Re: Alien and Starship Games Fail. Realism (or low tech) is prefered.
- From: Xocyll <Xocyll@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 31 Dec 2005 01:00:58 -0500
Alexander <dontbotherme@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> looked up from reading the
entrails of the porn spammer to utter "The Augury is good, the signs
say:
>On Sat, 31 Dec 2005 01:39:11 +0100, Mean_Chlorine
><mike_noren2002@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>>Thusly Walter Mitty <mitticus@xxxxxxxxx> Spake Unto All:
>>
>>>Come on girls : handbags away.
>>
>>Negative on that. I've finally found a handbag which fits two bricks
>>and has metal-reinforced edges.
>>
>>>FWIW, I thought your discussion was interesting and far from fluffy,
>>>but all to their own : I guess you caught MC on a real bad day :-;
>>
>>Well, there is that. Then there's that I get annoyed by people posting
>>300 line posts which boil down to "Why is my personal subjective and
>>completely unsupported opinion that games which I subjectively feel to
>>have an undefined humanistic low-tech feel are more successful than
>>games which I subjectively feel to have an undefined high-tech feel?
>>Discuss."
>
>And how unfortunate it is for you on the roughest day of your
>menstrual cycle that a number of people here (apparently with higher
>IQs I might add), thought it was a topic that was worthy of
>discussion.
You must be new to the whole usenet thing.
We discuss all kinds of relatively pointless things here so don't go
feeling all special or validated.
Bottom line in the whole fantasy game vs sci-fi game - fantasy gets made
more because it's a lot more work making a sci-fi game, having a
plausible storyline, believable weapons and other tech and so on and
doing so while dodging all possible comparisons to Star Trek or Star
Wars.
It's easy to believe that two guys flailed away at each other with
swords for 5 minutes and neither of them died.
When one guy is hosing down the entire area the second guy is in with a
full auto shotgun, it's not believable at all that guy two doesn't
resemble mulch, much less is unharmed.
It's infinitely easier to throw in a few elves and halflings, an
assortment of swords and armor, some dismal dungeons and spooky swamps
and top it off with a plot Tolkien wouldn't wipe his ass with.
Xocyll
--
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Painfully, Progressively, Expensively, Debilitatingly Ill. So
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