agabara said:
Yeah, it kind of did backfire. I expected more people to guess GTA IV, or Shenmue, or something else that is not Ocarina of Time. Basically, the point was to show that I think Ocarina of Time and GTA IV got such good reviews because they each have an immense world that you have a lot of control in. I think people are naturally attracted to this, and when a new game comes out that has an even larger world and that allows even greater control, it will sit among the best rated games. Does anyone else agree? |
I disagree. I think GTA4 got such great reviews because GTA 3 was the first game that popularized sandbox play. As such many of it's flaws got overlooked, so when rockstar fixed some of the flaws and made the gameplay better in some areas they had relatlivly no place to go.
When you have a game a lot of people like that looks really ugly and has technical flaws all over the place and you give it a 94-96... you really don't have much room to go up when you are grading a sequel that has improved a lot of things.
OoT got it's high reviews because it was really the first game like that as well, that were huge wide expansive areas. This game however didn't have massive flaws to fix, and subsequent games kept the gameplay very similar, so the grading of course degraded for Zelda games even though they were "technically" more impressive.
In short.
GTA4 is rated better because GTA3 was groundbreaking but flawed.
Games like TP are rated worse because OoT was groundbreaking and didn't have any huge flaws.
That's my theory anyway.
