Posted December 26, 2013
Bullet points, "What's cool about it", "features", you know what I mean, the short sentences that are supposed to sum up the individual tings that makes the game special, and make you interested in the game in question. Which ones make you almost automatically think "not for me"?
Games that brag about the "old school challenge" or about being really hard in general. I like challenging games, but my experience with games that brag about such things is that the challenge often feels artificial, or false. Thus when a game makes its high level of challenge one of its main selling points, I usually decide to go for another game instead.
"Retro" "Old school" or any other such word that is supposed to convey nostalgia. Quite often when games brag about this, they are puzzle platformers or something along the line of Super Meat Boy, which really were not all that common back in the NES/SNES days, which is usually the kind of "retro feel" the games try to market themselves as having. Either that, or they are heavily inspired by the games of yesteryear, but they don't quite understand what made those games fun and they tend to have many of the flaws of those games (often they are more along the line of a middle of the road "game of that type" than one of the really good ones, that we actually bother to remember).
Games making its "pixel art style" one of its main selling points. This makes me wonder if it actually has all that much to offer, because I can clearly see the pixel art style on the screenshots, it does not need to take up a bullet point.
Games that brag about the "old school challenge" or about being really hard in general. I like challenging games, but my experience with games that brag about such things is that the challenge often feels artificial, or false. Thus when a game makes its high level of challenge one of its main selling points, I usually decide to go for another game instead.
"Retro" "Old school" or any other such word that is supposed to convey nostalgia. Quite often when games brag about this, they are puzzle platformers or something along the line of Super Meat Boy, which really were not all that common back in the NES/SNES days, which is usually the kind of "retro feel" the games try to market themselves as having. Either that, or they are heavily inspired by the games of yesteryear, but they don't quite understand what made those games fun and they tend to have many of the flaws of those games (often they are more along the line of a middle of the road "game of that type" than one of the really good ones, that we actually bother to remember).
Games making its "pixel art style" one of its main selling points. This makes me wonder if it actually has all that much to offer, because I can clearly see the pixel art style on the screenshots, it does not need to take up a bullet point.