| sundin13 said: Yeah, and this is a bit of a tough question to answer. Basically, when it boils down to it, when I see games with "being cinematic" as their fundamental goal and game design philosophy, I look at the game as trying to be something it isn't. Like, you wouldn't excuse someone who wrote a book as if it were a movie because it was just being "different". Every medium has their own set of strengths, and while pushing boundaries and innovating, those strengths should be kept in mind, to give the best game possible. That is what I want. I want every game to be the best game it can be. I look at The Order and think "wow, this could have been something truly amazing" and that makes me disappointed. I look at a scene where everything is so clearly black and white, or a scene where your interaction is no more involved than pressing the play button on a movie, only for it to automatically pause every few seconds. I see these scenes as misplaced goals. I see the designers of these games as compromising so much in order to be the best movie a game can be, but at the end of the day, films will always be better films than games can be (as EC said). I understand that this is a debate on ideologies, but I don't think that invalidates my point. I think that games can still be tremendous and diverse and brilliant and engaging, with interesting stories and voice acting and I think games can do all of that while being the best games that they can be and playing to the strengths of video games. I also understand that some people may enjoy cutscene heavy games, even if I don't particularly understand why and I would never say that anybody doesn't have a right to enjoy a particular game, or doesn't have a right to make a particular game. However, that does not excuse the game for criticism. |
Fair enough. To me, what is wrong with The Order is not what it is aiming for, but rather the execution. This applies to everything in real life. You can come up with some super duper plan, but if you can't pull it off, you're just going look stupid. Now I'm not saying The Order was executed poorly. As you said, it had the potential to be something amazing, but RAD fell short of that level of awesomeness.
I'll get The Order eventually and I bet it will be enjoyable even if it's short. What I'm curious to see is how RAD responds and adjusts to the criticisms.
