It was such an evolutionary leap forward from the previous MM games. Everything was bigger and better. The graphics, the music, the controls. It blew my mind at the time.
lol this thinking right here contributes to the problem. "The bigger bottle HAS to be better, right?".
If people would stop and read to see what they're spending their money on, we wouldn't be buying larger quantities of mostly water-based products in favor of more concentrated versions.
To think the CD-i, 3DO, and Jaguar were all "next gen" only to have the PlayStation/N64/Saturn (hey it did really well in Japan) absolutely blow their doors off is hilarious in hindsight.
Granted, it was a very uncertain time in gaming. And maybe these high dollar systems weren't trying to directly compete with the younger market of Nintendo/Sega. What did the mature gamer want? More bits? CD-ROM multimedia adventures? Something you can put on your entertainment center on top of your VCR that isn't just for the kids? These were all promising directions at one point in time.
Ultimately, the PlayStation and Saturn would come along and refocus on the games themselves, making 64 bit gaming seem irrelevant and essentially killing FMV-based gaming. The arrival of the N64 would solidify this.
It was an interesting time in gaming. Units like the CD-i and 3DO commanded huge sums of money and offered very little back in the way of quality gaming. Some people bought into the hype thinking they were buying into the next generation when the industry took a very different direction.
How do you determine who gets what they need when a given resource becomes scarce? Everything is finite. Human greed is also real. Do you just take someone at their word that they're desperate for something when they may not be?
Right. If you react to this news with disappointment, and believe me I'm disappointed, maybe it's more a wake up call the support was never real to begin with. I feel we're better off without such hollow gestures. Then again I'm not a part of a marginalized group and maybe it's not that black and white.
Mega Man X. The first one for SNES.
It was such an evolutionary leap forward from the previous MM games. Everything was bigger and better. The graphics, the music, the controls. It blew my mind at the time.