| Shadow1980 said: I'm starting to get the impression that reviewers are being harder on games not necessarily because the games are objectively worse, but because they expected radical new innovations with a new generation and found that, as usual, we just got "better graphics boxes." Never mind the fact that, notwithstanding the 2D-to-3D transition of the mid-90s that necessitated new ways of making games, there's never been much innovation in gaming. Everything has been done already. Now, if this or any other game does turn out to be objectively bad (poor controls, bad AI, broken difficulty, lots of bugs), then it should be graded as such. Of course, this is all just first impressions here, not full reviews of finished games, but first impressions based on dealing with limited time with small chunks of an unfinished game are not frequently indicative of how the final game will be. I remember being not terribly impressed with the AI in Halo 3: ODST, thinking it wasn't improved over Halo 3 like Bungie promised, but in the final game the AI did actually perform better than in Halo 3. |
Exactly this. I couldn't agree with you more even if they paid me. And I think this is something these so called gaming journalists can't get in their heads.
The industry does not or can't possibly be expected to reinvent the wheel every single new generation or every 5 years. Movies have been made the exact same way since the 1950s. In all that time we just have better sound, better effects, better cameras but at the heart of every movie the most important things have alsways been what realm of suspended belief the director was trying to convey to the audience.
Games should be no different. The way I see it, is that every developer should focus on one thing on their game first, "is it fun to play?" without even a story is there enough in this game to make people just love playing it? Thats the most importnat component of any game as far as I am concerned. Then the next thing is, "outside the gameplay, how do I make the player care about what he is looking at?" this is the part that verything else that comes into making a game comes into play.
But game reviewers just seem to go with teh wind when it comes to what should or shouldn't be expected of a game.
