steo on 10/6/2010 at 22:13
What?
Quote Posted by Poetic thief
With chess, I can easily construct some story about my castle being under attack, and me giving out tactical advice to the king which is immediately carried out on the battle field.
What?
Neb on 11/6/2010 at 00:18
Quote Posted by demagogue
The (text only) Interactive Fiction community is still chugging along, but it's long been an invisible, underground scene anymore. I can't see any commercial game touching it. But quietly down in the trenches they've done some pretty innovative stuff IMO and I personally would be interested to see some parser mechanics in FPS. It would take some thought to do it well and sure to incite gamer-rage (you'd need to advertise it as Esther-like to cull its audience from the start), but it's a whole untapped field of possibility.
I know it's only vaguely related, and off-topic, but I always wanted a 3D audio interactive fiction game with no graphics at all that plays a bit like a dungeon crawl with a set of generic keyboard commands. Wear headphones, grab a wireless keyboard, and play it sat on a sofa.
Bluegrime on 11/6/2010 at 03:11
Quote Posted by Poetic thief
Like Littleflower said, it's a test of my decision-making, not a test of how well I can execute the mechanical rules of the game..
Actually yes, yes it is. So is anything with rules that involves winning. If you do not believe me, try not following the mechanical rules of chess next time your writing up a plot for it and see how long the other person plays with you.
Edit - Oh, and Pacman + Tetris are both tests of decision making too. Otherwise they would be non-interactive. If you do not think Tetris involves strategy, then clearly you must have completely mastered it on your first attempt.
Demetros on 11/6/2010 at 04:54
Quote Posted by steo
What?
Well, maybe the idea of cajoling Queens into wars of attrition sounds like fun to him?
I don't want to ask about Monopoly...
Koki on 11/6/2010 at 05:02
Chess has about one hundred seventy two times the depth of both Pac-Man and Tetris combined, it's also multiplayer/competitive which doubles its score.
And it's still pretty boring actually.
Demetros on 11/6/2010 at 05:11
There's no high score or last level to aim for, just a cold computer waiting to kick your ass.
Wars of attrition are for pussies anyway.
Koki on 11/6/2010 at 05:14
Talk about brain eclipse, I somehow assumed Chess = real chess, not computer chess.
Demetros on 11/6/2010 at 05:19
Computer chess is also boring.
Bluegrime on 11/6/2010 at 06:04
I like computer chess better then real chess. I can at least sneer at my computer and press its off button if it wins.. But from what I understand, any theoretical attempts to turn a live opponent off after they win shouldn't be spoken of until the statute of limitations expires.
Demetros on 11/6/2010 at 06:18
I also like computer chess better than live chess. Your opponent doesn't take forever to make a move, no one will mind if you put music on, and you can make the chess pieces sexually provocative with no protest.
-ogles Black Knights-
...We were talking about immersive video games, right?
