The logic (or the lack of it) in this thread baffles me. However, since it's mostly due to Recap's tepid responses, atleast it does not surprise:
Recap wrote:Any "original software" for a handheld you can think of could be much better on a TV system. That's a fact which leaves no room at all to be questioned. Hence the drama.
That's just not true. So what you're saying is that if a handheld would be wired up to a TV and a joystick would be attached to it, it would magically make all the games "much better"?
Heard of the Gameboy Player? I'm sorry, but a good game doesn't become great even with this wizardry.
OK, so, maybe you meant that
if the developers would have made this particular game for a 'proper' console, "it could be much better on a TV system". Maybe. It's possible, but it's not a logical conclusion. It's a bit like saying that original Super Mario Bros would have been better on the SNES. Would it
really have been better?
See, this is what baffles me. You all know what handhelds are. The idea is that you take the console, the controller and the TV and merge these in to one and make it portable. If someone could explain to me how this makes it worse (or even changes anything at all), please do.
You also (should) understand when something is made smaller it usually has to be simplified. Less space means less electronic parts, like transistors that make up processors. Plus, it all has to be powered by a battery. So handhelds will always be a generation behind. It's like the NES being compared to the SNES. But you still enjoy playing NES games, don't you?
That's the other part of "the fallacy". If you keep on supporting handhelds, you're telling the devs you're happy with it and don't need their games on a TV system.
Again, that's just not true. They're not mutually exclusive. If you're not buying a title you're basically saying "I'm sorry, I wouldn't enjoy this game". Why you wouldn't enjoy it, you're not telling.
Maybe it's because it's on a handheld,
or maybe it's because you don't like the genre, the style of play, the developer, the publisher or the color of the box it comes in.
icycalm wrote:Myself, I plan to review a bunch of PSP shmup collections and give them shitty scores, explaining in the reviews that those games are practically unplayable with the PSP's d-pad.
So it's unplayable due to the digital pad? Fair enough, but this wouldn't help your cause at all. Hypothetical example: The Dreamcast has an absolutely atrocious D-pad.
If the controllers were hardwired to the consoles (think of the original Fami), you could make this exact same statement about Border Down or any other Dreamcast shooting game as well. The fact that the PSP has an internal screen and is powered by a battery does not make the Gradius games worse.