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Michael Murphy's Blog

Hey, Murphy here. Another nobody with hopes to make games. 3rd Year Game Design student. Blog will be posted soon.

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Achievement Pointless?
Posted by Michael Murphy on Tue, 16 Feb 2010 03:53:00 EST in Design
Why "Achievements" cannot REALLY be "Achievements" as long as Gamerscores exist and the large divide between Trophy Whores and those who ignore.
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Michael Murphy's Comments

Comment In: Is Your Game Really Yours? [Blog - 10/23/2010 - 06:34]

Interesting. Never really considered it ...

Interesting. Never really considered it from a environmental perspective. I have no problems with second hand buying except for the total lack of profits returned to the games developers. Also do that many 2nd hand games reach landfills I would of thought disc based media like games are easy to ...

Comment In: Tense Questions: David Cage On Heavy Rain [Feature - 03/26/2010 - 04:10]

@George Dudas It's a real ...

@George Dudas It's a real simple answer to why they don't ask tense questions. When you get these esteemed developers or famous gaming figure heads to respond to your questions and you behave in any other way than as if they where the second coming of Jesus then they and ...

Comment In: Why Do We Hate the Penguin? [Blog - 02/16/2010 - 07:00]

@ Ephriam Excuse that poor ...

@ Ephriam Excuse that poor example I presented, I wanted to add a little something else rather than be another to blame it all on the market share. Take 2- The argument is not which platform runs games better, but why ignore a growing market. But it is relevant. The ...

Comment In: Inventory [Blog - 02/12/2010 - 04:11]

Interesting read. Your writing style ...

Interesting read. Your writing style makes it seem your looking for the Holy Grail of inventory systems... truth is... it doesn't exisit. The best we can hope for is creating a suitable system to compliment the games design. For example, Resident Evil 4 had a creative item managment system which ...

Comment In: You Don't Know Jack Creator Jellyvision Sues Aflac [News - 01/26/2010 - 06:22]

Checked out both sites. I ...

Checked out both sites. I really don't think any regular will be confused by this. However what does seem unjust that Jellyvision seem to believe they invented the term You don't know Jack . Which is really just short hand for You don't know Jack Shit , commonly used in ...

Comment In: Saving PlayStation 2 [Blog - 02/04/2010 - 05:14]

I don't think the PS2 ...

I don't think the PS2 needs saving. It has had it's glory days, ushered on many wonderful titles. If you happen to be unlucky enough to live in Europe Like me you can play any PS2 game on the PS3. However if a game really wants a final hurrah then ...

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