27th August 2003, 1:22 PM
Quote:Videogames require images.
Such as the mental images that the text in text-based games (adventure, RPG, whatever...) describes.
It is so, so sad and stupid to watch you try to keep denying that fact.
You can't just use the parts of the definitions you like! It doesn't work that way!
You're completely ignoring the main definitions and trying to twist around the other definitions to help your case! "Mental Images", good grief!
So I guess if someone made a game where you press a button in conjunction with a sound (and there was no visual aspect at all, no monitor, nothing), and it was just a simple pen-like device, you would call that a video game as well. Or I could play with my calculator and have a mental image of a giant fairy princess being rescued by a dragon slayer and call that a game. Or how about my toaster oven? Sometimes I toast things and then imagine jumping over lava pits, and that's a mental image, so it must be a game!
Quote:But the topics are relevant, unlike our debates... you may not acknowledge it but there IS a difference there.
It doesn't matter how relevant the topics are as long as your so-called debates are simple name-calling contests.
Quote:Not holes in the ground... I mean stuff like dungeon floors. Like the lava in the two lava dungeons in OoT vs the lava in WW... in WW it teleports you to the enterance with minimal injury, while in OoT it hurts you quite quickly and you could easily die in it... and WW uses that technique in a lot of other places where OoT would have a much more deadly obsticle.
Oh yeah, and while the fights in OoT aren't that complex, neither are the ones in WW! Ooh, so sometimes I have to circle around behind them as well as attack/block/jump...
Ooh, there are holes in the ground! That makes it so much better!
And in WW you would backflip (which you could do in OoT but it wasn't really necessary), jump over your enemies, counter, etc. You obviously haven't played WW for very long if you think the combat system is as shallow as OoT's. It's not as deep as say, The Mark of Kri of course, but it is a step up from OoT.