Hi. I normally go by the handle Remy77077 online. I write a gaming-related blog at: http://agoners.wordpress.com that focuses on a competitive challenge-seeker style of gaming.
If you play videogames for the actual game, skill tests, or the puzzles, then I'd argue the vast majority of "level up" systems are bad design. Here's why...
Yeah as Clinton just said, this problem is fairly widespread. In particular I remember I had the same problem with Ninja Gaiden 1 and 2 - the boss battles I enjoyed were the ones where I could fight normally - although these were mostly the same ones that most people ...
If your main driver for playing single-player videogames which are not, as you very astutely pointed out traditional games at all is for the experience, the story, or 'playing with the toy' then I can see this works. However those who play it for the challenge of beating the 'puzzle' ...
Yeah this is an amusing article and especially ironic headline given the series has been stale and stagnant for well over a decade. For fresh football games look no further than Backbreaker, or the 2k series in recent history.
I agree with all of this, however there's an even bigger problem for me. I believe video games reviews are like asking the same person to comparatively review chess, soccer, F1 race driving, and monopoly all on the same scale... as well as at the same time also reviewing lego ...
I agree with the premise, but for me the Resident Evil series went in a different direction as early as RE2 It was already far too easy to shoot my way through everything.
I have to say I agree with this 100 and is one of the best articles I've found in gamasutra in some time - and it perfectly fits with my niche of interest. I agree completely that multiplayer tends to be actual games in the normal sense. I wrote this ...
