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Video Games Killed the Video-Game Star
- runevault 15y agoReally interesting look at games, and while I'm one of those players who loves crunching the numbers, the whole thing is still telling. Part of me feels the fighting game scene has it right, they release the #s so the players can access them, but in the game itself it's all about pounding the other guy without that information being beaten into your head as actual #s.
- chc 15y agoIt's hard to tell if there's a real legitimate complaint here, because the overall thrust of the article seems to be "I thought this game was going to be like Left 4 Dead but instead it was like Borderlands." The other main theme, that games use numbers and bars to manipulate you, is almost universally true, and has been since Pong.
- eridius 15y agoMy takeaway was that the attempt to be like other popular video games is ruining potentially great video games.