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Back in the days of the Gameboy is was purely *beep beep beep*. Gameboys were everywhere, Amongst some of the classic titles was Tetris, the first and in many cases the best puzzle game around, but is it really a puzzle game.
I think not! The learning curve of the game is about half-an-hour...after this time you will have mastered the timing and speed at which the game plays and the way that you can manouvre the blocks.
Now you are a '30-minute' master of the game you can keep going and going...and this, COMPLETELY, defeats the object of what the game is...a Puzzle Game...Oh what a con.
Nowadays with games like Banjo MGS and Zelda, many puzzles are incorporated into the gameplay. I love the odds and sods of these types of games, and the horse-riding target practice in Zelda:OOT was my weekend afternoons. But to me these Platform puzzles as we'll call them are much more 'puzzling' than games like wetrix and tetris.
Zelda, other than having one of the best storylines around was made up of 1001, give or take, puzzle games, you had special little tasks and jobs to do. You may say this is the case in most games of this sort but they were never put across in the same way as Zelda or Banjo!
But back to the Puzzle games, I really think that puzzle games are a bit of a con, not that I don't like them, okay so I am not a BIG fan but I don't mind the old 20 minutes of Wetrix on a Friday afternoon. They, admittedly, have more of a replay value as they are 'puzzle' specific, but once you have played the game for about 1 month you get bored...
I think to combat the samey reputation that all pure puzzle games have, the companies need to look at the games in a different way, try to add something else...it has been done in Pokémon PL and maybe one or two more. But I still think that one the whole puzzle games are a bit of a con...and they aren't reaching their full potential. They have one BIG reputation to mend in my view!
Agree?
I think not! The learning curve of the game is about half-an-hour...after this time you will have mastered the timing and speed at which the game plays and the way that you can manouvre the blocks.
Now you are a '30-minute' master of the game you can keep going and going...and this, COMPLETELY, defeats the object of what the game is...a Puzzle Game...Oh what a con.
Nowadays with games like Banjo MGS and Zelda, many puzzles are incorporated into the gameplay. I love the odds and sods of these types of games, and the horse-riding target practice in Zelda:OOT was my weekend afternoons. But to me these Platform puzzles as we'll call them are much more 'puzzling' than games like wetrix and tetris.
Zelda, other than having one of the best storylines around was made up of 1001, give or take, puzzle games, you had special little tasks and jobs to do. You may say this is the case in most games of this sort but they were never put across in the same way as Zelda or Banjo!
But back to the Puzzle games, I really think that puzzle games are a bit of a con, not that I don't like them, okay so I am not a BIG fan but I don't mind the old 20 minutes of Wetrix on a Friday afternoon. They, admittedly, have more of a replay value as they are 'puzzle' specific, but once you have played the game for about 1 month you get bored...
I think to combat the samey reputation that all pure puzzle games have, the companies need to look at the games in a different way, try to add something else...it has been done in Pokémon PL and maybe one or two more. But I still think that one the whole puzzle games are a bit of a con...and they aren't reaching their full potential. They have one BIG reputation to mend in my view!
Agree?
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apoc wrote:
> when are they stopping the sales.
Dont know to be honest.
Id hardly call Chu Chu an action game!!
I've got it and i dont know what genre it fits into. This goes along with what i've sadi in a nother thread, that recent classics have all been games you cant pigeonhole, eg Deus Ex, B&W, Thief, etc etc.
> when are they stopping the sales.
Dont know to be honest.
Id hardly call Chu Chu an action game!!
I've got it and i dont know what genre it fits into. This goes along with what i've sadi in a nother thread, that recent classics have all been games you cant pigeonhole, eg Deus Ex, B&W, Thief, etc etc.
From what I've read on www.nintendo.com about Chu-Chu Rocket for GBA it's kind of a puzzle game, but I'd class it as an Action game
Yes.
Lemmings was a classic, but i have to say that Chu Chu Rocket is amazing as well, especially in four player mode. But does that count as a puzzle game? If not, then what is it?
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