Phantasy
I tried out the demo of Phantasy Star Universe for the Xbox 360 today, a massively multiplayer game.
It was absolutely terrible. The design is awful, with almost completely illegible menu text, horrible looking locations, and certainly not the look of a next-gen title. Like every game I play these days, the control scheme was overly complex, requiring me to remember not only what every button on the controller does, but also how to get to things through a series of unhelpful menus. I gave up about 3/4 of the way through the tutorial without doing a mission because I was so disgusted with the whole thing.
In a time when World of Warcraft towers over every other MMO, with the finest living world ever created in a game (and it’s not without it’s problems), half-assed attempts like this shouldn’t stand a chance.
