02-06-2013, 09:16 AM
When is the last time you played a game and honestly thought, "oh boy, whats gonna happen next? I don't even know, I'm so excited!"
It's been a long time for me, certainly no games after the GameCube could give me that feeling. Whether the games are well made anymore
is irrelevant, they are all made with the same ideas and structures that I've already played.
Take the Zelda franchise as an example. In link's awakening, which was my first actual Zelda game (I'd played the first two for the nes before that,
but never seriously) Aside from the fact that it had similar characters and items, it was it's own unique experience, and you couldn't look back to the
previous titles for guidance. When you hit a hard puzzle, and you would eventually, you couldn't think back to the last games to help you with the
answer. That isn't so with the later titles simply because pretty much all of the game and design mechanics have been recycled and rehashed into
every Zelda following LA.
I'm not saying that every Zelda after LA is bad, I'm saying that aside from minor plot and setting changes, the formula hasn't expanded at all,
and I haven't had the feeling that I was experiencing anything truly new.
Anyone can rave about how Nintendo is the ultimate, and I'll admit I've been guilty of it in the past my self, but this was like in middle school, when
there was still a console war, and people were picking sides. It just so happened that my first games had plumbers in them aside from Hedgehogs.
What It all boils down to is new ideas, and while Nintendo has been "innovative" they haven't made anything I haven't seen before in
well over a decade.
It's been a long time for me, certainly no games after the GameCube could give me that feeling. Whether the games are well made anymore
is irrelevant, they are all made with the same ideas and structures that I've already played.
Take the Zelda franchise as an example. In link's awakening, which was my first actual Zelda game (I'd played the first two for the nes before that,
but never seriously) Aside from the fact that it had similar characters and items, it was it's own unique experience, and you couldn't look back to the
previous titles for guidance. When you hit a hard puzzle, and you would eventually, you couldn't think back to the last games to help you with the
answer. That isn't so with the later titles simply because pretty much all of the game and design mechanics have been recycled and rehashed into
every Zelda following LA.
I'm not saying that every Zelda after LA is bad, I'm saying that aside from minor plot and setting changes, the formula hasn't expanded at all,
and I haven't had the feeling that I was experiencing anything truly new.
Anyone can rave about how Nintendo is the ultimate, and I'll admit I've been guilty of it in the past my self, but this was like in middle school, when
there was still a console war, and people were picking sides. It just so happened that my first games had plumbers in them aside from Hedgehogs.
What It all boils down to is new ideas, and while Nintendo has been "innovative" they haven't made anything I haven't seen before in
well over a decade.
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