HappySqurriel said:
I think we’re talking about two entirely different things here ... There has been a massive bias in the industry against simple, arcade style, videogames; and most reviewers see these games as outdated throwbacks to a more primitive time in videogame development. Many people do not share this view, and a lot of people would prefer a simple game done well (like Bejewelled) to a much more complicated gaming experience. While there are the occasional game like this that reviews well, most of these games aren’t reviewed and the reviews they do get seem to be marked lower because they do not meet the reviewers idea of what a videogame should be. As a result of this, there are many of these games that are highly addictive fun games that (with the variety of game-play modes) have a ton of replay value that get low scores. At the same time, there are a lot of similar games that are dull, uninspired and repetitive with limited replay value that get similar scores. By not considering what a game is when reviewing it, the review scores become meaningless.
The best analogy I can think of is imagine if the aggregate review scores of Killzone 2 and Haze were similar because there were only a handful of reviewers who played the game and most of them thought that First Person Shooters were the lowest form of videogame and gave them a low score on principle. |
give me some exemples of those great simple arcade style video games the industry is bias against.
Now let me see the games I own on the PSP i THINK got good reviews are somehow casual.
Lumines
Wipeout
little big planet
loco roco
pixeljunk
Patapon
Next Gen
11/20/09 04:25 | makingmusic476 | Warning | Other (Your avatar is borderline NSFW. Please keep it for as long as possible.) |