[:plant:] "If _I_ were a game designer"

Originally Posted by Devo

Rocket/grenade splash in recent games, especially halo, are a joke. Players can just spam them in close range without consequence. I would like to see a return to the splash size in the original Halo. There would also have to be less availability of grenades in general since grenade spammers would reap more rewards with bigger splash zones.

To go a little further with that, I feel that grenade damage should actually be amplified if it is in an enclosed space, i.e. a small room. Aside from that though, I do agree that unless it is in said small room, the damage it does should be greatly reduced.

My pet peeve is with games' stories. I believe that they should have less deus ex machina and more of characters actually succumbing to fate. If a character gets stuck in a situation where he/she should die, then they should die.

I play games for their stories more often than not, and I have problems getting into the stories because of characters getting out of impossible situations. It is okay, but when the entire friggen story is filled with this kind of thing....come on...

George R.R. Martin has no problems killing off main characters. Niether should Bioware.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Originally Posted by Shin

Isn't the Warhammer game, Tides of War or something, supposed to be more like that? Less resource management, more killing shit, like the much older PS games Shadow of the Horned Rat and the other one.

That was Warhammer 40kk: Dawn of War, and for the most part it was okay, but some serious balance issued messed it up last time I played it, but it was a step in the right direction.

Ground Control was a decent RTS that had a unique concept: you pick your assets prior to the level and then that is all you get. But still maintaining itself as an RTS.

And Eternal Sonata was pretty damned amazing as far as plot twists go. The plot summary gives it away on wikipedia for those who are interested.

There's nowhere I can't reach.