Like, seriously.
I'm tired of people always making the same bullshit complaint that a game sucks because it's a "rehash," or whatever.
To my ears, this complaint always sounds the same: "This game has similarities to a previous game, and therefore is devoid of any and all redeeming qualities whatsoever!"
I honestly believe that the demand for constant "innovation" is killing gaming.
Because of it, people are showing hatred for games that deserve nothing but love. Certain genres are now all but extinct because people abandoned them. 3D platformers have been nearly nonexistent since the N64/PS1 era, and turn-based RPG games have been eschewed in favor of action and strategy RPGs, which are so fundamentally different that I honestly don't think they should be called RPGs at all.
So what if Modern Warfare 3 is the same as the other 2? That doesn't make it any less fun, does it? So what if the new Assassin's Creed adds nothing new to the core gameplay aside from minor tweaks? Shouldn't the fact that you're playing a different set of levels than before make it an entirely new experience? And now people are saying that Skyward Sword is a bad game because it's so similar to the previous games, which is odd because, last time I checked, Ocarina of Time was the most highly-praised game of all time. Seriously, people are saying that Zelda is a bad game? What the hell is this world coming to?
I'm tired of people always making the same bullshit complaint that a game sucks because it's a "rehash," or whatever.
To my ears, this complaint always sounds the same: "This game has similarities to a previous game, and therefore is devoid of any and all redeeming qualities whatsoever!"
I honestly believe that the demand for constant "innovation" is killing gaming.
Because of it, people are showing hatred for games that deserve nothing but love. Certain genres are now all but extinct because people abandoned them. 3D platformers have been nearly nonexistent since the N64/PS1 era, and turn-based RPG games have been eschewed in favor of action and strategy RPGs, which are so fundamentally different that I honestly don't think they should be called RPGs at all.
So what if Modern Warfare 3 is the same as the other 2? That doesn't make it any less fun, does it? So what if the new Assassin's Creed adds nothing new to the core gameplay aside from minor tweaks? Shouldn't the fact that you're playing a different set of levels than before make it an entirely new experience? And now people are saying that Skyward Sword is a bad game because it's so similar to the previous games, which is odd because, last time I checked, Ocarina of Time was the most highly-praised game of all time. Seriously, people are saying that Zelda is a bad game? What the hell is this world coming to?
