| JWeinCom said: Strawman arguments... but w/e. The Tony hawk games that scored 90+ were 1,2,3, and Underground. The first three were awesome games, and Underground was the first to take the formula open world. After that, the series consistently scored lower and lower. What was the common complaint? Lack of innovation. So, not a double standard at all. Just took us longer to get sick of it because there weren't like 12 other skateboarding franchises. Btw that's why it's mandatory to surprise. Cause there are tons of other open world games on the market. There are like 2 skateboarding franchises (I think that's down to 0 now) and maybe about 4 Kart racing franchises apart from things like hello kitty. And that's also what I mean by within the context of the medium. How many games are doing what Mario Kart does as well as better? You could maybe make an argument for Sonic and Sega, but that's about it. It's an experience that comes along once every Nintendo console. There is a new open world game every month or two. |
There aren't that many open world games, aren't you exaggerating a bit? This year, we had Second Son and Watch Dogs - and then there's AC Unity and Arkham Knight scheduled for 2014, and that's all I can remember honestly. Now, it's hard for me to use Mario Kart as an example here, since I haven't played the most recent ones, but it's a series that keeps constant high scores without ever shaking the formula. Yes, it's once every Nintendo console, but it's a series that just takes a formula that works, and builds a good game around that, and that's it. No secret. It's like I said, Watch Dogs is probably a game that takes the already estabilished formula and just builds around that. I don't think I'm expressing my thoughts clearly enough, it feels like something is missing... but anyway.
