Recent content by Tzfanya

Yahtzee, you say a lot of things, most of which I nod appreciatively at or smirk knowingly along with. This, however, is a stroke of absolute bloody genius. Couple of other scenarios that would work as vessels for the concept: someone with some wasting disease that slowly atrophies them over...

Thank you! Yes, I'd been waiting for someone to say that. Quite easily one of the worst games of all time, and then the ending redoubles its efforts at completely sucking.

Get slaughtered, start again, get better. If the game is well made, there shouldn't be any frustration: the trick is to make the challenge, and overcoming the challenge, enjoyable. The alternative is what we've currently got which is games that are far, far too easy because you get all your...

Health bars add more drama to a situation. Regenerating health makes each combat binary: either you win it, or you don't. With a health bar you may win the fire fight, but then you're down to 40% of your health and that leaves you creeping around praying the next round of enemies isn't sitting...

"Time will erase everything!" Yeah... think I might skip over this one.

Thaius - that's what I was getting at. I think the article raises some nice ideas, like individual enemies that you're fighting singing parts of the song, and stopping when they die, and I think there's a lot of scope for other cool stuff. Like boss fights being duets between you and the boss...

Aha. I guess I may be outspoken in my love of musicals here, then.

Hi all, I don't post much, but I just read an article about turning MGS into a musical (the article is here, if anyone's interested: http://readingnews.org/tech_intui/article.php?id=824 ). I'm fairly certain it's a spoof, but nevertheless, it got me thinking: there are some games that I think...

To clarify: does each goblin switch each switch that is a multiple of their shirt number? So goblin one flicks all the switches once, goblin two flicks all the even switches once, etc?

Burld - simply saying what a game is about and what happens in it is a report, not a review.