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Questioning Game Design

Posted in News, Ideas, & Rants, Rock Band with tags , , , , , , , , , , , , , on August 31, 2011 by SebastianSB

Here at SebSpot we decided to take a moment to shine a light on some design choices in games that just didn’t jive with us.  The following is a list of elements that left us frustrated, disappointed, annoyed, or even just confused.  We welcome any input or rebuttals that you have to offer, but just remember that we still loved a lot of these games.  In some cases it’s the sheer amount of time that we spent with these titles that brought the questions to the surface. Continue reading

Ranting While Playing: Mafia II

Posted in Mid-Game Ranting with tags , , , , , , on February 19, 2011 by SebastianSB

Combat tutorial 101: Throw a probably-irrelevant war scene into the beginning of the game that lasts about five minutes.

These are probably the smallest subtitles I’ve ever seen.

Wait, what? The game is giving me a shooting tutorial in the second chapter? What was the point of the first one? Continue reading