This is an excellent analysis Tom I think you are a little harsh where tunnel-based games are concerned. The games you mentioned were a lot of fun and they had interesting stories at least. The tunnel part often comes from a combination of technical limitations and gameplay considerations, such as ...
Further, the politics of the rest of the development team are not a matter of public record. Two comments about this: 1 That is as it should be. Who wants to lose a third of their potential audience because they have a political viewpoint So you generally shouldn't take a ...
Thank you for your thought-provoking post, but I also must disagree with you. 1. Yes, it is all about the player. But that does not mean that a game has to be about the player playing as himself. Even in your good examples of Half-Life 2 and Fall Out 3, ...
Comment In: The Arty Party [Feature - 02/11/2008 - 05:00]
There was a timely article in the Feb 16, 2008 Wall Street Journal. In it, Terry Teachout shows us the result of worrying too much about trying to make a heralded work of art--a malady that Steven Sondheim dubbed importantitis. Teachout tells us about Leonard Bernstein after West Side Story, ...
