I'm going through that right now, and have gone through it many times before.I want to play one game and no other game will quench my desire, other similar games just aren't doing the trick. I sit and wait it out. Put as much time into the forums for the game I want to play as humanly possible.
Every second is an hour, tick tock goes the clock, tick tock, tick tock.
I try different characters and gameplay styles for every game. I restart alot too.... I don't really care what's popular or not. But if the character I do choose to stick with for awhile is popular, it's not because it's popular, it's because I enjoy playing with that character.
I wrote a blog about this back in february, here it is in part:
How I would make Red Dead Redemption better
Westerns are a genre that have not been done very well in the past, but I do truly enjoy them and their era.
Red Dead Redemption is a new western game by Rockstar Games that i feel is go to set an unprecedented bar for how games of this genre will be or should be made... I want to make it better.
Yes, Red Dead Redemption looks like it is going to be one of the best western games I've ever seen.
Not to nag, but to make it more fun, and to play more like an MMO. I'd add some very important qualities to it. To make it a western by which all westerns are compared.
1. It has to be for the PC also
2. Fishing ( you can hunt, you should be able to fish)... This would fill some of the gaps in an expansive world such as RDR. It would also add more fun.
3. A Homestead- A farm that can be built one log at a time or maybe a pre-built farm. This is where the player could store their items, decorate their homes etc.
The homestead is also where farming would take place, such as raising pigs, maybe cattle. And growing corn, various veggies, grain, beans etc. That can be used for crafting or can be sold raw, feed yer horses and cattle. you get the picture. Only NPC's and NPC events can attack and possibly affect a players homestead. Other players cannot. However, other players may visit another's homestead, call out the owner to a gunfight etc. But nothing will be lost... You might lose the gunfight, some exp etc.
4. Crafting- Players can craft various objects in the game from various things, such as making flour from wheat and cornmeal from corn, and cornbread from cornmeal. Stones for jewlery, decoration or resell to NPC.
Crafting would also include the use of fish for various things such as fertiliser, resell as food etc. Skins from animals into rugs, clothes, food, resell etc. Bones and stones into jewlery and so forth.
Note: Players wouldn't have to eat, but there would be a market for food.
5. Pet's- I once learned of an old man who lived in a cave that had a mountain lion for a pet , the old man had to kill his pet because it killed the child of his lover.
The west wasn't just about gunfights, they were fighting for something. Their land, their food, their rights and simply surviving with what they had trying to make a better lives for themselves. Some in peaceful ways such as farming. The farm was everything, family was of utmost importance. Survival was #1.
I think part of the problem is that there isn't isn't really anything tangible people can get from gaming. It lives in a box. And it's very expensive.
If i go fishing in real ife, I can get fish and eat them. In a fishing game all I get is some worthless score.
If I grow a garden, I get things I can eat.
If I grow a garden in a game, I can't eat anything from the game.
If games tought me how to fish in real life more successfully or taught me how to properly grow a tomato plant. I think people would be more likely to get involved in gaming.
But even if it did teach me those things, I can always get the same info from any gardening or fishing book or off internet websites for what 0 to $10 bucks?
Another sceanario is fishing, hunting, racing, gardening are usually seperate games in the gaming world. in the real world it's all together.
So i think amking games more like life would be a good start.
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May 31st 2010 9:28AM (Massively)How I would make Red Dead Redemption better
Westerns are a genre that have not been done very well in the past, but I do truly enjoy them and their era.
Red Dead Redemption is a new western game by Rockstar Games that i feel is go to set an unprecedented bar for how games of this genre will be or should be made... I want to make it better.
Yes, Red Dead Redemption looks like it is going to be one of the best western games I've ever seen.
Red Dead Redemption videos and website:
www.rockstargames.com/reddeadredemption/agegate/ref=/
Not to nag, but to make it more fun, and to play more like an MMO. I'd add some very important qualities to it. To make it a western by which all westerns are compared.
1. It has to be for the PC also
2. Fishing ( you can hunt, you should be able to fish)... This would fill some of the gaps in an expansive world such as RDR. It would also add more fun.
3. A Homestead- A farm that can be built one log at a time or maybe a pre-built farm. This is where the player could store their items, decorate their homes etc.
The homestead is also where farming would take place, such as raising pigs, maybe cattle. And growing corn, various veggies, grain, beans etc. That can be used for crafting or can be sold raw, feed yer horses and cattle. you get the picture. Only NPC's and NPC events can attack and possibly affect a players homestead. Other players cannot. However, other players may visit another's homestead, call out the owner to a gunfight etc. But nothing will be lost... You might lose the gunfight, some exp etc.
4. Crafting- Players can craft various objects in the game from various things, such as making flour from wheat and cornmeal from corn, and cornbread from cornmeal. Stones for jewlery, decoration or resell to NPC.
Crafting would also include the use of fish for various things such as fertiliser, resell as food etc. Skins from animals into rugs, clothes, food, resell etc. Bones and stones into jewlery and so forth.
Note: Players wouldn't have to eat, but there would be a market for food.
5. Pet's- I once learned of an old man who lived in a cave that had a mountain lion for a pet , the old man had to kill his pet because it killed the child of his lover.
The west wasn't just about gunfights, they were fighting for something. Their land, their food, their rights and simply surviving with what they had trying to make a better lives for themselves. Some in peaceful ways such as farming. The farm was everything, family was of utmost importance. Survival was #1.
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May 22nd 2010 1:15PM (Massively)If i go fishing in real ife, I can get fish and eat them. In a fishing game all I get is some worthless score.
If I grow a garden, I get things I can eat.
If I grow a garden in a game, I can't eat anything from the game.
If games tought me how to fish in real life more successfully or taught me how to properly grow a tomato plant. I think people would be more likely to get involved in gaming.
But even if it did teach me those things, I can always get the same info from any gardening or fishing book or off internet websites for what 0 to $10 bucks?
Another sceanario is fishing, hunting, racing, gardening are usually seperate games in the gaming world. in the real world it's all together.
So i think amking games more like life would be a good start.
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