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curl-6 on 17 January 2013
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green_sky said:
pezus said:
curl-6 said:
ToraTiger said:

To much FPS', waggleware and games that want to be movies so bad that they take it out on the gamer.

This, so much this. This gen's move towards "cinematic" games is the worst thing to happen to gaming since Sega went third party.

I'd add "sports games" too. Stuff like Wii Sports Resort gets a pass for physically fun controls, but stuff like Madden, FIFA, official games of the Olympics, etc. aren't worth the discs they're printed on.

I highly disagree. Most of my favourite games are "cinematic" and some sports games are really fun, like FIFA.

I don't get it either. People just lump everything together. There are so many old school kind of games with hard challenging gameplay. Those barely sell though. I don't know why these complaining people are not buying multiple copies of those. Personally very happy with the generation. The controls are much better, the normal difficulty is normal and not impossible. Also games can be patched (that is both good and bad as sometimes they don't test them enough). Best value for money with price drops and multiplayer options. People just want to live in the past with their nostalgic memories. 

It's not about nostalgia or living in the past. One could equally say the love for the 7th gen is based on "ooo, it's shiny and new!"

There have been some positive changes in the 7th gen, like motion controls and production values, but I believe there's been just as much negative change so it balances out about equal with the 6th gen.

For me, games are about fun first and foremost. That's their entire reason for existing, as essential as a car's ability to move. When you take control away from the player, you take away the fun. So many games today take what would have been a playable sequence last generation and replace it with some crappy movie sequence where, if you're lucky, you mash "A" to strangle the final boss. That's vastly inferior to an actual playable confrontation.

I'm not arguing that games should be harder, I'm arguing that they should stop trying to be movies and actually be games, because most of the time, the more movie like a game gets, the worse a game it becomes.