I need a new game
By blog on Apr. 15, 2009.
After playing Mount & Blade for a while, and then having my sixty odd Swadian Knights decimated by a stupidly large opposing force, I am not feeling as enchanted with the game right now. I want a new game. I don’t know specifically what I want, I just know that I want a new game. I headed on over to IGN before to see what was new and looked good. I am rather picky about what games I will actually put money into, and if it scored less than 8.0 at IGN there is absolutely no way I am getting it. A few things popped out at me. Ceville, Braid, and because I didn’t get it when it first came out, Spore.
Ceville is a point-and-click adventure in much the same style as Monkey Island. I really enjoyed Monkey Island when I played that years ago, and the review of Ceville had a lot of good praise for it. The only downside to this genre of game, in my opinion, is that it can fail to be as immersive as other games. You are more removed, there is, in a way, less required of the gamer in order to progress through the game. I mean sure, you need to work your bonce in order to solve the puzzles, but there is less hand-eye skill required, as in poor reflexes aren’t an issue. And that is all well and good for this genre, but perhaps I find that it can have you a little removed from what is going on. Of course, I could just be talking from the wrong end, as I thoroughly enjoyed Professor Layton and the Curious Village, but I feel belligerent today so I am going with it.
Another game that got a good score, but I probably won’t get, is Braid. Sure it looks like a groovy old platformer, but short games irritate me. I hate paying full price for a game that lasts under twenty hours. This is why I play RPGs. Something that Braid has going for it is it’s challenging difficulty. The last thing you want when you play a game is a cake walk, it makes the achievement of finishing the game feel so anticlimactic. I also like the fact that it is it’s own game, not overly like anything else out at the moment. That is refreshing.
Then there is Spore. I probably won’t get this one either. But then again, looking over the closing comments on IGN, maybe I will. I don’t know, probably not. It looks good, and got a great score. This was one of those games that was in development for years, and in a way that turns me off a game. Now, if a game is in development for years, and still comes out on the day they say it will, then booyah for them and I am all for it. A game that says it will be out by the end of the year, and then doesn’t appear for another two years… well that has got to be one hell of a game to get me to buy it at this point. I also don’t like all my games being online, I don’t want to have to interact with others in the majority of my games. One MMO is about all I can handle, really.
So as for a new game… I still don’t know.
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