To quote a quote from the article:
"Our newest game has been enhanced with many new features, and according to many specialists it’s one of the best looking games on Xbox 360 ever.”
Don't just read the headline and make assumptions without reading the article.
Sweet nectar. There are 3 or 4 point-and-click adventure game articles within the first two pages today.
Bring on the point-and-click renaissance!
I guess it's not a bad list, but I just can't get behind a point-and-click list without The Secret of Monkey Island or The Longest Journey.
Yeah, I gotta admit, the ending was pretty bad. In fact, I don't think there would have been nearly as big a critical backlash as there was if it wasn't for that ending.
May have to import this. What a great game.
I didn't mean to sound that hostile, really. And I don't see how I was insulting Japanese games.
You made a broad generalization about Western games (and Japanese games, for that matter), and generalizations are reductive and ridiculous. That's all I was saying.
That's ridiculous. We have our tropes ("realistic" shooters) just like Japan has there's (generic anime-ization). A broad generalization cannot even come close to summing up what either region has brought to the gaming table over the years.
It's literally just a cultural bias. The West is sometimes guilty of the same thing, but Japan is notorious for it's ethnocentrism. And I say this with the utmost respect for the culture, honestly. There's really nothing that can be done to change it because they've created such a tight cultural bubble over there.
So we have:
Unabashed WoW clones with less content and an unestablished community
vs.
WoW, the most content filled, polished, communally accepted MMO ever created.
Yes, we have quite a mystery on our hands.
I actually liked the world and characters and art style quite a bit. It's a nice change of pace from the drab environments and more sterile characters from the other two big WRPG camps (although don't get me wrong, I love all those games too).
I even lol'ed at that fateweaver dude who was apparently drunk the whole time he was talking to me.
February 22nd? Unless there's been a delay that no one else has heard about, the game is coming out in the US and Europe on the 7th and 10th respectively, isn't it?
I don't want the game to fail, but it's hard to get excited for a sequel to a game that I really did not enjoy playing through.
I mean, they can "fix" a few things here and there, and that's all well and good, but they would have to fundamentally alter the battle system, characters and storytelling for me to get excited...which pretty much means it would have to be a completely new game. And if the demo is any indication, they really didn't do as muc...
I don't know how to make people understand. First of all, I don't think people are getting nearly as "outraged" over this as many of you think. Mostly I think the detractors just think it's stupid and immature....because it IS stupid and immature.
It's not offensive in the sense that we're puritanical and we don't like seeing the boobies. I like seeing the boobies. I like seeing the boobies very much.
It's offensive in t...
Everything in this article is pretty accurate. I still enjoyed the game quite a bit, but I gotta admit, the Zelda "magic" is really starting to fade for me. The hand-holding in particular borderline ruined the game as far as I'm concerned.
And what's most frustrating is that it's not even a matter of Nintendo getting with the times. There have been unobtrusive ways of presenting information and teaching players to play since nearly the dawn of gaming. It...
After sifting through all the journalistic hyperbole it probably falls somewhere in the middle (like most things). Not quite a modern classic, but definitely not a victim of the hype train.
Back in MY day, my father would beat me every time I lost a life in the game. And I had to walk barefoot through the snow just to get to the arcade.
Those were the days, you guys.
Crap. I hope Darksiders 2 isn't affected.
@Drake117
I'm not going to lie. Elder Scrolls has never really had the most compelling combat around. But I totally agree with you.
The series does so many other things better than any other game out there that it belies all these ridiculous and superficial comparisons people like to draw.
There are things Dark Souls does really well, there are things that Skyrim does really well, and I'm sure there are things KoA will do really well ...
I fapped three times to it just now.
I'm abstaining from playing the mod. A lot of people have really been talking this game up. Sounds like it's going to be one of the great indie game releases of the year.