Kind of amazing to see seasoned games journalists stumble around this category so clumsily.
For me the definition of world-building is: does the representation of the world (in whatever form, be it through exploration or not, be it interactive or not) make the player want to learn more about the world, inside and outside of the game.
The whole discussion about how you move around the environment, or how you mechanically interact with it, is beside the point.
The ease with which AC: Origins was dismissed in the Best Looking Game discussion, was nuts. That game is filled to the brim with beautiful vistas and setpieces. You have to kind of go out of your way to not notice them.
So I had no idea that Dan had already tried playing D&D. The way he talks about it, makes it sound like he hasn't. What are we even talking about, then? The best way to understand what D&D is about, is by playing it. If you still don't get it, it's over, you're done. What would be the point of playing Hero Quest? Why even waste your time trying to convince Dan?
@year199x: Yeah, one mission per episode is agonizing. They might fail the campaign at some point, but if they manage to stay alive and eventually succeed, the series is going to have been going for well over 6 months, which is kinda silly.
They should really do 2 missions per episode, unless the first mission is a solid hour long.
Oh god.. this series... is moving... sooooo... sloooow... it has started to really drag.
Two missions per episode would help a lot, especially since they spend about a quarter of each episode trying to recall how to play the game. ;)
The complaints about Steam is so overdone and trite at this point. The same point has been parroted for years.
Steam was notoriously hard to get onto before, and developers were basically financially dependent on getting on. Meaning developers had games done that just couldn't get onto steam for months, or even years sometimes. The system now is much preferable, yeah there is a lot of shit, but who cares? Its not like any person with a little common sense will buy the complete garbage that gets on there. Just like you won't go on Amazon and buy some of the shit that is on there. At least Steam has a super simple refund policy that works quick and across the board. Its a non-issue, that frankly starts to seem silly to bring up again and again.
Completely agree. It's a total non-issue for most users.
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