Cartoons > Video Games

It hit me last night while watching futurama that cartoons kick video games ass. one thing i hate about this current gen of video games is that they keep trying to replicate reality too hard. cartoons represent a wacky version of reality. cartoons are never drawn perfectly to look like reality and thats what makes them fun. id rather sit thru a family guy marathon watching randomness after randomness even if i already seen it. id rather do that than play LA Noire or fallout new vegas. these current game systems can handle so much but the only games being made has a main character that probably took them monthes to look human. video games are a lost cause. im sure the next gen will continue to be about reaity. more sports and shooting games. a few wack fantasy games. all focused on making it look like reality. no more innovation like the first astroid game. good thing cartoons are never gonna be nerfed by trying to replicate reality.

That's nice. Also, Family Guy is terrible in my opinion.Sunsha

not all video games are realistic,you counted your instances merely of video games inwhich the story was up to reality to be believeable.try neverhood.:)

[QUOTE="Sunsha"]That's nice. Also, Family Guy is terrible in my opinion.playmynutz

You know what's better? Enjoying both, which I do.luisen123

You know what's better? Enjoying both, which I do.luisen123

Eh... best of of both worlds.. yip! Too much of one thing is bad, b.c thats all you know and do.

There's good in both of them. I do (in most cases) have more fun with unrealistic games...

False.

one thing i hate about this current gen of video games is that they keep trying to replicate reality too hard.

playmynutz

not all video games are realistic,you counted your instances merely of video games inwhich the story was up to reality to be believeable.try neverhood.:)

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[QUOTE="Sunsha"]That's nice. Also, Family Guy is terrible in my opinion.playmynutz

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so..from what I gather here...all of s sudden people dont like Family Guy..Strange as I recall at one time...EVERYONE under the age of 30 LOVED it to the end and stood up for it?..Now here I am almost 40 and my wife and I like it very much. Are the shows more for the "older" crowd now? What has changed?? OF course I like American Dad way better..

Oh and im also growing out of video games over the last year or so...SO I would have to say that cartoons are better..

so..from what I gather here...all of s sudden people dont like Family Guy..Strange as I recall at one time...EVERYONE under the age of 30 LOVED it to the end and stood up for it?..Now here I am almost 40 and my wife and I like it very much. Are the shows more for the "older" crowd now? What has changed?? OF course I like American Dad way better..

Oh and im also growing out of video games over the last year or so...SO I would have to say that cartoons are better..

VanDammFan

It hit me last night while watching futurama that cartoons kick video games ass. one thing i hate about this current gen of video games is that they keep trying to replicate reality too hard. cartoons represent a wacky version of reality. cartoons are never drawn perfectly to look like reality and thats what makes them fun. id rather sit thru a family guy marathon watching randomness after randomness even if i already seen it. id rather do that than play LA Noire or fallout new vegas. these current game systems can handle so much but the only games being made has a main character that probably took them monthes to look human. video games are a lost cause. im sure the next gen will continue to be about reaity. more sports and shooting games. a few wack fantasy games. all focused on making it look like reality. no more innovation like the first astroid game. good thing cartoons are never gonna be nerfed by trying to replicate reality.

playmynutz

While I generally prefer non-interactive media such as TV shows (and I guess that includes cartoons), you TOTALLY aren't giving credit where credit is due.

You're basically saying that Futurama is good because it's a cartoon, instead of saying that the writers and directors and actors are simply producing good ****ing work. By saying that it's good because it's a cartoon, you're essentially taking a giant dump on everyone who puts in 110% to make it the best show that they can make it be. Yeah, it nothing to do with stuff like the writing team staying up creating new math theorems in order to get the shows to make sense. No, it's good because it's a CARTOON. Yeah...whatever.

And even then, I KNOW you've seen horrible and totally crappy cartoons. You MUST have. So that clearly means that being a cartoon is just a side-issue. If stuff like Futurama was good because of being cartoons, then it stands to reason that there wouldn't be any BAD cartoons. Yet, there ARE bad cartoons. A whole ****ing lot of them, actually. So credit the people who actually put the show together, instead of the visual style of the show.

[QUOTE="Sunsha"]That's nice. Also, Family Guy is terrible in my opinion.playmynutz

[QUOTE="VanDammFan"]

so..from what I gather here...all of s sudden people dont like Family Guy..Strange as I recall at one time...EVERYONE under the age of 30 LOVED it to the end and stood up for it?..Now here I am almost 40 and my wife and I like it very much. Are the shows more for the "older" crowd now? What has changed?? OF course I like American Dad way better..

Oh and im also growing out of video games over the last year or so...SO I would have to say that cartoons are better..

Sunsha

Well you either like sick off-beat humor or you dont. Its like...some people get the movies "airplane,ace vantura,naked gun,ect" or they dont..Like I said, I do like American Dad more and mostly because of its "timing" and Rodger..Its just brilliant to me..:D

There's this console called Wii

Old games=Old cartoons>Current gamess>Current cartoons, so games win.=p

-Walks in, reads topic at hand....walks out-

I get the best of both worlds :) Netflix on console, oh yeah.

Really you have a wide range of games, everything from cartoony looking games such as Kirby's Epic Yarn to realistic looking games such as GTA IV, and everything inbetween.

In my personal opinion, interactive entertainment >>> Cartoons.