sundin13 said:
I have problems with your post: a. The complaint of "linearity" is a red herring. The problem is a lack of gameplay variety. The linearity complaint is a small piece of that, but it hardly shows the full picture. Yes, we haven't seen much of the game, but it is R@D/Sony's job to show us what this game has to offer and they haven't done a very good job. b. Did DriveClub get deducted points for not being open world? All the reviews I could find which mentioned open worlds did it as a way of saying that the game is small and fairly bare bones, lacking frills like open worlds. I think that is a perfectly valid complaint. Which review are you referencing? c. You act like DriveClub was absolutely panned by reviews. It has around a 70 on metacritic, what is wrong with that? Games have every right to be average, but if they are, they are going to get average reviews. Not every game needs to be revolutionary, but why should a game that merely reaches par get an 8 or a 9? I'd say 7 is pretty generous what with 5 being average on most non-video game review scales... d. Emphasis on story is fine, if you remember that this is a video game. Video games have their own ways of getting the players into the story and portraying the story in new and interesting ways. the criticisms come in when, instead of utilizing all of the benefits of the medium, you just piggyback off of cinema. e. Story is often used as a vehicle to advance the or to gameplay instead of being the core of the game, like Destiny, but when that vehicle is cliche shit carrying you between repetive "defend the point" missions, it deserves to be criticized. f. You can use cover, but when the gameplay becomes a game of whack-a-mole for minutes on end, that just isn't fun. Introduce some variety, whether that is smarter enemies who force you to move around and utilize a battlefield tactically or having the shooting be a secondary objective next to some more interesting primary objective. g. 30fps is acceptable, but don't pretend like it is the ideal. If R@D said "we cannot get our game running steadily at anything above 30fps", people would have accepted it. The bullshit that they were trying to push wish their "30fps is more cinematic" statement is what got people riled up. Your entire comment is just you misplacing criticisms... |
I have a problem with your reply, especially with:
c). How could you possibly arrive to that co from nclusion? I mentioned Driveclub as one example of getting points deducted, nowhere have I even mentioned the score. How you could deduce that I said that 70 is wrong is beyond me...but it fits with your profile, I guess...making stretched and false assumptions out of small examples...
d.) What does that even mean...Video games are interactive entertainment media of sorts. Who are you, or anyone else, to judge exactly what the exact ratios of interaction and story are. I guess you hated Beyond 2 Souls and Heavy rain then. If your preference is just to be in control 100% of the time, you should be sticking to early 90s games. Stop being stuck in the past, limiting your experiences, and accept that video games can exist on both parts of the spectrum.
f.) Again, how is that you not describing Gears of War? We still haven't seen it, but perhaps this game also has a turret sequence and a "mech" riding sequence. You just decided to conclude that the game is "whack-a-mole" based on a few minutes of demo, and yet most of those minutes are cinematic, which is again complained about. And of course, your definition of "whack-a-mole" is using cover, while you disregard the ability to use varying weapons for varying outcomes, to even use melee, or to even have a (the dreaded acronym) QTE to defeat the enemy...
g.) As I said, up until a few months, people were enjoying games that were even sub-30fps, yet now being 30fps is solely due to developer's ineptitude, as they intentionaly mask their horrible game behind "buzz-words".
Your entire batch of comments on this game is placing criticism regardless of anything you've actually seen. Actually, choosing to see only negatives and crap all over them, and disregarding any positives, of which there certainly are more...
