TMNT: Smash-Up

[Ninjinister]

Originally Posted by Peanut

Then you need to play games longer, or take a bigger and more in-depth look at the industry. People can try and give games the benefit of the doubt all they like, but the fact is, more often than not, you can get a pretty good reading on how a game will turn out simply by looking at who's involved in it.

I think 20+ years of playing them and following the industry is enough to offer my own valid opinion. I try not to pigeonhole things just because of the history that's gathered behind it. What I wrote out was merely thinking out loud; it wasn't directed towards anyone at all. And besides, weren't you in the "Just because Ubisoft develops some crap and is publishing this game doesn't mean this will be useless" camp a page ago? That was the driving force behind what I was saying; it's not going to innately fail because of the name printed in the bottom-right of the game's case. I also was defending the Wii a bit because of the almost 20 consoles I own (including the 360 that is technically mine but not yet in my possession), it's number three of my favourites list - but that was just a little bit.

The bizarre thing about this, is between this and other places I've seen, I haven't seen this much arguing about something nobody involved knows anything about since the "Nintendo showed squat on the DS - it's going to rock!" vs. "Sony showed quite a bit of what the PSP is capable of - it's going to suck!" While I can't comment on either, having not ever owned either, and having playing each one very little - both have had massive surges of popularity. But that's besides the point. Way too much drama on something this arcane, even for the internet. All I know is I've successfully got half of my office pre-ordering this motha.