JWeinCom said:
Xxain said:
You didn't have to seriously answer the Sonic Heroes question. I was just surprised you mentioned Sonic Heroes because if you exclude Sonic 06 (that game is just not finished) Heroes is the most jankiest Sonic game in existence. This is beside my point though. I am not saying that game itself would be fine in the early 2000's but the concept of it. It's a mascot platformer! Outside of the ones who survived the 90's into this era; who does this anymore? If all problems the we discussed in this thread were eliminated I would still think it is subpar. Balan Wonderland is like going back to playing 3rd person shooters before we adopted the over the shoulder perspective. We left those behind long ago. anonymunchy said:
Why on earth would you buy it day 1 but play it much later? I've not played the demo yet, have seen a lot of footage from popular youtube channels. It looks horrendous, everything about it. I never liked the look of it but it somehow ended up even worse than I expected. Don't think I'll be giving the demo a try, just doesn't look worth the time, at all. |
Funny enough I am not disappointed because on first gameplay reveal I knew exactly how this game would turn out. While I'm not excited at all for this I still want to play it ...... waaay in the future. |
The concept of a 3D platformer is still fine. There's a decent amount of them being produced in established series (Mario, Crash, Sonic) as well as some newer ones like Hat in Time, Snakepass, Super Lucky's Tale, Yooka Laylee, or Tearaway. Nobody just automatically says "3D platformer! BEGONE FILTH!" If the demo was any good people would want to buy it. |
I'm connecting with you.
3D platformers fell off a rock for awhile and only the established ones survived. We now are having resurgence of them, but the ones today are not like the ones that died off in past. Balan Wonderland has the design of yesterdays 3D platformers and todays. It does not feel like a modern game in bad way.
Enough of this though because ultimately the main point is shared by everybody. BW is a bust
