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I'd call MMOG's different to RPG's. In an RPG its usually all about how you save the world. In a MMOG you have to derive your fun from what you do in the world while it goes on saving or destroying itself whether you bother to log in or not.
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To doubt everything or to believe everything are two equally convenient solutions; both dispense with the necessity of reflection.
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How come we like you then, Mr. Smartypants?Originally posted by DrSpike
Noone likes a smartypants.
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Not sure whether to be pleased or annoyed. Here's a bit of both.Originally posted by FrustratedPoet
How come we like you then, Mr. Smartypants?
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You should have been pleased.
Besides, I'm in no place to criticise anybody for making wise-ass comments, since that's all I ever do myself anyway.
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Oh, is *that* what you were trying for.
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bah! I've been out-wise-assed!
A pox on thee Spikey!
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Serious Sam rocks!Originally posted by Solver
FPS - not that I like the genre, but I have to mention Doom and Doom 2. Since then, everything is crap.
Sam I am!While there might be a physics engine that applies to the jugs, I doubt that an entire engine was written specifically for the funbags. - Cyclotron - debating the pressing issue of boobies in games.Comment
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You've got that right...
The comedy in both SS1 and SS2 are great (I've heard they're making a third game...can't wait... does that one includes pyramids (of some sort) also )
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I don't see it as a business sim. Lots of games deal with money management...like Civ!Originally posted by ADG
Thx for the info
Wouldn't SimCity be a bussiness sim? I see 'bussiness' as "dealing with money", and AFAIK you "deal with money" in SimCity games...
Sim(ulation)s I always considered only applied to flight Sims... I can't see what SimCity has to do with flight sims...
Since Sim is short for simulation, I just naturally thought a city simulation would apply...Tutto nel mondo è burlaComment
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But Civ is more about strategy, than bussiness...Originally posted by Boris Godunov
I don't see it as a business sim. Lots of games deal with money management...like Civ!
I have only heard the word simulation, when it was refering to something like flight simOriginally posted by Boris Godunov
Since Sim is short for simulation, I just naturally thought a city simulation would apply...This space is empty... or is it?Comment
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I think a business simulation would be more akin to Simcountry, for instance.I'm building a wagon! On some other part of the internets, obviously (but not that other site).Comment
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But Civ is more about strategy, than bussiness...
IMHO so is SimCity.If I'm posting here then Counterglow must be down.Comment
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But strategy is about war, SimCity is not about war...This space is empty... or is it?Comment
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Strategy is about weighing up all available options and making a decision, which is why we say that very linear games (i.e. ones where you have little or no choice) have no strategy to them.
Admittedly, that definition of strategy is very broad - I think that a "strategy game" combines many different areas - like the diplomacy, city building, tile management and war of Civ games. On the other hand, something more narrow, like a "business sim" or a "war game" only deals with one of these areas.
That's the way I see it, anyway.
I believe that SimCity4 is a strategy game, and that SimCity2 was a "sim" game because in the older game all you really had to do was just throw down buildings while keeping an eye on the budget window and demand bars - IMHO SimCity4 takes it one step further than that.If I'm posting here then Counterglow must be down.Comment
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RPGs, Sports, and TBS are the genres i enjoy the mostComment
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