The 3DS has an appropriate library for its age. Give it a year before you start complaining. Speaking of Nintendo platforms, the Wii is a great system, and it would have been even better had the "hardcore" audience not completely ignored it causing the majority of its great games to sell terribly.
Nintendo and Capcom are the two best developers.
Retro games and the Wii were the best thing that happened to the industry this generation.
Motion controls, touch screens, and 3D all have their place. Developers just need time to figure them out. The gamepad wasn't mastered in the NES days...just give them some time.
Yahtzee is a terrible critic. He never explains his opinions, just comes up with an occasionally humorous analogy for them. The gaming community would be better off if everyone just ignored him.
If you have to use "gimmick" or "nostalgia" to argue against something, you have a terrible argument. The way people use the word gimmick is entirely subjective, and saying someone just likes something because they grew up with it is idiotic.
Unless you're playing a game that cannot possibly be bought new (including compilation and digital re-releases), piracy is wrong. It doesn't matter if you wouldn't play it anyway or if downloading it doesn't stop the company from selling their games. If you can buy this game, but haven't, then don't download it.
The quality of gaming is consistent. It wasn't better when you were a kid...you just forgot about all the bad games. It's not better now, you just haven't played all the classics. You may prefer older games or newer games more (usually depends on your favorite genres), but that's personal taste, not general quality.
Due to high levels of interactivity, a game does not necessarily need a good plot as long as it has an interesting world.
Popular franchises do not ruin the world for you. I don't play EA Sports, but it doesn't bother me that EA makes a ton of money from comparatively minimal work. They make money, their audience is happy, and I'm not being forced to play it.....what's the issue here?
Super Mario Galaxy (and SMG2) and Donkey Kong Country Returns are two of the best looking games this generation. Graphical power be damned, those are some pretty games.
Shooters don't lack variety. If a shooter is a game in which a significant portion of the gameplay (usually combat) is done through...well, shooting, then Metroid Prime, Super Mario Sunshine, Mega Man 9, BioShock, Red Dead Redemption, Portal, Left 4 Dead, Half Life 2, L.A. Noire, Halo Reach, Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare, Team Fortress 2, Gears of War, Star Wars: Battlefront 2, Dead Space, Mass Effect, Fallout 3, Lost Planet, Resident Evil 4, House of the Dead: Overkill, and Red Steel 2 (to name a few) are all shooters.
Yes, some of them are also platformers, Action-Horrors, Action-Adventures, Action-RPGs, etc, and it covers the a huge variety of linearity, but variety is kind of the point. Games aren't limited to one gameplay genre, and there's a lot more variety when you look at stuff other than linear military shooters.
I'd like to play Mega Man Legends 3 and the Operation Rainfall games, but I'd rather not have people loose their jobs because games didn't sell well. Quit taking business decisions personally.
Casual and hardcore are not descriptions of the games. They describe nothing more than how individuals play the games I play Halo online every once in a while (casually). My mom plays Farmville with a guy who uses spreadsheets to optimize his efficiency (that's pretty damn hardcore). At best, they're marketing buzzwords.
Gamers as a whole may just form the whiniest, angriest, most spoiled, self-centered, over-reacting "community" on the internet. It's a wonder any company cares about its fans.
