| The Ghost of RubangB said: Exactly. No matter what your criteria are, you'd have to be pretty nuts to call Tetris a bad game. It transcends the genre, the formula, and the time period. It will never go bad. So how did games evolve? Because several critics and gamers alike will still say Super Mario Bros. 3 is the greatest game ever made. I can't make up my mind, and have several other all-time favorites, but I know I'll be playing SMB3 for the rest of my life. There are a few games like this every generation. They're never gonna go bad. |
How did games evolve, well games evolved with having more beef, im sure the original mario would have had more substance, more story, look at these ones, but even the mario series, you had to save the princess, coz the bad man took her. What the hell is the story line for tetris. I will give you that ignores today criteria, but if that was released TODAY, what would a game like that get, prob around 70 i would say, why? because it is an arcade game, very simple.
Dont get me wrong i would want to play tetris over a vast amount of games, but that is because i grew up on it, you show tetris to say a 13 year old today who has never seen it and what would they say, im guessing something like "when can i play the 360 or PS3 or Wii." Because as fun as it is, it is not a genre changing game, it has defined genres, it has defined gaming but there is only a certain amount you can do with blocks falling down and having to delete rows, i played a lego version of it which you had to eventually climb out. I thought that was genius because that is the biggest i had seen Tetris jump.
Super Mario Brothers 3 is not my best game of all time, mine would be prob Civilization, the way it gripped me, took my entire life, when i heard the word chariot i imaged the game. But everyone has opinions, this is mine, i have no facts to back what i am saying, though neither do most of the people, but that what reviews are. And Metacritic provides a larger source, a great alternative to having to go buy the game to then have to think about returning it because it is horrible for example.
