Cartridge Gaming

[Mister Zero]

Cartridges are a bit much.. I'd say do like the DS and use an SD sized card. No loading and there's so much space available now that we could have another good little revolution in gaming. I think a lot of people are coming back to classic gaming because games these days are nothing more than somewhat playable movies. Kinda boring. Give me gameplay and challenge.

[Ferneu]

Cartridges are a bit much.. I'd say do like the DS and use an SD sized card. No loading and there's so much space available now that we could have another good little revolution in gaming. I think a lot of people are coming back to classic gaming because games these days are nothing more than somewhat playable movies. Kinda boring. Give me gameplay and challenge.

I don't know if they are coming back because of that or simply because

they can play them or their Wiis

Anyway, I don't agree that all games today simply rely on graphics, but

I do agree that most of them do. And I hate it, just like you. Of course

there are great games being released these days. Some simply because

of their gameplay value, others because the technology today allow the

devs to reach new horizons.

The real problem is the people. How many times you heard someone saying

something like this about a game: "looks promissing but they'll have to do

something about those PS2 graphics". And that is when everything start

going downhill.

And about this game medium fight, I think the big guys have reached a good

solution when they started shipping the hardware with HDD. You buy the

game on a "cheap" medium, install it and then good by (big) loading times.

And by the way, as someone have already pointed out (yes, I've been reading

this whole thread) (yes, I had nothing else better to do at the time hehe),

cartridge are not exactly load time free. They are simply a faster medium.

What will determine the load speed a combination of complexity, skill and

publisher pressure. Heck, even SNES had games with annoying load times.

Just play Batman Forever and you'll see.