Well sure. But we were just talking about realism, and then this game that eats realism for breakfast comes along and wins E3. Is this an isolated incident, or are we going to see more games like this? I'm curious to see if any of you have related thoughts on this.
Yeah. Someone invents a great idea for games, and it sells well. A billion other cash-crazy developers get on the bandwagon and make their own imitation of said idea into their games. Then the idea becomes overused, and people ditch it...Happened before with brain games. Nintendo made Brain Age, and suddenly.... Pet games too. Nintendo made Nintendogs, and then Ubisoft went and ruined the genre with Catz, Dogz, Horsez, Babyz and hell knows what else ends with 'z'. The Wii itself. So much shovelware, minigame collections and poorly made games desperately trying to make a quick buck because Nintendo pioneered the innovation.
This may be a great idea, but I sure hope it doesn't turn into a quick fad that dies out. It should remain a great idea. Maybe a sequel or three, and that's what I want to see.
johnny: Freaking buy ALL of them. There's just too many great DS games to not buy. Scribblenauts 'won' E3? That's the first I've heard of it.
Anyway, I'm just sick of generic games. For a long time, it was important to improve graphics because the graphics we had could clearly use improvement. We still had a long way to go. But these days, now that games have extremely detailed graphics to the point where you can easily identify a person or any item and people can even look god damn real, we may be experiencing a switch. With the advent of the Wii, DS and its followers, we see a switch to new types of gameplay as opposed to unnecessary graphical improvements. I hope so, anyway.
One of the biggest draws of realistic games is the sheer SCALE. And this game has massive scale. I think it'll be often copied, never equalled - one quirky game that'll go down in history as freakin' awesome.