My reaction to reading the original post:
itsmeyouidiot said:
http://www.destructoid.com/review-mario-kart-7-216484.phtml
Jim Sterling, once again showing what a hypocrite he is, gives Mario Kart 7 a 5 out of 10 for being a "stagnant, crawling, and indolent effort" despite being more lenient towards the Dynasty Warriors series, which is just as stagnant as this game, if not more.
Hmm. Its a medium length post, I guess itsmeyouidiot is going to respect the audience by making a point by point argument detailing the overwhelming similarities between a the two games, contrast the single difference being how they are received by Jim Sterling and make the reasonable conclusion that Jim is welcoming one game and giving the cold shoulder to another.
OK, I'll keep reading.
But I kind of have a problem in general that the idea that being similar to previous games makes a game bad.
Umm. OK, I guess this will cover the merits of "innovative games" versus "refinement of games" too. Well, I don't see how that can be covered even in brief in such a post of this length. Still, I'll keep reading, because if I don't give the itsmeyouidiot a chance, how will I know it is not a thoughtful forum post.
Let me ask you something, Jim. Does Mario Kart 7 have new tracks? Does it have new characters? Does it have various minor tweaks to the formula, such as gliding, underwater racing, and kart customization?
Aw crap. This is starting to look egomaniacal. A poster directly addressing an issue on a video with its own forum post? That's the height of self aggrandising. I mean, if this was a genuine attempt at addressing this, emailing Jim to complain or whatever would at least show some constraint, or a sign that you want to address something.
But this? This is just like standing in the middle of a room full of people, getting on a soapbox, labelling someone as disengenuous and asking rhetorical questions - and all of them irrevelevant.
We're halfway thorough, and still haven't covered the fundamentals of making a reasonable argument that two very different games are similar and Jim is a hypocrite for reviewing them differently. I'm losing all hope for this fast.
If you answered "yes" to any of these, you've invalidated your own argument. Simply having new levels or any sort of new content more than a reskin is enough to keep any game series fresh. If a sequel has the exact same gameplay and graphics engine as the previous game, but has new levels, then it is still just as fun as the previous entry but is new enough to warrant a purchase.
JIM. ISN'T. HERE. This is a forum. You don't complain to Jim by going onto a forum no more than you go order a pizza by filming something and sticking it on Youtube!
Your inner dialogue is spilling incoherently onto the internet. Oh look, last paragraph. Last chance for relevance, c'mon, gimme some relevance...
I'm not saying innovation is bad, I'm just saying that you shouldn't automatically assume that the absence of it is bad.
He... what? Where'd he do that? I'm not sitting next to you watching the same videos with you, and a mind reader! Link it, you've squander my time already!
You can have a sequel change the formula to keep things new and exciting, as long as it's true to the spirit of the original and still fun, but after a certain point, there's nowhere left to go.
Which game are you even talking about? On a gaming forum this shouldn't be the kind of thing that need clarification.
Mario Kart has reached the point where there really isn't much to improve, but that's not a bad thing at all. Don't act like you NEED to make a radical change with each new game to keep the series fun, that's just bullshit. You just need new levels, new characters, a graphics update, and a few other minor tweaks.
Your post and reasons like this do nothing to improve gamers' standing, and game fora' standing in the eyes of others.
- You made a vague, sweeping generalisation with nothing supporting it and not even a link to the stuff to give anyone on the forum to draw their own conclusions.
- You went off topic into total irrelevancies.
- You insult someone by calling them a hypocrite, without even demonstrating you know what hypocrisy even means, you used it just like it was a generic insult.
Please don't do this, you're making everyone else look bad.
