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Warren Spector Q&A

by Maarten Goldstein, Jun 27, 2006 10:07am PDT

Related Topics – Valve, Games: PC

Over at EuroGamer you can find a new Q&A with game designer Warren Spector. The interview covers Spector's Junction Point Studios partnership with Valve, creative freedom, the next-gen console war, and his game design philosophy.

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I much prefer Spector's "kitchen sink" philosophy over Newell's minimalistic approach. I've always liked promoting exploring levels for more goodies (and I've always liked building such levels... way more fun), and Valve has always disappointed there.

Jun 27, 2006 10:32am PDT

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I much prefer Spector's "kitchen sink" philosophy over Newell's minimalistic approach. I've always liked ... : GreatGooglyMoogly
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  Same here. Finding secret ammo caches generally isn't enough incentive to get me to explore every nook a... : aasyranth
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    Yeah. And Valve doesn't even do the ammo thing... even THAT would be a plus in their book as far as I'm c... : GreatGooglyMoogly
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      Sandtraps was a mistake, IMO. I hate jumping puzzles and that's what it amounted to, much like the last l... : Morphius
      
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      It is people like you two who drive FPS games into just mindless running and gunning. Someone tries to o... : deathofrats
      
      FPS games are no racing games, nor are they platformers nor beat'em ups (eg.). Some variety helps, but if... : yuried
      
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      I'm all for variety and innovation... as long as it doesn't suck. : GreatGooglyMoogly
      
      Metroid Prime's got the best jumping in any first person perspective game I've ever played. Your view tu... : aasyranth
      
      i thought the vehicle parts of hl2 were superb. : italiano3d
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      Good gods people, get over it. You could have run through those sand sequences and just fought the insec... : deathofrats
      
      Actually I hate jump'n'run sequences in all FPS games, mainly because I'd like to see my feet in order to... : yuried
      
      There was no way of knowing that that ended up being the best course of action. Some pointers would've be... : GreatGooglyMoogly

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I'm the explorer-type of gamer, no matter in what game, and therefore I prefer Warren's approach as well ;)

Jun 27, 2006 10:53am PDT

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I'm the explorer-type of gamer, no matter in what game, and therefore I prefer Warren's approach as well ... : yuried
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  Yeah. While I agree that it's not necessarily good to create loads of content which a lot of people might... : code-e255
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    While I agree that it's not necessarily good to create loads of content which a lot of people might not s : Morphius
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      well, from an economic perspective one could argue - and Valve does - that the time creating optional con : yuried
      
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      Yeah...I agree with that. It does cost more to put more into a game. And Sandtraps WAS a pain in the a... : Morphius
      
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      IMO it could have worked if it wasn't such a long sequence - I feel the same about the extended dark part... : yuried
      
      at least the glorified jumping puzzle didn't ruin my overall experience like the original Half-Life :)... : Morphius
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  Ditto. I loved HL2, but when you got stuck you were stuck until you accidentally figured it out. In Deus ... : node
  - never happened to me as badly in HL as it did in SiN, where I would regularly be "stuck" because I missed... : yuried