wow, did get my point across, didn’t i?
I’m just saying, there’s things in this world that happen to be great but are not anymore either from today’s perspective or because someone tried to redo the same experience and failed. Or maybe that someone actually succeeded, but people were expecting the same thing from years ago while others enjoy the new experience (hey, after all, it’s a different one).
We have the same thing with everything in this world. Consider amusement parks. Disney world rocked as a kid. As an adult, you see commercialism and plastic all over. Consider bands. They put out a great album, you like it. They put out another, and you think they’ve gone popular, just going for the money, and you hate it. Maybe so, maybe not. Be disappointed, you have the right to be, but then move on. Don’t limit yourself by blaming it on, say, the record company and refusing to buy from them anymore. If you want to go all indie, go for it. Make a stand. I’m the first to be happy with that.
I’m saying, if you don’t like what you get, don’t bother. If you do happen to like it, or something else, be happy with that. If you happen to like the “good old times” like i do, please put them in perspective. The industry has grown, there’s no escaping that, and it can be disappointing in many ways because what you used to is no more. We all need to look for those things we happen to like NOW and there’s no guarantee that it’s to be found in the same places as before. Companies change, teams change, people change, production values change, target audience changes, … there’s just too many variables and only one thing is for sure: change.
EA has gone through the same process. Personally, i don’t blindly like all EA games and i’m not happy with some releases either, be it quality or fun or just not being the same old game i loved. But there are also EA games that rock my world, and I’m glad they exist and am really happy that i can try out so many games and pretty sad that less than 10% of all games seem actually worth spending my time with. But that’s just how it is. I probably like less than 10% of all albums out there, 10% of all cars seem reasonable, 10% of all magazines are worth taking a peek, and so on … but by looking, i do find pearls here and there i would have never found if i didn’t keep looking or would have limited my field of view.
Ok, no more on this topic.