Lovely review, really felt for the guy

[Ottomic]

Dude, I read through your post several times and I cannot for the life of me decipher what you're trying to say. Can someone translate?

My Moonspeak is a bit rusty but I think he's saying he doesn't like his games fun.

 

[Cmdr Irenicus]

Well I thought the reviewer expressed well the fondness that many have for the game and that the latest version still has elements that continue the spirit and does it very very well. So although it may get bad review due to low content after the 16th I think we will see some great reviews as well due to what there is actually being very very well done.

At this stage probably ED is like marmite.

And this talk of simulation or not argument is a bit perdantic.

Vegemite is tastier

 

[Red Anders]

If a reviewer fails to recognize the genre of the game, it renders the review pretty pointless.

It does if you're the kind of person who can't begin to think about things without first assigning them to a box in your mental filing cabinet.

Some games do clearly fit every aspect of the template for a well-defined genre of game, others don't. Deus Ex (the original) cited above is a very good example; it had elements of fps gameplay, elements of a stealth game and elements of an RGP, with the entirepoint of the game being that you could play through it keeping pretty rigidly to the various tropes of any one of those genres only, or mix and match them as and when you saw fit.

It's the concept that every single game must be shoehorned into a box which is truly pointless; there is no requirement whatsoever to do that in order to form an opinion about the game's content, mechanics etc. It doesn't enable critical thinking at all, in fact it limits it.

It's very similar to the obsession with assiging a musical genre and sub-genre to bands. I've had quite a few mates in bands over the years and they pretty much universally decried that mentality - they just considered themselves to be musicians with no need whatsoever to attempt to define it further.