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Garcian Smith on 24 June 2008
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mrstickball said:
Garcian Smith said:
It's getting bad reviews across the board, it seems. Ah well; guess we'll have to wait for a good offering from Atlus.

@tombi123: And PS3 fanboys listed Lair as a "AAA game" prior to its being released. Seems like the count's down for fanboys across the board. =P

 

I don't think anyone has ever kidded themselves about Operation: Darkness in terms of how awesome it was going to be. It's like EDF2017 - far from perfect, but is great if you like the genre.

Good example of the hate for certain genres (which are very similar to O:D):

http://www.gamerankings.com/htmlpages2/924947.asp?q=dai%20senryaku

IGN gave Dai Senryaku 7 for PS2 (the budget version with all kinds of new addons), a 4.3.

 

Dai Senryaku 7 was one of the BEST tile-based strategy games out there. It's old school, but it's robust, tons of strategy/depth, fun, and customizable (a rarity for console strategy games)....Yet IGN blasted it at 4.3

True, true. You could also mention how every good Rogue-like released in the last decade has received awful reviews from nearly every website. I guess there's just some genres that reviewers hate.

 



"'Casual games' are something the 'Game Industry' invented to explain away the Wii success instead of actually listening or looking at what Nintendo did. There is no 'casual strategy' from Nintendo. 'Accessible strategy', yes, but ‘casual gamers’ is just the 'Game Industry''s polite way of saying what they feel: 'retarded gamers'."

 -Sean Malstrom