Videogame Companies Of The World, Learn From This Post

 

You see this? This is “Super Smash Brothers Brawl” Nintendo’s latest game for the Wii. Now I love this game. It’s incredible. It’s fresh and it’s a celebration of Nintendo’s characters. I’ve had it since late April and I’ve pretty much finished it 100% but there’s something that really bugs me.

 

I’ve played this game before……

 

 

Pretty much the same characters, the same stages and by god is it the same gaming mechanic right down to you being able to use the Gamecube controller. This wouldn’t annoy me normally but the more I played Brawl, the more I thought of Melee. And It’s not just Smash Bros.

When I played this:

 

I thought of this:

Ok, so there was… Some Gameplay changed. The introduction of F.L.U.D.D. Erm. The… er.. Backflip! Yea that was new as well…

 

And It’s not just Mario Games! Or Nintendo Games for that matter. I know if a formula works then the developer will continue to use it but when it begins to get ridiculously apparent…

 

Then I begin to get quite annoyed that I’ve splashed my cash on the same game but with better graphics…

 

I love games, but this is stupid.

 

 

Forgive Me Father, For I Have Sinned

I want a PS3. Which for me, is more hypocritical than Hitler going “Hey! Why don’t we stop killing all these people, have a nice chat and a cup of tea and just stop being twats eh?” .

 

It’s not that I hate Sony, my first console I ever actually received that hadn’t already been played before was a Playstation 1 and I loved it. The first games I ever played on it was Lego Rock Raiders and Speed Freaks. Two brilliant games in their own right, but I do feel slightly ashamed that I enjoyed Lego one. Even though I was seven.

 

I moved on to more “adult” games as I grew older, loosing myself in the frozen wastelands of Alaska with “Metal Gear Solid”, fighting the loosing battle of humanity in “Dino Crisis 2″  and most importantly, became petrified in the horrific narrative that is “Resident Evil”. Resident Evil is a series that’s stuck by me since I was small, and I’ll never forget the first time you set foot into the spencer mansion (although, after playing them again recently I was in tears. The voice acting is considerably worse than what I remembered, and I remembered it being bad… very bad) , the first time you lay eyes on the infested remains of Raccoon City and the terrifying nemesis…  But lets not forget “Metal Gear Solid”, this is the game that in my eyes, sparked the second greatest series of all time (well, almost. “Resident Evil 4” still stands as, in my opinion, the most playable game to date.)

 

It’s not often I crave a game, I mean I certainly want games but never crave. “Metal Gear Solid 4″ however, is so packed full of nostalgia that I just… need it! Take for example, the screenshot above. In the middle there, is Meryl Silverburgh, the femme fatale that starred in “Metal Gear Solid”. Look at her! She was every seven year old boys dream when the first game came out, and seeing her rendered in high definition is just… phenomenal.

 

So therefore, I want a PS3.