On June 18 2015 11:02 TheYango wrote: I mean, I would hope every game is designed to be fun and for people to have fun playing with it. The medium isn't mature enough for anything other than that yet (I imagined some snooty guy saying "my game isn't meant to be *fun*--it's more sophisticated than that!").
Even with e-sports games, only the ones that people actually have fun playing have really taken off.
Papers, Please is probably the best example to counteract that point.
I enjoyed the gameplay of Papers, Please.
Yango expressed the same sentiment, but I had friends that said they actually just didn't have fun playing it, that it felt like work.
I can respect that some people may not like it, but that's fundamentally different than "this game was intentionally designed to be no fun at all". Sometimes games may be designed for a particular, weird niche (SEE: Cookie Clicker), but that's not the same thing as a game designed to be unfun.
On June 18 2015 11:02 TheYango wrote: I mean, I would hope every game is designed to be fun and for people to have fun playing with it. The medium isn't mature enough for anything other than that yet (I imagined some snooty guy saying "my game isn't meant to be *fun*--it's more sophisticated than that!").
Even with e-sports games, only the ones that people actually have fun playing have really taken off.
Papers, Please is probably the best example to counteract that point.
I enjoyed the gameplay of Papers, Please.
Yango expressed the same sentiment, but I had friends that said they actually just didn't have fun playing it, that it felt like work.
I can respect that some people may not like it, but that's fundamentally different than "this game was intentionally designed to be no fun at all". Sometimes games may be designed for a particular, weird niche (SEE: Cookie Clicker), but that's not the same thing as a game designed to be unfun.
Okay, I don't think it was designed to be unfun, but I think it was designed to be more than just fun. I think the monotony of the job was entirely intentional to make it feel like work. Also the stress of managing your money and having ultimate power to decide who makes it in and who doesn't. The feelings of stress and dread that this can cause can outweigh the "fun" of the mechanics for a lot of people.
On June 18 2015 11:02 TheYango wrote: I mean, I would hope every game is designed to be fun and for people to have fun playing with it. The medium isn't mature enough for anything other than that yet (I imagined some snooty guy saying "my game isn't meant to be *fun*--it's more sophisticated than that!").
Even with e-sports games, only the ones that people actually have fun playing have really taken off.
Papers, Please is probably the best example to counteract that point.
I enjoyed the gameplay of Papers, Please.
Yango expressed the same sentiment, but I had friends that said they actually just didn't have fun playing it, that it felt like work.
I can respect that some people may not like it, but that's fundamentally different than "this game was intentionally designed to be no fun at all". Sometimes games may be designed for a particular, weird niche (SEE: Cookie Clicker), but that's not the same thing as a game designed to be unfun.
Okay, I don't think it was designed to be unfun, but I think it was designed to be more than just fun. I think the monotony of the job was entirely intentional to make it feel like work. Also the stress of managing your money and having ultimate power to decide who makes it in and who doesn't. The feelings of stress and dread that this can cause can outweigh the "fun" of the mechanics for a lot of people.
On June 19 2015 02:34 Scip wrote: Anyone else gonna watch Origen vs Fnatic HYPE? Come on ts if you want to watch with me and listen to me rage as I was junglers build horrible items.
I haven't fangirld this hard over league, probably ever. can't wait. but I'll watch it when I get home from work. Sadly I'm not European.
On June 19 2015 02:34 Scip wrote: Anyone else gonna watch Origen vs Fnatic HYPE? Come on ts if you want to watch with me and listen to me rage as I was junglers build horrible items.
I just hope it is a long, drawn out, bloody game on both sides. So basically I want EU to be EU.
On June 18 2015 23:27 WaveofShadow wrote: I've seen that. Wanted to go back to sleep but I live in a fucking condo so BANG BANG BANG CRASH RATTLE I FUCKING HATE NOT LIVING IN A HOUSE ALREADY www.twitch.tv/waveofshadow
I don't understand, do you not have earplugs? White noise machine? Superior sleeping skills? The ability to tell your neighbors to shut the frudgey up?
On June 19 2015 03:22 Seuss wrote: The initial narration style made me want everything to rhyme. Ultimately it reminds me most of old school fairytales.
Edit: Gahlo hasn't read enough old school fairytales to be hype.
The distortion at the end annoyed me. If a champ had a voiceover with the same voice that did most of the narration...
I've been dealing with an issue where my computer's clock keeps desyncing. I have no idea what causes it and not amount of reseting it has fixed the issue.
EPT
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