The Rules of All Video Games
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#) NPCs will repeat the same thing over and over
#) Bosses will do a certain pattern of moves to leave themselves venerable to attacks, popular ones seems to be:
-having their backs open (usually the weakest point on the boss). Most likly due to being stunned by running into a wall, or having his weapon stuck in the floor because you dodge it in the last second
- having indestructible armour that nothing can hurt him except from the timed bombs that he is nice enough to throw at you.
#)items will only work sometimes EXAMPLES: Phoenix downs, Rations, green herbs etc etc
oh and guests on shooters will always be made default rather than inverted to annoy the shit out of me....
#) Bosses will do a certain pattern of moves to leave themselves venerable to attacks, popular ones seems to be:
-having their backs open (usually the weakest point on the boss). Most likly due to being stunned by running into a wall, or having his weapon stuck in the floor because you dodge it in the last second
- having indestructible armour that nothing can hurt him except from the timed bombs that he is nice enough to throw at you.
#)items will only work sometimes EXAMPLES: Phoenix downs, Rations, green herbs etc etc
oh and guests on shooters will always be made default rather than inverted to annoy the shit out of me....
I mean it more theoretically.Misterpinky said:
You see, to achieve greatness is storytelling, you have to tick off boxes in a certain order.
However, you would be surprised how formulaic this all is. See http://www.escapistmagazine.com/articles/view/issues/issue_195/5909-A-Videogame-in-Three-Acts for an excellent digression about this.
If you want to tell a story this way, you have to take away some of the players freedom, otherwise the pacing gets raped. Telling both a story and offering freedom can be done both, however, by exposing the structure of the game. This has often been done by RPG's (yes, like Bioware's). Explaining how your world works, however, does not make for immersion.
Immersion, for the record, means not feeling involved with the game. Immersion is feeling like you're completely in the world on your screen. The effect has often been compared to dipping in a warm bath.
I am not saying this problem is unsolvable. I merely think that at the moment, games are at a stage movies were about 100 years ago: trying to imitate another medium, instead of making the most of the possibilities. Film back then tried to create theater, and games now are trying to create movies.
This will be solved once the possibilities of games are clear and defined, just like it has with film. My hope is mostly with the "Valve-approach", explained http://www.escapistmagazine.com/articles/view/issues/issue_236/6999-Gordon-Freeman-Private-Eye here.
Hope this was not too long, this is kind of my thing
the bad guy ALWAYS dies at the end through some massive boss fight, he never just falls down the stairs and breaks his neck while he's getting his morning coffee on his day off.
Some RPG rules:
1. You will get captured. Don't expect this to be a bad thing, as the prison is always right next to the room where they're keeping all your weapons and armor.
2. There will always be some sort of arena, optional or not.
1. You will get captured. Don't expect this to be a bad thing, as the prison is always right next to the room where they're keeping all your weapons and armor.
2. There will always be some sort of arena, optional or not.
This isn't a rule for all games but is for some.
- Everyone seems to know what you're doing at all times. (Fallout - everyone seems to know that you've killed a child, even if they've never met you) (Oblivion - just because you killed/stole something in complete secrecy the guards know you're guilty)
- Everyone seems to know what you're doing at all times. (Fallout - everyone seems to know that you've killed a child, even if they've never met you) (Oblivion - just because you killed/stole something in complete secrecy the guards know you're guilty)
