Fun, remember that? Fun?
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Oblivion there is one lack hand mission where you have to kill a house with people (ala closed room murder) it was allot of fun killing people without anybody noticing it
I have fun pretty much every time I play video games, and I can side with your statement on Bioshock 2's multiplayer, say as much as you like about how it "Ruined" the franchise but there's a charm that never gets old to be found in shooting bees at an Australian pilot as a housewife then beating her to death with a candle stick.
Ever played New Super Mario Brothers on the DS with the multiplayer function? Now THAT is fun! It's so simple, yet me and my friends are yelling with glee, letting go of our inhibitions.
This raises the question. Games are good, but are they FUN? A story can be good, but is it FUN?
It's fun as long as you want to keep playing it. That's the short answer. The long answer is in A Theory of Fun for Game Design by Ralph Koster. He is able to explain everything why a game is fun.
This raises the question. Games are good, but are they FUN? A story can be good, but is it FUN?
It's fun as long as you want to keep playing it. That's the short answer. The long answer is in A Theory of Fun for Game Design by Ralph Koster. He is able to explain everything why a game is fun.
The most fun I've ever had with a game is rushing with the Equalizer on in Team Fortress 2.
Just knowing you're the moving faster then everyone else, can kill most people in 1 hit, and can die at just about anything, makes for some very twitchy, fast paced shenanigans.
For me, Equalizer rushing is the only time EVER where dying consistently amuses me.
Just knowing you're the moving faster then everyone else, can kill most people in 1 hit, and can die at just about anything, makes for some very twitchy, fast paced shenanigans.
For me, Equalizer rushing is the only time EVER where dying consistently amuses me.
I prefer 'enjoyment' to 'fun'.
I'm not sure if I'm always looking for 'fun' from my games. Sometimes I'm interested in how the stories conclude, what happens to our hero, his friends and how they will defeat the villain. At other times, I'm obsessed with the challenge of being able to defeat all the bad guys in a room faster than the last time I did it. Neither of those, in my mind, is strictly speaking 'fun'. But I 'enjoy' both.
Perhaps I'm arguing semantics.
I'm not sure if I'm always looking for 'fun' from my games. Sometimes I'm interested in how the stories conclude, what happens to our hero, his friends and how they will defeat the villain. At other times, I'm obsessed with the challenge of being able to defeat all the bad guys in a room faster than the last time I did it. Neither of those, in my mind, is strictly speaking 'fun'. But I 'enjoy' both.
Perhaps I'm arguing semantics.
I'm not an online competitive player so most of what you said was just clicks and whistles to me.
But all the same, as long as your idea of fun isn't actively cheating or ruining the game experience for others then yeah I don't see any problems with it.
But all the same, as long as your idea of fun isn't actively cheating or ruining the game experience for others then yeah I don't see any problems with it.
"Fun" is a good point.
For me, "Borederlands" was FUN. Diablo-2.
Neither make a ton of sense, but they are FUN.
Fun to me, in that sense, is like popcorn or candy, it's great but i need something more substantial -
after a little while i want more out of a game than that kind of "fun" -
but what that is could vary as much from player to player as my idea of a better game does from ( clearly ) what most people think.
For example, I have more overall enjoyemnt with "Xcom apocalypse" than with modern games with graphics so much better the old barely can be seen as a game.
My idea of fun is Ufo: AFtershock, but clearly going after the 6 or seven people who like games like that and cosnider them FUN ( in the greater sense ) just isn't "Triple A".
Edit: I think "Fun" is well behind "will sell", just like " makes sense" fell behind "will sell" for movies and trailers. Only the most rabid geeks make games that are what they consider fun rather than what the manangers told them the focus groups told them, people want to see in game
For me, "Borederlands" was FUN. Diablo-2.
Neither make a ton of sense, but they are FUN.
Fun to me, in that sense, is like popcorn or candy, it's great but i need something more substantial -
after a little while i want more out of a game than that kind of "fun" -
but what that is could vary as much from player to player as my idea of a better game does from ( clearly ) what most people think.
For example, I have more overall enjoyemnt with "Xcom apocalypse" than with modern games with graphics so much better the old barely can be seen as a game.
My idea of fun is Ufo: AFtershock, but clearly going after the 6 or seven people who like games like that and cosnider them FUN ( in the greater sense ) just isn't "Triple A".
Edit: I think "Fun" is well behind "will sell", just like " makes sense" fell behind "will sell" for movies and trailers. Only the most rabid geeks make games that are what they consider fun rather than what the manangers told them the focus groups told them, people want to see in game
Prototype is mainly pure fun. I really enjoy dropping cars in busy streets and infiltrating military bases. It's just... not much variety, so the fun is probably bound to end some time in the future.
But RDR I will probably never get tired of having fun. There's so much to do, so many people and animals to be killed and robbed, so many games to be won and hideouts to be cleared. I even enjoy the multiplayer from time to time when there are no idiots with the urge to kill.
But RDR I will probably never get tired of having fun. There's so much to do, so many people and animals to be killed and robbed, so many games to be won and hideouts to be cleared. I even enjoy the multiplayer from time to time when there are no idiots with the urge to kill.
This x1000.Jedamethis said:
People always end up taking the fun out of games for me. Happens with every online game I play. Even WoW...
The Void, The Misadventures of PB Winterbottom, Braid, Silent Hill 2, The Sam and Max games, GTA VC and some more I cannot remember.