Farflame spotted an article about good game design at Gameindustry.biz featuring Bioware's James Ohlen:
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BioWare - James Ohlen talks about Game Design
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Morbus
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Back in my day, honesty and vision were the things that mattered. Look at this: "The designer's job is not to ensure that their own ideas make it into the game, Ohlen said, but that only the best ideas do, regardless of their source." And here lies the problem: design by committee :\
And this is on an RPG, where we're probably not even talking too much about sidequests, which is where compromise (in quality and quantity) really is required, I imagine.
Think of all the best games in their respective genres. And tell their design was done humbly and with compromises. Doom? Deus Ex? Fallout? Planescape Torment? MCA was so not humble he was nearly fired for it!
And this is on an RPG, where we're probably not even talking too much about sidequests, which is where compromise (in quality and quantity) really is required, I imagine.
Think of all the best games in their respective genres. And tell their design was done humbly and with compromises. Doom? Deus Ex? Fallout? Planescape Torment? MCA was so not humble he was nearly fired for it!
I don't give a damn if the games are "SJW" or not as long as I enjoy them. I haven't since about NWN2 though.
You're absolutely right. Well...since Kotor then.
Luj, of course games can be enjoyed in spite of or even because of different agendas. Although to me, Bioware games hardly counts as SJW.
To me that is someone who pushes an agenda pretty much because it's fashion and not because they actually care. What in ME or DA would you consider SJW?
To me that is someone who pushes an agenda pretty much because it's fashion and not because they actually care. What in ME or DA would you consider SJW?
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I'm sorry to be another negative nancy - but as much as I like certain Bioware games, I don't think listening to them as an aspiring game designer would be my first choice.
BoboTheMighty
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What are docs founders doing these days? Last I heard Zeschuk is drinking beer all day for a living ( woohoo!), but Muzyka kind of dropped of the grid entirely.
Well, you could start with your definition of SJW? For me SJW stands for people that take offense for imagined discriminations on others behalf without much sense behind it. Like if I would say I prefer to wear white rather than black clothes a proper SJW would call me a racist pig.