Ultima 3: Exodus 20:1-17: In which Moses comes down from the mountain and sees the users cavorting amongst level-based systems

Not like stuff like Oracle is a choice I would get to make. They don’t let us non-technically savvy designer-types in the room on those meetings.

I do get the feeling MMOs have never moved beyond UO’s feature set, so 10 does make sense to me.

Number three needs to be for any company making a “level cap raising” expansion. When expansions that reset my level come out, well, that’s normally been the time I stop playing. Patches that reset your gear are also a bad idea.

(Yes, I’m looking at you Blizzard)

You mean, with much preening? Oh wait.

Ack. It’s like the idealized version of me, with less weight, a more rakish beard, less Ewok factor, and less fame and power.

No, wait.

Once you are washing your body with something liquid as opposed to a bar of soap, you have taken an irretrievable, irredeemable step into the gaping abyss.

The other extreme of rectitude is to wash your hair with a bar soap. Something I have been known to do when in dire straits.

Given the choice of washing my mick-guinea hair with bar or liquid soap, I’ll go with the liquid.

And I’m not so sure about the Ewok factor…I’m probably shorter than you are.

Hey actually if you wash you are ahead of most Con-goers

I dont see Fashion and grooming tips as one of the commandments.

This comment thread now has more comments than the original. Stop. Go over there. I am sure that’s why Scott reblogged it, to drive traffic to me, the smaller struggling website.

But I thought you had fame and power, Raph! Don’t disillusion me like this!

Ahh! Fresh meat to mold as you will! Very good!

Rasputin is Robert Pastorelli?

“Games are fun, online worlds, not so much.” Ahh yes because it’s so much more fun to kill the same static rat that respawns on the same game tile every 45sec than to actually need to wander through the woods hunting game. Yes I can see how online worlds add no fun.

“nor shalt thou consider thy sort of fun to be the only sort of fun to be had, for many and mysterious are the ways of enjoyment.”

“Furthermore, since games are an escape, why would you want to replicate the real world, or even a reasonable fascimile of one?”

The idea isn’t to replicate the real world, it’s to create a fantasy world in which dragons, or space monsters, or whatever exist, but in a world that actually functions. It’s not just a brightly colored chessboard skinned to make it different from the other chessboards, which is what games like WoW are to me. They aren’t fun in the slightest anymore, but I don’t call them failures. Obviously a lot of people enjoy them, a lot of my friends enjoy them. I don’t, but I’m glad people do. I’m all for people having fun.

Got to love KosterR

Commandments, Rules for being a better designer AND grooming tips. Who else would have brought stuff like that to the party?

OK, that thread went from games to hair so fast, I got a nosebleed.

Sometimes I’ve considered electrolysis just to avoid the hassle of shaving. But it’s not exactly a fun procedure.

Elistor wrote: ” Ahh yes because it\’e2\’80\’99s so much more fun to kill the same static rat that respawns on the same game tile every 45sec than to actually need to wander through the woods hunting game. Yes I can see how online worlds add no fun. “

If hunting through the wood is a 15 mins timesink of blind searching without any interesting decisions (aka as fun) then yes give me the static spawning game please.

I hate the “static” aspect of game as much as the next one, but a designer must very careful about repeating the post WoW/CoH pattern: 15 mins of boring timesink for 2 minutes of actual gameplay.

“Meanwhile, the vast majority of hunters go trampsing all over gods half acre to do their hunting. They aren\’e2\’80\’99t at the pheasant shoot to be heard.”

Great analogy!

As to the SOE dev photo… I’ve seen similar things when developing drugs. Normally, some idiot from some financial department needs 40 hours of planning and writing simplified beyond the, simple one page outline on the cover and well 30 pages of hard work end up looking like that.

Did Raph just admit he looks like an Ewok?
Or that Rasputin is better looking than he is?

“Eventually someone comes along and commits blasphemy, is ridiculed and only after his death does the world acknowledge he was right.

And so it shall be in online games.

Not that Raph is wrong.

Something is inherently not being done right. And it\’e2\’80\’99s driving me crazy(er).”

Raph, your demise in a simulated world will do so don’t get hasty or anything.
Raph Hunting! They look like ewoks, only they bath with bar soap.

Don’t chew your nails. It’s a nasty habit and bad for you. Beyond that, just use a nailclipper and nailfile to keep ‘em clean and not too long.

Bruce

Hehe, last night I was watching The History Channel, and it had a segment about the famous duel between Hamilton and Burr, early american history times. They mentioned it would be like having Chaney and (someone, forget who) dueling, due to the same offices they hold.
That struck the humor bone.