Khuutra said:
Eh, I could pull up a few people who would argue for Tetris being the best game ever. I think the criticism of an overabundance of focus on too-recent titles is a valid one. |
I could make an arguement for it. It's pretty much THE Puzzle game that everbody tried to copy until like... Bejeweled... and even then it's still often copied.
Additionally unlike other puzzle games... you can't really picture anything added to make it better fundamentally gameplay wise. While i'd say bejewled is a lot more fun in it's puzzle quest form as other versions are just as fun.
It's perfection in a "tetris like" game... and it's very rare a game can hit perfection.
It can do so because it's so simple, yet simplicity is not in of itself inherently bad, though I feel that is what people who are futurists in gaming tend to believe. There are few other games you can play where you wouldn't change of thing... and even fewer still that are amazing but don't make you want more because what you've been given is the entirity of the expierence.
Once you have tetris... you really don't even want another tetris.
I'm not sure I believe said argument but I think it's a convincing one.
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