I've been passionate about games for a long time and took said passion a step further and completed a degree in Games Programming down here in Australia. I work on a couple of indy projects from time to time, but for the most part am more interested in a more scholarly approach, simply reading, learning and discussing the deeper aspects of game design, and the affects that clever game design can have on players.
Christopher Wragg's Comments
Comment In: What is fun? [Blog - 11/17/2009 - 02:50]
To be honest if you replace the word rules with Controls and objectives in point 1 I can agree with it. The problem being that the rules shouldn't ever be locked so fixedly that no game may bend them. After all could not a change in rules something like gravity ...
@Pat Wilson Again, what you have here is a bad comparison between real Russia and Fictional Russia. Fictional Russia has been overtaken by a highly equipped and trained Ultranationalist force. Through several years of propoganda they have most of the country hating the other developed western nations, they also have ...
@Luke In most of those games they're traditionally known as side quests for a reason. For instance Borderlands will give you many quests, but if you truly desired it you could just plow straight into the story stuff. Oblivion, NwN, DA:O, Mass Effect, all of them are RPGs which contain ...
But apart from aggro management something that can be argued about till blue in the face , and it's skill set directly seen stemming from tabletop what other MMO tropes has DA:O used For one it lacks the grind nature of most MMOs and it's heavy emphasis on story and ...
To be honest my biggest problem is not the semi static way many characters are dealt with, people often do have very rigid moral view while some are more flexible on the matter. mini spoiler In dragon age for instance Zevran cares not what you do, but Leliana will have ...
@Scott One problem with that mentality Knight, DVD drives, DVD recorders and VCRs are machines that are used for their intended purpose That notion is spawned from the same dangerous mentality that Knight has qualms about. Imagine trying to enforce laws about intended purpose . All of a sudden mechanics ...
