Realistic graphics can look beautiful as well:

Sky-

Oh wow... that looks like a IRL waterfall, just not.

I just did a google search for "waterfall + rainbow" and I found a lot of RL photos that put that scene to shame.

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[QUOTE="emorainbo"]

They are just games, its not really a moral dilemma. Besides I think you are just jaded. Super Mario Bros sucks compared to Super Mario Galaxy

emorainbo

lolwut

I don't see how Super Mario Bros has anything to do with this though... :?

And didn't you read the poll title? The world is going to end if people don't stop buying crappy shooter games. Here's my theory:

Violence.

They are just games, its not really a moral dilemma. Besides I think you are just jaded. Super Mario Bros sucks compared to Super Mario Galaxy

emorainbo

lolwut

Well, to be fair, MW2 isn't crappy, i give you boring and generic and all that stuff, but the production values are top notch.

madsnakehhh

Production values mean nothing when there's nothing new and exciting gameplay wise. Graphics don't mean anything to me. I'm not watching a CGI movie. I'm playing a video game. They should have spent all that money into hiring people to make the game more fresh, maybe come up with some new ideas.

Judging from the amount of copies of CODMW2 sold, and how many people bought the 15$ map pack: I can say one thing for certain... 75% of the people on these forums are lying to us. Everyone bad mouths Call of Duty MW2, but obviously most of the bad mouthers have bought it and have bought the map packs. It's pathetic. These people are, in my eyes, helping to destroy gaming.

The entire gaming industry is becoming more and more generic, and people realize this, but they still continue to buy these terrible mindless cookie-cutter shooter games. Why? Is it really that hard to take a stand? The more copies of Killzone, Call of Duty, or Crysis are sold then more clones of these games are going to be made. They are flooding the market, and it's upsetting. Better games are getting low to almost no recognition because games like MW2 and Killzone suck up all the hype and press. These games substitute artistic direction with graphical realism, and they gimp gameplay to focus on primal instict.

I say that we should all take a stand: Stop buying generic shooter games so developers can usher in a new-age of creative and artistic video game developing.

Remember, all the time that goes into making clone shooter games could be going into making something better... and isn't that what gamers want? Something new, something that challenges them, something beautiful, something amazing? STOP BUYING SHOOTER GAMES. FOR THE LOVE OF GOD.

Sign here: _____________

I guess there were no "core" gamers back in N64 times, then?

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[QUOTE="Dead-Memories"] they are all great franchises imo Dead-Memories

I can see why someone would say that: if one of them is great then all of them are great! They're practically the same games. I've been saying this for a while now.

It's utterly pathetic just thinking about people walking into a gamestore and picking up these games off the shelf. They should be kicked in the nads.

Most video games THIS GEN.

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[QUOTE="HavocV3"]

they have incorporated them into games. so it isn't new. Dead-Memories already said this above.

that doesn't detract that Miis were around first.

HavocV3

Oh, then they were copying Nintendo even before all of this nonsense. Good to know. What's your point? :?

Can you blame me, though. I usually try to stay away from shovelware.

why are you asking me that question? seems like you're consulting the wrong person.

you not knowing because the games you don't know about are supposedly shovelware? great.

from the list I'm looking at. I wouldn't consider Dirt 2, Snoopy Flying Aces, Band Hero,or really any of these games outside of Joyride to be shovelware.

Lol, and that's why shovelware sells: because of people like you.