spemanig said:
I shat on Tokyo Mirage Sessions when it was revealed. I literally called it animu garbage. Now I want it and gleefully admit that I was wrong because the game looks fantastic gameplay wise and I'm not so close minded that I'd deprive myself of a high quality experience. I'm not too proud for shit. I just have standards. Splatoon is still shit months after launch, and no amount of foundational good ideas wipes away the game's absolute overabundance of massive and unignorable flaws. Just because you're more forgiving of a critically flawed game than I am doesn't mean the game is good. SF64 is a relic, but it's over a decade old and was a pioneer of the 3D graphics era. It has its alibi. SF0 has no excuse. 3D games look better now, they have a longer length standard now, they have a higher narrative demand now, they control better now. SF64 is not the be all and end all of railshooters. The genre has matured for years. Kid Icarus: Uprising shit on SF64 in literally every way, and this new Star Fox should have done the same, because KI:U literally owes its existance to Star Fox. This isn't a high quality experience. It's a glorified tech demo, literally, that was merely pressed and mutated until the words "Star Fox" became even slightly legible on the box. They didn't start this wanting to make a Star Fox game. This wasn't a passion project for Star Fox fans. They wanted to make an instruction manual/proof of concept for the gamepad because they were desperate and losing, and they slapped the Star Fox logo on it in the eleventh hour once it became clear that they actually needed to sell it. Miyamoto literally confirmed those sentiments less than 48 hours ago. It wasn't even supposed to be a Star Fox game. They cut the game's visual fidelity in half to serve a terribly awkward, yet bondbogglingly mandatory control gimmick that most players will hate at worst and tolerate at best. Instead of taking years of their time and making a dedicated and meaningful new entry in the franchise with actual intent and purpose, they went into this game with the goal of tossing it out in one year. It lacks so much ambition and heart that instead of at least giving it an original plot with modern writing standards and new possibilities for world building, they are literally remaking the same story for the third time using largely the same script. And it looks to be an hour long game at most, "replayability" be damned, launching at $50 in 2016. The Order was five times longer, looks way better both graphically and artistically, had an actual original story even if it sucked, had a control scheme not made for two people on one controller, and it still rested at average scores of 5s and 6s. I'm chomping at the bits to see how some reviewers try and spin this game in light of this. Nintendo KNOWS how to make a high quality, modern arcade shooter with actual heart, soul, and spirit. Their last one came out less than 5 years ago and was even SUPPOSED to be a Star Fox game. I'm not going to just turn a blind eye to this kind of unacceptable, cynically made garbage just because you all choose to, and I am far from alone in that sentiment. |
I hear you, and some of those complains make sense, but the thing is SF64 already had every of those problems, and it was amazing, it was the kind of game where you could spend 100 hours without even touching the multiplayer, it was that addictive. And I'm not talking from nostalgia, I played it for the first time like 4 years ago maybe, I loved it to bits, so now I look this and the first think it comes to my mind is that looks even more fun that 64, how can that be bad? I cannot process that, it could be way better, sure, but an aberration? I doubt it.
Maybe there are good reasons why this kind of arcade games dont exist anymore outside indies, but many of us WANT this kind of arcade games back when it comes to franchises like star fox that only were really great on that genre. And I higely disagre with Kid Icarus being better than SF64, not in milion years for me xD
And for the record, no i dont ignore your comments, dont know where that comes, I think you say a lot of reasonable things, but I strongly disagree with you other times, like this one, you should at least admit that is looking better now.
