The Breakout genre has a fundamental problem with lack of player agency causing long stretches of player boredom and frustration. Shatter solved this problem - please take heed if you're going to make a new Breakout game.
There was one single, easy thing Epic Mickey could have done to make it a much better game, make players much happier, and boost metacritic scores 10-20 points: minimizing the penalty for death.
Since they say they 're getting rid of all the different games categories, they 'll have to be seriously restricting the number of entries or the browsing and discoverability will be even more of a nightmare than it already is. And that means cutting indies. r n r nOn the ...
So that 's effectively the death of used games. There 's no point in buying one used when it 's the same price as buying it new. r n r nUnless they let you swap right across with someone else who has another used game. Then they take a 10 ...
@William: The problem with 'how about you just don 't use them ' is that they 're spending huge resources on it and it appears they only care about gaming as a way to get you watching TV. r n r nIt 's like when you spend half your time ...
So - we get 30 minutes on how you can watch TV. 35 minutes to an actual game not counting the brief flashes earlier . Sports games from EA. 40 minutes to an actual driving game. A new Remedy game Well, that could be... wait, why is it FMV And ...
Hmmm, have you ever thought of... steepling my fingers here making non-crappy Sonic games again Since you 're long past the point where you can come up with great new IP like Panzer Dragoon again. r n r nTo be fair, Sonic All-Stars Racing Transformed was quite a good game ...
