Electro UK
Can't all be for nothing
- Joined
- Dec 11, 2004
- Messages
- 14,285
- Reaction score
- 1
- Points
- 58
A game (or anything else for that matter) can't become a "cult classic" overnight. We won't know which games of this generation are "classics" of any kind until we move beyond it, gain some perspective, and look back at it objectively.
That's a good point to be fair. You win this round.
And I think those people are totally crazy.
It's definitely on my top 10
Absolutely. They "lost" the last two generations, and they turned it around and handily put themselves back on top with the Wii.
Financially, sure, that's obvious. The Wii is the biggest joke of a system around though. It's had its greats, but that's about it. It's a terrible system that hit a drought straight out of the gate and then had a bone tossed every 4 - 6 months. In the context of Resident Evil 4 (taking a near-stale franchise and turning it on it's head to become one of the biggest games on the planet), no Nintendo doesn't count. It's not about financial success; Nintendo really let a lot of people down this generation.
Why not? It probably sold more than all Uncharted and Mass Effect games combined. That's not a hit? I guess we need to define what we're talking about here. Are we talking about "hits"? Are we talking about Metacritic ratings? Or are we talking about "games Electro UK likes a lot".
We're talking about the kind of games that will leave a lasting impact on how developers see and make games in the future. Black Ops was clearly not one of those games, mostly because it's already a result of Modern Warfare 1, which is another game I'd include.
So a game is only a "hit" if it can be considered by you to be in the running for the "best game of all time"?
By the way, the "best game of all time" label is, in itself, a really dumb idea. (No offense.) What metric are we using? Sales? Review scores? Influence on the industry? How many people wax nostalgic about it on message boards?
Some games are so wildly different, that it's impossible to compare them. How are you going to say something like, "Final Fantasy VI is better than Red Dead Redemption, but not as good as Tetris." I mean, can you see the lunacy of that statement? Those three games are so deeply, fundamentally different that I don't see how anyone could say that one is better than the other, let alone compare them in any meaningful way.
That's another discussion entirely. I'm not saying I disagree with you at all, I'm just saying there aren't many games this generation that I've played getting the feeling that it will go down as one of the greats. It's an opinion and that's how it is, you don't need to challenge it at every turn. It's just how I feel about this generation looking back (so far).
Bleurghgh
Last edited: