Quote: "There are indeed two Kirby games out and undoubtedly more coming. Also in regards to SSBM, there is no sequel in the works that the public is aware of....so whats the problem?"
Super Smash Bros
Melee, the GameCube version isn't the first.
It didn't sell as well as you'd think, the first in the series didn't either.
I only know of one Kirby for the GameCube, but then I'm not a fan of that game so. What do I care.
Really I think the tactic of a single game in a series per generation is a good idea... I mean while sure there is more than one title that includes Mario on the GameCube, if you notice while Super Mario Sunshine has performed record sales just like it's N64 counterpart, that will be the only *real* Mario game on the GameCube. If you think about it games like Pokémon are *really* bad for having hundreds of sequals without evolving much or having much new, they're obvious ploys for more money.
Pokemon TV for example! (which my brother did buy.. god knows why though) I mean if you realise that most of Nintendo's best sellers only get sequals once the fans demand it, like Pikmin. It isn't hard to realise that games like Super Smash Bro Melee really are more of a 'one title for one generation' game. If you dust of your N64 and play the original and then play the GameCube version you realise that actually, they're not that different. Some new levels, some new characters, some new gameplay. Essentially the same game though down to the letter.
Quote: "I am not saying that the ps2 sucks or that it doesn't have anything for me. "
Then I'll say it.
The Playstation2 sucks!
I know you didn't say that it is bad or didn't have anything for you, but your comment that there aren't enough 'american' games on it while not being quite insulting in it's own right given it is a Japanese machine and that the American companies don't exactly make an abundance of good games (more Western games would've been more appropriote), the fact still remains that the majority of PS2 games available to you are either American or Japanese.
Not really much way of getting around that. European and Canadian games in general end up being more innovative and there is a much larger A-Class Selection of games, but still every nation pumps out crap and good games. Sony don't seem to advertise specifically any Japanse games really. Most of them are for the American games like Full Spectrum Warrior, but this said no matter what game is advertised they always seem to have 'Playstation2' at the end, even if the game during the advert has the multiple formats that it's available for. You'll still hear at the end of the advert 'Out now for Playstation2'.. and you just think, 'well it had a GameCube and X-Box logo there too o_0;'
Quote: "EVEN WITH THAT SAID....I love owning all 3 consoles, the ps2 and gc included....those are just my opinions and I'm am better informed than most. In the event that I am mistaken and my views are inaccurate....point me out to some games that yourself and others like and I'll give 'em a go, I just like playing games. "
I own all three current Generation consoles, plus the previous generation which are still used regularly. I don't know what are in American game stores currently, and even when I lived there I never really ventured into any other store than EB to pick-up pre-orders I'd sorted out online.
I do however visit Game and GameStation here on a weekly basis. The Playstation2 games section and chart here, have very very few Japanese games in it. I mean just go onto http://www.Game.uk.com (they bought out EB here), and you'll find the selections available.
There are *more* than enough good american games that are available. I mean I could sit here and say there aren't really many british games and Sony should try to fit more of them in for us.. but then that would be crap because the country a game is made in doesn't make it good or bad. The game itself is what should be judged.
I mean Silent Hill for example is a japanese game, but it has never felt like one of thier mega-over-the-top-story games. It deals more in hints and scaring the poop out of you. Something you would come to expect from a french game, as they are much better at that.
When you think about it, in the grand scheme of things the *unbeatable* titles generally come from Europe & Japan... this is not because Sony don't push other titles, this is because quite simply put, there is more innovation and much higher quality produced titles from these nations.
Hell British game companies if they want to keep developing *have* to produce A-Class games. Our games industry is in such termoil right now, you can't release a game that is simply 'meh'. If you do that's the last game you develop.
As such you notice alot of games like Sphynx and the Cursed Mummy, or Ghost Hunter, or Colin McRae 5, each of these games have had to be upto unbeatable standard.. because you just can't afford to make a loss given companies here make the least profit on games.
Now which of these you'd much prefer Grand Turismo (UK), Burnout 3 (Jap), and Ford Motorsport (US) is really upto you isn't it.
If you don't know what country they come from then it's easy to judge them, but it is quite insulting to be saying games just aren't good enough not to be comming from America.
Personally speaking I'm sick and tired of everything becomming 'Americanised', I mean why the hell should everyone change thier lives and way of doing things to please one nation?
If something isn't in the store for you, either this means a) Americans on the whole make weak-ass games, or b) Americans don't purchase alot of thier own games.
Stores generally stock what people buy. Given around here there is a more Metropoliteon taste in everything that is what generally is available for us.
