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Geometry Wars Reshapes The Past
Eurogamer has a piece looking at the sucess of Geometry Wars, despite its old-skool flavour. From the article: "Eyes around The Beehive widen and brows furrow in incredulity. I'm suddenly instructed to tell everyone at the table what I've just said to one half. I clear my throat. 'The worldwide high score for Geometry Wars is 12.8 million.' Nobody says anything. Everyone just thinks about it. 'Terrifying,' says someone, eventually. 'Mine's 2.1 million, which I originally thought was pretty good,' says Stephen Cakebread, creator of Geometry Wars: Retro Evolved and its predecessor, 'but I've since been put to shame by all the people who've scored five times that!' Well, six times, but we're not counting. It's too painful."
No offense, but this is news? Go ahead, mod me troll, but it will just prove my point even further that this site has lost a lot of it's credibility when it comes to reporting worthwhile news.
The news is that an innovative game was made in an era when people bitch about not having any innovative games to play. The highscore isn't the story.
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Check out Mono, which is very similar.
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Charging you for the right to pay money to download small, overpriced games, sounds and backrounds.
Obviously there is a ton of money in this, but this is just the first step in seeing this crap happen to video games on a widespread. Microsoft does it, then sony sees it works, and they do it, then Nintendo says what the hell and they go for it...
Finally, its acceptable for all console games, computer games to charge extra for things that used to be unlocked through persistance. Now, the guy whos winning isnt because he earned that super car you've always wanted to putz around in, its because he bought it. The guy whoopin your ass with his +5 of Infinate Chucknori saved up for it.
Video games take another momentus step down in quality, UP in profits. I wont be a part of it.
It's actually a hard nut to crack as far as comparisons, it borrows a lot of things from a lot of games. To me it is most like an Asteroids variant, but I found this website with a decent breakdown of the game: http://worldofstuart.excellentcontent.com/geowars. htm
I like his quote: "Geometry Wars is basically Robotron crossed with the famous Macintosh game Crystal Quest, with vector graphics" That sums it up well if your familiar with those titles. It isn't exactly my cup of tea, but it is fun... and funny you bring up Smash TV as it is also on Xbox 360 arcade and also experiencing a nice revival. Also supporting my initial post.
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