Kali:
Sony/Xbox fans are as much graphics whores as Nintendo fans are fanboys. The entire point of that post was to show the stereotype fans of each have for the others not for me to call all Sony/Xbox fans graphic whores. Sorry to disappoint you.
Yeah, NO ONE wants old games anymore. I don't know what the fuck those 2 million idiots worldwide were smoking when they bought the GBA version of Super Mario Bros. Fucking morons.
Gameplay, IMO, is the variety, depth, and quality (ie. does the game react well to your input and is the gameplay useful to the game itself?) in the game playing experience in a video game. A new genre or genre changing game will, obviously, get a little more slack since it's introducing a new type of gameplay we haven't seen before, thereby socring big points in variety. If you're just doing the same thing over and over again just in a different pattern or order (like most GTA-clones or FPSs), then the gameplay gets stale and not so interesting. I have been complaining about this since the early days of the current generation and why I haven't really had a reason to get a 360.
And I'm a huge Mega Man fan, so it's not like I'm opposed to the same gameplay over and over, but when that's all you have, it gets stale very quick. But, one of the things that series has done recently is actually introduce new elements to the tired-and-true gameplay we grew up with, so it's revitalized it a little. I like to have both old and new gameplay mixed and really, Nintendo provides that good mix that the others often fall behind in on their systems while doing it with quality.
So, when you get a game like Wario Ware or Shadow of the Colossus (OH MY GOD! ZEUS IS ACTUALLY PRAISING A NON-NINTENDO GAME?!? THAT HAS NEVER HAPPENED BEFORE! WTF?!?) which not only adds a whack of new gameplay elements to old genres or even introduces stuff we haven't seen before, they become some of the highest-quality games.
But what you can't argue, unless you're a true one-sided fan, is the quality of Nintendo's gameplay over the years. They have, consistently, put out the greatest quality of games. Developers in other companies, if you actually read their comments, will even tell you that. So far, only you and Don have argued this point and, really, it's as baseless as me saying that Nintendo is the only one who are going to provide a REAL difference. BTW, re-read that post and you'll see that was me putting in my words Nintendo's position, not championing it; some of us aren't, contrary to popular belief, fanboys of only one side (I own less games for my N64 and GC than for their respective rivals), it's just a personal preference due to past experiences. But, since we have a couple of loud Sony/Xbox bitches here who constantly are slamming them with old, baseless arguments, I have to defend them relatively regularly. If you actually pay attention to what I write, you'll see that I have criticized them, particularly early on with both the Wii and DS, almost as much as I have praised them. But part of being a true fanboy is only seeing what you want to see.
And one last point on XBLA/Virtual Console. The reason people like the old stuff is a) nostalgia, b) familiarity, and c) simplicity. Look at all of the best-selling games, they're all rather simple. There are a TON of one-time gamers who don't play anymore 'cause games are too complicated nowadays. That's a fact I learned when I had my store. Again, Nintendo is hoping to capitalize on that with the Wii. I don't necessarily agree with the way they're doing it, but that's their idea.
I was there on that fateful day, were you?
In absolute no way to discount your opinion, if you have seen a non-EA 360 game (or hell, any HD DVD or BR video) on a properly calibrated, non-POS HDTV, there is no way you would be *yawn*ing.
De Nile is only a river in Egypt to me. heh
