Stephen Totilo from MTV Multiplayer writes:
"If you and I made great games, we would probably make them last too long. So many of the best games do. And they end dubiously, with less than their best stuff and too much of the same old thing.
See "BioShock," a game whose many fans don't seem to be very fond of its tone-shifted super-villain-style final boss battle.
See "Grand Theft Auto IV," which ends well after Niko Bellic achieves closure with the agony that trailed him to America. But it goes on, toward the usual bombastic end.
See "Metal Gear Solid IV." People who have played it surely know why.
Even less-than-great games tend to last longer than I, a serial game-completist, so often feel they need to. And they end so awkwardly. For example: I didn't need that last boss battle in "Geist," the one that introduced an entirely new gameplay mechanic and control scheme just for the final fight. If only such end-game stumbles were rare."
The Wii is now a retro console. Let’s get nostalgic about an often maligned system.
Crazy to think the WII is to the Switch 2, as the NES was to the WII back then. 20 Year difference.
My wife asks me to bust it out (heh) everyone once in a while to play bowling and tennis with the kids. There was a ton of slop on it but some good stuff as well.
Wii was great but boy howdy did it cause Microsoft to go on a dark walk with the Kinect and the disastrous XBox One launch that they arguably never recovered from.
Not nostalgic for me.. I was there.. anyone who wasnt a little kid realized it was a gamecube with shit tacked onto it, it was the "joke" system and was well below even the switch in terms of comparing it to the latest machines at the time. The machine was well loved by young people and "casual gamers" who now remember it 20 years on, or in most cases more of its sales came in the 15-20 years ago range not right at launch- but again its not nostalgic for people who were "gamers" then really, just for those who ended up with one in their house, the games , graphics, interface and online features were archaic already in 2006.
Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots and Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker HD have been delisted from digital stores without warning.
Stupid headline. Should state that they are being updated or discontinued. This makes the crazy people that only read headlines think it some kind of conspiracy to take away peoples already purchased games.
If you want to all of a sudden own them now and haven't played them yet because a remastered is coming out, shame on you. I can't believe people are complaining about this 15 years later when it was bound to happen anyway. "A new remaster is out, quick, I'd better buy the original from the shop."
Gamers: "Physical? who needs physical? everyone knows that digital online games are the future. stop living in the past. we don't need no stinking disc drive"
Same gamers: "How dare the delist a digital game that I own!!!!"
And? What is your point?
Same gamers: "How dare the retailers to delist (quit selling) a physical game that I own!!!!"
I think you just read the headline and don't know how dilisting works with Sony. It's common knowledge that:
"Players who already bought the games will still have them in their library and can download and play them as usual."
So again, what is your point?
GTA IV turned GTA into a more grounded franchise where storytelling and immersion became just as engrossing as wrecking up open-world sandboxes.
Unfortunately, with the development cost of making a video game astronomically high due to evolving technology, making a video game longer is impractical. The biggest problem when it comes to gamers is that when they get "shock and awed" by the beautiful "next gen" graphics and sounds, it's natural they would want the game to be longer.
Now that said, even Hollywood movies themselves are suffering from the same thing: Too much graphical effects and not enough substance in the plot.