I was thinking about trying to role-play Borderlands. You can build your premade character to some degree by the items you choose to equip and the skills you select in the skill tree, but by and large, you are very limited in being able to role-play the character in any meaningful way. Yea, you can let your imagination run wild, but that's just in your head, not something you could show someone else.
I probably have that collection. I'll be giving it a run sometime soon, I'm sure.
Ok, I didn't get that far this time. I'm going to try and finish it when I hook up my Original Xbox sometime soon. Playing on 360 with no dialog is no fun.
Yea, I like the more arcady style racing games. I still need to go pick up Blur. I heard that was good.
"communication would be chaos" Ha! Exactly. It is when you look at the history of language. I took in a lecture on linguistics once and it made me realize the essential chaos of language and how it evolves. How we got this far indeed. How did we with so much change in language, sometimes for very trivial reasons, over time. I mean, I hear slang today and realize that I'm witnessing the slow change of language. This slang will alter the language we have, or create a new language eventually. It makes philosophising really difficult if we can't agree on the meaning of words.
You could rigidly define RPGs based on their origin, but everthing evolves, and new elements enter into the definition over time. Sometimes the whole definition changes from the original one after years of iteration. It's just the nature of things.
I often try and role-play a game, any game, just for fun. Does that mean I'm making it a RPG? I guess so if you stick to the exact words I just used.
I guess the issue today is that games can do so many things because of the power of better technology, that it makes genre distinctions harder to pin down. For me I could care less about how you define a game. I try all different stuff and don't stick to one type of experience anyway. It makes me think of music and how publishers try to name a style so they can sell it better. Or historians putting labels on time periods so they can write an authoritative sounding book. In some ways it's helpful, in others it's misleading.
Yea, Tempest was really cool with the spinner controller on the arcade machine. In this collection you have to drag your finger left and right on the touch screen below the action on the top screen, but it doesn't seem to make your shooter icon go all the way around the well. That game needs good controls to play right.
I get it that the Bioshock series is often about juxtaposing beauty and horror, but I couldn't help making jokes about switching from peaceful to violent so quickly.
I kept hearing that Scott Joplin song Solace a lot too. I think it plays whenever you have to respawn or move to a new level or something. I found it a strangely peaceful break from the extreme violence of the gameplay. Joplin is so good. Why does blowing heads off have to follow after such music. It was jarring, and I wasn't even playing the game, just glancing over from time to time.
That Need for Speed screen shot for iOS looks fantastic. Such good graphics for phone and tablet games now.
