Nintendo must be doing something right look at Mario and all those Aunt Bessie's Brain-Training so called 'games' on the DS. Simple concept, maximum interest and sales $$$.
Those Brain-Training 'games' are not too dis-similar to what bedroom programmers were churning it 20-25 years ago.... only it has a stylus and the average consumer is 'ooh wow ace look at this I can use a pen instead of a mouse and wow look it says I have the brain of a 16yr old this DS rocks its knocked 30yrs off my age!'
Sony and the first Playstation pretty much killed gameplay as it was all about the graphics. I've never bought a games console in my adult life and I ain't missing anything.
I've played the odd game from time to time, buts its like omg this game has like 15 buttons and complex keypad combinations just to jump to from one platform to another! Bring back the days when all you had was left, right, up and down and fire!
I've been playing Fifa 09 around at friend's house recently on his *spits* XBOX. Great game I suppose but you are never 100% in control of the player so much 'predictive movement' going on, camera-pans, god damn advertising on the shirts(!), bloody perfect true to life haircuts and other such crap - I remember Sensi Soccer it was just fun for hours at a time, you could win a game 10-0 and it didn't matter. Perhaps am just getting old. =p
Games were meant to be an escape from reality, not to mimic life as much as possible. Why is everyone so fascinated with FPSes and realism?
