[Beastman59]

I hate when people say that 2D is dead and everybody wants 3D games. I've grown up playing 10X more 2D games than 3D. In fact I still play my old 2D games. Their Fun! And I'm positive their are a lot of people out there that feel the same way. The majority of all gamers started with 2D games growing up. Not to rag on 3D games or anything. I love'em. It's probably the best thing to happen to games in general. But it has its downfalls. I would say a lot of 3D games are based on image from the consumer perspective, rather than how fun the game actually is. If the graphics look amazing, it must be good. The same vise-versa. Thats why companies have to spend loads of money creating intense CGI trailers of their game so people will think its "quality," and don't even show what the actual gameplay looks like. 2D games in their own right have an edge that 3D games can't compete with. 2D gives a more interesting way of fun and difficult strategy (Abe is a very good example) that lets the player take in ALL of the surroundings. 3D games can become overwhelming at times, and can cause a lot of frustration (in my experience). And even lets the player miss the detail and hard work the programmers put into amazing environments. It gets overlooked sometimes. I could keep going on and on about all this.
This can probably be argued either way, and I strayed from what I really wanted to say. I don't full heartedly 'agree' with everything that I've said, since it just kind of came from the top of my head, but thats kind of the gist of what I feel. The video trailer that possessedfart posted was very interesting. I really do believe that 2D games will make a comeback in a 3D world and become popular again. There is too much potential to just be forgotten in the past. When Abe came out, 2D games were just starting to get really good. Its a little disappointing that they didn't get developed any further. I like 3D and 2D games, I just wish 2D wasn't completely dropped. (I don't count hand held games, I've long out grown those boy toys. Thats a whole other rant.)