21st May 2010, 3:12 PM
(This post was last modified: 21st May 2010, 3:24 PM by Dark Jaguar.)
http://arstechnica.com/gaming/reviews/20...friday.ars
It's saying something when a reviewer thinks the game is so good it's like an insult to other platform makers. I think ALL games should be designed to insult other developers. Us gamers would benefit like a bandit.
The thing all the reviews have in common is noting how the game is constantly tossing you new gameplay mechanics to master. Well, I do love that, but let's not forget that this USED to be much more common. Super Mario Bros. 3 did the same thing, what with one second you're bouncing on weird flying red beetles that ONL?Y appear on that stage while it auto scrolls, and in another you're jumping over bricks that sometimes come to life, and woah now you're in a shoe, A SHOE, and you'll be there for THIS LEVEL only! I think that's the sort of thing that defines a "timeless game", one where the game doesn't focus on just one player based gimic, but dozens of level-based gimics constantly tossed at you through the whole game.
It's saying something when a reviewer thinks the game is so good it's like an insult to other platform makers. I think ALL games should be designed to insult other developers. Us gamers would benefit like a bandit.
The thing all the reviews have in common is noting how the game is constantly tossing you new gameplay mechanics to master. Well, I do love that, but let's not forget that this USED to be much more common. Super Mario Bros. 3 did the same thing, what with one second you're bouncing on weird flying red beetles that ONL?Y appear on that stage while it auto scrolls, and in another you're jumping over bricks that sometimes come to life, and woah now you're in a shoe, A SHOE, and you'll be there for THIS LEVEL only! I think that's the sort of thing that defines a "timeless game", one where the game doesn't focus on just one player based gimic, but dozens of level-based gimics constantly tossed at you through the whole game.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)