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Contrasting Game Saving-A Map
Posted By: Redox <harness@access1.net>Date: 11/23/00 3:31 p.m.

In Response To: Re: Gamespy posts preview (Tyrbiter)

> She works for a futuristic high-tech police force. It's not unreasonable
> to assume she might have the equivalent of a PDA which can download
> architectural drawings which have been registered with the city. This
> could then be made more interesting by having the maps be (a) incomplete
> (no one is going to update the drawings every time they shuffle a cubicle
> farm), (b) inaccurate (when clandestine major remodelling has been done),
> and (c) unavailable (for the older, grungier portions of the city). Thus
> the maps could be a useful tool early in the game, but get less and less
> helpful (and even dangerously misleading) as you advance through the game
> (and presumably need it less due to increasing skill).

Very interesting ideas. I hope Bungie's "foresight", as they've talked about, has seen this post.
(You'll have to know a few things about Blam/Halo to get this post. Specifically, their joke about seeing a line for Blam/Halo forming 134 days into the future.)

> Note that Konoko's "objective compass" seems to be a strong hint
> that she has something very much like this available to her (assuming they
> explain it in the game and don't just say "it works because you'd be
> hosed without it").

Ah, I feel a thread coming on!
The question is: Why not explain it that way? Saving a game could be said to be unrealistic (you can "waste a life" to find out which path not to take in a level), just as unrealistic as having a map that, as said above, "…works because you'd be hosed without it".
How do you justify a save game feature--which is useful (having to attend the real world while playing) but also can be abused if its explaination doesn't cover the abusive actions, while still proving a "magic map" to be destructive to the gameplay? Cliches or commonly accepted unrealisms cannot be reasons.
I know how, does everybody else?

[Redox]

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Gamespy posts previewBachus 11/21/00 11:17 a.m.
     Re: Gamespy posts previewRedox 11/21/00 6:20 p.m.
           Re: Gamespy posts previewJesse 11/21/00 10:51 p.m.
                 Re: Gamespy posts previewHarry 11/21/00 11:45 p.m.
                       Re: Gamespy posts previewJesse 11/22/00 11:07 a.m.
                             Re: Gamespy posts previewRedox 11/22/00 10:36 p.m.
                                   Re: Gamespy posts previewHarry 11/22/00 11:11 p.m.
                                         Writting & fightingRedox 11/23/00 3:10 p.m.
                                               Re: Writting & fightinganeep 11/23/00 4:10 p.m.
                                                     *bangs head*Redox 11/23/00 6:54 p.m.
                                                           Re: *bangs head*aneep 11/23/00 7:32 p.m.
                                                                 There you go Nacho, no posts ;)Redox 11/27/00 7:05 p.m.
                                   Re: Gamespy posts previewTyrbiter 11/23/00 11:02 a.m.
                                         Contrasting Game Saving-A MapRedox 11/23/00 3:31 p.m.
                                               Re: Contrasting Game Saving-A MapMark Levin 11/23/00 10:19 p.m.
                                                     Re: Contrasting Game Saving-A MapJesse 11/24/00 1:03 a.m.
                                                           Re: Contrasting Game Saving-A MapMark Levin 11/24/00 2:44 a.m.
                                                                 Re: Contrasting Game Saving-A Mapaneep 11/24/00 5:36 a.m.
                                                           Re: Contrasting Game Saving-A MapDan Rudolph 11/26/00 9:15 p.m.
                 Re: Gamespy posts previewchef 11/24/00 3:41 p.m.
                       Re: Gamespy posts previewJesse 11/25/00 2:29 a.m.
                             Re: Gamespy posts previewChrispy Nacho 11/25/00 2:45 a.m.
                       Re: Gamespy posts previewsarwat 11/25/00 3:42 a.m.
     Re: Gamespy posts previewbutcher 11/22/00 2:09 p.m.
           Re: Gamespy posts previewBachus 11/22/00 11:36 p.m.
           Re: Gamespy posts previewGherri7 11/25/00 6:00 p.m.



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