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• diamondspider: Posted Nov 24, 2010 8:07pm PST A few more: -Solium Infernum (if this were a board game, it would be among the best). -King Arthur (mixing wargame, epic saga, and RPG? neato)...
• diamondspider: Posted Nov 24, 2010 8:01pm PST AI still sucks = game still sucks...
• diamondspider: Posted Nov 24, 2010 7:08pm PST A common question asked of nearly every artistic endevour.... Anyways: 1) based on the sales of these games, while they may be similar, they...
• diamondspider: Posted Nov 24, 2010 3:09pm PST I guess trying to draw conclusions about a person based on one podcast shows a lack of thinking straight. Other games that Brian have almost...
• diamondspider: Posted Nov 23, 2010 10:34pm PST WTF!? I thought your entire direction now was a total commitment to being as much like Jeff as possible! I'm so disappointed in you... ;)
• diamondspider: Posted Nov 23, 2010 10:28pm PST As to if Assassin's creed really is a sandbox or not, I'd debate... is really didn't feel like one to me, or at least not a good example of one.
• diamondspider: Posted Nov 23, 2010 10:21pm PST Good old Bartle test... I'm primarily an Explorer, with a minor in Socializer. So I love open world above all, and co-op games second. Brian...
• diamondspider: Posted Nov 23, 2010 10:15pm PST Well said... in addition, as Adam Smith pointed out very clearly, if the bean counters do a great job and help steer a company to a very profitable...
• diamondspider: Posted Nov 22, 2010 5:27pm PST Exactly... and this has already happened to me with most FPS games. BF1942, with the huge maps and gradual taking of each victory point, vehicles,...
• diamondspider: Posted Nov 22, 2010 5:15pm PST I agree, the question should be applied, and my analysis is that the answer is "keep it in" the reason being that the tradeoff between mobility and...
• diamondspider: Posted Nov 22, 2010 5:10pm PST I'm not against streamlining in general. In fact, I gave one of my GOTY awards to ME2 exactly because they reworked their multi-character control...
• diamondspider: Posted Nov 22, 2010 4:12pm PST I didn't try 1, to be honest. I just know that trying to play 2, the number of times that I'd jump and land in from of something, hoping to spin...
• diamondspider: Posted Nov 22, 2010 4:09pm PST I agree, I'm all for innovation. However, innovation is something that is difficult to plan, risky, and not to be taken lightly. Most mechanics...
• diamondspider: Posted Nov 22, 2010 2:32pm PST I wrote about this in detail last week, but my design philosophy is tjhat the root of good design is to create interesting choices for the players...
• diamondspider: Posted Nov 22, 2010 1:45pm PST I guess I just don't consider trying to judge a companies approach to making profit a good use of time. Having both bought and sold stock in these...