EA prides itself on making games which are as true to the sport as possible. They get the actual teams, players, rules, graphics, etc. I remember back around the 16-bit times there were games that tried to be like that. Namely the early EA games and stuff like QB Club, etc. But these games didn't do as well as others.
By others I mean one of the top, if not the top, coin munchers of all time, NBA Jam. Look at games like Ice Hockey for the NES or Baseball Simulator 1000. Nobody cared that the teams were made up or didn't include real star players. In fact, some games including star players tended to really suck, see Gretzky Hockey for NES.
It's almost impossible to compete with EA in the arena of "real" sports games. If you want to have a chance you have to stop trying to emulate the major leagues and take the sport to a new creative level. Something like Baseball Simulator on modern hardware with 3d graphics and online play would be freakin' awesome! Or hell, Bases Loaded, perhaps the best baseball game ever made it had no real players or teams. Nintendo is slightly on the ball with its mario golf/tennis/kart/baseball series. But those games aren't in competition with EA.
I'm confident that a creative developer can take them on without any official-ness.
Not so actually. Most expensive cars in movies and TV, other than the ones that are destroyed or modified specifically for that feature, are rented. There are a few companies which allow you to basically rent a Ferrari for a day or week for a very expensive amount of money. A lot of that money though is a deposit that you get back when you return the car in perfect condition. But they don't rent to just anyone, so don't think about calling them to get a getaway car for a bank job.
Because they are selling the XboX at a loss first of all. Second of all, without the games there is now very little keeping people on Windows. In fact, Steam is the only reason I still have a windows partition at all. How many nerds do you know who wont switch to Linux because of games? IF the Xbox kills PC gaming entirely all of them will fold.
Create an unprofitable product that reduces market share of profitable product making it less profitable. So not only do they lose money on Xbox, but they make less money with windows than they used to.
The XBoX killed PC gaming. It was the dumbest thing Microsoft ever did. Two years ago I was a windows users because I had to play all my games. But now, PC gaming is dead, except for Steam. All the games that used to be on PC are now on XBoX. So now I run Linux. PC gaming has gone down the crapper.
I'd love to, but where do I get development tools? It's the same problem with the Nintendo DS. I would love to make so many things for it to maximize its potential, but the tools are unavailable. Nintendo, its one thing to make hardware with capabilities for new amazing innovation in gaming, its another thing to restrict that potential by limiting access to development tools. If you let anyone who wants to make Nintendo DS games, the system will flourish even more.
This is your problem. You're running it on Fedora and Mandrake. Try running it on gentoo with the nvidia drivers correctly configured and the newest xorg. I have a computer MUCH slower than you, and AMD Athlon XP-2500 (1.8ghz) and a GeForce FX5900. Tux Racer runs better in gentoo than in windows XP. And at the resolution of 800x600 Steam and its associated mods run better in linux too. There's just a terrible bug in cedega preventing me from running steam at any higher resolution. Maybe I should pay for a newer version.
Anyway, I also agree with the post after this one. People don't care about tux racer. When they want to game on linux they want to play the newest best games like Half-Life2 and they want them to run just as well, and natively, with no troubles. Linux as a platform is ready for game developers to make games for it. There is nothing wrong with the system itself if people want to code in OpenGL. Doom3 proves it. Only the game developers need to decide.
What about all the pages that are.rss but are actually rss 1.0, those are rdf-based. And what about all the rdf which is in the comments of.html files and others? My creative commons license is rdf, but its inside a.html file. Sure, we do have a long ways to go, but the semantic web is bigger than a few file extensions findable by google.
Nobody will see this post, but I have to make it. Do you stupid Americans realize that every other country in the world laughs at us when we talk about creation? This issue was settles many many years ago in just about every other western society. Only in America are enough people stupid creationists to have any amount of recognition in society. If you were creationist just about anywhere else not only would you be a member of a ridiculous minority, you would also be a laughing stock. People in the United States largely do not understand science and technology. And eventually that will be the ultimate downfall.
This is actually pretty scary and shows some insight on Microsoft's part. I setup my grandparents with a new PC like so. It doesn't get any easier than that. I even set it to one-click instead of double click. I figure all I had to teach them was how to use Firefox, Thunderbird and gaim. And if they ever needed the rest they could figure it out. But apparently they didn't know how to use the mouse. it was quite frightening. If I'm ever so old I can't learn new things as easily as I can now, shoot me.
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Completely ceasing all TV watching was the best thing I ever did. Although I do like drift racing, I doubt that show will be very good.
You know, since there isn't any TV or radio for nerds like us, you think we would have made some already? I mean, just have people create video and audio content in an open source fashion. Collect it and place it in categories. Then by using a combination of RSS and BitTorrent, which is an idea everyone and their mother is implementing, voila nerd tv and radio. When someone doesn't make software we like, we make it ourselves. But when someone doesn't make television we like we whine and complain. Lets make it ourselves!
Out of all my friends only myself and two or three others have not played MMOs. Actually I'm playing puzzle pirates, but I haven's signed in in months. Most of my friends are now addicted to WoW. It's really sad. People who used to come out and socialize all the time now sit and repeat monotonous computer inputs in order to increment some numbers in a database far far away. At least they are communicating in something like IRC with 3d avatars at the same time.
Someone really needs to make an MMO that isn't scientifically engineered to addict people and get them to keep paying monthly fees. Maybe one that's actually a good game would help too.
As far as I'm concerned too much gaming is when you take time away from other activities to do it. For example, right now most of my time is spent doing schoolwork, coding, eating, sleeping, cleaning, socilizing and otherwise maintaining life. Then subtract the time I use to read news, learn things, read things mostly on the internet but also books, etc. I don't watch tv so the rest of that time is spent watching DVDs, and playing games. If I start say subtracting time from sleep, eat or schoolwork to add it to game time, then we have a problem.
Oh well. 50 years from now when there are no more cigarettes or other companies selling addictive things, we'll go after the MMOs.
I wonder how much exactly did Dan Rather have to do with the story? I mean, is his job literally just to read whatever the behind the scenes people write? Or does he actually have some input into writing the stories and doing the research, etc. While he's "retiring" and they're not doing anything to him its a tremendously transparent cop out. But I wonder if its justified. If his job is really to just read whatever they tell him to, then he should be completely absolved of all fault.
Besides, a little house cleaning couldn't hurt. The news can stand to lie a little less.
It would if your drive was IDE or USB instead of SCSI or SATA. Apparently, with windows at least, the cpu processes all the io for IDE, USB, and I think also firewire. So burning a disc via any of those buses will jack your cpu usage up to 100%. SCSI and SATA it seems the controller chip must do most of the work because the usage meter stays low.
Anyhow, these are mostly i/o heavy apps and not cpu heavy. What it will be really useful for is gentooing i.e: building software while still using your computer. Also good for encoding dvds and mp3s and other cpu heavy tasks in the background while playing games and doing work. So no longer will you have to do things overnight, but anytime is a good time. And I'm sure the SMP kernel parts will be made to optimize the situation.
Ok, I seriously don't get this SLI thing. I mean, sure there are nuts out there who simply must get 10,000 fps in their favorite games at full resolution. You know, because it make a difference. Just like those audiophiles who buy $5,000 power cables.
Seriously, what modern PC game wont run well with just one card? I've got an FX 5900 non-ultra 128MB. Doom3 and Half-Life 2 are both my bitch. And if I recall there haven't been any other PC games this year worth mentioning. And if you're not using the extra power to play games, and you're doing some serious 3d work you should have some professional SGI style equipment. The only reason I can really see to have this is if you were developing a PC game that is going to come out in a year or two and you need to have hardware as fast as what we will probably have then.
So um yeah. Who's wasting their moneys? In fact, with those moneys you can buy a better monitor. Which makes a much bigger difference if the monitor you have is not super awesome.
Saying you're a Halo champion is like saying you're a Formula 3000 champion, or a minor leauge baseball champion. When you find the world Counterstrike champion give me a call.
Thunderbird + Enigmail gaim + gaim-encryption or use gpg or equivalent.
If you're sending messages that could be harmful to yourself unencryptedly, its your own fault. Especially if its at work and you know they are spying on you.
ah, but this is what I'm saying. The search plugins in firefox are actually just single text files. I know because I made a couple of them. There is no reason that search plugins can't be added on a one-user basis. Why do all the users need to share all the search plugins? Just shows that while Firefox is the awesome its not perfect.
It's not just windows either. I always have problems trying to add extensions and search plugins to firefox as a non root user in Linux, and it hardly ever works properly. The problem is that applications are written in such a way that in order for the ordinary user to accomplish a simple task deep underneath there is a small operation like a file system write that must happen. As is in the case of installing an extension. What needs to happen is the application developers need to make sure that for any action which should be allowed for a non root/administrator user that there are no priveledged instructions to be executed.
If they had experience they wouldn't be bothering with school.
Hmm, so all those people who get mad programming skills in high school shouldn't go to college. You know, because you can just walk right into the industry with no college degree because its fucking 1996. Riiight.
Also, I happen to go to RIT where experience is part of the education. We have something called the co-op program where you are required to get 40 weeks of real and paid industry experience before they let you graduate.
From my experience this doesn't seem to be the case. Just about all the MS Office users I know have many gripes with the software. They hate autocomplete and don't know it can be turned off. They know what they want the software to do, and know it can do it, but have to spend so much time wading through menus and help to find the option that more often than not they do things "manually", aka: a whole lot of typing, copying and pasting, spaces and tabs instead of margins, etc.
Most people who use office only use word. Excel would be the second most used program, but more often than not it is used wrongly when access should be used. Then users have trouble when it doesn't do the things access does.
The problem is that Microsoft Word and Word Processor have become synonymous. I myself barely use office-type programs. Firefox, thunderbird and gaim take up most of my computing time. The only time I use a word processor is to write papers for school, hello abiword.
And given that I have a 100% success rate of people I've gotten to try abiword/openoffice to people who stop using MS office. People don't realize what's bad until they use what's good.
I rarely use UML. Sometimes in class they force us to use it for things, even grade us on it. But its just a waste of time really. The problem is that some people use UML to layout the design for their application in full, or part, and then build the software following that design. But inevitably the design goes through a thousand changes. Most often a simple flow chart is quicker to make and more useful for this purpose.
What UML IS good for is communication. If you have a software design and you want to communicate that design to someone else, then UML is a handy tool. It's also useful for division of labor. You can make UML for the project and divide up the pieces of the diagram each programmer has to do. But in this situation you're really just commicating the design to each other, which is all UML is really good for.
The idea that one day we can just make UML and not have to code in C or something is ludicrous. If we move away from "real" coding it will definitely be to a much more abstract tool than UML which will write code for us. You can see it happening already like all the drek that Visual Studio comes with.
Is there one single reporter out there who is also a gamer? If I was a reporter I would go interview the parents. So, you bought this game for your children? Do you rent adult movies for them too?
New at 10: Parents buy mature and adult video games for their children, then blame the game companies when their kids make mischief.
It goes like this. Video games are just like every other medium of entertainment. Just like movies, music and TV. There are shows, films, games and songs to cover every genre across the board. What's happened to the video game industry mostly mirrors the film industry. There are shitty blockbuster movies which everyone sees that make a lot of money. But the people who know quality most often stick to art house theatres. There they get quality, but the people who make it get less money due to less marketing.
Nintendo has made the error of making high quality games. People don't realize that the game itself and the theme of a game are two seperate things. For example, look at Star Trek and any daytime soap opera. Both are soap operas, the substance of the shows are identical, but the themes are different. One has an outer space theme and one has a theme of eviltown USA. But the actual substance of the thing is mostly the same.
Nintendo makes high quality games. In fact, most of their games are the highest quality you can get. Just about anything that says Metroid, Mario or Zelda on it is top notch. But the theme, other than Metroid, is not one that appeals to punk teenage kids. They are too manly to buy a mario game even though they know it is better and more fun than GTA whatever. Always worried about graphics and self image instead of their actual gaming experience. So games like BMX XXX exist. These types of games are all the same crappy thing. They come in two genres, run around a shoot things and run around and beat things up, sometimes both. But like blockbuster movies with no substance they sell well.
I'm not saying all Nintendo's games are flawless masterpieces. Nor am I saying that all games for other systems are crap. People on/. love to attack and infer broad sweeping generalisations like that. What I am saying is that overall Nintendo is concentrating on creating an innovative and new gaming experience that can be enjoyed by all people. As long as they profit, they're happy. All the other companies are mostly concerned with making a quick buck. So they release three GTA games that are all really the same with slightly changed themes. And they release a shitty FPS named Halo, twice, which is pretty much a modernized goldeneye plus vehicles and aliens. It makes them loads of cash the same way a blockbuster film does. But you can't honestly say that their games are high quality works of art. But if you play some Zelda or some Metroid its hard not to.
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I just beat the demo.
This is the greatest RTS ever made.
Sorry Total Annihilation, it's over.
EA prides itself on making games which are as true to the sport as possible. They get the actual teams, players, rules, graphics, etc. I remember back around the 16-bit times there were games that tried to be like that. Namely the early EA games and stuff like QB Club, etc. But these games didn't do as well as others.
By others I mean one of the top, if not the top, coin munchers of all time, NBA Jam. Look at games like Ice Hockey for the NES or Baseball Simulator 1000. Nobody cared that the teams were made up or didn't include real star players. In fact, some games including star players tended to really suck, see Gretzky Hockey for NES.
It's almost impossible to compete with EA in the arena of "real" sports games. If you want to have a chance you have to stop trying to emulate the major leagues and take the sport to a new creative level. Something like Baseball Simulator on modern hardware with 3d graphics and online play would be freakin' awesome! Or hell, Bases Loaded, perhaps the best baseball game ever made it had no real players or teams. Nintendo is slightly on the ball with its mario golf/tennis/kart/baseball series. But those games aren't in competition with EA.
I'm confident that a creative developer can take them on without any official-ness.
Not so actually. Most expensive cars in movies and TV, other than the ones that are destroyed or modified specifically for that feature, are rented. There are a few companies which allow you to basically rent a Ferrari for a day or week for a very expensive amount of money. A lot of that money though is a deposit that you get back when you return the car in perfect condition. But they don't rent to just anyone, so don't think about calling them to get a getaway car for a bank job.
Because they are selling the XboX at a loss first of all. Second of all, without the games there is now very little keeping people on Windows. In fact, Steam is the only reason I still have a windows partition at all. How many nerds do you know who wont switch to Linux because of games? IF the Xbox kills PC gaming entirely all of them will fold.
Create an unprofitable product that reduces market share of profitable product making it less profitable. So not only do they lose money on Xbox, but they make less money with windows than they used to.
The XBoX killed PC gaming. It was the dumbest thing Microsoft ever did. Two years ago I was a windows users because I had to play all my games. But now, PC gaming is dead, except for Steam. All the games that used to be on PC are now on XBoX. So now I run Linux. PC gaming has gone down the crapper.
I'd love to, but where do I get development tools? It's the same problem with the Nintendo DS. I would love to make so many things for it to maximize its potential, but the tools are unavailable. Nintendo, its one thing to make hardware with capabilities for new amazing innovation in gaming, its another thing to restrict that potential by limiting access to development tools. If you let anyone who wants to make Nintendo DS games, the system will flourish even more.
This is your problem. You're running it on Fedora and Mandrake. Try running it on gentoo with the nvidia drivers correctly configured and the newest xorg. I have a computer MUCH slower than you, and AMD Athlon XP-2500 (1.8ghz) and a GeForce FX5900. Tux Racer runs better in gentoo than in windows XP. And at the resolution of 800x600 Steam and its associated mods run better in linux too. There's just a terrible bug in cedega preventing me from running steam at any higher resolution. Maybe I should pay for a newer version.
Anyway, I also agree with the post after this one. People don't care about tux racer. When they want to game on linux they want to play the newest best games like Half-Life2 and they want them to run just as well, and natively, with no troubles. Linux as a platform is ready for game developers to make games for it. There is nothing wrong with the system itself if people want to code in OpenGL. Doom3 proves it. Only the game developers need to decide.
What about all the pages that are .rss but are actually rss 1.0, those are rdf-based. And what about all the rdf which is in the comments of .html files and others? My creative commons license is rdf, but its inside a .html file. Sure, we do have a long ways to go, but the semantic web is bigger than a few file extensions findable by google.
Nobody will see this post, but I have to make it. Do you stupid Americans realize that every other country in the world laughs at us when we talk about creation? This issue was settles many many years ago in just about every other western society. Only in America are enough people stupid creationists to have any amount of recognition in society. If you were creationist just about anywhere else not only would you be a member of a ridiculous minority, you would also be a laughing stock. People in the United States largely do not understand science and technology. And eventually that will be the ultimate downfall.
This is actually pretty scary and shows some insight on Microsoft's part. I setup my grandparents with a new PC like so. It doesn't get any easier than that. I even set it to one-click instead of double click. I figure all I had to teach them was how to use Firefox, Thunderbird and gaim. And if they ever needed the rest they could figure it out. But apparently they didn't know how to use the mouse. it was quite frightening. If I'm ever so old I can't learn new things as easily as I can now, shoot me.
Completely ceasing all TV watching was the best thing I ever did. Although I do like drift racing, I doubt that show will be very good.
You know, since there isn't any TV or radio for nerds like us, you think we would have made some already? I mean, just have people create video and audio content in an open source fashion. Collect it and place it in categories. Then by using a combination of RSS and BitTorrent, which is an idea everyone and their mother is implementing, voila nerd tv and radio. When someone doesn't make software we like, we make it ourselves. But when someone doesn't make television we like we whine and complain. Lets make it ourselves!
Out of all my friends only myself and two or three others have not played MMOs. Actually I'm playing puzzle pirates, but I haven's signed in in months. Most of my friends are now addicted to WoW. It's really sad. People who used to come out and socialize all the time now sit and repeat monotonous computer inputs in order to increment some numbers in a database far far away. At least they are communicating in something like IRC with 3d avatars at the same time.
Someone really needs to make an MMO that isn't scientifically engineered to addict people and get them to keep paying monthly fees. Maybe one that's actually a good game would help too.
As far as I'm concerned too much gaming is when you take time away from other activities to do it. For example, right now most of my time is spent doing schoolwork, coding, eating, sleeping, cleaning, socilizing and otherwise maintaining life. Then subtract the time I use to read news, learn things, read things mostly on the internet but also books, etc. I don't watch tv so the rest of that time is spent watching DVDs, and playing games. If I start say subtracting time from sleep, eat or schoolwork to add it to game time, then we have a problem.
Oh well. 50 years from now when there are no more cigarettes or other companies selling addictive things, we'll go after the MMOs.
I wonder how much exactly did Dan Rather have to do with the story? I mean, is his job literally just to read whatever the behind the scenes people write? Or does he actually have some input into writing the stories and doing the research, etc. While he's "retiring" and they're not doing anything to him its a tremendously transparent cop out. But I wonder if its justified. If his job is really to just read whatever they tell him to, then he should be completely absolved of all fault.
Besides, a little house cleaning couldn't hurt. The news can stand to lie a little less.
It would if your drive was IDE or USB instead of SCSI or SATA. Apparently, with windows at least, the cpu processes all the io for IDE, USB, and I think also firewire. So burning a disc via any of those buses will jack your cpu usage up to 100%. SCSI and SATA it seems the controller chip must do most of the work because the usage meter stays low.
Anyhow, these are mostly i/o heavy apps and not cpu heavy. What it will be really useful for is gentooing i.e: building software while still using your computer. Also good for encoding dvds and mp3s and other cpu heavy tasks in the background while playing games and doing work. So no longer will you have to do things overnight, but anytime is a good time. And I'm sure the SMP kernel parts will be made to optimize the situation.
Ok, I seriously don't get this SLI thing. I mean, sure there are nuts out there who simply must get 10,000 fps in their favorite games at full resolution. You know, because it make a difference. Just like those audiophiles who buy $5,000 power cables.
Seriously, what modern PC game wont run well with just one card? I've got an FX 5900 non-ultra 128MB. Doom3 and Half-Life 2 are both my bitch. And if I recall there haven't been any other PC games this year worth mentioning. And if you're not using the extra power to play games, and you're doing some serious 3d work you should have some professional SGI style equipment. The only reason I can really see to have this is if you were developing a PC game that is going to come out in a year or two and you need to have hardware as fast as what we will probably have then.
So um yeah. Who's wasting their moneys? In fact, with those moneys you can buy a better monitor. Which makes a much bigger difference if the monitor you have is not super awesome.
Saying you're a Halo champion is like saying you're a Formula 3000 champion, or a minor leauge baseball champion. When you find the world Counterstrike champion give me a call.
Thunderbird + Enigmail
gaim + gaim-encryption
or use gpg or equivalent.
If you're sending messages that could be harmful to yourself unencryptedly, its your own fault. Especially if its at work and you know they are spying on you.
By developing and releasing descent 4 for windows, linux and mac. And having it be as good as descent 2 was.
ah, but this is what I'm saying. The search plugins in firefox are actually just single text files. I know because I made a couple of them. There is no reason that search plugins can't be added on a one-user basis. Why do all the users need to share all the search plugins? Just shows that while Firefox is the awesome its not perfect.
It's not just windows either. I always have problems trying to add extensions and search plugins to firefox as a non root user in Linux, and it hardly ever works properly. The problem is that applications are written in such a way that in order for the ordinary user to accomplish a simple task deep underneath there is a small operation like a file system write that must happen. As is in the case of installing an extension. What needs to happen is the application developers need to make sure that for any action which should be allowed for a non root/administrator user that there are no priveledged instructions to be executed.
If they had experience they wouldn't be bothering with school.
Hmm, so all those people who get mad programming skills in high school shouldn't go to college. You know, because you can just walk right into the industry with no college degree because its fucking 1996. Riiight.
Also, I happen to go to RIT where experience is part of the education. We have something called the co-op program where you are required to get 40 weeks of real and paid industry experience before they let you graduate.
Student with experience.
and for 99% of people that use it, it's flawless
From my experience this doesn't seem to be the case. Just about all the MS Office users I know have many gripes with the software. They hate autocomplete and don't know it can be turned off. They know what they want the software to do, and know it can do it, but have to spend so much time wading through menus and help to find the option that more often than not they do things "manually", aka: a whole lot of typing, copying and pasting, spaces and tabs instead of margins, etc.
Most people who use office only use word. Excel would be the second most used program, but more often than not it is used wrongly when access should be used. Then users have trouble when it doesn't do the things access does.
The problem is that Microsoft Word and Word Processor have become synonymous. I myself barely use office-type programs. Firefox, thunderbird and gaim take up most of my computing time. The only time I use a word processor is to write papers for school, hello abiword.
And given that I have a 100% success rate of people I've gotten to try abiword/openoffice to people who stop using MS office. People don't realize what's bad until they use what's good.
I rarely use UML. Sometimes in class they force us to use it for things, even grade us on it. But its just a waste of time really. The problem is that some people use UML to layout the design for their application in full, or part, and then build the software following that design. But inevitably the design goes through a thousand changes. Most often a simple flow chart is quicker to make and more useful for this purpose.
What UML IS good for is communication. If you have a software design and you want to communicate that design to someone else, then UML is a handy tool. It's also useful for division of labor. You can make UML for the project and divide up the pieces of the diagram each programmer has to do. But in this situation you're really just commicating the design to each other, which is all UML is really good for.
The idea that one day we can just make UML and not have to code in C or something is ludicrous. If we move away from "real" coding it will definitely be to a much more abstract tool than UML which will write code for us. You can see it happening already like all the drek that Visual Studio comes with.
Is there one single reporter out there who is also a gamer? If I was a reporter I would go interview the parents. So, you bought this game for your children? Do you rent adult movies for them too?
New at 10: Parents buy mature and adult video games for their children, then blame the game companies when their kids make mischief.
It goes like this. Video games are just like every other medium of entertainment. Just like movies, music and TV. There are shows, films, games and songs to cover every genre across the board. What's happened to the video game industry mostly mirrors the film industry. There are shitty blockbuster movies which everyone sees that make a lot of money. But the people who know quality most often stick to art house theatres. There they get quality, but the people who make it get less money due to less marketing.
/. love to attack and infer broad sweeping generalisations like that. What I am saying is that overall Nintendo is concentrating on creating an innovative and new gaming experience that can be enjoyed by all people. As long as they profit, they're happy. All the other companies are mostly concerned with making a quick buck. So they release three GTA games that are all really the same with slightly changed themes. And they release a shitty FPS named Halo, twice, which is pretty much a modernized goldeneye plus vehicles and aliens. It makes them loads of cash the same way a blockbuster film does. But you can't honestly say that their games are high quality works of art. But if you play some Zelda or some Metroid its hard not to.
Nintendo has made the error of making high quality games. People don't realize that the game itself and the theme of a game are two seperate things. For example, look at Star Trek and any daytime soap opera. Both are soap operas, the substance of the shows are identical, but the themes are different. One has an outer space theme and one has a theme of eviltown USA. But the actual substance of the thing is mostly the same.
Nintendo makes high quality games. In fact, most of their games are the highest quality you can get. Just about anything that says Metroid, Mario or Zelda on it is top notch. But the theme, other than Metroid, is not one that appeals to punk teenage kids. They are too manly to buy a mario game even though they know it is better and more fun than GTA whatever. Always worried about graphics and self image instead of their actual gaming experience. So games like BMX XXX exist. These types of games are all the same crappy thing. They come in two genres, run around a shoot things and run around and beat things up, sometimes both. But like blockbuster movies with no substance they sell well.
I'm not saying all Nintendo's games are flawless masterpieces. Nor am I saying that all games for other systems are crap. People on