hydrolythe said:
Ima Lemming said:
I got into a row [http://www.codiekitty.com/MOREC/misc3.htm] with an indie developer who released their terrible game (which also included plagiarism in the form of doctored sprites from Final Fantasy IV and Chrono Trigger, and a line pinched from Yahtzee's Witcher review) on actual Sega Genesis cartridges instead of a more mainstream outlet (though a port of it has been Greenlit).
Still, those guys should be counting their lucky stars that they've managed to stay far enough under the radar enough that they're answering to a nobody like me and not somebody like Jim Sterling.
Yeah, though I hear most reviewers actually liked the game. I have seen why you do not (and perhaps you would compare it to this http://www.lemon64.com/?mainurl=http%3A//www.lemon64.com/games/details.php%3FID%3D3135 ) and like you for it, though I still wonder what you have to say to the more mainstream critics that like it though, mainly as they have more influence on the general gaming community than you.
I have found two [http://rpgfan.com/reviews/Pier_Solar_and_the_Great_Architects/index.html] other [http://www.1up.com/do/blogEntry?bId=9117291] reviewers at major game sites who disliked it, though not nearly as much as I did. Granted, one of them spent his entire review complaining about it and still gave it a 69%.
As for why just about every other review of the game is positive, imagine if Twilight had been marketed in such a way that only teenage girls heard about it. Or if Muxwell had only made Earth: Year 2066 available to his friends.
Pier Solar is Genesis fanboy porn; the people it was catered to didn't care that there were only two enemy formations a dungeon, or that the story was made by ripping stuff from other 16-bit RPGs then stitching it all together with cliche, or that the developers stuck a line from an avid hater of JRPGs
into a JRPG, they just wanted to see the Genesis pull off Mode 7.
I haven't played Zak McKracken, but since the developers never marketed their game by dredging up an embarrassing 20-year-old console war, nor insulted the competition while ripping it off, nor asked their friends at a major computer gaming website to nuke a poll because people were "trolling" it by giving the game low scores, I'm inclined to think any flaws it had were the result of developers who were just misguided instead of arrogant.