I was joking about the arm cannon in my response. You 're right, my statement in the original article about Samus being an amputee was incorrect. I apologize. She is not an amputee. r n r nYou point out that it 's actually Samus ' suit becoming more powerful, not ...
This whole debacle around the article has made me incredibly happy. It 's like we 're seeing games journalism go through the awkwardness of puberty before our very eyes Within our lifetimes we 'll see it become a mature adult.
Have you played/read Ian Bogost 's game poems collection, A Slow Year It features a thousand machined haiku. The whole thing is essentially about what you write about here. r nLink: http://www.bogost.com/games/game poems.shtml
There 's also the fact that speaking protagonists are awkward in first-person games. In the first-person view, the player is meant to be the protagonist. And perhaps until voice recognition is advanced enough that the player can have real conversations with NPCs Seaman style , it will always feel unnatural ...
Ha. This seems in line with the featured post I wrote last week about Alan Wake 's limited open world, and I got a lot of flak from a few people. r nI agree, linearity is good for telling the story its creator wants to tell. But I guess we ...
Another downside of emergent gameplay in story-driven sandbox titles is often the emergent gameplay clashes with the tone the developer is going for. It 's hard to make a single death or a single car chase quite as climactic in GTA when the player kills people and races cars all ...
As a teenager probably when most of us did the bulk of our local multiplayer gaming , I remember only getting frustrated with maps that people wanted to play over and over. No, I don 't want to play Hyrule Temple in Super Smash Bros. for the 400th time But ...
It 's great that you learned something from a competing game, rather than simply getting pissed off that they copied your idea. I don 't know if I 'd have the presence of mind to do the same if it happened to me. Maybe if more devs put their pride ...
