 3
    Monster Rancher 3
    Silent Hill 2/3
    Mark of Kri
    Sly Cooper
    Jak and Daxter
    GTA 3/Vice City
    Virtua Fighter 4/Evolution
    Dot.Hack
    Xenosaga
    Baldur's Gate:DA
    Gran Turismo 3
    Dynasty Warriors 2/3/4
    Devil May Cry

    Are you still here? I can go on if you need me to.

    I'll note too that a few of the above games I didn't care for myself but that doesn't change the fact that they are fundamentally quality games, and usually popular to boot. The fact that YOU are not interested in any of them doesn't make the people who play these games morons.

    There's no doubt that the Gamecube, at least in terms of ratios, has better games. But if we're talking pure numbers, the PS2 wins every time. And I say this desipte the fact that uot of the three consoles I own, I actually play my Xbox the most.

    You really should switch to a pony. I think that high horse is causing you some oxygen deprivation.

    PS - Yes, I'm aware that most of the games cited are sequels - thus not particularly original - but I was responding only to the dolt's blanket indictment of the PS2 as lacking quality games.

  2. Re:Rez 'Aint Original by CheeseMonkey · · Score: 0, Troll

    I was going to try to respond to this, but I think I like "assface" better.

    Assface.

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    Nothing to see here.