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Halo meets Pikmin. You play as a Prophet whose warship crashes on a human controlled world. If you have any hope of leaving you have no choice but to go out and look for the scattered parts of your ship. Armed only with a hover chair and the unwavering loyalty of your henchmen, fight the...

I'm not sure I agree with this. There is plenty to discuss concerning multiplayer modes. After all, quite a bit of work has to go into designing and creating them beyond just "take single player and have more people shooting at one another". You could discuss things like: - How well does the...

Oh, never mind then. I thought you were getting at it when you started discussing how the OP needs to know a lot about their subject (which is totally fine and true) and then implied that going the Dan Brown route of 'hoping nobody double checks you' was strictly bad. The 'double checks you'...

Brief aside: I don't fully understand the trend I've been seeing on internet forums that "All Sci-Fi should be Hard Sci-Fi, if its going to be good". Sci-Fi doesn't have to be about predicting the future realistically, or even totally enamored with technology. Sci-Fi is a genre, not a technical...

I can say that Macross Ultimate Frontier and Gundam VS Gundam: Next Plus are both really fun games, and both draw playable units/missions from all of their respective franchises. However, both are Japanese only and have no real chance of ever getting localized for western markets. So you either...

As someone interested in being involved with the creation of storyline in games and the characters that inhabit it, I would like to know how it works for Bioware. Do you have specific 'storyline writer(s)' whose job is mainly to write, revise, and help integrate the storyline during the...

Hmm the two can, and have been combined but it depends on if you are talking about Art direction or Storyline. The two are uncommonly (but by no means rarely) combined in Art direction but in storyline one usually is dominate over the other. Classically speaking, Science fiction stories and...

From my viewpoint its less that there were aliens themselves but rather how they were presented. With things like the Grail, voodoo dolls and the Arc of the Covenant you get the feeling that you are dealing with something very old. The items and plots were based on myths and legends, the...

As someone in Computer Science and having taken an AI class. I would have to say that even if computers had free will and personality they would probably act very werid. In movies they are always murderious or act like butlers/guardians. In books they act nice...then go crazy and go into...

Trouble is, the judgment you put on those 'bogus' projects you mentioned is based on hindsight. Going into those projects they probably all seemed like good ideas to those who proposed them and to those who give out funding. But alas, that is the problem that all projects face, on one hand they...

I would say no based on the fact that dramatically increasing the armed forces or creating a new volunteer force would create quite a few economic issues. For one thing, who is going to pay for all of these new mandatory soldiers/civic workers? I would think the main reason that service in...

Wait, it says Harvard LAMPOON gave her that award. So a comedy magazine gave her an award for woman of the year? Hunh, probably because she gives them so much material to work with.

Virtual-On (the Original one, I have it for the PC) Tetris Attack

Well if you wanted to go the WWI route, I don't think that it would be a straight up combat game. Another route you could go is a combat survival simulator. Basically, the point of the game wouldn?t be so much about run and gun, but rather surviving life in the trenches. Watching out for...

I liked this article, as one of those hundreds of people who wants to be a game designer in the future I appreciate hearing this kind of stuff. Of course I already have a kind of plan, go into the industry as a programmer (working on this right now) and then eventually jump to game design...