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While I am sure most Nintendo games play very well and are every bit as engrossing as any other game (perhaps more, judging from Nintendo's track record) why, oh why, must Nintendo take these great games and put animals in them?
Take Starfox. Why not put a human behind the controls? A human behind the controls - without a cartoony "Mario-ish" look - would spark my interest.
These games do not appeal to me, anymore. When I was a kid, I used to stop the TV on anything animated. An animated version of orthoscopic surgury would have kept my attention for hours. Now, I don't even take my thumb off the remote when I see animation - I just keep on clickin'. While Looney Tunes might be just as great as The Three Stooges, I'll pause at T3S.
Microsoft is trying to get their console into HT setups everywhere. Kids don't have HT. Kids don't buy 5.1 setups that can take advantage of 5.1 games. Microsoft is trying to capture the aging gamer demographic, like me. I grew up on Sierra with Roberta Williams and Al Lowe making King's Quest and Space Quest. I grew up in the NES' glory days. Renting cartridges. Trading secrets around the cafeteria table. Up, up, down, down, left, right, left, right, b, a, b, a. I saw an ad for Civ3 on CNN! Splinter Cell ads are airing during Prime Time network TV.
Now, I play Civilization 3. Sim City 3k. MOH. It's more my style.
I buy my son a Gamecube, and I get the XBox. Cartoons vs. HBO. They both have great games, but there's no denying the fact that the latest version of Mario World isn't gonna hold my interest like Civ 4 will.
I bought an N64 because I loved Mario Cart 64. That's pretty much the reason. One game. Golden Eye was cool. What else? Banjo Kazooie held my attention for a while. I am very tired of cartoony games. That is my opinion - you cannot refute that.
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