Planescape: Torment had a pretty effective satire of other computer roleplaying games -- the Mordon Maze. It was a big collection of 10x10 rooms, each with a few, nearly identical monsters, labeled Low Threat Construct and the like. When you killed them, they would somethings drop A Clue if you ...
I always stated this as Never give the player a choice between feeling bored and feeling stupid. If a player dies because they took the non-gargoyle route, when they know they could have won by using the gargoyle route, they're going to feel stupid. If they take the gargoyle route, ...
@Jessie: Not always our Battle for Middle-Earth came out a year after Peter Jackson's Return of the King, and Battle for Middle-Earth II even later than that.
On Essential but Unobtainable Items : I still remember the first Leisure Suit Larry... In one of the first areas, there was a guy selling an apple. You could buy it anytime from near the start of the game. And you needed that apple for the VERY LAST girl in ...
Going to have to disagree with you -- especially Anton -- here. I'm sure it's nice for you to be able to beat games on hard difficulty, but my 10 year old would also like to be able to play these games, and he needs a crutch or two, like ...
Let me put my objection to the article another way -- I don't think there is a distinction between requirements and solutions. Each requirement is just the solution to the previous requirement. The only real requirement for a business is Make Money . Every thing after that is the solution ...
