Poll: Quality or originality

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Ciarang

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A random person said:
Just look at Nanoha as the glorious magical girl/super robot hybrid it is.
I am so going to watch that anime now.

OT: Quality, because all the good ideas have been taken.
 

A random person

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Ciarang said:
A random person said:
Just look at Nanoha as the glorious magical girl/super robot hybrid it is.
I am so going to watch that anime now.

OT: Quality, because all the good ideas have been taken.
Just be warned that the first season starts out rather slow and cliche. Feel free to skip to later in the series (episode 6-8) or even to the second season, A's (which is where the mech influences truly show).
 

Captain Blackout

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Asturiel said:
In your opinion if you were to create something and you could make it either as original as possible or as quality as possible what would you choose? I personally would want to make something completly original since I'm the one who made it but as I pondered this question I was curious as to what other people thought.

PS This is my first thread and it may suck, hope you all like it.
Do not hope that all like your thread, you will go f'ing NUTS!

This is a cool thread though. Simple but open to diverse discussion.
 

SMOKEMNHALO2001

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Quality, it would be nice to have both but, some gamers are way to jaded and if they saw a new IP or something even remotely original they'll skip over it for a polished game the have heard of before.
 

aarontg

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I suppose that we should get a good experience with what is already fun and familiar but at the same time its good to have somthing new at the sametime, but if it somthing new it should be play tested and refined to a large extent to make sure that it works.
 

Nouw

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In games try and get as much originality without losing too much quality. StarCraft is apparently the best RTS but it HAS NO ORIGINALITY WHATSOEVER. Terran? Marine? Zerg? Zealots? Creep?
 

Heart of Darkness

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Quality trumps originality anyday. The storytelling, not the story, makes a good game.

Although admittedly, having both is nice.
 

Supreme Unleaded

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Both Damnit.

You see, Mirrors Edge, great originality, we havent seen a game like it, but it didnt have enough quality put into it, so it wasnt as good as it could have been.

I just hate it when games are so close to succes but fail in the end, its like a tease.

Modern Warfare 2 really (admit it) doesnt have much originality, its still a CoD game just with new guns 'n skins. But its quality of its own, and look at it, 7.4 million in the first week were sold.

But the thing is, MW2 feels like its, well, annother CoD game.

TF2, heres the great example, great originality with the classes and style of it. And it has the quality of class balance and level design, and nothing has come to beat the 200 hours or so logged on that thing. No other game has litteraly kept me up all night, i saw the sun rising and said "Lets go to bed". it was 7:30 in the morning when i said that, and 7:30 at night when i woke up again, the sad thing is, im not lying.
 

darkless

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I prefer quality over originality, In this day and age it's next to impossible to be original you are always ripping off something but if you make it awesome all is forgiven.