[QUOTE="excelR83"][QUOTE="Dreams-Visions"]LBP was the only controversial game on that list.
It could sink or swim. I think it'll swim, but it won't be for everyone in the same way Oblivion isn't for everyone. They raise some fair concerns. But I think the game will overcome those issues. We hope.
Dreams-Visions
This is the game I am most confident in. It's the only one coming out in the past year or the coming year that I would make a real wager on being AAA across the board at pretty much every publication out there.
I highly doubt it will sink. I think it will take maybe a week before the first user-created level comes out that just blows everyones minds and shows what the game, with its users, is capable of. I mean the game can be just about whatever you want. I really can't wait to see what people come up with. I can't wait to make my own real level, I am sure it will be a constantly evolving process... you see what someone else created, incorporate that into your level. If this game does well it will restore a lot of my faith in the industry.
I'm also pretty confident in it. But I'm not confident in whether I will love it or not. I was confident in Oblivion too. And it delivered. But I didn't deliver for me. If that makes sense.
It makes perfect sense. Particularly with Oblivion. I loved it, but I can see how it would be polarizing. Though I had an amazing time playing it and look back on it fondly, I have trouble explaining what exactly I liked about it. The graphics were nice, but the framerate sucked and the pop-in made exploring outside the cities a disaster, not that the areas outside the city were populated by anything but the odd out of place wolf or monster anyway. Combat is archaic and clumsy compared to most games with a combat system of any kind. First person view sucked for melee, but third person view didn't work well either because you still needed to use your cross hairs to do any damage and blocking was tougher since depth perception was affected. The "main quest" features THE SAME DAMN LEVEL 9 TIMES OVER!!!!!!!!!!!111 which is just unbelievable. I got so sick of them after the third or fourth time I put the difficulty on the lowest setting and just ran through it all to the end. There are only a few interior designs of houses, caves, dungeons... seen one, seen em all. The loading times also suck when you move from a street to a house or something. Totally takes you out of the game, GTAIV really makes it look sad as an open world game when you factor the loads in. The levelling system was a horrible joke, I didn't know that I should select skills I don't use as my main skill to keep me from levelling too much, so I ended up with a really unbalanced character. The conversation game (coercing people or whatever, getting your rep up with them) turned into just me clicking through as fast as I could based on the size of the "pie" beside the option.
Even with all those faults though, I loved being inside that world because when it worked, it really worked. Some of the missions were just awesome, especially the Dark Brotherhood stuff. I think the DB quest line was better than the rest of the game. Dropping that moose head on a dude, going back to the jail cell that starts the game for a rendezvous with your nasty neighbor across the hall? That "game" that traps you in a house with 5 people in a sort of Clue-ish assassination mini-game? Awesome. The mission with the burning church? Epic.
The game is highly uneven, but it has so much content that it manages to hit a lot of the right notes, and it is a game I will never trade in.
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