Comments on: Rules For Games: Do & Don’t #1

By: Belua

Belua — Wed, 10 Aug 2011 13:36:24 +0000

This should be a group effort. Everyone in these comments should pick the same name and put journal entries around the world. It would be like geocaching, only weirder!

By: Belua

Belua — Wed, 10 Aug 2011 12:41:46 +0000

Is it weird that the “YOUR APPOINTMENT TO FEMA[...]” line is so burned into my brain that I actually heard the voice from the game in my head saying it when I read that comment?

By: oxymelum

oxymelum — Tue, 08 Feb 2011 20:37:52 +0000

Also, let me shoot myself in the legs please.

By: Criptych

Criptych — Tue, 07 Dec 2010 22:22:56 +0000

It’s no Deus Ex, but if you haven’t you should try out the excellent (and free!) game Iji. That’s a major premise of the game: you get to decide how to deal with the baddies – kill them yourself, get them to kill each other, or ignore them completely – and parts of the story even change to accommodate. You can even get a particular enemy to “turn traitor” and destroy one of the bosses for you (essential to getting the “zero kills” ending :).

By: Criptych

Criptych — Tue, 07 Dec 2010 21:41:06 +0000

If by “rocket jumping” you mean “accelerating in midair because you were hit by (or fired) a rocket” – that is (semi-)realistic movement. Granted, not dying messily from the resulting explosion… isn’t so realistic.

By: peachykeen

peachykeen — Wed, 27 Oct 2010 20:40:16 +0000

Splinter Cell.

“Don’t set off an alarm, Fisher.”
“Don’t set off another alarm, Fisher.”
“Dammit, you set off an alarm, Fisher.”
“Fisher, didn’t I tell you not to set off an alarm.”
“Be careful with the alarms, Fisher.”
“Watch where you leave bodies, Fisher. Someone might set off an alarm.”

That series almost single-handedly ruined in-ear assistance.

By: JustBoo

JustBoo — Sat, 31 Jul 2010 19:36:17 +0000

@jeremy: Everything you said and all the “don’ts” in this article are done in the PC version of Assassin’s Creed. Just exiting the game was an exercise in frustration.

By: Cunzy1 1

Cunzy1 1 — Fri, 09 Jul 2010 08:00:05 +0000

Don’t forget gnomes.

By: iainl

iainl — Fri, 09 Jul 2010 07:53:57 +0000

This, very much so. Oblivion has been sat on my shelf for the last two years because I reached the point in the story where you have to give up all your possessions to infiltrate somewhere. I don’t _want_ to lose all the expensive goodies I’ve spent a long time accumulating, and there’s no way to tell the ‘permanent storage’ cupboards from the ‘things mysteriously vanish after a while’ ones.

By: Adventurous Putty

Adventurous Putty — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 21:24:11 +0000

Did someone say Morrowind?

Excuse me while I change my pants.

By: ffordesoon

ffordesoon — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 20:55:00 +0000

I play both console and PC games, but I would consider myself a “console gamer.” And I am here to say: DO NOT BLAME US.

I hate pretty much everything that’s been mentioned with a passion, and I know plenty of “console gamers” who also do. I DON’T like having less options, I DON’T like needless cutscenes, I DON’T like long and unskippable tutorials, and I SURE AS HELL DON’T like shittily designed contextual “press A to win” systems. I do not enjoy playing a “dumbed down” version of a game, because it is DUMBED DOWN. Now, I like it when systems are streamlined and unjankified, but that’s because elegant design is, for me, better than inelegant design. Contextual button systems are usually inelegant and make the game harder. The only reason it works in Zelda is because no options have ever been taken away from the player or otherwise gimped in between games. Link can do MORE now than he could in previous titles, and that’s entirely due to contextual control. Because Miyamoto (or whoever) designs the game first, and THEN asks what control system would work best FOR THAT PARTICULAR GAME.

So don’t blame console gamers. Blame console developers and publishers.

By: seventh

seventh — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 13:44:55 +0000

Doors that you can’t destroy or open even though you’re a black-ops mutant lizard ninja demigod with lasers.

But then can open once you’ve solved some sort of gay little puzzle.