Recent content by Kian2

Sorry to hear it. I wanted to like the series, but really I've been reading it out of habit more than interest. My biggest problem, if you are looking for feedback at this point, is that I don't know the characters, don't know what's going on, and don't know why I should care. I mean, it...

I was mostly disappointed by Megan's characterization. In the game she was on board with what the bad guys were doing so long as it allowed her to further her research. It was a cool twist. She was at most deceived, but not forced at gunpoint. Which makes sense, you can't force a scientist to do...

I don't agree with turn based combat and grid based movement being a matter of technological limitation. Chess has grid based movement not because it's impossible to move the pieces to any position you want on a board (as it plainly isn't), but because that opens up interesting strategic...

Reminds me of the quote by Henry Ford, "If I'd asked customers what they wanted, they would have said 'a faster horse'." You can't be innovative by asking consumers what they want. They want what they know, only better. Which is not to say you shouldn't have user testing. But you should use...

"Games are unnecessary obstacles that we volunteer to tackle" already includes all those additions. "Obstacles" are rules and goals. Surpassing those obstacles implies success, failing to do it implies failure. If you are volunteering to tackle these rules and goals, you must find something...

I actually think "Games are unnecessary obstacles that we volunteer to tackle" is an amazing definition for a game. The operative word being "volunteer". If work makes you play a stupid 'game', it's not a game. It's a chore. If you choose to participate in the same activity, it becomes a game...

I don't know if he made it on purpose, but I thought it was a funny parallelism that in bringing up the Retake deal with mass effect in the ending to his article, he's doing the same thing Bioware did. Ruining a perfectly good article by bringing up at the end themes and issues that were not...

I want games to be art. But art has been studied for as long as it has been created, and there are rules to art. Stories in particular follow certain conventions. For example, everyone recognizes that a writer who brings up something that was never hinted at before to resolve a situation, such...

So too many nose sliders is a bad thing, but not letting you pick the angle on the bowler hat is wrong too?

How is a two week study representative of long term effects for anything?

That's not a bug. That's the system working to specification flawlessly. The specification just didn't involve the AI removing obstructions to their line of sight when possible. In fact, I don't think the AI can interact with objects like that at all. It can only pick up and equip, not drag...

I don't think Jade Empire is quite my favorite game, although it's up there. I can say, however, that it has my favorite story twist of any game I ever played. Spoiler'd, although for a six year old game I really shouldn't need to: Actually, now that I think about it, KotOR and Jade...

I don't see the creepy at all. I thought it was quite fascinating, really.

No, but all the teams in the same 'league' are playing at the same difficulty level. There are usually several leagues, with the best league profiting the most from advertisers, and the best players making the most money. People playing with a few friends in the park don't make any money...

Hmm, Redhead is in the lead, followed by Black hair, with dirty blond and plain blond fighting for last place. Interesting. Redhead is best FemShep (but I play MaleShep anyway, Tali is best everything).