There wasn't enough variance to the gameplay in Dead Rising. While the core game is good: Killing zombies; it gets a bit old hacking through them.
Not to mention the save system in that game is straight up archaic.
I agree with all that. But before people take notice to all the quality titles that are available for the system, you need something that makes people buy the system. You can't live by with just have a plethora of "good" games. You need a couple games that sells your system, then people can see all the other great stuff involved.
Out of pretty much every game you listed...there is nothing that is a "console seller" with a wide appeal. Sure, all of the games you listed a great titles. But great titles don't sell consoles. Exceptional ones do. Gears of War is the first, across the board, exceptional game.
Only after the normal person picks up his or her 360 with Gears does he or she realize the tremendous amount of AA games that Microsoft and its publishing partners have been putting out.
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I understand GRAW. I wrote this with thinking that GRAW was also coming to the PS3. However, I don't know if GRAW has that mass appeal that it is a major console seller.
With Oblivion, it was the 360's killer-app for a while, but it's coming to the PS3 now...so, that kind of goes out of the window. Unless, of course, the PS3 port is poor.
The reason I didn't include Oblivion or GRAW (both tremendous titles) are because they aren't exclusives. I suppose GRAW could count because the Xbox/PS2 versions were garbage. Though, I thought GRAW was coming to PS3, but apparently that got canned. *Shrug*
What I meant was that there weren't any games that necessarily screamed for the 360 to be bought on a large scale before Gears was released.
It is AWESOME. I'm currently beating up zombies wiht their own arms.
You're right, sorry. :P
I don't trust this source. The writing was pretty snide and self-important, so I'll just wait to see what the ESA says before I listen to the weasel who wrote the article.
I want to get into FEAR, but I hope they change up the environments this time around. Hearing all the stories of "office space to office space to office space" kind of scares me off.