GoOnKid said:
His touch was not to make revolutionary games, even if that's what you want to believe. He made great games because he loves games. Why have Mario 64 and Ocarina of Time become so famous? Because they managed to shift from 2D to 3D in a way like no other games before. That was a very difficult task, and Miyamoto and his teams did it. They didn't think beforehand how to make a revolutionary game, they thought about how to keep the spirit of these games and take them to a new technological level. The fact that those games became so famous just shows how well he did. And here comes the big BUT: That's NOT something to expect from every single game that this man makes. It happened more or less as a side-effect because he and his teams understood what was needed to make those franchises work in 3D. Nowadays the only technological steps seem to be finer resolutions and higher fps. This is nothing that challenges this guy. The only really other revolution in gameplay after OoT was Halo for the auto-regeneration, anyway. NO other game ever since has been a true revolution in gameplay. So now you come around and expect Miyamoto to revolutionize gaming with every single project he makes. |
I made it very clear that I wanted to see at least ONE game (emphasis on ONE) to at least rival the likes of what the competition has to offer (such as uncharted 4, overwatch, fallout 4).
Did I say it had to been a technological masterpiece? No. I listed wii sports for crying out loud. Did he have new technology to work with? Yes he did, the gamepad (he himself influenced this). As a wii u owner, I trusted him to work on at least one phenomenal game to rival the competition (sakurai did well, we will see how aunoma performs).
He made many games AND IP to not only rival the competition, but to set precedents and lead the way to future gaming. That was his "touch". Therefore, to see his recent output dwarfed by games like dark souls 3, doom, or the witcher 3 makes me think that he can't keep up (i.e. that he lost his "touch")







