Recent content by gamer_parent

you can always do journey to the west stuff with it, with the whole Monkey King and stuff. Of course, the focus would shift less to just resource management, and a lot more on conflict resolution.

It's a completely different market segment. It will get larger, you'll probably see some eventual publisher consolidation (it's already happening now), and entry of barrier into the market place will get to a point that only publishers with real backing will be able to succeed in it. (in that...

You can take the statistics that women don't play certain games in a couple of ways. 1. women do not play these games, therefore we shouldn't bother making games like these for women. 2. women do not play these games because there is something in there that is not working right with women...

The more I think abuot it, the more I agree with you two on this. While the game might not appeal to my own sensibilities, it definitely makes sense to go in this direction once I thought about it. I see what you mean about the character roster though. That is a ridiculously large number of...

Man, I might have to go find myself a copy of SW4 to play then! I think being right below DMC is probably about the right threshold of difficulty here for most of the people who would play a Musou game. To go into more details here (if you'll indulge me), what I mean by AI and...

I would add onto this by saying that western RPGs are often about exploration and self-expression. The ability to create your avatar as you please and fit your preferred self-expression is part and parcel of what makes it all work. So, if one of the only things that prevents a female player from...

If you ask me, I think this label is utterly meaningless because it's definition is so amorphous that it either becomes an arbitrary way for certain people to exclude others in a bit for a sense of elitism, or it encapsulate a group so large that it renders any real discussion about the group as...

I get the sense it has a lot to do with fear. Mostly that there is a fear whereas they used to be the core audience that the industry serves. With this kind of shift, they might not be the most profitable demographic to serve anymore, and they fear that as a result, more of the money in the...

why do you care what your label is? It shouldn't matter at all. The label "gamer" is becoming increasingly useless as an identifier anyway.

I haven't played DW since 5:XL. It's always been one of those games where I'll get a hankering for every so often because I love the IDEA of mowing hundreds of guys on a battlefield, but the moment I actually boot up my old copy of DW5:XL, I find myself horribly bored. This thread got me...

A study on gamer population is met with disdain on the escapist because it includes games they don't like. How surprising. I get that there are a whole lot of issues with the study, but I think the main point it is trying to get across is that the gaming industry, while still very fragmented in...

This right here is pretty much the singular reason why publishers won't do it. If you do it in this fashion, you give the user a chance to back out every single time they turn on the machine, where as with a subscription model, it's once per month they get a chance to back out. A captured...

f*** this is exactly how I felt about this whole debacle. The entire GG thing has become a monumental mess that I honestly don't even think it's worth saving from the heap. I mean, hey, if you feel passionate about something, fine, feel free to figure out ways to enact real changes. If that...

are you guys just made of free time or something?

It would suck. Shadow of Mordor was designed and optimized for a certain kind of play, Skyrim was designed and optimized for another. Trying to mix them together is mixing design agendas and would end up with a game that just does both things poorly.