OL wrote: Sonic Adventure 2 > Sonic Adventure.
OL wrote:In terms of retro arcade stuff, Namco was easily the best developer/publisher of the 80s and 90s.
OL wrote:Sonic Adventure 2 > Sonic Adventure.
OL wrote:Shinji Mikami is overrated.
Henry Spencer wrote:OL wrote:Sonic Adventure 2 > Sonic Adventure.
But that's what I always hear off Sonic fans. And it's wrong.
Henry Spencer wrote:OL wrote:In terms of retro arcade stuff, Namco was easily the best developer/publisher of the 80s and 90s.
That's hardly controversial. I think plenty would agree with that, the other rivals being Capcom, Konami and maybe SNK.
OL wrote: .... Sometimes it really is warranted....
OL wrote: Jet Set Radio Future > Jet Grind Radio.
OL wrote:Don't get me wrong, he doesn't suck or anything. He's just overrated.
People hold him up high as some kind of master game dev, but it's kind of silly to think that about someone who only really has a single huge claim to fame (Resident Evil). God Hand is pretty great too, I agree, but it ain't exactly a genius concept; it's a classic beat-em-up formatted for 3D graphics. RE4 is great too, but it's really just building on a series that was already well-established by then (it's not as much of a "reinvention" as people like to pretend).
Other than that, what is there? PN03 is, at the very best, absolutely "meh." And Vanquish, while an okay shooter, is aesthetically boring and has some really bad gameplay choices that bog down what should have been a ton of fun. Dino Crisis is pretty cool, but it's basically just Resident Evil with dinosaurs. And while I do want to play The Evil Within, it really doesn't strike me as "masterpiece" material (which is what a "master" of his medium would be creating, right?).
It's just that general public mindset that he's one of the greatest of the greats... I just don't see it, so the word "overrated" strikes me as pretty apt.
To make it a little clearer, people act like he's a Spielberg, a Kubrick, a Kurosawa... but he strikes me as being more of a Brian de Palma. He's good when he's good, but his work is pretty mixed overall.
OL wrote:Agreed on Kamiya though. I mean, I love DMC, and he directed what I think is the overall best Resident Evil game (RE2), but he's kind of a dick from what I've read. And I find Bayonetta completely unappealing, while his newest game, Scalebound, looks as ridiculously dumb and hackneyed as can be (I've only seen a cg trailer, but it was dumb enough to turn me right off from it).
OL wrote:Keep in mind of course, the term "overrated" is defined entirely by one person's (or thing's) level of esteem compared to another. If other people who deserve a ton of respect were held in just as high a regards as the Mikamis and Kamiyas of the world, then neither of them would seem quite so overrated. Like if Yoshiki Okamoto, Yukio Futatsugi, Keiichiro Toyama, Makoto Shibata, and so many others were held up at the same level of acclaim as them (as practically household names and all that) then sure, no problem, Mikami and Kamiya wouldn't really be overrated, because other people who deserve it would be just as respected.
OL wrote:Really? I always got the impression that people loved the first, but thought the second was shit (the move to a stricter level-based setup being one of the chief complaints, and also the fact that everyone hates the Knuckles levels).
Maybe that's just the vibe around here or something.
Rakim wrote:OL wrote: .... Sometimes it really is warranted....
Like who? Miyamoto?
Himuro wrote:90's Namco is one of the most overrated developers of all time...
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