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The 360 has a demo for every XBLA game (and a demo for every full release worth its salt) so that won't need anything. With the Wii, it has classic games most people have generally played before. So those two systems probably don't need anything of this sort.
At the same time some games aren't worth their salt, but manage to market themselves well. While, yes, the Wii has classic games not everyone is old enough to have played them (God, I'm old) and might not know that Zelda II was the worst of the series and the hype Nintendo put around its release as the 100th game was just that, hype. Or, in my case, the only Nintendo system I owned before now was a SNES and then I think I had maybe five games. Guess which system 90% of my VC purchases have come from. I have to ask my Nintendo fanboy friend what N64 games are good.
With the PS3, however, it seems like a good idea. 👍
Well, I would probably start here and if anyone else wanted to emulate my thread for the other systems I would let them. Plus, I think anyone with multiple systems could give a compare and contrast of the third-party games so those trying to determine which to buy could make a decision based on the genre of games they prefer.
Here's the problem I see, though: let's say a game doesn't have a demo, and it doesn't look all that appealing to begin with (say, the recent Midway classics). Who would actually buy it in the first place in order to report back to others? Granted, this wouldn't be a problem with more anticipated releases like, say, Calling all Cars, but it's still a problem.
You just sort of countered your Wii argument by using the Midway Classics as an example. But, again I think that some people are not old enough to have played Joust (and I am really old). For me it is worth the $5. It is still a better value than 99% of the VC games. And then some people never played Medieval (what's wrong with you?) or Syphon Filter (guilty) and finding out which PS One games are worth $5 and which ones aren't may be helpful. Plus, as with the VC games, some of these may not work with the new system well (I am thinking Classics, not PS One) and others may do it very well.
On top of all that I think that if anyone were curious about a specific game, as I was with Flow, they could just request for someone to give their opinion (after searching first, of course).
Jedi2016
For games that I'm on the fence about, I usually wait to read reviews. I might not buy it, but someone else will, and that person will tell everyone else what he thought of it.
I am the same way and I don't trust guys whose paychecks come from advertising budgest from gaming companies to be completely honest. I've even seen reviews for sports games, such as baseball, done by guys who start out saying they don't like baseball games. Thanks for the disclaimer buddy, but that makes your 2/5 rating even more confusing. Would it be higher if you liked baseball?
Even with Gamefly there are too many games to rent them all and try them out. Trust me, my Game Q keeps growing and having two new systems doesn't help.
