Will Wright Reacts To Critical 'Spore' Reviews, Reveals Personal Playing Style

ChampIDC - 476 days 18 hours ago

Will is smart enough to realize that sales are far better than ratings. So many developers fall into the trap that is caring too much about metacritic.

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TheIneffableBob - 476 days 18 hours ago

I do love Spore, but game developers need to stop dumbing down games. Spore was designed as a casual game from the very beginning, so I can forgive what it is now (though I am a little disappointed); but, for example, with a game like Fallout 3 that was made sometime during the development process to be accessible towards people who love to play mindless 1st- and 3rd-person shooters, that I cannot forgive. That's just blatant wanting of more sales at the expense of the quality of the game.

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Menchi - 476 days 17 hours ago

I don't think that's the right way for us players to look at gaming.

While sales are of course important to a company that needs to make money, I don't think quality should be taken away to cater for more money.

At least, as a gamer, I would prefer to play a title that got less then a million sales, but was one of the greatest of all time, as opposed to something that gets millions of sales, but is just... good.

There's a certain amount of respect that you can give to devs who can design a game that is brilliant enough to warrant an extremely high average score, and get a large amount of sales.

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Soren the Cat - 476 days 16 hours ago

I kind of agree with Menchi. I felt his comment about sales and ratings was a bit arrogant saying "oh yeah, well maybe my game won't score as high, but it'll sell better." The only reason it will sell so incredibly well is because he created the Sims, I doubt this game on its own would be as successful without his name attached. I would rather have a higher scoring game than one that sells fantastic. And I reject the idea that really good, high scoring games are "too complicated" for the average or casual gamer.

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ChampIDC - 476 days 16 hours ago

I'm not saying that a game should be bad and sell millions. I mean that developers should shoot for a game that people will buy and enjoy, not a game that the press will love but doesn't get the sales it deserves, such as Psychonauts. It's a good thing to reach out to a lot of types of gamers.

@1.2 Since when has Fallout 3 come off as a bad game? You don't need to stick to the exact formula of a previous game to make a good sequel. Plus, first/third person, open-world games are what Bethesda excels at.

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DRUDOG - 476 days 15 hours ago

I kind of see where you are coming from ChampIDC, but I still think that the industry needs developers who take chances and don't worry about metacritic scores or how much money the game is going to make. We've got enough developers who do those things already.

Devs should just try to make the best game possible and the scores/money will more than likely follow. Keep spitting out the same formulaic crap like Hollywood and watch your industry slowly die...

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