yeah same here. I'm personally more into offline gaming. I never liked online games that much, though the fighting fantasy gamebooks are cool there you get long descriptions and then links of what you want to do instad of something like a table: peter. mage. 31 hp out of 45. 11 mana out of 20. and so on and so on.
On 7/16/09, shaun everiss <shau...@xtra.co.nz> wrote: > 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 __ Gamers@audyssey.org >>If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to >> gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. >>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/gam...@audyssey.org. >>If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, >>please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org. > > > > --- > Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org > If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to > gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. > 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/gam...@audyssey.org. > If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, > please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org. > --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. 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/gam...@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
