well I don't care for an open ended online game I don't have all the time or rather the wish to spend all my time on an online game. At 07:16 p.m. 16/07/2009, you wrote: >This issue of open-ended vs. tightly scripted RPing interests me. My style >as a game master is to set the scene, create significant non-player >characters with their own agendas, some of whom act off stage independent >of, or in reaction to the player characters, but who may not meet them until >a climactic scene. Once I've wound this world up and set the scene, I >release the PCs into the world. I then regard my job as deciding how the >world reacts to their actions. They are the protagonists of this story >after all. > >Now that is human role-playing. I've never seen a computer-mediated game >come anywhere close to the richness of a human-mediated game, even in the >MMORPG world. There is always a narrowing of objectives to fit a >restrictive model. This makes sense in a paradigm that demands complete >determinism for each scenario, where every action must be anticipated by the >game designer. Without massive hardware support, you aren't going to see >emergent behavior out of this deterministic model, which is the main reason >human-mediated games are still more satisfying. > >I'm not expecting Tom to break this problem, although if he has ways around >it, I'm so there for playing and ultimately purchasing the game. > > Chris Bartlett > > > >--- >Gamers mailing list __ [email protected] >If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to [email protected]. >You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at >http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. >All messages are archived and can be searched and read at >http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]. >If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, >please send E-mail to [email protected].
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