When the magic of a game dies somehow.

Schitzo · 2013-01-26 16:51:49

Take for example the Guitar Hero games. In particular, the first and second game in the series.

The covers of the songs in those games, while decent, can be cringe inducing at times. But, they had a lot of soul in them. I loved the bonus features in both the first and second game. You can tell that the team put in A LOT of effort at making us think we could rock hard.

Something was lost in the third game. Most, if not all the songs, are the original songs. Not only that, but you could see some really bad charting shenanigans in the game as you played it. Take for example Sunshine of Your Love. In the last chorus of that song, the power chords get slight variations, even though the song sounds mostly the same throughout. and well, some of the games later on are just overcharted in general (not that the key presses have much basis in actual real life guitar playing anyway).

Even before then, Guitar Hero custom became a thing, and it just dawned on me how interchangeable all the charts and all the songs were. Suddenly, I just couldn't care about the series anymore.

Schitzo · 2013-01-26 17:00:24

Same thing with Super Smash Bros. The first game, of course, was awesome. The second game (and by proxy, the third) was AMAZING for me, though probably not for the reasons you'd think.

I loved the little trivia and fanservice(nintendo history based) strewn about through the series. I especially loved those trophy vending machine mini games. It's like a wiki walk in video game form, you know?

And then, hackers revealed a good number of hidden dummied out trophies here and there.

And that's when I was like "... really? Really, Nintendo?"

This frustrated me even more because of Ness and Lucas being playable characters, despite Nintendo's intentions of NEVER, EVER sending us an update on the games they started in, legally.

And so, I just stopped giving a crap about Smash Bros all together.