I can't believe I waited soo long before playing Terraria, I am loving this game. I owned it on the 3ds for years and never got past the tutorial (the tut. was that bad IMO) but after watching some non-Dev vids I've been getting into it an I really enjoy this game.
Now for a rant I've been thinking about for a long time...I am interested in hearing how many of you noticed these same sales cheats.
I wanted to write this rant regarding BS Descriptions on games. Have you ever read a game description that made it sound like this wondrous word, with a great series of characters, and beautiful land to discover, only to buy the game and have it be... wait for it.. PONG!, yes I said Pong. I have been seeing more and more games these days that take extreme liberties with their descriptions, making the backstory sound like it should be Skyrim when you open it, only to find the mechanic is as simple as two sides fighting a tennis match and the whole backstory had nothing to do with the game past getting you to buy the game.
Another example of this bait and switch tactic is with Videos that begin with multiple screens introducing who was involved with the game's creation, with long fancy transitions in between leading to elaborate splash designed finally to be covered with a series of text describing the back story ( ie a MS powerpoint presentation style) followed by some other NON screenshot graphic, stills of characters, ..yada yada yada the video continues in this manner and if you actually timed the actual game footage it might... MIGHT be 5-7 seconds worth of gameplay footage/ screenshot and poorly done at that, of a 40-50 + second Game introduction video.
In other words, the video that introduces the game and was supposed to show the game does nothing of the sort, with the exception of maybe 7 seconds of still shot or maybe single pics of characters followed by the statement that these are not final graphics of the game.. Now I can understand this month ahead of time, but not on the released (day) video. I have seen this far too often, this is totally unacceptable, to be shown from a finished game UNLESS the developers have no faith in the game and are just trying to entrap people into buying trash with no hope of the game actually selling well.
Years ago, before I became a professional Mentalist/Hypnotist I worked as a professional magician. I did very well for myself, I was gainfully employed most of the time It was common to see this type of thing from catalog magic shops selling what we professionals would call 'slum' magic. IOW they were selling to noobs, that had more money than brains or were hobbyists. Thes magic shops keep their doors open with these hobbyists and see them coming. They sell them stuff that looks good and ONLY works under certain very specific controlled conditions, but will never work under the conditions that they would be trying it under. This is highly underhanded in this day and age even in the magic community.
I feel this type of practice needs to be curbed and screened somehow. I'm not even talking about shovelware here.
Anyway, enough of this rant. I realize N does not necessary. do this, but third parties that sell on their consoles do this at an alarming rate. I guess what I'm saying is, Nintendo's seal of approval means little today, I truly wish they would find a way to exercise it with their 3rd party products.
One last note, I can't believe I'm finding Terraria more entertaining that the Newest Fire Emblem, which BTW reminds me of F.E. Warriors (with Fetch quests) in many ways.
Now for a rant I've been thinking about for a long time...I am interested in hearing how many of you noticed these same sales cheats.
I wanted to write this rant regarding BS Descriptions on games. Have you ever read a game description that made it sound like this wondrous word, with a great series of characters, and beautiful land to discover, only to buy the game and have it be... wait for it.. PONG!, yes I said Pong. I have been seeing more and more games these days that take extreme liberties with their descriptions, making the backstory sound like it should be Skyrim when you open it, only to find the mechanic is as simple as two sides fighting a tennis match and the whole backstory had nothing to do with the game past getting you to buy the game.
Another example of this bait and switch tactic is with Videos that begin with multiple screens introducing who was involved with the game's creation, with long fancy transitions in between leading to elaborate splash designed finally to be covered with a series of text describing the back story ( ie a MS powerpoint presentation style) followed by some other NON screenshot graphic, stills of characters, ..yada yada yada the video continues in this manner and if you actually timed the actual game footage it might... MIGHT be 5-7 seconds worth of gameplay footage/ screenshot and poorly done at that, of a 40-50 + second Game introduction video.
In other words, the video that introduces the game and was supposed to show the game does nothing of the sort, with the exception of maybe 7 seconds of still shot or maybe single pics of characters followed by the statement that these are not final graphics of the game.. Now I can understand this month ahead of time, but not on the released (day) video. I have seen this far too often, this is totally unacceptable, to be shown from a finished game UNLESS the developers have no faith in the game and are just trying to entrap people into buying trash with no hope of the game actually selling well.
Years ago, before I became a professional Mentalist/Hypnotist I worked as a professional magician. I did very well for myself, I was gainfully employed most of the time It was common to see this type of thing from catalog magic shops selling what we professionals would call 'slum' magic. IOW they were selling to noobs, that had more money than brains or were hobbyists. Thes magic shops keep their doors open with these hobbyists and see them coming. They sell them stuff that looks good and ONLY works under certain very specific controlled conditions, but will never work under the conditions that they would be trying it under. This is highly underhanded in this day and age even in the magic community.
I feel this type of practice needs to be curbed and screened somehow. I'm not even talking about shovelware here.
Anyway, enough of this rant. I realize N does not necessary. do this, but third parties that sell on their consoles do this at an alarming rate. I guess what I'm saying is, Nintendo's seal of approval means little today, I truly wish they would find a way to exercise it with their 3rd party products.
One last note, I can't believe I'm finding Terraria more entertaining that the Newest Fire Emblem, which BTW reminds me of F.E. Warriors (with Fetch quests) in many ways.
