03-07-2012, 03:13 PM
(03-07-2012, 01:55 PM)Maitre Wrote: Kind of iffy? Everytime I swipe the screen of a smartphone, I think of whacking the crap out of a lion for eating someone.
Okay, fair enough. There are differences between them (notably finger/stylus control vs. mouse control), but it's probably fair to say that Black and White was ahead of its time in control scheme, wretched though it was.
Quote: Everytime I see squad commands in tactical shooters and lament the terrible decisions the squad makes in choosing their chest high walls, I think of a cow wandering back and forth between a field and a granery with absolutely no idea what it should be doing. And when I look at the convoluted conversaion/moral/rep system in Mass Effect, I'm reminded about the decision I had to make about whether to accept a human sacrifice from my loyal subjects (warning, the choice you make probably won't have the consequence you think it will).
As much as I would love to blame Peter Molyneux for the invention of stupid AI, that would probably be a little unfair. Likewise, the idea that moral decisions have consequences. These aren't innovations from Black and White, they're aspects of all games, from before and after.
Quote:So ME3, huh? Anyone have a PC that will run it?
I sure hope so. Are the requirements really so bad?
-Jester