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Antabus said: [...]
1. GH and music games I agree on. But for COD and sports games, I disagree. I want a new cod every year and sports games offer a lot of new every year (at least the ones I am buying). For example NHL series, they make it better every single year. I don't see regenerating health as dumbing down, it makes the action more frantic. I don't see how it is any "smarter" to run around looking for med kits. Free roaming isn't always a bliss either, I don't want to wander around for hours looking for something. In fact that annoys me. :P Of course there are some games which make me very angry, for example Dragon age 2. I just can't stand that. 2. I see it like this: Nintendo makes simple games and if they are successfull, other developers copy them. That is why I blame nintendo. I don't see any simple nintendo games as excellent, I see them as they are. Simple games.
Ps. Any nintendo zealots reading my post, I don't need your views on nintendo games. They are not going to affect my view on their games so don't even bother. |
About 1, obviously most is matter of taste, also about regenerating health, I guess it's about tastes too, no regeneration and having to look for med kits means less frantic (but UT can be really frantic anyway, for example, also level design influences playing style a lot), you prefer more frantic. About free roaming, I often get lost in games like Morrowind, but I like them anyway, actually getting lost is to me part of their gameplay. 
The only time I didn't like it was in Ultima VIII: Pagan, the lack of a map and the crude graphics making some places look all alike made exploring some parts like the catacombs a pain in the arse.
About 2, for "simple" I mean also games that aren't actually too simple and easy, but are based on simple base concepts, like some 2D Mario classics: other devs see a simple and effective idea and they think a dumb idea and bland gameplay could work the same. Anyhow, despite considering many Mario games true classics, I'm not a Mario fan anymore, I liked a lot the first Mario and DK arcade games, but then I grew tired of them just like I stopped buying Tomb Raider games after the second. And Mario and Wario games I played on my sister's GameBoy and on a ex-GF of mine's one just pissed me off, but it's mostly GameBoy's fault, I hate small screens and small buttons. About simple sports games, the flood of shovelware that followed Ninty bestsellers is very annoying, but I doubt that shovelware devs would produce something better if they hadn't Ninty examples to copy. Actually that shovelware should sell little more than zero: when you've got WS, WSR, WiiFit and WiiFit Plus, you don't need many other casual sports games, even less crappy ones.
