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RE: AMFP Member Review Thread - Ghieri - 09-20-2013 (09-20-2013, 04:31 PM)Paddy Wrote: Dan and Jess have recently commented on a few of the criticisms AAMFP has received, in ways that I'm finding increasingly irritating. I adore both of these people, and I love AAMFP, but I can't contain myself when I read this shit. You know, I was kind of forgiving of TCR for not making MFP as scary as TDD, because that's hard to do. Now it's not so much, I bet they honestly think MFP is the best damn thing to come out this year and anyone who says otherwise just doesn't get it. RE: AMFP Member Review Thread - Cuyir - 09-21-2013 I get where she is coming from (hold on to those knees guys and gals) and I can understand her frustration (wait....) but she literally only needed to rethink a few sentences and she wouldn't have come out as flippant. She starts out well: Quote: This question rests on the idea that games are purely driven by mechanics and goals, and this seems laughably outdated as a concept. Why do we feel the need to classify and name and label before we can enjoy something? Do I need to know whether or not Bach sits in the classical canon before I can appreciate his incredible music? For me, the key is whether it’s an engaging experience (or not). The increasing breadth and diversity in games – a medium that ranges from Tetris to Gone Home – is wonderful. Why is difference such an enormously threatening concept? And that it was. The thing is that the changes were made for plot related reasons (ie Mandus wasn't scared of the dark or the monsters he helped create and thus he didn't have blur-o vision-o) or creative/flow reasons (puzzles can sometimes completely destroy all flow and trust me on that, Anna's, the game, puzzles ruined the atmosphere although the break of flow also had a reason but that's a discussion for another time). I'd think that a lot of people might not have seen it this way (or not given a toss about seeing this way) and thus reacted and (in the case of journalists) substracted points from their critical assesment. So far so good right? There are reasons for the disappearing mechanics not existing. I think most of us can agree on this. And then...she did this: Quote:Why was that a problem? Well…it just was because, games, y’know, should have, like, mechanics. Duh! Spoiler below!
And so started all this mess...again. She shouldn't have said that the reason people don't like it is because “it’s different to what came before”. Yes, there are some people that think that way. Yes, some people think like this because they didn't care to figure out why they removed those mechanics. YES, they have the right to hold that opinion because they expected something else (although in the defense of AMFP, when it was announced that TCR was developing I knew it was going to turn out like it turned out and I loved it but that's not the point). But NO, don't bring it up. As artists you're supposed to assess the critical assessment of your art. Fuck, that also goes for EVERYTHING. You're supposed to assess which criticism is well founded and which is not. She should have just worded it a hell of a lot better. Why bring up that, quite honestly, weak excuse as to why people didn't like it? I reiterate, some people didn't care to see why the changes were made but you just can't heavily insinuate that everyone who didn't like it didn't because it was different from the first one. Everything in the article was relatively ''safe'' (people would have still tore her a new one because AMNESIAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!) till she, well, wrote what I pointed out. I understand her. I know where she is coming from. But it was horribly worded and worryingly thought out. If she had worked on it, slept on it for a few days and then worked on it some more after getting the frustration out she would have a document that we, people who loved the game, could use and say ''she's right, bravo.'' But nope. I love her in an unhealthy manner. My love for her could be considered obsessive. But she really needed to rethink that article before publishing it. RE: AMFP Member Review Thread - bobbo - 09-21-2013 Quote:Why was that a problem? Well…it just was because, games, y’know, should have, like, mechanics. Duh! I shouldn't bother, but I feel offended but this post. As a non-native speaker I spent some time on a few posts describing what I didn't like about the game. Only to be lumped together with the pitchfork wielding Steam Forum hordes. The lacking gameplay is a problem because the game was advertised by showing gameplay. And now they're surprised that wasn't so well received. Moreover, to me the lack of gameplay was also a problem because the few puzzle bits that were there - I'm repeating myself - were so simple and stood out so much in between the walking that I felt like a monkey given toy blocks. Not liking a product for valid reasons doesn't equal being threatened by difference. But why do I bother, they obviously don't really care about the feedback. Why would they, their bank accounts are probably looking pretty good from a crapload of pre-orders. RE: AMFP Member Review Thread - felixmole - 09-21-2013 (09-20-2013, 04:31 PM)Paddy Wrote: Dan and Jess have recently commented on a few of the criticisms AAMFP has received, in ways that I'm finding increasingly irritating. I adore both of these people, and I love AAMFP, but I can't contain myself when I read this shit. In Dan's defense, he said here he agreed AMFP had its share of shortfalls. RE: AMFP Member Review Thread - Fortigurn - 09-21-2013 (09-21-2013, 09:18 AM)felixmole Wrote: In Dan's defense, he said here he agreed AMFP had its share of shortfalls. He did? How will the fanbois explain that? They claim it doesn't have any shortfalls. RE: AMFP Member Review Thread - Paddy™ - 09-21-2013 (09-21-2013, 09:18 AM)felixmole Wrote: In Dan's defense, he said here he agreed AMFP had its share of shortfalls. Nah you're right, he's not adverse to criticism on the whole, but when people cite the removal of certain game mechanics as a negative Dan and Jess respond by tarring all of these critics with the same "afraid of change" or "you just wanted another TDD!" brush. I think it's more complicated than that, even though I have no criticism of the game myself and loved pretty much everything about it. RE: AMFP Member Review Thread - Ghieri - 09-21-2013 What rubs me is that they marketed the game as scarier and similar to TDD, put amnesia in the title, and are now perplexed that people were wanting something different, even defensive about it. RE: AMFP Member Review Thread - felixmole - 09-21-2013 (09-21-2013, 03:12 PM)Paddy Wrote: Nah you're right, he's not adverse to criticism on the whole, but when people cite the removal of certain game mechanics as a negative Dan and Jess respond by tarring all of these critics with the same "afraid of change" or "you just wanted another TDD!" brush. I think it's more complicated than that, even though I have no criticism of the game myself and loved pretty much everything about it. That's true, and perhaps they've learnt something from the criticisms (even though they're not showing it off ). We won't be able to really know as we probably won't be seeing a game of the same genre from them any time soon... Now a quick off-topic to show some statistics: Meta-critic reviews: 7.2/10 Meta-critic users: 5.6/10 Forum users: 6.8/10 It seems the critics were not that harsh, seeing this. RE: AMFP Member Review Thread - Cuyir - 09-21-2013 (09-21-2013, 03:58 PM)Ye Olde Aldi Wrote: What rubs me is that they marketed the game as scarier and similar to TDD, put amnesia in the title, and are now perplexed that people were wanting something different, even defensive about it. As i've said a million times, putting "Amnesia'' in the title does not guarantee anything. MARIO Party, MARIO Kart, MARIO Golf, etc etc etc. AMFP has every right to be called "an Amnesia game" seeing how it's still the same core experience with a different focus in the same universe and connected narrative threads. Where they went wrong was saying that it was going to be scarier than TDD and expecting people to embrace psychological horror when a pretty big chunk of the "Amnesia fanbase" played TDD in the most shallow way possible. Their massive mistake. Even I could have told them that was a bad idea. RE: AMFP Member Review Thread - Paddy™ - 09-21-2013 One of the biggest barriers to productive dialogue we encounter here is the tendency to make pretty strong assumptions about large numbers of people we've never met and to then use those assumptions as the jump-off point for criticism. If we take everyone's point of view at face value, and don't dig for ulterior motives, ignorance or biases between the lines, things would be easier, less combative and more conducive to understanding and hugs. Being wrong isn't the same as being deceptive; being right isn't the same as being honest. None of us can read minds or divine hidden truths about people from ASCII displayed in our web browsers, so let's accept our limitations and just stick to what's in front of us. That's not directed at anyone in particular. |