60$ or 60€ for a game with 50 or more hours of content is fine, but very few games have that and most of them don't have even half of that. On the other hand, after a year or so after the release, most games' price drops, so all you have to do is wait to buy the game you want at a more fair price. The last full priced game I bought was Super Mario Galaxy for 50€, since then I started waiting for the prices to drop before buying them. I bought MGS4 for 30€ a year after its release. And this is only for brand new games, because there's also used games with even lower prices.
Great video Tom! I'm even more curious now to try this interactive-story game. But I gotta say that I think comparing it to movies is not the best choice. I think it's more comparable to a TV mini-series, given the length of both is more similar. The LoTR trilogy has is 11hrs in its extended version, but those are 3 movies, and each one is much bigger than the average movie. A stand alone movie normally tends to have only ~2hrs, a much tighter pace and/or a more simple story. And saying it's "better" just comes across as an arrogant affirmation. Why not simply say it's a "totally different" experience than watching a movie. It can tell a story in a more interactive way, but that only works if the story is written with that purpose in mind. Stories with just one path, one specific vision and one ending, aren't better or worse and couldn't be told in this way. Certain stories are better witnessed passively and certain artistic visions can only be realized in a movie format. But it's great that we have this other medium, where new and different storytelling experiences can be realized, particularly now that it finally seems to be reaching it's full potential for that, with the tools to make extremely detailed and nuanced animations and a more than capable motion capture technology.
@CptJohnnyRico @bruno_fmenedes It's not a movie, at the very least it's an interactive story, which is completely different. And why can't there be a gaming genre called interactive story? Why do have to be so restrictive as to what is considered a game or not? It's not as if they're trying to fool anyone as to what it is. If you don't like this type of games, just don't play them. Simple, no? Peace!
Very good and thoughtful points made by David Cage. Most people, not just gamers, tend o judge things, particularly when it comes entertainment, according to their expectations or what they want (or think they want) them to be, instead of just try to appreciate them for what they are.
@gogoleafs I don't care about the score or the review of this game, but Gamespot's reviewers don't score games like that. As they've said many times (and I think it's common sense), the score doesn't start at 10 and loses points for each bad things in it. The score starts at ZERO and gains points for what it does right and the great things in it. Even if a game doesn't do anything wrong and doesn't have any thing bad or flawed in it, according to the reviewer's opinion, doesn't mean it will automatically get a 10. And a reviewer can find negative things in a game and still give a 10. Scoring a game it's not and should not be like math, you don't just add the positive and subtract the negative, you give it an overall personal grade for what was your overall experience with it, IMHO. And "9 out of 10" means the reviewer had a "Superb" time overall with it and recommends everyone with even just a passing interest on this genre to buy it!
I first thought that the 50$ price tag for this remake was very high, given the fact that The Wind Waker was released for the Gamecube over 10 years ago, and that should have an impact upon rating it. So even though I remember everything about the original game (and played it a bit recently), which I rated 9.5, I wasn't sure what score to give this updated version with timelessly beautiful HD visuals but no new content. But when I searched for a brand new copy of the original "The Wind Waker" on every online shop I could find, I only found a few and they were being sold for ~50$ or higher! So, even though I might find it an unfair price for an HD remake with no new content, the fact is that the older version isn't being sold anymore, apparently for quite some time, so this release is a great opportunity for the new generation of gamers (or others that missed out), to experience this work of art, IMHO.
For proof of what I'm saying about the rating system, just read Tom McShea's comment in this review: http://www.gamespot.com/disney-castle-of-illusion-starring-mickey-mouse/reviews/disney-castle-of-illusion-hd-review-6414005/
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