victor83fernandes said:
If it was something original and new like Ori, then I'd be dying to play it, but metroid is the same side scroller we already had several times, nothing too special, the one on the 3ds I didn't even finish as it got repetitive and tiring after a few hours. I never said its not a good game, never dismissed it at all. Just compared to the other games, I'd rather play the others, we need more strategy games and age of empires 4 I've been waiting for decades. Guardians of the galaxy also looks to be a great new experience, something new. Now if this was metroid prime 4 then my mind would change completely. |
You basically threw out any originality arguments when you said Metroid Prime 4 would change your mind completely. That game could be more original than Dread, but we have no way of knowing. You even talk about preferring Far Cry 6 - a sequel in one of the most derivative series of all time - to Dread. So it has nothing to do with originality. It absolutely IS a genre thing, as stated in your original post. Which is just ridiculous.
The original Ori isn't even that good of a game, nor that original of a game. A lot of its originality comes from a mechanic you don't get till very far in the game. Aside from that the most original thing about it is that its combat is worse than basically any other popular Metroidvania.
The sequel, which I have not played, has seem to split its community right down the middle between "more Ori with refinements is always better" and "more Ori with refinements doesn't equal something as magical as the originality of the first game", neither of which particularly speaks to the sequel being revolutionary.
The point of all this isn't that liking non-original games is bad. It's the opposite. Most games, even if they are new IP, are not original. And it's ok to like them.
I'm also not sure why you say "I would believe that if gamers on switch were excited for the newest Ori game, which is way more original and new than metroid", you do realize that the "newest Ori game", came out on Switch a year ago, got a 93 on Metacritic, and in general Ori is more popular (maybe not just on Switch - but that's what a lack of exclusivity does to a game, it doesn't consolidate sales) than 2D Metroid ... right?
