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HappySqurriel on 04 February 2009
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Words Of Wisdom said:
HappySqurriel said:

I don't care about this game at all, but I think that if reviews are supposed to be an accurate measure on the quality of a game they should review a game based on how high of quality it is and not based on whether the game has been released before.

Basically, if someone has never played your favourite games from the previous generation would you say that they're bad and not worth playing today? An unmodified port may not be of any value to people who played the game already, but that doesn't mean it isn't a good game to play for someone who didn't own it in the first place.

I don't think you quite understand my opinion so I'll give you an example.

Let's go with the original Super Smash Bros. game for the N64.

Let's say Nintendo decided tomorrow to repackage it as a full Wii game (not VC) and all they did was add Wiimote/nunchuck controls to it.  They add nothing else.  No new characters, stages, modes, music, or anything are added.  What kind of rating should the game get?  Back when it was released it was a 8-10 out of 10 game for a lot of people.

Now we have SSB Wii with only 12 characters, no improvements, and more standing next to SSBB with roughly 3 times as many characters and stages along with loads of content.  Do you think that this SSB port as a Wii game should be 9 out of 10 like it was for the N64? 

I don't think so and neither would X-Play.

 

You're arguing something entirely different than you think you are though ...

Saying a game like Super Smash Bros. shouldn't receive the score it once did because it doesn't offer the quality or value of similar games that have been released in the past decade (like Super Smash Bros. Melee and Super Smash Bros Brawl) is quite a bit different than saying that Super Smash Bros should get a 1 because it is an old game ... One way takes into account how the game stands up against current games and is an actual evaluation of its current quality, the other is an arbitrary evaluation that has no relation to the quality of the game.

Once again, as I said in my initial post, it is one thing to say that the game hasn't aged well or that the Wiimote controlls take away from the experience but to review a game based on its age alone is not a fair metric.