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Moriendor
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Joined: 19 Jul 2001
Posts: 1306
Location: Germany |
| Thief: Deadly Shadows (PC/XBox): Interview @ GameSpy |
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GameSpy has conducted an <a href="http://www.gamespy.com/interviews/march04/spector/" target="_blank">interview</a> with Ion Storm's Warren Spector about his company's upcoming stealth game 'Thief: Deadly Shadows'.<blockquote><em><strong>GameSpy</strong>: Even though Deus Ex: Invisible War was a sci-fi game and had a lot of realistic elements in terms of the political elements and story choices, Thief has a fantasy setting. Which do you prefer, and what do you feel are the strengths and weaknesses of each?
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<br><strong>Spector</strong>: Well, I like both of them. Having both in one studio works for me because I get to have my hand in two different camps. I like the reality basis of Deus Ex because I think it allows normal human beings -- non-gamers -- to access the material a little more easily. So from that perspective I like it because it lets us suck people in to a new and unique kind of gameplay experience.
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<br>With a fantasy setting, you're kind of self-selecting your audience a little bit. My mother is going to be less likely to play a fantasy game than one with some clear ties to the real world. That I think is the big strength of the real-world setting. The fantasy setting gives you much freer reign to create something new and really, really original. The Thief fictional setting created by Looking Glass is pretty stunning. It's not like anything in any other medium I know of.</em></blockquote> |
Thu Mar 04, 2004 1:17 am |
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Jadar
Eager Tradesman
Joined: 29 Dec 2003
Posts: 27
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Mr. Spector is dead on, the same game can be played on any platform. But it's not because consoles are so powerful, they're not. (If they were there would be no point of contention) The games are the same because developers choose, obviously and for obvious reasons, to make them that way.
Like it or not gamers will have to accept cross-platform titles; they are an inescapable economic reality. But it's only the PC gamer who really suffers. (0k, that crappy Gamecube totally ruined Prince of Persia for all the PS/2 and X-Box users, dammit, dammit to hell!) But to this end Warren has some sage advice, "...go and buy an Xbox, buy a PlayStation 2, because it costs less than upgrading your video card, for crying out loud!". Once again he is quite right. Why should I spend hundreds, even thousands, of dollars to maintain a computer to play games? If the experience is going to be the same, I shouldn't.
If I didn't use my computer for gaming what I would have is one overpriced email client/web browser. Sure, I have some office apps and programming tools but even those will run just fine on the machine I was using two years ago. Hell, if I were willing to put up with a few microseconds delay I could get by with an old Pentium II class computer - just fine. What's more, there isn't a non-gaming app on my machine that dosn't have a replacement on the Linux platform. I'm already using OpenOffice and any of the Linux environments can handle the demands of the Internet. So with the industry forcing the game market to the lowest common denominator they have unintentionally freed me from the endless cycle of obsolesence and upgrading. AMD vs. Intel, ATI vs. NVidia, Microsoft vs. Linux, no longer will these hotly contested battles concern me. I may even wear out a piece of equipment before I replace it, that would be novel.
The only problem now is deciding who I hate less, Microsoft or Sony. It's a toss up. Let's hope that Nintendo surprises everyone and delivers the ultimate killer console... but if games are designed to be cross-platform, that means... oh, Shit! |
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Thu Mar 04, 2004 1:24 am |
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Roqua
High Emperor
Joined: 02 Sep 2003
Posts: 897
Location: rump |
What is spectre talking ubout. All sci-fi is just plausible fantasy, or fantasy that could still happen. If anything Thief is a lot more realistic with technology we know has been around before and no biomeds and made-up fantasy crap like that.
Does anyone know a sci-fi buff that hates fantasy or a fantasy buff that hates sci-fi. The same people that dress up for LotR movies dress up for Star Wars and Star Trek.
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