SmashLovesTitanQuest said:
NuclearShadow said:
I have to question if the reviewer actually played it back when this game was taking our money away one quarter at a time. (or in my case Chuckie Cheese tokens) The game is a classic and it lives up to the admiration. It was so fun playing with others, it was both challenging and entertaining and of course the Simpsons were much bigger back then. The fact that he would complain that the game is only about 40 mins long is a joke, how long would you want a true arcade game to be? That is pretty long for a real arcade game. He clearly has no care of this factor and tries to review it as a modern day console game, which it is not.
The thing is, its no longer an arcade game. Its now being played on a console. And for a console game, it sucks.
I dont see the problem with the score.
Aye, I have to second that.
What a lot of people seem to forget or outright ignore is the fact that the tech has changed significantly in the last twenty years. One problem is we're meanwhile used to much 'better' graphics, but a good game will remain to be a good game as long as it was released on the good side of the 1990 border. Another problem that really annoys me personally is that the clunky old and obsolete CRT displays were part of the deal, it was how we saw things, and it was how people developed things. Playing The Simpsons on a modern console and, more importantly, a modern TV, sucks hairy moose ass because publishers tend not to include the essential, but cheap little gimmick of emulated scan lines. It's those scan lines that make the graphics look like yesteryear, and they really are essential for anything ranging from the C=64 to the Neo Geo. This lack of attention is only topped with how they handle retro games on, say, iOS - poor controls, unnecessary updates and idiotic use of screen real estate make these games unplayable and no fun at all.
The only ones so far that did an excellent job with bringing an old title into the space age were the folks that handled the Monkey Islands for iOS - not everything needs updated and improved graphics, mind you, but the sheer elegance of it is a milestone that was mostly ignored by everyone else in the business. Quite a shame, that.
