I'm always slightly confused when people tell me how to do something the right way. That confusion does not extend to manual things, like how to fasten a screw on a machine that might kill me if I don't do it right. But as soon as you start building something more abstract, an MMO for example, then things get hellish confusing.
The problem is not that there are no right ways. The problem is that there are too many. And they oppose each other more often than not.
Yes this is another one of those confusing posts.
Monday, June 20, 2011
Monday, June 13, 2011
The subscription rift
Clever people will easy deduce which game I'm talking about, but this is really not different from others.
I bought a game, new MMO title, with the expressed intention of trying it out with a friend. Explore a little, see what it does well and what it doesn't. It was already late when I decided to install the disk. So I'd just install, maybe let the updates run that probably needed to roll in, while I'd check my mails before going to sleep. Of course in the process of installing you also get told to make an account, entering your key from the booklet. which allows you to play a month for free.
Of course I did not get to play the next day or the day after. In fact life happened and over a month later I finally get a couple hours where I think now would be a good time to try this game. Guess what happened.
I bought a game, new MMO title, with the expressed intention of trying it out with a friend. Explore a little, see what it does well and what it doesn't. It was already late when I decided to install the disk. So I'd just install, maybe let the updates run that probably needed to roll in, while I'd check my mails before going to sleep. Of course in the process of installing you also get told to make an account, entering your key from the booklet. which allows you to play a month for free.
Of course I did not get to play the next day or the day after. In fact life happened and over a month later I finally get a couple hours where I think now would be a good time to try this game. Guess what happened.
Monday, June 06, 2011
Die cut scene, die
I couldn't find a better title. Seriously. The other titles had so many expletives I think I might have been kicked off the internet for that alone. The current one still captures my heartfelt feelings though.
Raise your hand, who played a game where your main motivation was to see the next cut scene, because the rest of the game wasn't all too impressive to play? I'd be coughing in the back now and trying to say Final Fantasy 8 at the same time. Not saying the game is bad. It's just, if you pull away the cut scenes, there is fairly little substance left in ways of story. It's a very grindy game (nothing wrong with that if you're into that) in a very strange world.
Cut scenes have been used by game developers to shiny over some not so stellar other things. Many other things. They also have been used to make the feeling more movie like. Boy what a big pile of [massive amount of expletives deleted, imagine about half an hour worth of bile here].
More samples, like recent ones? MMO samples? Well there are plenty.
Raise your hand, who played a game where your main motivation was to see the next cut scene, because the rest of the game wasn't all too impressive to play? I'd be coughing in the back now and trying to say Final Fantasy 8 at the same time. Not saying the game is bad. It's just, if you pull away the cut scenes, there is fairly little substance left in ways of story. It's a very grindy game (nothing wrong with that if you're into that) in a very strange world.
Cut scenes have been used by game developers to shiny over some not so stellar other things. Many other things. They also have been used to make the feeling more movie like. Boy what a big pile of [massive amount of expletives deleted, imagine about half an hour worth of bile here].
More samples, like recent ones? MMO samples? Well there are plenty.
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