@patrickklepek said:
@iAmJohn said:
And I repeat from the story a couple days ago: You haven't been able to play it for over a year on the DS for what reason exactly?
Your hostile attitude isn't really appreciated, sir. Has nothing to do with DS or iPad--it just fell into my pile of shame, I'd heard the game was really great on iPad, and now I have a new excuse to play the game. Chill out?
Reading back my comment, yeah okay I can see how my incredulousness sounds like me being needlessly hostile. Sorry about that.
Still, it's hard for me to read things like this without throwing my arms up in frustration and yelling "Where the fuck were you people in the first place when it mattered?!" I mean, we're talking about a game that came out when literally nothing else was coming out (I'm pretty sure Ghost Trick was one of the first retail games, if not THE first retail game, released in 2011; it's certainly the first new game I bought last year), deservedly got excellent reviews and a ton of fan love, and sold nothing. Yeah, some of the replies I've gotten have made some salient points, like how Capcom viciously undershipped the game (Which I'll concede, since they didn't even stock it in Best Buy or, I'm assuming, a bunch of the other big retailers) or the piracy issue (which I buy less; it's really not that hard to jailbreak an iDevice, guys, so piracy is going to be just as big an issue for Ghost Trick on iOS as it has been on DS), and I know that it being on other platforms means the game can still be a success in some way and get in the hands of more people, but that also assumes a lot of faith in Capcom that I don't have. Ghost Trick was a failure, and considering how much of an afterthought iOS has typically been for Capcom--where their biggest games are a bowdlerized version of Street Fighter IV, a bunch of crappy NES and SNES ports and a game that rips off 'Splosion Man wholesale--I don't think any success that game sees on iOS is going to give us the possibility of more from that universe, or allowing Shu Takumi to experiment with non-Phoenix Wright related stuff for a while.
And frankly, all it does is remind me of when that game was coming out, and all the posts I remembered seeing on the internet of people bitching that Capcom wasn't bringing the iOS version over at the same time and people were just going to wait for that. I find it hard to say that any game deserves to tank, but Ghost Trick especially didn't deserve it, and there's a whole cadre of people who didn't care because it being on DS wasn't good enough; they'd only bite if it was on their iPad. As someone who loves the game, that's kind of frustrating.
Honestly--and I'm not accusing you or anyone else in these comments of this, this is simply me spitballing--it makes me wonder how much of the "Apple is killing dedicated handheld gaming" hand-wringing is a self-fulfilling prophecy. When a game comes out on DS that is fantastic and worth playing and just so happens to be on the best selling video game system of all time, you see the endless bitching about it not being on iPhone or whatever and no one buys it. And then we don't get more of these games and people bitch about that. Well you know what? Maybe you should have fucking supported a great game in the first place instead of whining about how you want to play it on an iPod Touch. Then maybe people would shut up about the whole "death of handheld gaming" nonsense. I'm glad that people are excited to play Ghost Trick, I really am, but it shouldn't have had to come at the expense of the game failing miserably in its first outing, and there's a part of me that thinks that people just let it happen.
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