Malchik wrote:Because shitty tiling is the first spark of incompetence. It is sloppy and it looks (this is Sege we're talking about) rushed. Why can’t we be cynical? Tell me? ‘Cause we have had a decade of “This time we have it right, guies”, only to have a video game half baked, half assed, and complete with the umbilical chord still attached.
You can declare yourself to be cynical about this game, but that means
admitting you're predisposed to expect the worst from the game without regard for evidence. I am taking a skeptical approach. This means taking context and all available evidence into account and not drawing any conclusions in absence of concrete factual information. So, as a cynic who sees these tiles your reaction is to interpret them as
further evidence (on top of everything you already don't like about the game's visuals) that Sonic 4 - the game that none of us have actually played or seen footage of outside of a darkened Blair Witch-style grainy-as-hell video - is a doomed effort and cannot measure up to your standards for a Sonic game. I see the tiles and think "well that's weird" and that's where it stops.
They don't imply anything about, say, how the game controls or if it "feels" right (whatever
that might mean). They don't somehow indicate that all the levels we haven't seen screens of will be terrible or rehashes of old zones or anything else. We do know, based on leaked evidence and the Nintendo Power pages, that Splash Hill does take a couple interesting twists: as you progress through the acts the day gets closer to twilight, and when you hit Eggman enough times he goes nuts and mixes up his attack patterns. Do we know if it will be fun to actually play the game, to do those things? No.
In the same way I don''t
know the game will be good simply because DiMPS is developing it - even though I liked Sonic Rush Adventure quite a lot - you don't actually
know the game will be worse because their use of tiling patterns doesn't match up. If you're admitting that you're a cynic about this game you also have to give up any illusions that you have any direct evidence, any actual proof, that it's not fun. As a skeptic I can simply sit back and wait for more evidence and maybe a demo. I can avoid frothing needlessly at the mouth over tiny quibbles of no real substance.
Apparently I can't avoid posting about the complaints
about those tiny quibbles, though!
