"epically traveling the planet surface via a deadly ATV tank on jets"? Oh, you mean endless trudging over featureless wastelands in a toy car with poor handling and atrocious physics. Yeah, it was so much better spending hours upon hours bouncing around aimlessly just to do a few quests, as opposed to spending 1 hour out of a 30-hour playthrough on a minigame and be done with it... [/sarcasm]geldonyetich said:
Yes, exactly, I think it's important that we understand that games should not try to do anything ambitious at all, for fear that it might be in some way boring. Instead, they need to replace any such elements with things that are convenient. Like any decent human being, I don't want a 5 course meal, I'd rather have some instant noodles in a cup prepared with lukewarm tap water. I'm a busy man, I don't have time for this "innovation" crap. Lately I've been putting some hard thought into tearing off all my clothes and retreating back to the trees to subsist on bananas and grubs. That was the life.Jandau said:
Yes, you and others like you are very busy people and have little time for mistakes of others. So when you order and get a five course meal you will not accept that your salad was sliced instead of shredded, since that is the difference that turns a brilliant meal into a total gastronomical disaster. Instead, you'll do what any responsible individual and go badmouth the restaurant around. Who cares if the meal was pure bliss to the sense of taste? The salad was cut the wrong way and that's all that counts!geldonyetich said:
Exactly! I would be completely in the wrong to badmouth a restaurant for replacing their Duck A L'Orange with a single steamed lima bean. After all, that Duck was less than perfect and all that inconvenient chewing took time out of my day that I was planning on spending on solving the great mysteries of the universe. In the end, when that lima bean turned out to cost the same amount as the far larger meal, I wasn't outraged. No, I stormed the kitchen and covered the cook with big slobbery kisses for saving me all the unnecessary effort a more substantial meal would have given me. Besides, that lima bean as absolutely delicious, so delicious it was well worth regurgitating and eating again for hours.Jandau said:
Good question! It's not at all obvious that when I'm referring to a smaller convenient meal as opposed to a larger but less convenient meal that I might be referring to the driving sequences in Mass Effect 1 versus the scanning mini-game in Mass Effect 2. It might actually require that somebody do something thoroughly unreasonable, like play the games or read the thread.Cheveyo said: