Recent content by Dylan Hentchel

The best use for accents is to section NPCs, this requires a game to put importance to origin, it also requires consistency in accent. Example: The people from the north are at war with the people from the south, you encounter in the south an army general with a northern accent, it is subtle...

Extra Credits is something that as an art form video games really needs: A group of highly educated very intelligent and experienced (no I'm not talking about my 17th level wizard)people to embrace and support the deeper side of gaming. Their academic style of presentation quickly spread their...

If you can fly or shapeshift, than people want to kill you, or at very least dissect you, I would want mental based teleportation.

Going to have to go out onto a very rotten and dangerous limb and say, "extra credits is gone!? because they weren't getting paid!?

I can't say I give two shits about graphics, honestly. Every time I try to come up with a reason for putting preference on graphics, I find that it get lost in the gameplay and simply don't care about the scenery, so long as the graphics support the gameplay (you can see what you need to) then...

First off, the Turn-based strategy game genre that isn't large enough to make much difference. Now, you said that games are a story-telling medium, but I tend to argue, litureture and film are story-telling mediums and while of course games are full capable of telling a story, the medium...

Of course Blizzard isn't immune to it, but they are one of the best at taking care of it, banning and fixing very fast, I couldn't find a maphack that wasn't being traced by blizzard, I did find some assistance bots, which is bad sportsmanship but not really cheating. Did you ever see that game...

Singleplayer won't get phased out, it will remain as a backdrop to multiplayer and you will probably have cheap singleplayer modes for most games and there will still be enough to play local co-op, I feel you on the rounding up friends thing man, but lets be truthful it isn't the easiest thing...

That was said about Raiden style games, and now you only see them in no budget flash games that you can play at any public library

The question is are singleplayer going to turn out like arcade games, so yes they will survive in some form for a really freakin' long time. just like the how arcades have. And a split will likely occur as you described it but without very much of the singleplayer.

If you don't think SC is strategy then I would love to hear what you consider strategy And if you think it is always the same thing than I would suggest watching some of the pro games (after familiarizing yourself with the game of course) so much of it is about intel (the legitimate kind not...

1: Don't play half baked games. 2: Simple to switch games, but yeah they suck. 3: Don't play team when you get fed up with this. 4: Mute. . . And they aren't 5. So I take it that you have never player WC3 online or SC:Brood war? 1: Gone, blizzard fixed map hacks 2: Can ruin one game...

Ok Lag in GunZ was handled like many computer shooters of the time, while you lag you can't be hit and can't do anything and have an icon over your head, so it wasn't really bad (not many laggers while I was playing) Greifing and TK's didn't exist, because it was all FFA deathmatch and people...

Arcades died out because it made gaming at home plausable, single player will suffer a similar fate because the internet makes gaming with others plausable, now the only difference between the two is money, you see it became cheaper to play at home with consuls, but it is cheaper for the game...

Don't you think that has anything to do with the fact that you grew up with it?