| Lost tears of Kain said: little to early no, its like saying the new starcraft will not last, its alot like its predcessor, and it was played for billions of hours Then thats saying every single game, even WoW expansions will soon get boring, and will not have a lasting appeal? What games are completely different from its predcessor? People are saying OMG SMG is gonna get GOTY! Yet like this review says, unless its something completely different its not that great. |
I'm not sure where you got WoW was boring (I personally think that but that's beside the point :P) but to me, it seems like the best way to rate a game is to compare it to other great games. As for expansions, those don't have to be too different since they are just doing things like adding troops, maps, whatever.
And games don't have to be entirely different from their predecessors to be good. Halo 3 may be a reskinned Halo 2 (which was a reskinned Halo) but that doesn't mean it's a bad game. Halo 3 is a very good game and if you like Halo 2 you're going to like this game. I'm really not sure where you get the idea that if something is like the previous game it's automatically bad. I do say that if you just keep the same exact gameplay as the previous game you're not going to get nearly as high marks for it as if it were new.
Think of Gears of War. When it came out it had an awesome cover system that brought about a whole new way of playing that people just loved. That cover system earned Gears of War very high marks because it was just so good. Lets say Gears of War 2 came out tomorrow and had the same cover system. It would of course still be good but would it be as special? Even if they only made minor improvements to it, it's still something that had been done before and just wasn't as special. To me, anything 9+ needs to be special.
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I had some SMG galaxy comments but I really don't feel like derailing my own thread. If you make another thread I might comment if I see it but going to leave it alone in this thread.
