| Grampy said: No, can't say I have played it and doubt that you have either since it's not released yet. The difference is that I never will play it and you probably will. Listen, I noticed the fine nuances which is why I acknowledged the effort and talent that obviously went into it; but at the end of the day you're still just blasting zombies with a shotgun. Not matter how refined and sophisticated the execution, it's a stale old overworked idea. Just the opinion of a veteran gamer who long ago has blown away a zillion zombies in 4 or 5 different generations of mindless games. I would have not mentioned it because I really don't give a rat's patootie how you get your yah yahs but Sqrl said "Bah, nobody has anything to say about this? Don't be bums, comment people!" So I did. |
The point I made wasn't the typical "stfu you haven't played it n00b". It was that everyone who plays the game goes into it saying "yeah yeah zombies, we get it, we see what you're doing with the co-op and we understand". Then when they are done they are saying "wow...i really didn't get it...thats incredible". If it was one or two people thats one thing, but its several major sites that have had their hands on the game and come away with a whole new perspective on what it is and what its about.
If you think you "get it" when nobody else did then kudos to you for being such a smart guy. But personally I'm perfectly willing to except the possibility that the game might not be all its cracked up to be since I haven't played it and thus lack the first hand experience. Why do you seem insistant that you are correct without having played it? It seems you would dismiss it on the basis of its similarities to other stuff and ignore what is different.
Even a game like portal which was terribly original can be dismissed on this basis. I mean at the end of the day its just a puzzle game played from an FPS perspective...whats so new about that? You can't point out the portal innovation since the AI Director wasn't good enough to be original. Honestly that line of reasoning leads you to the conclusion that new born babies are unoriginal since they are made from the same stuff everyone else is...and can even go so far as to make a case that originality isn't original.
Show me anything you think is original and I will show you how it is a derivation of something else. From video games, cars, planes, movies, stars, planets, galaxies, and pretty much everything with the possible exception of "existance" as a whole.
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