Gaming Are you enjoying seeing endless low grade DS titles?

[perimbean]

Low grade DS titles? Well, i think game publishers do have to make a living and they'd just port their game to the DS platform as DS has a huge base as compared to other handheld gaming platforms. Selection of games to play would fall into gamers, we can just ignore "low grade" DS titles...

 

[yuwing]

Low grade DS titles? Well, i think game publishers do have to make a living and they'd just port their game to the DS platform as DS has a huge base as compared to other handheld gaming platforms. Selection of games to play would fall into gamers, we can just ignore "low grade" DS titles...

Don't bring PSP into the arguments please.

Besides, I prefer having ports of GOOD games and play it on the go than to play some "low-grade" minigames on the DS that is less entertaining than flash games on the web

 

[Taziz]

ds is made for more family type games, thats why were getting tons of shitty games , although there are games that more gamer/classic 2d type players.

 

[Psyfira]

Ok a few examples. Paint DS, unmitigated crap. They held it back a year, what on earth for?

In its defence Paint by DS was a fantastic idea, just executed very very poorly. Unless that's the point you were trying to make. I'd really like to meet whoever play-tested this title and see what their finished drawings looked like. Unless it got delayed because no-one could actually use it, they failed to fix it and released it anyway.

So maybe that's the cause of some of the crap out there; failed titles that got published anyway to re-coup some of their money back. That's a rather cynical view though, and probably only affects a minority of games.

 

[deathfisaro]

Ports are not always bad.
PSP Monster Hunter titles kicked their original versions' butts, so you get to see MH3 for Wii. Without the ports, MH franchise could well be dead.

If company's not doing well financially (like Nippon Ichi), one PS2 game get ported to both DS and PSP (Disgaea 1). They can rack up some cash and go into publishing Disgaea 4 then.

 

[SavageWaffle]

The rom site NEEDS to stay up to date, if they dont, they will loose people.

 

[Panzer Tacticer]

What's sad, is I can think of a list a mile long of titles that could be easy to port to the DS that would have my wargaming crowd thinking they had gone to heaven.

But they've talked themselves into thinking "we could never afford to make them".

And I know there are a lot of non wargame titles that could be rather nice if put on the DS. But the people in position to make the choices, just don't seem interested.

All we're getting, is a lot of game designers that are incredibly lazy, under motivated, and looking to make a fast buck.

I think the PSP could support a large selection of titles for wargaming too. Maybe even easier to some extent.
Panzer General, Allied General, fine games. Redone to be more inline with the reduced environment wouldn't be impossible I would assume.

But my fav example of the moment. Could they have not made Paint DS a complete copy of Paint from the PC? Why not, the program is not what I call complicated.

While it is true there are fine games available, it can't be good looking for a product, if a great many of the games made, look less than stellar. It's makes the consumer less than willing to pay. Are YOU interested in playing "lets find the good games" with YOUR cash? "Oh too bad joe consumer, it seems like you bought a turkey this time, too bad, maybe next month".

 

[Pie_Master178]

I see a lot of "low grade" games in my local shop(s).....I'm not going to deny that I download Games or Movies,I do however actually buy most of the games and movies that I liked and that are deemed worthy to add to my collection.(however through Importing mostly)

I really think $69.99-79.99(Australian)--------65.6425 USD-75.0202 USD.


Is way too much to pay for a DS game,In America you barely pay more then $60 for a Xbox360/PS3 game(cheaper then a DS game=WRONG),I got a decent Job but still in my opinion I just cant take chances.

I download a LOT of roms and try them out and mostly 2-3 titles out of 10 are deemed worthy of my attention and most of the time I purchase them after I have tested them out.I do however Import most of my games as I save sometimes up to 30-35 dollars on one game and that actually includes shipping and don't get me started on EB games.I despise EB they really do jack up prices and get away with it,$120 for some big name games(Xbox 360/PS3) It really isn't good for a gamer over here in Australia

With that said I shall take my leave and commence playing my DS

 

[HeatMan Advance]

Why single out the DS? Just about every console in the history of gaming has had shovelware out number the quality titles. Most peoples game libraries are only a small fraction of the full library unless they are a hardcore collector or just try anything.

The only console I can think of that had a larger number of quality titles than crap was the Neo-Geo. I wouldn't expect people who don't care for fighters to agree, but for people that do, it was great. It also was mostly filled with one-genre, made by one publisher and it's development teams with a few -- very, very, few -- third parties and was too expensive for the average consumer.

Neo-geo machine was an 'Arcade Console', it was a specialist machine. Yes they were many fighting games but not much else, Metal Slug being the exception too. In the U.K. at the time, it was about GBP200.00 for one game cartridge. I liked variety more, and a wallet; so I chose the AtariST & Amiga. Nintendo use to have the 'Seal of Quality' for earlier games such as for the Super Nintendo. Nintendo has thrown this away since and allowed any rubbish to appear on there consoles, namely the Wii & DS. Nintendo have realised there flaw and are now in the business for the money. You can also say 'thank you' to the Playstation for bringing 'Mass marketing' to the gaming world.

The Neo-Geo had many shooters also, but yes, fighters were the majority. There was golf, puzzle and beat 'em ups. Basically whatever was popular in arcades in the 90's. The thing is, they were all pretty damn good most of the time. You could go through the whole library and the number of crap game ratio would completely dwarf other consoles. Once again, this depends on if arcade games are of interest to you. Games are a luxury so the price is only an issue depending on how many people they needed to own the machine. It lasted around 10 years so I guess they did well among their demographic.

The "Seal of Quality" meant nothing. The NES had a huge wad of crap on it. Maybe the most in history since it had a damn near monopoly on the industry at the time. Add up all the movie and tv show tie-ins, the random platformers and anything that wasn't made by a a company that survived till today, and you'll that seal was just there for separating the publishers that paid fees from the bootlegged copies that some stores sold.

I just feel that this shows how a popular system is just going to attract even more people that want to piggyback the success of the machine. There's often more quality in rarity. I feel the Neo-Geo, Dreamcast and N64 can attest to this. These consoles had some of the smaller libraries but only had dedicated developers since there was only profit in actually making something worth buying.