Japan loves to torture America...

[Zan]

[Viewtiful Starman]

[HeatShadow]

You make many excellent points, yxnomei.

You're right that EA is wrongly labled as "the evil" of gaming. That's not to say they don't do SOME things distastefully, such as banking on franchises and then neglecting to make an actually worthwhile game. After all, franchises aren't bad per se, it's only when the producers use it's existing fanbase as an excuse to be lazy.

In my opinion (note that this is ONLY my opinion), the true evil of gaming is Sony, because they don't make the effort to attract customers by making their products actually worthwhile, they simply make their products look flashy ("sexy" as so many gaming officials like to say. Since when did inanimate objects have to be sexy?), throw their money around to buy third-party support, and force customers to repurchase their fragile products over and over again to bilk extra money out of them. If none of that can be considered "evil", then I don't know what evil qualifies as anymore.

As for your analysis of the Megaman games, I think maybe you're being a bit cynical. The reason Capcom hasn't done much to compete with modren gaming is because it doesn't need to in order to retain its fanbase. We like Megaman not simply because of the character, but because of the gaming genre he represents. A major trademark of nearly every Megaman has been hefty amounts of action with an equal or greater amount of difficulty. And despite this formula that Capcom has followed with essentially every game, they've still managed to add enough variety to the games to make each one a fresh experience. Ask any Megaman fan and you'll find that they have preferred favorites among the games for specific reasons. As for "the dreaded card-battling game" and Command Mission, I hear plenty of people liked both games, so I'd hardly say we were "fobbed."

Also for the sake of on-topicness, I'd like to point out the basic economis rule of Supply and Demand. American gamers demand quick, addictive gameplay and plenty of realism, so that is what American companies supply. Japanese gamers demand very imaginative games, so that is what Japanese companies supply. If you want the Japanese games over here, Demand it and they will Supply it.
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[Aethos]

Well I admit I like the more imaginative games to be honest. Seeing fresh storyline's with good plots beat out the multitude's of FPS games that have no real plot and in essance follow the same gameplay formula but under different name's and different enemies any day.

But then again that's my opinion. After all not all of us HAS to like Halo.

[Viewtiful Starman]

[Aethos]

[Zan]

lol, can you flame anything but FPSes and Halo? You've gotta be the most unoriginal "amerika sucks" troll I've seen in years.
Who cares if they're "unimaginative?" They're fun, and that's the bottom line. Who says they're supposed to be un/realistic? What the hell have you been reading?

[Aethos]

[Mari]

[Mari]