Far Cry 2: Lose A Buddy, Lose Content [Sep 05, 2008, 9:44 pm ET] – Share – Viewing Comments
Videogaming247 reports an interesting tidbit about Far Cry 2 they picked up
at the Games convention. Apparently when one of the game's NPC "buddy"
characters meets an untimely demise, the game content associated with that
character dies as well. They quote Patrick Redding, the narrative head on the
shooter follow-up: "That’s the price you pay for having buddies. When I unlock a
buddy like that and then use him, either by getting involved in one of his
missions… or by allowing him to come and rescue me, there’s always a risk that
he could be killed. If he’s killed, he’s gone forever and the content associated
with that character is no long available to me. So for example, any side quests
that he’d be able to give me are no longer available."
Thanks for making my point.
Which point? My point is that you should design a game around the optimal control scheme. M&KB for shooters, gamepads for platformers.
If you design a shooter for the console and design it to play the exact same way on a PC instead of tuning the gameplay and controls, that's the developers failing, not the consoles or the control schemes.
I'm not talking about ports here. I'm talking about limitations imposed by inferior controls. It's like designing a fighting game around a 2 button control scheme. Sure, it can work, but it will never have as much potential as a fighting game designed around 6 buttons.
Shooters like Quake, Tribes, etc, (anything that requires great speed and accuracy) simply don't work with a gamepad. This is not to say that gamepads are inferior for everything. They are just inferior for shooters. And strategy games. Or anything that requires quick and precise aim. Or hotkeys.
Games are made to make money, sooner you can wrap your head around that, the happier you will be.
So I have to embrace the devolution of gaming because it makes people money..? Interesting logic.
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