gamasutra.com — In this opinion column, Lewis Pulsipher muses on ways to enjoy games without the focus on success, failure and competition, asserting that users must have that option if games are ever to be as inclusive as movies.
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Closed AccountSep 7, 2009
I've owned GTA4 for 6 months now and still haven't progressed past 3 missions!
tamriilinSep 7, 2009
Why do you think "Alone in the Dark" wasn't very popular?You could skip everything in the game. Literally.
philbertSep 7, 2009
I've always felt that RTS games were more like work. Even with some like Battlefield Heroes I play as the run-n-gun kind of character, playing a sniper just feels like work to me.
larkstewSep 8, 2009
But the point I was trying to make was that you'd have both, you'd have a movie and a game interleaved which together would tell a single story. So if you wanted to watch the movie and skip the game bits you could, or if you wanted to play the game and skip the movie bits you could, or if you wanted the full experience you could watch the movie bits and play the game too.
thekitchensinkxSep 9, 2009
The only way I can see that working is a literal constant save, where every frame it makes a new save file...which wouldn't work at all. If at all functional, the game would be ridiculously choppy and the saves would be hugely bloated in size due to the multitudes of them, and manually selecting one would be ridiculous.Of course, likely what was meant was saving once every five seconds or so, which would be far more realistic, but still a huge pain. It wouldn't really bring anything to the table.
shubh09Sep 10, 2009
As per a study, 83% of kids, eight to eighteen, have at least one video game player in their home, 31% have 3 or more video game players, and 49% have video game systems in their bedrooms.97% of all teens play video games regularly.Both novice and expert online game players are subject to time distortion and have difficulty breaking off from the game without interruption by others in the real world
Closed AccountSep 11, 2009
LOL Digg needs to release a feature were comments go further, for instance a place where comments are on the front page of, maybe a comments section. That comment would be there.
Closed AccountSep 11, 2009
I'll agree to that. Try completing Alex The Kidd - In Miracle World, the one that was built into the Sega Master System. I downloaded that on a ROM and played it through an emulator because I never did complete that as a kid. I was only able to complete it because the emulator lets you save the game anywhere at any time. But that's a prime example, a game being shipped built into a console that's really really hard to complete.