Recent content by namtastic

Ha, I saw this reprint and thought, gee, I wonder if the complaints would be reprinted as well. Glad to see I wasn't disappointed. You're right, we need more games that play themselves.

I think you're taking my statement a bit too literally. My point was that children enjoy creating new challenges and objectives for themselves in games -- and for that matter in any form of Play -- *far* more than adults do. Like the moment in the Spider-man title that the article mentions...

Bless you, Yahtzee, for the "Resident Gigolo" reference. "Barry, don't screw up again."

BTW, no one I've met yet can stand the opening cut-scene in Mario Galaxy, especially since it is unskippable. The funny thing about Mario games is that they are recognized as being all about play first, so the idea that it needs a story -- and an elaborate setting -- is ridiculous to them...

I sum it up into one word: PURPOSE. Adults want to feel a sense of it. Kids have no need of it. Everything that people say is bad about a "sandbox" environment, where you can almost do anything you want but you don't really know what to do next is exactly the kind of that kids like; they...