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Squilliam on 22 March 2010
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r505Matt said:
Squilliam said:

I would say that personally Sony have a high flash:substance ratio. Their games are really impressive, once. So for a hardcore gamer whos buying and keeping over 5-10 games per year then I can understand the love Sony gets, but I guess more picky people who have to share their time with multiple platforms / have different values -> I hate cinematic style games as a genre, I enjoy playing them once but never more than that because I have a tendency to pick them apart mentally as I play and it ruins my suspension of disbelief. Uncharted 2 for example lost me at the first scene because he wasn't wearing gloves and he had a hole in his stomach.

I'll play something like Mass Effect more than once because I love the control I have or even the perception of control. I love playing games like S.T.A.L.K.E.R. and Crysis as well as games like Jagged Alliance 2, Civilization IV and I'll keep coming back to them even though I've spent hundreds of hours playing each title. For me with your average Sony title once I know how the story ends a significant proportion of the value of the game is lost which is why I said they make better rentals so I can play them once/twice then send them packing.

I hear that! I thought I was the only one that couldn't get into the beginning of Uncharted 2. For me though, the clincher was when he was climbing up the train, and large rocks were falling down towards him, and he somehow didn't die. That with being in the cold, without gloves, and with a hole in his stomach. It was over the top for me, and essentially ruined the entire game experience. It essentially reminded me of a cheesy, bad action movie, that can be funny to watch, but it's not really an engaging experience.

I'm not big into the cinematic style games either, if I want that sort of experience, I watch a good movie. As a cinematic story-telling form of entertainment, games just aren't there yet to me. Then again, for pure story, it's all about books to me. Comic books can be okay too, they just narrow down the imagination a bit, but they can relay a story much faster than most books.

I'm not sure, but I wonder if gaming background has something to do with it? Maybe gamers who started with PS1 or PS2 have gotten more into that sort of experience, whereas I started with Nintendo, Atari and PC games. And, I've owned almost every major console since (skipped over some of the handhelds though).

 

Action games make terrible action movies! Nathan Drake got shot about 100 times prior to that moment without a scratch. Suddenly that one bullet actually sticks? Uncharted 2 is great justification for hating cinematic games and the awards it got for story just makes me cringe at the level of maturity of the games industry. It was about the worst action movie I have ever seen in terms of suspension of disbelief. I think I had an easier time with Vetical limit.

I started gaming with the PC and I was doing games like Wolf3D, Dune 2, Lode Runner etc since 1989 when I was 4. I have a lot of experience with gaming. I think I missed this whole games as cinema trend until the current generation. They simply didn't make sense to me and I got a lot more enjoyment out of a $2000 PC than I ever did from a $399 console.



Tease.