What I would like to see, is an RPG, Adventure, RTS -- hell, I'd even settle for sandbox game, anything as long as it isn't a fucking shooter -- that is created for intelligent, mature individuals. Not mature as in "let's throw in as much skanky sleaze as the ratings board will let us get away with", but as in dealing with life in a reasonably adult way. Sexuality that isn't either adolescent sniggering or vile street-trash sleaze. Objectives that involve something other than just bashing or shooting the hell out of whatever the hell shows up on the screen. Something with an intelligently written and complex plot and storyline, and some decent fucking character/world development. And drop the damn levelup shit!
Just once I'd like to see a sexually-oriented game where the theme wasn't some variant of either GTA or LSL. A quest game that didn't go through endless "kill lots of monsters in order to improve stats enough to kill the really big monster". A strategy game that wasn't just "build things so you can shoot stuff, oh and we'll stick some lame story on it so you won't notice that the actual gameplay hasn't changed one goddamn bit since fucking Dune." An RPG that wasn't "spend 75% of your game-playing time searching every single tile of every single floor in every single dungeon to fine that one rusty ring that is the only thing that will activate the magic thingie-that-saves-the-world at the end" because RPG writers can't seem to find reasonable, logical puzzles but just chuck shit out at random where you'd have to be unbelievably lucky to stumble across it and recognize it at something valueable. An Adventure/RPG game that isn't Yet Another Glorified Platformer.
And please God, NOT ANOTHER MARIO WORLD GAME!!! And while you're listening, we don't really need any more SIMs expansions either.
Unfortunately, that isn't likely to happen anytime soon.
Have you seen any of the Spiderweb Software games? Better than the usual run of the mill for gameplay; even if the graphics suck ass.
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Date: 2006-07-11 05:39 am (UTC)What I would like to see, is an RPG, Adventure, RTS -- hell, I'd even settle for sandbox game, anything as long as it isn't a fucking shooter -- that is created for intelligent, mature individuals. Not mature as in "let's throw in as much skanky sleaze as the ratings board will let us get away with", but as in dealing with life in a reasonably adult way. Sexuality that isn't either adolescent sniggering or vile street-trash sleaze. Objectives that involve something other than just bashing or shooting the hell out of whatever the hell shows up on the screen. Something with an intelligently written and complex plot and storyline, and some decent fucking character/world development. And drop the damn levelup shit!
Just once I'd like to see a sexually-oriented game where the theme wasn't some variant of either GTA or LSL. A quest game that didn't go through endless "kill lots of monsters in order to improve stats enough to kill the really big monster". A strategy game that wasn't just "build things so you can shoot stuff, oh and we'll stick some lame story on it so you won't notice that the actual gameplay hasn't changed one goddamn bit since fucking Dune." An RPG that wasn't "spend 75% of your game-playing time searching every single tile of every single floor in every single dungeon to fine that one rusty ring that is the only thing that will activate the magic thingie-that-saves-the-world at the end" because RPG writers can't seem to find reasonable, logical puzzles but just chuck shit out at random where you'd have to be unbelievably lucky to stumble across it and recognize it at something valueable. An Adventure/RPG game that isn't Yet Another Glorified Platformer.
And please God, NOT ANOTHER MARIO WORLD GAME!!! And while you're listening, we don't really need any more SIMs expansions either.
Unfortunately, that isn't likely to happen anytime soon.
Have you seen any of the Spiderweb Software games? Better than the usual run of the mill for gameplay; even if the graphics suck ass.