tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6446461178381374626.post8416456592437007764..comments2024-03-27T23:28:19.341-07:00Comments on Telecanter's Receding Rules: 8 Recent Open World Video GamesTelecanterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07238356788092725244noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6446461178381374626.post-87691651252068556392015-03-24T11:27:38.319-07:002015-03-24T11:27:38.319-07:00Sorry for the late reply, life got busy.
You br...Sorry for the late reply, life got busy. <br /><br />You bring up another good angle, I've had hours of fun exploring the Fallout, GTA, and Elder Scrolls worlds and one interesting difference between the 8 games I list and those triple A titles is that the 8 lack any sort of over-arching narrative. And, interestingly, narrative is often used to control access to the open world in those bigger titles. In these 8 you can go anywhere you want if you have the means and the courage.<br /><br />One reason for the narrative difference is probably just the cost of writing tons of dialogue trees and adding voice acting, and I imagine if some of these developers had the resources they would implement npcs, plots, and relationships. <br /><br />And yet, Minecraft had the cash and never did. I think there's also an aspect of a game just trying to being a fun sandbox or open world and the quest of triple A titles that seem to be trying really hard to be more like movies (The transition of GTA:San Andreas' vast world with tons to do to GTA 4 is a good example of this I think).<br /><br />A note on terminology: I've never understood the use of Social Justice Warrior as a derogatory term because it seems like if you were going to fight for something Justice would a pretty good goal. It's one of Superman's cliche goals! And when I try to imagine what people opposed to Social Justice Warriors would call themselves I envision supervillains under banners like the League of Injustice, or the Guild for Defense of the Majority ; )Telecanterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07238356788092725244noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6446461178381374626.post-11427321761893446582015-03-19T17:20:39.428-07:002015-03-19T17:20:39.428-07:00My wife has been enjoying the newest dragon age an...My wife has been enjoying the newest dragon age and despite my serious aversion to SJW politics in my games, I've been enjoying her enjoying it too. Scott Andersonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12067161332003628237noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6446461178381374626.post-73304851649822372722015-03-18T17:09:48.708-07:002015-03-18T17:09:48.708-07:00Alright, I'll make a post about it sometime wh...Alright, I'll make a post about it sometime when its up.<br /><br />Yeah, I keep the Macs here but I hardly touch them when I'm home. Fwiw, I have 100+ linux games on steam. Most were humble bundled and weak to mediocre, but there's some grade A in that list that run on highest settings fine - Borderlands 2 for example. You do need a decent video card and the proprietary driver though. I use 14.04 - it was hard to let Gnome go but it was time and I've come to appreciate Unity. I know I'm not one of the cool linux kids because of it but meh. ze bulettehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15603716850479808633noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6446461178381374626.post-84744521125975776492015-03-18T11:11:42.425-07:002015-03-18T11:11:42.425-07:00@Eric/Talysman: Yeah, these are all first person g...@Eric/Talysman: Yeah, these are all first person games. The Dwarf Fortress I last played was more simulation where you watched your dwarves do things (maybe the adventure mode is more developed now?). A closer analog that I've played recently is Banished, a sort of medieval SimCity. <br /><br />@zeB: Yeah, put it up. No Macs?, wow, considering your livelihood. My whole blog/silhouette workflow was not just adequately handled by Ubuntu, but it did it better and easier than Windows 7 does. But games . . . I tried everything, they would say Fallout 3 would run on Linux, but it would crash, or a game would have no sound. I'm a free software fanatic at heart, but I have a hard time living day-to-day without something to occupy my mind and games do that.<br /><br />One thing I've noticed is that the majority of the games in my list above use Unity. If there was an equivalent to Unity for Linux it would be dreamy. Maybe certain Swedish new billionaires could put their money into developing something like that.Telecanterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07238356788092725244noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6446461178381374626.post-77209397260300090662015-03-17T22:10:31.852-07:002015-03-17T22:10:31.852-07:00I was thinking of putting our old Minecraft server...I was thinking of putting our old Minecraft server up for OSR grabs, what do you think? I don't really play anymore, but maybe somebody would find it of interest. You'd be so proud of me, I've dabbled in linux for ten years or so but finally dumped Macs about a year ago completely. So sorry to hear you were back on Windows, hopefully a temporary set back? Cheers<br /><br />@Talysman: Dwarf Fortress! Now there's an arcane one, seriously deserving of a very, very long post. "Not for the faint of heart" category? ze bulettehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15603716850479808633noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6446461178381374626.post-68700411524251927482015-03-17T16:07:36.617-07:002015-03-17T16:07:36.617-07:00I was about to say "What, no Dwarf Fortress?&...I was about to say "What, no Dwarf Fortress?"Talysmanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02162328521343832412noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6446461178381374626.post-54452210054132916192015-03-17T16:07:22.344-07:002015-03-17T16:07:22.344-07:00I was about to say "What, no Dwarf Fortress?&...I was about to say "What, no Dwarf Fortress?"Talysmanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02162328521343832412noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6446461178381374626.post-13694579026504924142015-03-17T13:22:32.071-07:002015-03-17T13:22:32.071-07:00What about Dwarf Fortress?What about Dwarf Fortress?Erichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07649420272387984400noreply@blogger.com