Azelma wrote:
"game designers who don't play games"
This surprises me...I figured people who design games would be most likely to play games??
judging by the games, especially the "must play" ones of the past 5 or so years it's not really all that shocking.
not to be all GET OUT OF MY HOBBY HISSSSSSSSSSSS, but since gaming has turned into this mainstream thing that makes more money then any other form of entertainment (i think that's what i read, anyways) quality has gone down the shitter in so many ways.
the fact that patching has gone from tweaking gameplay and fixing minor bugs, maybe a big bug or so, to making a game actually playable out of the box, is pretty sad. way too many bad design choices, disc locked content, horrible DRM, etc.
it's really bad when the BIG BAD PIRATES RUINING THE INDUSTRY BAWWWWWW feel like they've wasted bandwidth on "AAA" games. a guy i know is on the edge about even downloading skyrim due to some of the changes they've made, and he loves elder scrolls as much as i love metroid. he's got something like 1000 hours into morrowind, as an idea.