tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5979339353366878191.post6537508829831908358..comments2024-03-21T00:16:15.883+00:00Comments on Plot is Gameplay's Bitch: Some Upcoming Games I'm Excited About: No. 9 - 7Tom Juberthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14570661671387482872noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5979339353366878191.post-55664903449492541492010-07-07T19:22:31.912+01:002010-07-07T19:22:31.912+01:00Yeah, the time travel mechanic in that one looks l...Yeah, the time travel mechanic in that one looks like it works very nicely. If only the game around it was as inventive.Tom Juberthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14570661671387482872noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5979339353366878191.post-7478877631680789092010-07-03T12:46:05.238+01:002010-07-03T12:46:05.238+01:00Looked like I just screwed up that link with no cl...Looked like I just screwed up <a href="http://achrongame.com/site/" rel="nofollow">that link</a> with no close quote. Ah well.Harbour Masterhttp://www.electrondance.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5979339353366878191.post-81042071861231888892010-07-03T12:44:43.105+01:002010-07-03T12:44:43.105+01:00To be more precise: I could never get into RTSes, ...To be more precise: I could never get into RTSes, they always needed more sit-down time than I was willing to give up.<br /><br />Darwinia reeled me in without making me work hard to study everything. That's the odd thing, despite the Introversion boys being slated by Microsoft QA about a hideous interface, they managed to cut through the thick RTS surface scum into the heart of the experience - and pulled me into a game genre I'd never really grokked before.<br /><br />When I see stuff like <a href="http://achrongame.com/site/>this</a>, though, it scares the shit out of me.Harbour Masterhttp://www.electrondance.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5979339353366878191.post-53301257632883858642010-07-02T17:10:20.258+01:002010-07-02T17:10:20.258+01:00LOL, I think RTSs used to be fun, it's just Da...LOL, I think RTSs used to be fun, it's just Darwinia was one of only two games in the last 15 years to do anything different with the formula. <br /><br />If you don't know the other straight off the bat, you probably need to go check out Perimeter ¨:-)Tom Juberthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14570661671387482872noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5979339353366878191.post-31735416743327133692010-06-30T22:28:27.066+01:002010-06-30T22:28:27.066+01:00I missed the whole X-Com thing as I was not a majo...I missed the whole X-Com thing as I was not a major PCphile at the time, so I can look upon XCOM without dread. That didn't stop me having a <a href="http://www.electrondance.com/?p=88" rel="nofollow">quick go at X-Com</a> though.<br /><br />Been excited about Subversion for awhile. It was Darwinia that taught me that RTS games could be fun. Thank you Introversion.Harbour Masterhttp://www.electrondance.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5979339353366878191.post-35555523827793015022010-06-27T14:21:20.094+01:002010-06-27T14:21:20.094+01:00I can't comment for anyone else, but personall...I can't comment for anyone else, but personally I WOULD complain about those examples as well. I recall the original ME was criticised for its generic space opera setting at the time, and I'm very definately bored to tears with elves and orcs.<br /><br />Like you, I really enjoy the "America-in-the-50s-gone-bad" stylings of Bioshock and Fallout, it just feels like the Bioshock team could have been more ambitious than setting their new IP in territory so familiar to them.<br /><br />I'd hate to see retro-sci-fi become the new middle earth.Tom Juberthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14570661671387482872noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5979339353366878191.post-45481544250075220442010-06-26T21:17:38.607+01:002010-06-26T21:17:38.607+01:00Re: XCOM.
OK, I keep seeing this all over the pla...Re: XCOM.<br /><br />OK, I keep seeing this all over the place, and I have to ask. How is this ...<br /><br />"The setting is Fallout and Bioshock's love child."<br /><br />... a bad thing? It's like all those people complaining that BioShock 2 took place in Rapture again and it felt like an old thing and blah --I never saw any of those people (or any other people for that matter) complain when, say, Mass Effect was set the same Star Wars-ripoff universe we've been seeing in gaming for like 40 years; or when Dragon Age: Origins took place in the same pseudo-Middle Earth we've been seeing since the motherf'ing dawn of time. <br /><br />Me, I wish we see A LOT more games with that retro-futuristic America-in-the-50s-gone-bad kind of setting.<br /><br />And once that gets old, maybe we can do something with Victorian England.Martín S. Camargohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15302454803867699244noreply@blogger.com