Bleedingelite said:
From a lot of the complaints I see about scribblenauts, I just don't think the world is really ready for it. I think that somebody with a great imagination and unbridled sense of creativity will undoubtedly love the game. But I think that we gamers, for the most part, would rather just have some laughs and some button mashing and some pokemans thrown at us. Maybe with some spiky haired anime characters and nonsensical japanimation storylines. There's nothing really to do about that. But I can guarantee that nobody out there has exhausted the possibilities of this game yet, as unwieldy and flawed as it is.
If they make a sequel to this game, and take a few more years to tighten it up, and maybe even find a better system to release it on, I think we'll have one of the most incredible games ever made on our hands. But even if that were the case, a majority of the people are still going to write in "rope" and "helicopter" for every puzzle they can, or become disenchanted because "ramen noodles" look the same as "spaghetti."
First off, this isn't atomic warfare or contact with alien life. It's fucking Scribblenauts, a video game. Saying the world is not ready for it is probably the most stupid sounding attempt at "philosophy" that I've heard in a while. Even then, there's been hundreds of games bigger than this. It's an innovative concept, but so was Super Smash Bros., or Super Mario Bros., or Goldeneye 007. And no one says the world wasn't ready for them.
I do agree with the whole "spikey anime characters" thing though, good job. It seems game makers think they can slip on gameplay with enough flashy cutscenes or enough characters from some beyond-lame anime. Only people who have no sense of gaming (*cough* weaboos *cough*) will pass up gameplay over a bunch of stupid characters.
If they were to make a sequel, all they need is to get some trademark agreements slipped in and add D-Pad controls for Maxwell. There, instant gold.
Also, do not a lot of things that "look" the same are the same. You really think the developers were going to make a seperate image for two things that look near identical, even more so with the cartoony paper style of the game. They were nice enough to throw in piano cat and Rickroll, are you really complaining about ramen noodles vs. spaghetti? Well, not the quoted person, but the people the aforementioned person mentioned.
And rope and helicopter don't work that well, personally. Chain is a lot better tha rope, personally, and 90% of the puzzles I've done wouldn't work with those 2.
