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[Platonian]

The Dumbing Down Effect
 
I cannot be the first poster on here to point out the extremely obvious dumbing down between ME1 and ME2, will this continue in ME3 I wonder?
 
As a big fan of ME1 I only recently started ME2 and have just got onto Illum after the Horizon mission. So this is why I am posting now.
 
ME2 is still a great game, but it is the comparison to ME1 that shows dumbing down and I fear it will only get worse in ME3. We have gone from a game with open galaxy exploration to one where you have little reason to visit star systems that do not have a mission in them. The mapping of lost worlds, the resources, investigations and on planet combat have all gone. The Citadel Presidium (?) is now a video sequence with the admiral where you see what they could have done anew had exploring cityscapes still been important to the game. The cities have shrunk too and combat consists far more of ribbons which we thread through, rather than open areas to fight in.
 
I know that EA under John Riccitiello want to ensure every game can be “played by your mum”. But it is this dumbing down to widen the demographic that is making once great games only good.
 
ME2 is a good game, I wonder if ME3 will even will even be that? Someone in a focus group out there will have told them that navigating star systems is too hard or shooting without aiming correction is too difficult. If you think this process has stopped here with ME2 you are naïve, as long as they think it will bring a few more punters in the dumbing down will continue.

Modifié par Platonian, 19 février 2012 - 10:26 .

[Stanley Woo]

I think people should wait until MAss Effect 3 is out before wondering what the gameplay is like. Or, you know, play the demo.

End of line.