richardhutnik on 15 May 2009
| ultraslick said: @RichardHutnik The way you have written this completely competent but absolutely mediocre thread reminds me of how a young child first hears different words and phrases, then uses them out of context to sound smart. Are we aware of other games that are amazingly competent but unspectacular? what a way to phrase the question |
You are given so many letters for the subject header, so it is hard to think of the perfect way to put it thenre. The elements I was going for was:
I boot up a game, go, "Wow that is competently executed". That was my reaction to it. Not that it was awesome, just it seemed competent, kinda like you are looking at a coffee table, and go, "Wow that table is sturdy". Like, with Timeshift, my reaction was that it did an amazing paint-by-numbers job. Games are entertainment, not things we look at for how well they are assembled.
Curious about this reaction, I was wondering how many others people ran in this, and what other games. And it is more of the reaction then the game.
