that it does depend on the individual.
Me I can play Lord of the Rings - Return of the King and be blown away with
the game, I have enjoyed this game over and over. Although I have completed
it including all the unlocked levels and played using the extra characters.
But it was a game that I would feel is not really worth the price tag, I
completed it a week or two.
Final Fantasy, well what can we say the graphics aren't what I would call
spectacular. But the game play is awesome.
Enclave for the xbox, game is brilliant in graphics but lost my interest as
the game play is not great.
Baulders Gate II for the xbox, finished in 2 weeks graphics not to bad, game
play shocking not worth the money I payed for it.
Pirates of the Caribbean average on the graphics in some places, but game
play is extensive. Maybe too much extensive for me, but I'll still pick it
up from time to time.
Azurik, graphics extremely average, but the game play what can I say it had
me hooked and took me around 2 months to finish this one.
One of the things that tends to plague developers is time, the publisher
pushes the developer into an unrealistic time frame. Thus one of two things
will happen, the graphics or the game play will suffer.
I can recall working on the SNES version of shadow run, it was supposed to
have around 100 hours of game play. But it took longer than that to complete
this game. Although when QA'ing this game I had it down to around 5 hours
from start to finish to show Nintendo that the game could be completed.
I guess I could ramble on more about the games, but again it depends on the
gamer. I personally want game play that will take me into the world of the
game, and last longer than 3 months to play. And this is the seasoned gamer,
not the person that wants to complete the game quickest and move onto the
next as quickly as possible.
There was one rule we used when I worked in the industry, if the graphics
was awesome the game play was shit and it has still applied after 15 years
since it was mentioned.
Regards
Andrew Scott
Technical Consultant
NuSphere Pty Ltd
Level 2/33 Bank Street
South Melbourne, Victoria, 3205
Phone: 03 9686 0485 - Fax: 03 9699 7976
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