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#1 ymi_basic
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[QUOTE="Solid_Snake_7"] If it were that simple. But do you think for one minute that Rockstar makes these games with adults being the target audience? No they don't.Skylock00
Um...yes they do. That's kind of what they've been doing with various games. The target audience is adults over the the age of 18, not teens. Furthermore, stores are cracking down more on selling M rated games to minors, but even then...that isn't Rockstar's concern at all if they want to make a game /for/ adults.

Right. And the cigarette industry doesn't want minors to smoke.
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#2 ymi_basic
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[QUOTE="ymi_basic"]Well, I'm very passionate about the morality of games like Metroid. ;)Neoyamaneko

Then I'm curious on hearing why the Ing aren't "evil".

The ;) was supposed to indicate that I was not actually talking about games. The truth is that I rarely pay attention to plots in videogames at least in part because there is usually such a clear distinction between good and evil in them. In reality, I don't believe it's ever that simple. One man's freedom fighteris another one's terrorist. Maybe the space pirates in Metroid see the galactic federation the way the rebels saw the empire in Star Wars. Samus = Darth Vader?
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[QUOTE="ymi_basic"][QUOTE="weirjf"]

[QUOTE="ymi_basic"]Face it, you are an evil character in any game that has you killing hundreds (if not thousands) of "enemies" ... no matter how the lame story tries to justify it. Just think of Iraq ... wait, that's not a game. :|majinstrings

you fail at logic and life all at the same time

Right. So when you walk into an alien environment and kill and destroy everything, you know you are good so long as the "official" story says that you are good. More importantly, you know in your heart that you are good and that your enemy is evil. Logically, it's also safe to assume that your enemy knows in its heart that it is fighting for the side of "evil"... or I suppose that doesn't matter because obviously "evil" doesn't have a heart so it therefore can't know anything in there. Have I now succeeded in logic and life?

Nicely done...

Well, I'm very passionate about the morality of games like Metroid. ;)
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[QUOTE="ymi_basic"][QUOTE="CarnageHeart"] Also, its worth noting that the PS3 version of NHL is inferior to the X360 version (half the framerate and the framerate often drops). Sony really needs to start offering better developer support.Teufelhuhn

That is really bad. Sony better fix this soon or consumers will begin to view PS3 as an inferior console (at a premium price).

I'm not sure its Sony's fault. EA has flat-out stated that they're focusing more on the 360 versions of their titles (since they sell better), and I doubt there's any way Sony could turn less development time into better performance.

Maybe true, but I don't remember xbox versions of ps2 games being inferior. I think Sony has to bear some of the blame.
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[QUOTE="ymi_basic"]Face it, you are an evil character in any game that has you killing hundreds (if not thousands) of "enemies" ... no matter how the lame story tries to justify it. Just think of Iraq ... wait, that's not a game. :|weirjf

you fail at logic and life all at the same time

Right. So when you walk into an alien environment and kill and destroy everything, you know you are good so long as the "official" story says that you are good. More importantly, you know in your heart that you are good and that your enemy is evil. Logically, it's also safe to assume that your enemy knows in its heart that it is fighting for the side of "evil"... or I suppose that doesn't matter because obviously "evil" doesn't have a heart so it therefore can't know anything in there. Have I now succeeded in logic and life?
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Face it, you are an evil character in any game that has you killing hundreds (if not thousands) of "enemies" ... no matter how the lame story tries to justify it. Just think of Iraq ... wait, that's not a game. :|
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Also, its worth noting that the PS3 version of NHL is inferior to the X360 version (half the framerate and the framerate often drops). Sony really needs to start offering better developer support.CarnageHeart
That is really bad. Sony better fix this soon or consumers will begin to view PS3 as an inferior console (at a premium price).
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Timesplitters and beer ... it's like apple pie and ice cream.
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My nephew was a super smart guy doing well in school until he got internet in his bedroom. Now he's up until the wee hours of the morning and sleeps all day on the weekends. He has dropped out of soccer, his marks suck, and it looks unlikely that he'll get into university next year unless he really turns it around.

Basically what I'm saying is sometimes Mama knows best.

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[QUOTE="OneWingedAngeI"]

[QUOTE="GodModeEnabled"]SMS was ******* horrible. Id rather light a porcupine on fire and have it crawl straight up my ass than play that game again. Fludd? more like ****. And I also consider SM64 to be the pinnacle of not only mario, but most of gaming so its not like I dont like mario. Galaxy is gonna stomp sunshine.GodModeEnabled

thats fine, butthat shows in this case you are incredibly biased against sunshine and have stars in your eyes for SM64. the logic used to make a comment like"SMS was ****** horrible", while loving SM64is absurd because its the same game underneath, just with some things added on. how much did you even play of the game? to each his own, but to say that a game that is referred to a SM64 clone is terrible, while loving SM64, isvery confusingwhen you apply actual logic.

anyway, galaxy is looking great,and looks like it will continuethe lineage which has yet to have a console title in the main series that hasnt been at least great. its actually my most hyped game of the year at this point. metroid is good so far but its not blowing me away.

I played like 10 hours of the game. I hated the fact you were in a town and there were npcs. I hated its open nature. I hated how stupid the npcs looked. I hated Fludd. Baby bowser as the villian? More hate. I liked metal mario, and I liked a lot of the actual levels, y'know the actual game and platforming. But the aesthetics, the town idea, the open nature, the baby bowser and fludd just combined to kinda drag it all down for me. I dont want to play a mario game and have to clean up ****, wtf is that? Cleaning isnt fun to me, not even in this game. Theres my reasons, yes I actually played the game a fair length it just didnt click with me. And its not a horrible game either, my last post was used to exaggerate my distaste a bit which I thought would be more obvious with the flaming porcupine bit, but thats my bad. Metroid isnt blowing you away? Man its single handedly restored my faith in big N, and its definetly my GOTY so far. Are you playing on veteran difficulty?

My $0.02: Those sound like rather superficial reasons to dislike a game. Personally, I couldn't care less whether a game stays "true to the franchise" or not. I wouldn't care if they gave Mario a bow and arrow and he was set in a forest with Kirby as the villian, so long as the game was fun. That said, I felt the game added nothing that M64 didn't have and that the game wasn't as big and had nowhere near the Wow factor. Still, those may have been reasons to be disappointed, but dislike?

As far as being blown away by the new Metroid, I don't understand that much either. I had a chance to play it at a friends place this week and I don't see much there that wasn't equally well done in the first MP. Given that I didn't like that game much at all, it was only the novelty of the wii control system that gave me a passing interest in this game. Definitely not enough to interst me in a Wii though. Frankly, only a AAA multiplayer mode could've done that. (Like I said, I don't give a rat's ass about staying true toa franchise ... and anyway there are a couple precedents for multiplayer in Metroid.)