jalsonmi said:
I think a lot of the complaining was more because OoT was unseated by a game that wasn't really revolutionary--people felt that GTAIV was just an update of an establised formula and besides that, had technical glitches and gameplay issues. As such, it shouldn't be the best reviewed game ever. LBP, however, does look revolutionary and different, and is a tpye of experience that only recently could have been created. A game where levels, characters and even objectives can be molded however you feel is so far beyond any previous level editor or Sim City style building tool that is might as well be a completely new experience. If LBP is able to work as well as it should work it might be deserving of the Best Reviewed Game Ever mantle, and probably wouldn't be the subject of nearly the same amount of uproar as GTAIV. When a game does that much and is so new in it's style, most people, I think, will realize sometimes you just have to tip your hat to a deserving champ. Of course, as I said, it is way too early, and it might not have as much to it as it seems to have, and may just be a great game and not amazing. Still, the potential is there for so much more. I guess we'll see. |
I think we can all agree that GTAIV doesn't deserve to even be in the top 10 games of all time list. There were so many flaws I was starting to wonder if I'd gotten the right game. Now, before you call me a flamer, I'll concede that I was playing it on a very old TV and couldn't drool at the apparently marvelous production values. But the flaws, there were SO many of them, and not just small nit-picky ones, I'm talking about core gameplay mechanics. Where is the difficulty? Where is the driving AI? Where is the variety in missions? Where are the save points? But the worst part is the sluggish character movements, from getting tapped by a car moving at one mile an hour to the lousy cover system. None of these problems, however, compare to the absolutely laughable melee system. In melee mode, your maximum speed takes you about five seconds to approach a guy backing up, and if he has a gun, you can say your prayers. Even then, there's only a fifty percent chance that the melee attack will land. I know I'm getting way off topic here, but my point is that GTAIV's high high scores (which utterly disgust me) come from a huge amount of hype, and reviewers being afraid to give such a revered artifact anything other than a ten (this happened with Halo 3 as well, but that game had enough obvious flaws not to be significant). If a game is to be the highest-rated of all time, it must be virtually flawless AND well-hyped, as was the case with OOT. LBP, on the other hand, may or may not have at least one if not several flaws, and it's already clear that the media attention on LBP is crap compared to that of GTAIV. It won't diminish the greatness of LBP in any way, but the game isn't heralded as a piece of Martian rock, and thus, reviewers won't be afraid to find the little problems that show up in almost all games.
