Leave pipe dreams to Mario
By blog on Jun. 12, 2009.
In my web wanderings, I will on occasion revisit web comics that I haven’t seen in a long time. I took a gander at VG cats, earlier today, and this comic actually hit home. It got me thinking.
Is it too much to ask for games to continue to be innovative? Is it too much to ask that when a sequel is made, it isn’t just a rehash of the same old? Is it too much to ask for complete games, not bits and pieces here and there. Is it too much to ask for good value? Is it too much to ask that, even with games that are an obvious homage to another, that it isn’t different in it’s own special way? No! It isn’t too much to ask! Gamers need to cry out their dissatisfaction with being given the same game five times over in a year with just a slight graphic style difference and a new name. I mean, why does the DS have four – probably more, actually – different games that are practically all just Bejeweled? They are even still making new ones! Squishy Tank may have an awesome name, but it is yet another iteration of the same idea… I hope they put their own spin on it to make it great. As with Henry Hatsworth, they included the visual matching puzzle element, but along side a rather difficult at times platformer… See, innovation!
The Sims 3 is another one that has sorely disappointed, and why? Because a big greedy company by the name of EA got their big greedy mitts all over it and instead of bringing us a real sequel, they brought us what feels disturbingly like a personality based expansion pack, except now you have less than a tenth of the content you had for Sims 2, and they expect you to sink more money into it just to get what you should have gotten with the initial release!!! By the way, I hate you EA.
Occasionally you come across games that make you breath a sigh of relief. Ahh, my beloved gaming hasn’t been entirely usurped by companies just out for money. Ahh, there are still wonderful, compelling, unique games being brought to us.
Category: Technology