alternine said:
Slimebeast said:
In my opinion no. I argue that it satisfies people on a superficial level, but by the gameplay being so smooth and automatic, and by removing nearly all challenge the gamer's effort is dull and passive.
You basically just point the stick forward. The platforming is extremely simple and it's almost impossible to miss a jump and fall. The path to every target is painted in white and if you still can't find your way there's eagle vision. The survival mechanics and XP-system were meaningless and unneeded, just cosmetics to make the player feel rewarded.
Tomb Raider doesn't require you to think or to use barely any of your skills and reflexes. You just stare at the screen and instinctively follow what's ordered without your brain being focused on the task.
Should a game almost play by itself and instead use cynical tricks to make you feel like you accomplished something (modern game makers are extremely aware of how people's reward system works)? Shouldn't a game require challenge more than just the basics of moving a stick and pressing the attack buton?
I think Tomb Raider was good as an interactive experience, but not good as a game.
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Or you can just see the difficulty higher lol. They're both great games. And I thought we moved past the ridiculous notion of calling games interactive movies.
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I played it on hardest and the only thing that changes is that you actually have to use some of those skills and reflexes when you meet enemies, but the game has a type of generic combat that doesn't require any intelligence or thought, it's mostly just based on reflex. Most importantly though, when increasing the difficulty the rest of the experience still stays unchanged.
It's not a ridiculous notion to talk about "interactive" if you, like I do, claim that such a phenomenon exists and the difference between gameplay-centered games and these "interactive experiences" is so crucial and dramatic that it affects gaming from the very ground up.
It's necessary to have a terminology when discussing this topic (although I seem to be the only person trying to discuss it here on VGC lol), although the specific term "interactive movie" sometimes leaves a bad flavour and can upset people, and perhaps should be replaced if we could find a better term.
