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Louie on 12 August 2007
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You know what?

So often I read reviews on big gaming sites, thousands of words. They talk about graphics. Then they talk about animation. Then about physics.

And my own honest wish while reading those reviews is: "Give me something about gameplay!"

In Germany "Gamestar" is the biggest magazine. They review their games on multiple pages of environment-friendly paper, they talk about effects, graphics, sound. But every time I read those reviews I don´t have a clu what the game is about.

It is really that bad, you don´t know what the game is about. And when you compare IGN PS3 with IGN Wii reviews you´ll notice the PS3 reviews contain much more graphical analysis.

I want my reviews about gameplay. I want my games to have a good level design, to look awe-inspiring not as realistic as possible.

It´s about what a game feels like not what it looks like, you don´t play graphics. Of course great graphics are a good thing, but how do we use them? Developers use better geometry models, better textures, but the Art style doesn´t get any better.

Which game has more chracter? Gears of War or Super Mario World 2: Yoshi´s Island?

It is the second one, believe it or not. Show Yoshi´s Island to your friends for five minutes, they´ll be totally stunned. Show Gears of War to them - they will hardly know which of those shooters you played with them. Yoshi? They´ll know for their lives.

Super Mario Bros. brought me to gaming. Why? Because it was such a fantastic game. It wasn´t about graphics in any way, it was about the experience. I still remember the first time I played Super Mario Bros. It felt good and I had to smile. It was completely new.

It was a big game on weak hardware and it was better than everything else back then and I want developers to use their damn fantasy and not their computers to give me my games.

There is so much you could do with games just nobody cares about.

Games could be art, we just have to make them a bit different. If my mother suddenly wants to train her brain because of a game that means the possibilities are endless for thi medium.

We just need our own Citizen Kane. It is just a matter of time. videogames are the medium of the future. We just have to get over those graphic craziness to create something new.