Hey to all you gamespoters out there, its jackelzx here on his second blog, its been a while coming I know. Horay it's 2010, wow the first month as past quick I must say and there's been a strong selection of games out so far this year. In todays blog I'll be typing up my thoughts on people comparing games and how I feel hows it been unfairly done in recent times and how some games get the wrong end of the stick. Very recent I will add, the release of dante's inferno as past and the reviews are in. I accept that there are great games out which will problery won't be beaten, games like the God of War series which I have heard is a good series, I'll add I've never played one before so I don't know. Back to the point of this atical is that I feel games are unfairly compared with all time greats like God of War. Dante Inferno the recent game to be compared to a great. I want to get into hack n slash games and I thought this looked intresting as it as a medevial theme to it. the first thing I hear from gamespot review was its a blanent copy of God of War.
This was disapointing to say the least, I expected this kind of atutuide from some genral gamers talking on a forums but not by a paid prosetional, the way I see see it in the games injustry today is that some games are going to use ideas from other games and adapt them into their own way. there is only so much you can do with a control pad, there are limits. So by now I would have thought that would have been accepted, but I guess I am wrong. To make a quick point I'm not trying to damage gamespot's reputaion but it was a point to strong to ignore.
Should we limit our self to one game in a genre? Should there only be God of War and Devil May Cry in the hack n slash genre. Should we only buy Call of Duty for a good shooter? This is what I hear from a lot of people now adays.
Dante's Inferno is not the only game, another game which was pointed out to me was dark sector a great game which was slated by few for being a copy of Gears of War. Why because it was a thrid person shooter which used the same cover system. Well it seemed to me this was a off put for some people, there lost if something like that irritates them, they can miss out on a good game. but part from that the games are not much alike.
While going through the dantes inforno review, God of War must have been thrown in at least three times, the conclusion I got from this review was this game is good for the first few hours but your better of getting a playstaion 3 and getting God of War. Right I first didn't feel the review was aimed at me at any part of the review, me being new to that genra with playing very little hack n slash, second I don't own a playstation 3 or played a God of War game. I own a xbox 360 and I went on to that part of the site hoping for a more personal review on the 360 side. I didn't get that. So I didn't get the in depth review I was hoping for but for someone who never played a God of War game would I enjoy it? I didn't get the answer from that review but any input from you gamespotters would be nice.
The wrong end of the stick as I pointed out earlier in this blog. What I meant by that was I felt it was treated unfairly and not giving the game a good enough chance, its going to be hard to live up to games like God of War, this reviewer and fans of the God of War didn't seem happy to welcome this game to the family from the start. This game I feel has been hit hard and unfairly judged, on a positive note genral gamers review seem to be positive. So its a game I may well invest in.
For a concluation I apologise if I dragged gamespot through some thick mud, but I was surpised with that review. I see petty, the comparing of games judging whats better, expesialy as strong as whats seen in the review of Dante's Inferno, I thinks better of in the forumsand not in professionalreviews. I've seen it a few times with games like dark sector and saints row getting some stick. hoping this petty comparing will be less seen in the future. By the way if you love a game, don't you want to games alike? Thanks for reading I may edit this blog with any critism I may resieve, I won't improve my blog if nothing bad isn't pointed out and I may edit it if I feel I missed something out. again thanks for reading.
Jackelzx
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