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I read yesterday that the head of PC games at Electronic Arts declared PC games to be too boring.  I'm not so sure.  I think the number one hurdle for PC games these days is compatibility.  Playstation systems are out at least 5 years before the specs are too little, but at least ALL of the games are gauranteed to work.  PC games, on the other hand, take advantage of the latest PC memory, hard drive, CPU, and video cards.  I'm fairly sure the games have to be written with the assumption that they will run faster when the software is mature.

I read yesterday that the head of PC games at Electronic Arts declared PC games to be too boring.  I'm not so sure.  I think the number one hurdle for PC games these days is compatibility.  Playstation systems are out at least 5 years before the specs are too little, but at least ALL of the games are gauranteed to work.  PC games, on the other hand, take advantage of the latest PC memory, hard drive, CPU, and video cards.  I'm fairly sure the games have to be written with the assumption that they will run faster when the software is mature.

So I bought all of the 16.96 Wii and most of the Xbox360 games.  You get 25% off $xx.96 games this week at Circuit City.  So far I've only played Chicken Shoot and Happy Feet.  Chicken Shoot is THE example that the ESRB knows exactly what it is doing.  You have to play it on HARD mode to slightly challenge anyone over 10.  The dancing mode and other controls are pretty good on Happy Feet (Wii), but the game is bad, repetitive and boring.  Again, a good kids game, maybe.  I don't know why I strayed from my doctrine of no movie/anime games.

So I bought all of the 16.96 Wii and most of the Xbox360 games.  You get 25% off $xx.96 games this week at Circuit City.  So far I've only played Chicken Shoot and Happy Feet.  Chicken Shoot is THE example that the ESRB knows exactly what it is doing.  You have to play it on HARD mode to slightly challenge anyone over 10.  The dancing mode and other controls are pretty good on Happy Feet (Wii), but the game is bad, repetitive and boring.  Again, a good kids game, maybe.  I don't know why I strayed from my doctrine of no movie/anime games.

This is a follow-up to my "Shennanigans" post from Friday. Apparently it was Wal-Mart that said "No" to pre-orders on unrated/ratings-pending games. Joystiq had this article almost a year ago about the undeserved flap over the upcoming game, Bully by Take Two:

This is a follow-up to my "Shennanigans" post from Friday. Apparently it was Wal-Mart that said "No" to pre-orders on unrated/ratings-pending games. Joystiq had this article almost a year ago about the undeserved flap over the upcoming game, Bully by Take Two: