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Posted 10 June 2009 - 12:45 PM

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Oh, the morality thingy again...

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Posted 10 June 2009 - 01:56 PM

Couldn't agree more.

Now let me get back to playing Black & White 2 once again...

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Posted 10 June 2009 - 02:35 PM

Why do people use Karma meters in their games? This is why I object to the idea of religion and support the idea of kick starting scientific cults instead. That way, morals can evolve and there would be justifications for it.





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Posted 10 June 2009 - 10:41 PM

QUOTE (Game Over @ Jun 11 2009, 05:35 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
People don't understand me.


That's correct, you live ine London, yet still spell rather incorrectly, "meter" divulge, what is a "meter" is it a distant yet retarded cousin of metre? who lives like a tramp in a swamp in the west country? Also known as Wales
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Posted 11 June 2009 - 08:13 AM

Ah yes, misspelling "metre". Possibly a much more grievous sin than misspelling "in".

Snarkiness aside, it would be interesting to see a game forsake the traditional binary "good-evil" system in favour of a hideously complex beast based on actual Personality Psychology theories. I wonder what sort of special prize you'd get for finishing with full Neuroticism.
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Posted 11 June 2009 - 09:55 AM

The thing is, that if you do that, you'll only end up in depressing mediocrity (read: reality). They need extremes to sell, and neutrality or variations of "30% good, 60% evil, 10% failure at math" simply don't provide much of a target there.

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Posted 11 June 2009 - 05:52 PM

QUOTE (Jeremy Clarkson @ Jun 11 2009, 04:41 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
That's correct, you live ine London, yet still spell rather incorrectly, "meter" divulge, what is a "meter" is it a distant yet retarded cousin of metre? who lives like a tramp in a swamp in the west country? Also known as Wales

Did you know that you could milk a horse and drink the milk? :D
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Posted 12 June 2009 - 11:25 AM

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That's correct, you live ine London, yet still spell rather incorrectly, "meter" divulge, what is a "meter" is it a distant yet retarded cousin of metre? who lives like a tramp in a swamp in the west country? Also known as Wales


If we're being picky, the grammar and construction of that sentence is fucking awful.

The problem with a morality system is thus: It's a cheap way of getting extra play time out of a game. They'd rather say "You can play this game any way you like!" (which means "you can play it twice") than "We couldn't be fucked making one decent, coherent story, so we decided to make a branching one with two story arcs, neither of which are particularly different or exciting, but you won't notice because you'll be blinded by ALL THE MORALITY. Hopefully."
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Posted 13 June 2009 - 05:12 AM

QUOTE (Spann @ Jun 13 2009, 02:25 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
If we're being picky, the grammar and construction of that sentence is fucking awful.

The problem with a morality system is thus: It's a cheap way of getting extra play time out of a game. They'd rather say "You can play this game any way you like!" (which means "you can play it twice") than "We couldn't be fucked making one decent, coherent story, so we decided to make a branching one with two story arcs, neither of which are particularly different or exciting, but you won't notice because you'll be blinded by ALL THE MORALITY. Hopefully."


bugger grammar in the arse.. semantics is what I care about and I use care loosely, but at the end of the day there's my opinion and the wrong one, and then there's tramps, slags, Scots, Welsh, Irish, Cornish, French, Whale shit, and yours, enjoy a good seethe, i love a good seethe

to add, atleast I don't spell a a fat, stupid rude yank, ie wrongly

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Posted 14 June 2009 - 08:45 AM

QUOTE (Spann @ Jun 12 2009, 05:25 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
If we're being picky, the grammar and construction of that sentence is fucking awful.


Very heartwarming copmliment this is. Gaddamit, I need to get some sleep.

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Posted 15 June 2009 - 11:45 AM

Hmm I'm surprised he's overall positive about the game despite him hating morality meters and this game having one of the most constricting morality systems available
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Posted 15 June 2009 - 01:10 PM

Well he did rip on that.
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Posted 16 June 2009 - 07:10 PM

QUOTE (misiak @ Jun 16 2009, 02:45 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
meters


that's not gone well.... again.
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Posted 17 June 2009 - 04:28 AM

QUOTE (Jeremy Clarkson @ Jun 17 2009, 01:10 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
that's not gone well.... again.


What are you talking about? metre is a measurement on length, meters are measuring instruments, some games measure your actions good or evil, thus morality meters

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Posted 17 June 2009 - 05:31 AM

Don't mind him, he's just our little pet troll. Very ineffective and useless, but excellent at that.

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