My solution was to reward them with more experiences and conveniences that they 'd want but not necessarily need r n r nI like to call these types of micro transactions - quality of life as most of the time your not adding new gameplay, but enhancing or improving what ...
I think this is a good point and goes back to the old question: journey vs. destination. Or relating to video games: Is the experience of the game more important then just finishing it r n r nAs you said, Lee 's story begins and ends the same way no ...
Very interesting post and definitely some good lessons for designers today. r n r nRegarding 999, I hear you on that one. Great game, interesting premise but the path to the good ending was one of the most esoteric experiences I saw that whole year. And having to play the ...
I 'm curious as to why you would rank POE at the bottom when it comes to combat I recently started playing it again and I like how action skills are tied to drops and can be improved and combined with modifier gens.
-- the floaty, imprecise, buggy and experimental controls of Mario 64, released in 1996 at the dawn of the 3D console era, give players unique opportunities to subvert the game and get ahead quickly. r n r nI wonder if Nintendo realized it at the time how 3d opened the ...
Interesting question. Personally I don 't know if I would group open world RPGs in the same category as open world titles like Batman, GTA or Just Cause. As in most cases an open world RPG follows the same rules as a RPG, but on a larger scale. You 're ...
Where things get interesting is about a month later. We kept talking about how much we enjoyed the scenario so, on a whim, we decided to replay it. The first thing we had to do was run a patch. We replay the scenario and all is the same except this ...
Interesting piece, I also tend to favor playing the bad guy on my first run of any game with a moral slider. The reason for me is that I 'm curious to see how the designers will take it. For instance one of my favorite examples of it would be ...
If we remember from the 80s, an over saturation of low quality games was one of the reasons for the game industry crash, the industry lost consumer confidence in their products. r n r nGranted with the different facets of the industry today digital and indie markets , that chance ...
Except that combat is predictable, very predictable due to the constraints of the cover and move system. It doesn 't matter how the maps were designed or randomized in the pool as your strategy on them remains the same: stick to high cover and try to flank. By the end ...
