Forum Overview :: Gamerasutra :: Yeah, but it's fun to nitpick games sometimes.

[quote name="Fussbett"][quote name="FABIO"]Just how many different genre awards are we going to have to hand out to the "blocks keep falling" group? This is getting worse than the Oscars.[/quote] Hey man, look at my 5 game list. YOU were the one who made a separate puzzle category. Stop hating yourself. Stop hating yourself. [quote name="FABIO"]The only reason no one has outdone pure cloned Tetris is because pure cloned Tetris is boring and boils down to fitting the 'L', 'S', and 'T' blocks into a rectangle, which exhausts creative possibilities pretty quick.[/quote] Except people have constantly tried to improve on Tetris and failed. In fact this very thread discusses some of the variations and anger towards them. Once you decide that a game is unclonable without making it worse, doesn't that say something? [quote]Saying pure Tetris remains the best...Tetris game is like saying Kings Quest 6 remains the best pure adventure game of all time. It's only true because people got sick of the whole thing and game makers assimilated certain aspects of it into more fun mechanics.[/quote] And if Kings Quest 6 were as perfect and awesome as Tetris, then it would be time to consider putting KQ6 on some kind of podium too. Clearly people didn't get sick of making Tetris games. Every new platform has versions of Tetris, for better or worse.[/quote]