26th March 2005, 6:31 PM
Well yes, for example Four Swords. There's a game where the concept of splitting into 4 and solving puzzles that way was the thing that made them think "okay what half arsed way are we going to come up with to explain this?" and then they came up with the sword.
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I still think Link #4 should have been in a white tunic...
OH and about that quote. I do agree with it, like I said. In fact I completely agree. However, to state it over and over again sort of insults the intelligence of gamers, if that's the intended target you are talking to. To direct that AT gamers is to say "they probably didn't realize that before or ever hear it before", which is insulting, that's all. THAT'S why cliche is bad.
And um, yeah I only read some of the quotes up there. The rest of it was new takes on that basic cliche and did get me thinking.
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I still think Link #4 should have been in a white tunic...
OH and about that quote. I do agree with it, like I said. In fact I completely agree. However, to state it over and over again sort of insults the intelligence of gamers, if that's the intended target you are talking to. To direct that AT gamers is to say "they probably didn't realize that before or ever hear it before", which is insulting, that's all. THAT'S why cliche is bad.
And um, yeah I only read some of the quotes up there. The rest of it was new takes on that basic cliche and did get me thinking.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)