A game designer in training. Was a student, then contract QA at Activision. Now looking for work. Deeply interested in all things game related, though I fall on the mechanics side of the great mechanics-story debate.
The only part of the challenge I want them to remove is lack of ammo, because I was already conserving my ammo which I don't think is fun gameplay except in super-hardcore survival horror and the fact that I received none meant I couldn't play the game in the way ...
Good point. I think this approach can work well when done right, but when it fails neither the story nor gameplay are quite good enough and you get an average/mediocre AAA game, which seems all to common these days.
The Steam release has kind of revived the game, but it isn't really gaining ground. Most of the game was bug free when I tried it and the leavers are pretty lame, but I don't think there's a better solution to the problem maybe popping another queued player in and ...
I actually think games that have both deep RPG mechanics and very twitchy action mechanics are great, but they are few and far between. Most RPGifying is done really simplistically to the point where character builds aren't complex enough to have unique strategy. Most Actionifying similarly is adding bland shooter ...
I agree that a lot of knowledge of human psychology is useful as a tool for designing games. On the other hand, it seems to me that if you can't find the fun in your game by intuition and design feel, you aren't going to find it with metrics and ...
