I must be riding a see-saw I keep going from one side to the other in my thinking.(posted 9673 days ago)You are right in some respects a game is a game is a game. Who's to say it's any more an advantage to someone who's good a Pacman to get lots of points from Pacman versus someone who's good at shooting games getting lots of points in shooting games, versus someone good at platform games getting lots of points in platform games, versus someone good at fighting games getting shitloads of points from a the ton of fighting games made since the older MARP crowd long ago finished regularly visiting the arcades ?
Yes SF2 may be significantly different to Last Blade to those who've played them, but to me they look like just another clone of a fighting game. Then again, I can see significant differences between some of the different variants of Galaxians.
I still think the percentage system is a big improvement over what we had previously and perhaps we should see what happens over time as regards the clones and who's benefitting from them. The other side of the coin is if someone else comes along and starts taking the clone scores off you, you spend a whole lot of time trying to get them back instead of playing many of the other available games that you may just be able to get some points from.
Maybe the best thing to do for now is to live with the clones as separate games and see how things pan out as more newcomers arrive at MARP and more games are added etc.
Well, I'll see-saw back out of here again and get back to some more of my real work.
BeeJay.