Nintendo is looking interesting again for the first time in almost a decade..

[Cloudman]

Einsam_Delphin said:

Cloudman said:

That depends. If you played the game, then your opinion will have some weight to it, depending on how much you played. However, if you're just basing it on 1st impressions and trailers, then no, your opinion will not have the same weight as someone who has. That's like saying someone who got the basic idea of a game has the same credability as a reviewer, whose job it is to give a well informed opinion on it. No one would take the 1st person seriously. Most people who bought it seemed to have liked it indeed, since they have played it and know how it is. How can you know if you'll like a game or not if you haven't played it, after all. Saying the vast majority would dislike it is just a what if, as the overall reception is positive. It could have scewed the other way for all we know.

Well, yes, if you haven't played the game, then you don't really know much about it. Until you do, you just won't know how good, or perhaps not good, it is. And going with sales is a flawed way of looking at it, as well as just using something else to base your opinion on, rather than on your own. If we go with that logic, then I guess Sonic 2006 must be a really excellent game, or that games like Tokyo Mirage Sessions and Xenoblade Chronicles X sucked then. Or for that matter, Super Paper Mario and Sticker Star must be better games than the Thousand Year Door. Sonic Boom: Rise of Lyric sold more than Color Splash, which I guess means it's a better game that CS.

 

Once again, genre, content, game mechanics, etc. do not magically change when you play a game. I'm not gonna continue futher if you can't understand this. This is borderline insanity what you're saying here, telling me that I've never ever known what a game is like prior to playing it even though I always have (when I actually do my research anyway), that we never knew Mario Kart 8 features anti-gravity, that Splatoon has that awesome Squid-Kid ability, that Smash has a crapton of characters, etc. I'm sorry but you have to be insane to say we didn't know that stuff prior to playing those game. 

I'm sorry, but that doesn't work in this case. Not everything can be summarized so simply like that. That would like saying Color Splash is about battling enemies, and coloring things in the world, or in Zelda, you fight monsters with your swords and go adventuring (which is a very vague comment anyways), or in RPGs, you battle monsters and gain levels. That just doesn't do the whole game justice. Games like RPGs are also about the adventure and all the lil bits you see when playing it. You're not going to get any of that without playing the game, and Color Splash too has a big interesting world filled with many excellent bits and moments that you just can't see from 1st impressions. So, again, you're not going to get it unless you play it for yourself. And, don't go youtubing or googling any of it. You'd just end up spoiling all the good parts of the game, and just doing it a disservice.