Chade on 13/8/2009 at 04:20
I am not been suggesting we have to reinvent everything! The most abstract principles will always remain the same. But you can't just take your board game design and build a good computer game out of it without first understanding a great deal about what sort of games make sense on this new platform. A screen based game, for instance, gathers people in a line, while a board game gathers people in a circle. This is a pretty fundamental change that I suspect would make most family board games substantially less fun if translated to a console or computer. Game design changes as you move from technology to technology.
Papy: this all depends on what you call a major change. Personally, I don't consider CGI to be a massive change, at least from my perspective as a consumer. I still seem to be sitting down watching a sequence of pictures tell me a story in a format that doesn't seemed to have changed at all. I would say that going from board game to computer game is a bigger change then CGI, and the introduction of the internet is a bigger change, and I expect gaming will have many "bigger changes" in the future too.
Koki on 13/8/2009 at 06:24
Quote Posted by Chade
When people talk about Citizen Kane, I always wonder how this will apply to games.
MGS4 is pretty citizenkanish. You watch some retrospections for half an hour and then turn it off.
Chade on 13/8/2009 at 21:39
Done!
Well, I'm glad we got that out of the way. We can all forget about this now and go home ...
Papy on 13/8/2009 at 21:58
Quote Posted by Chade
I still seem to be sitting down watching a sequence of pictures tell me a story in a format that doesn't seemed to have changed at all.
Compare the first "The Fly" with the second.
Video game development was faster than movies, but saying the format hasn't change between Metropolis and any modern movies is like saying modern RPGs are exactly like Ultima IV.
Chade on 13/8/2009 at 22:30
Well, not being a movie buff I'll have to take your word for it, but I must admit I'm very skeptical. I just read the 1958, 1986, and 1989 The Fly summaries on Wikipedia, which I guess doesn't really tell me anything worth knowing about them, but for what it's worth there was nothing that leapt out at me as I read the plot summaries. The Metropolis (from 1927?) is a much older film, however, and I can imagine that a lot has changed since then.
