I swear, every time a new game comes out that has high expectations is released and doesn't meet the standards of the consumers dream game, they get angry and immediately label the game as a bad release.
Maybe I'm just imagining this, but it does seem to happen quite often. I think we, as gamers, have become jaded as to the quality of video games. As video games have become more popular and advanced in technology over the years people are going to start expecting more, but at the same time I think we expect too much.
For example, a popular game released awhile ago, Gears of War 2, did not meet the gaming quality of the first game. While it certainly was not as good, it was by no means a bad game. Although when it was released people were content to give it a low score. Lower than it deserves. It was almost like people expected it to BE the first game. It isn't just GOW2 either, it has happened to other franchises and individual games as well. Sometimes people treated it more harshly JUST because of the hype. (For example: Spore)
What happened to that era of 16 and 32-bit games? If we had saw something like this back then, it would AMAZE us. We have all this new-fangled 3D imagery and super strong hardware to make these epic blockbusters that are released every other month or so. What did we have back in the day? 2D platformers, clones and clones of them and we never complained. Now all we've got are FPS after FPS as the norm but along with that we have all these amazing titles like Okami, Mass Effect, Fallout 3, Left 4 Dead, Scribblenauts, Little Big Planet, etc.
We have it better now than we ever have in the past. If people continue to complain this way, we will NEVER be satisfied.
Maybe I'm just imagining this, but it does seem to happen quite often. I think we, as gamers, have become jaded as to the quality of video games. As video games have become more popular and advanced in technology over the years people are going to start expecting more, but at the same time I think we expect too much.
For example, a popular game released awhile ago, Gears of War 2, did not meet the gaming quality of the first game. While it certainly was not as good, it was by no means a bad game. Although when it was released people were content to give it a low score. Lower than it deserves. It was almost like people expected it to BE the first game. It isn't just GOW2 either, it has happened to other franchises and individual games as well. Sometimes people treated it more harshly JUST because of the hype. (For example: Spore)
What happened to that era of 16 and 32-bit games? If we had saw something like this back then, it would AMAZE us. We have all this new-fangled 3D imagery and super strong hardware to make these epic blockbusters that are released every other month or so. What did we have back in the day? 2D platformers, clones and clones of them and we never complained. Now all we've got are FPS after FPS as the norm but along with that we have all these amazing titles like Okami, Mass Effect, Fallout 3, Left 4 Dead, Scribblenauts, Little Big Planet, etc.
We have it better now than we ever have in the past. If people continue to complain this way, we will NEVER be satisfied.
