[quote name='j-cart']The truth is out. Then your review system is flawed in the sense of rating it either good or bad. Like I said, we play games for the enjoyment. If you do not enjoy the game, then try to find out why others enjoyed it, but never berated them for enjoying something (not saying you did).
People said they had rage tantrums playing Demon's Souls, I maybe died 10 times my first play through. It never felt hard to me ever until you get into New Game++. Also grinding early on in word 3-1 was a helped to get through world 2. Speed kills in DS. I did get the Old King Sword very early on the game, used the dragon bone smasher to keep the Old King at bay.
I could go on about the game. It was truly a unique game that deserves its praise for quality, atmosphere, music and gameplay. The disc is only a portal to a long journey. Sadly all my awesome characters have disappeared to a freak ylod accident. It torments me to even try to go back to the game.
As for critical writing, it is a subject game. The ones that become successful at it are able to critically compare why they lacked enjoyment or loved every moment. Though I honestly believe game reviews should be compared to their counter part (best game of that genre).
Unlike movies where you just consume, video games requires us to progress based on our skill to overcome. A game should allow you to grow metaphorically and physically (ie character and your abilities to play the game) which will translate into experiences that you cannot recreate (MP socom 1v4 last round type situations or Portal type of puzzles). The experience of accomplishment should always be rewarded.
Every victory in Demon's Souls is a rewarding accomplishment. Best example for me was beating the game the first time and the being invaded by black souls one after another, while I still had over 1 million souls. It was amazing I came out alive against three black souls (player invader). That made the game for me from awesome to
ING AWESOME.[/QUOTE] What truth is out? I never said the review system wasn't flawed. I can understand why others enjoyed it, I did not however and think that the difficulty (and as Icebeezy said, the murkiness of some of the game) is horseshit. The game is hard just to be hard.
I completely understand critical writing and what it takes to be good at it. As I said in my last post, my initial review is
ing massive but I had to cut it down, not just because of the length but because my editor said that I got into a lot of things that just did not belong in this short type of review (the comparisons and in-depth analysis of what I thought it did wrong).
As it says in the last sentence of my original review, I can completely understand why someone would like it, but that someone is not me and I can see what the game does wrong from a design standpoint. I talked about what the game did wrong in my eyes. It was my call on what to give the game and I gave the game my honest score. It was a bad way to spend my time.
I don't understand why any of this is such a big deal.
[quote name='Chacrana']While I don't want to dismiss j-cart's actually quite reasonable post, I think we've strayed from the point that
JOEL. YOU NEED TO DUMP THIS BITCH TONIGHT.
Though once you do that, you should go back and read j-cart's post, as I agree with his sentiment on just about everything.[/QUOTE]
I'm not dumping her, Chaccy-baby.
at all the DS bitching.
