Recent content by Panzeh

For people who say you can't control WW2 combat in real time, look at the Close Combat series to see how wrong that is.

I think the people who say piracy is here to stay are right, but I don't think they'll like the consequences. Because most good-budget computer games are trying to be sold to tech-savvy teenagers, piracy is going to be a fact of life. This is a demographic that knows how to pirate and for a...

I didn't like Deus Ex because you were supposed to be some super-awesome agent but you couldn't hit the broad side of a barn with your handgun unless you trained it up. Most RPG elements seem rather arbitrary and crude in the FPS environment. A lot of DE's little 'choices' are lost on joe Q...

If you had a good AI would you wait until the hardest difficulty to show it off when it's already hard to show off in the first place?

I don't see how a visible 'force field' encasing the entire level is any less arbritrary than an invisible wall. You can fault doom 3 for its really samey environs(which weren't much different from doom 1+2) but free roam is not really appropriate for that type of game, and faulting those games...

Well, the alternatives are most certainly less palatable, however. You could either go heavy with the blatant invisible walls, 2 foot high insurmountable fences, or you could set every level in some sort of constricted valley. Even in the wide-open Flashpoint games if you went off the map all...