[QUOTE="dovberg"]
Games being familiar IMO is NOT a good reason to lower the score because almost every game out there fits into one genre or another that...feals familiar. I think what they need to express(especially with CoD) is "This game is boring". I think people need to start to admit that when a game has another title that is virtually identical every year that the game really isn't bad but within the context of playing ALL the titles before it that the game IS boring.
The parts I liked in Uncharted 3 are the parts that were familiar, the part I didn't was what was NOT familiar(the melee system).
nameless12345
Then why does Zelda gets points lost for "feeling too familiar" while games like Modern Warfare 3 do not although they really are carbon copys of their predecessors? Does not compute.
Modern Warfare 3 feels like a rehash of a game from 2007. The complaint about Skyward Sword is that it feels like a rehash of a game from 1997, 10 years earlier. That extra 10 years = 1 point, I suppose? :PSeriously though, some people may think GS's score are harsh, but they cut away the hype and get right down to the core: how does the game stack up? No matter what the reason, when a Zelda game gets less than a 9.0 Nintendo fans are going to get angry at the reviewer, because their love of the franchise is already factored into their opinion of the game before they even have a chance to play it. I have not played SS yet, but the complaints in the review sounded legitimate. I've long said that Nintendo needs to update the Zelda formula in a big way, because it's been 14 years since Ocarina of Time and we are still on pretty much the same formula. Go to dungeon, find generic keys, get treasure, use treasure to finish dungeon, get trinket representing progress, repeat. We still haven't even gotten away from the archaic Z-targeting system!
The games keep getting easier with each installment too, which makes me question why Nintendo put such a big emphasis on all the new combat techniques and equipment upgrades. And if those new techniques don't work the way they are supposed to, then that's a serious issue. If the game is already easy, then the prospect of having new ways to tackle it isn't really that exciting. The last Zelda game that truly gave me a challenge was Wind Waker, and even that game was a bit of a downgrade from Majora's Mask in terms of challenge. These are valid concerns, and personally I admire Gamespot for actually taking them into account with their final score instead of just saying "We're going to give the game a 9, even though it has some pretty big problems."
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