lol i remember somebody telling me when rogue galaxy came out.. "this is it man.. after this i might have to put my ps2 into storage" and now theres persona 3.. :D
its not like i wont get bioshock in the future.. i will eventually..
just cuz i am not hyped abt it doesnt make me less of a gamer. it just goes to say i prefer other genres over fps now. gamings already broad enuf.. just cuz u think bioshocks the center of the world for u right now doesnt mean everybodys center of the worlsd is bioshock lol.
Backtracking is okay if its inclusion is fundamental to the design of the game and isn't used to bloat the play time past the point of being fresh simply to make a bullet point for how long it is.
The problem is that backtracking is usually implemented to bloat game length and ends up hurting an otherwise enjoyable game. Metroid Prime 2 was a real victim of this. They had you go on this stupid fetch quest for nine items at the end of the game that made you traverse the entire game area over and over again.
Backtracking is commonly used as bloat instead of fundamental design, and that's why backtracking has gotten a bad rap.
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