| Since I've been hearing about the drought of Nintendo 64 games, I've
been asking myself what's more important, the quality of the games of
the number of games? There are two ways of looking at this. You don't
want to be playing pieces of trash, but at the same time, you want new
games to play. It would be great to have both, but things usually don't
work that way.
An old writer for EGM magazine gave an example of this in his letters
section once. In a reply to a letter he said that Resident Evil was a
good game, but 97% of the other games should have only been used
as coasters. He was right. Playstation games like "Killer Loop",
"Fighting Force 2", "Fatal Fury: Wild Ambition", "Dune 2000" and
maybe even the Spyro the Dragon series that seems to be dying out
aren't worth the money, but on occasion, you find excellent games like
Gran Turismo 1&2 and the Resident Evil games. Playstation releases
many games, and some aren't even worth more than the receipt that
you get after buying them, but you'll find good games eventually.
Nintendo, on the other hand is focused on releasing masterpieces
instead of releasing a game a day. The problem with this is that there
aren't enough games to give to those voracious video gamers who
play for 13 or 14 consecutive hours. One of the 20 most recently
released games for Nintendo 64 in Donkey Kong 64. That game was
great, but it was released in November. What is there to play after
that? Nintendo makes great games, but the problem is they're trying to
make games perfect, so there aren't enough.
I have mixed feelings about this topic. I wouldn't want Nintendo
releasing tons of bad games with a few good games in there, but they
could make more games than they've been making. One type of game
that we need more of is RPGs. We can't just rely on EB to satisfy our
desire for RPGs for 64. Nintendo needs to make more. They've only
released one good RPG that I can remember for Nintendo 64. That
RPG was Zelda 64. They haven't made that many bad RPGs because
there haven't been that many RPGs.
I love Nintendo's games, but what I don't like about Nintendo is that
they put so much effort into the games that they get delayed once,
twice or maybe even three times. But when you finally get those
games, you're saying to yourself that the wait was worth it. I'm
supporting the idea that quality is better than quantity, but I'm also
saying that Nintendo hasn't worked hard enough to make enough
games for everyone..
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