April 25, 2009 1:44:04 AM
I might suggest you're just looking in the wrong places. Reactive AI partners might be far away, but many characters in Assault on Dark Athena, for example, are enormously compelling. I could have watched Dacher act all day. I've also had the same reaction, believe it or not, to a few characters in Heavenly Sword (a game which is slowly convincing me that anti-Japan critics are also looking in the wrong place).Of course, there's a difference between a character who is written and acted well in cut-scenes, and a character who acts like a real person during gameplay. Even so, the former can keep me enthralled with a game for a long time (see any Blizzard game pre-WoW).
April 25, 2009 1:36:55 AM
I noticed this too - have been noticing it for awhile, as a trend. And I agree with you. Great piece!
January 14, 2009 12:24:00 PM
The narration bit is probably fun for the guy who submitted the story, but it doesn't translate to a fun time for anyone else :(
October 31, 2008 4:55:04 PM
It is difficult to be critical when talking about a game as earnest as Spore. I expect this is why most discussions, particularly reviews, of the game have been mostly positive. Of course, no one pretends its constituent gameplay modes are any good. After all, we cannot fault it for failing to do something it is clearly not attempting. Yet it is a mistake to ignore the gameplay in Spore. Read the rest here: http://mikebbetts.wordpress.com/2008/10/02/the-absence-of-context-in-spore/
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