| DonFerrari said: I'm done with you. Go stuff your chest and boast of how much you won with your incredible logic and that I was shivering all the way home |
I really wouldn't be talking, Don. I've been watching this thread and you've done nothing to say why this game is not worth $60. All you've done is say it's not for you under the guise of faux objectivity.
You don't personally feel that this game is worth full price, and that's fine. Clearly, others do. If this game wasn't worth $60 in the eyes of those who it was made for, then it wouldn't be getting great review scores and selling out everywhere. That really should be the end of the discussion, but you've spend thousands upon thousands of words arguing without much in terms of substance. Your fingers are flying but you're not saying anything of value.
I'm not even halfway through this game and I've already spent more time on it than games with AAA budgets. I've enjoyed this more than any Call of Duty, Uncharted, The Last of Us, or Assassin's Creed game and those all have close to phototrealistic graphics, huge action set pieces, and other top not production values. Graphics do not make a game. Giving this game the graphics of FFXV would not make it a better game, and it wouldn't even make it a prettier game.
This game is stylized. Wind Waker is stylized, too. So was Okami. Are those games of less value, too? Is wind Waker an inherently worse game than twilight princess because Twilight Princess gave us a link with more detail? Is okami worse than Call of Duty Ghosts becuase the canine in Call of Duty had individual strands of hair animated? No. Not at all. By giving us stylized visuals that are retro-HD like this, that cleaned up much of the budget for the diverse solutions to problems, the vast world, the intricately written narrative, and the voice acting. As a true gamer, I'd happily slash the budget for visuals in order to put more time and effort into those other categories.
And no, don't bother using argumentum ad absurdum (Exaggerating my claim to absurd levels to disprove me) by saying that you could make a game black and white or atari-simple and still have it be engaging. (Although, FNAF and Undertale might want to have a word with you.) The point is simply that Graphics are not and definitely should not be a primary concern when determining the value of a video game.
And if you don't like turn based battles or random encounters, well, that's just, like, your opinion, man. I don't like a lot of things in modern video games, it doesn't make those genres bad.
Why am I still arguing here? This place is a cesspit of faulty logic and aggressively entitled gamers. Peace out. HAve fun hating, I'll be too busy smiling from ear to ear as I play Octopath Traveler for the next month of my life.
