• 28Sep 08

  The Line between Reality and the Game world just got Finer

  I dont know how many of you are watching the new fable. I kno i am Oct 21st is def marked on the calender, i cant wait. The game seems to be doing so many innovative things its overwhelming. The indepth nature of the choices you make is amazing. One of the coolest new features of the game isnt rly on the game disk. Its the XBox Live Arcade title "Fable 2: Pub Games" which was released earlier in the year, it containts 3 chance type gambling games that you can play for Fable 2 money that can then be transfered to the game when it comes out. Well almost instantly some guy on youtube found a cheat on one of the card games that doubles your bet AFTER you make it. So for example you only lose 150 but if you win you get the money as if you bet 1500. It racks up gold extremelly fast. Most people saw this and instantly thought it was an error of the developer and was going to be elminated (which it now is.) However, Designer of Fable, Peter Molyneux said in an interview that it was in fact not and accident and that gamers who used the cheat will have a suprise waiting for them when they pop in the disk. This is absolutly amazing, and something i have never seen before. Here Peter bridged the gap between reality and virtual reality and made you make a real life decision that you made for the game and didnt even know it. Most of the time when we play a decision-oriented game we expect there to be desisions and can generally see the difference. Kill the good guy or save the good guy. But instead we make a decision in real life. Are we going to be good and fair and play the game how its supposed to be played? or cheat? After all it was a "mistake."

  This in my opinion will indefinatly change the face of reality gaming altogether. However, where do we cross the line between games and reality? We are already pretty close to photorealism and now we are having games that give you real life decisions that will be brought over in games as well as games that put you in the shoes of the protaganist of the game in a very real and tangible way. Where is the line between the two spectrums though? Will we have full on virtualy reality in the next gen? and how far will this bridge between the realities go? Will eventually the game know how many old ladies you helped across the street. Or will it eventually kno that if in one game your evil it will carry over in another? it is definatly something to ponder.

  • Posted Sep 28, 2008 1:45 pm GMT
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• 31Jan 08

  Is GS ever gonna leave this slump?

  man this has bit a rough couple of mnths for GS. countless influental staff and members have left including the obvious jeff gerstman and also some extremelly influential leaders of successfull unions serbsta69 and fastestruck. It has been sad to see so many people go that i started designing with and gamespotting with. its all so sad, its times like these that make us wonder if gamespot will ever be the same
  • Posted Jan 31, 2008 8:10 am GMT
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• 14Jan 08

  another one bites the dust

  rich gallop

  jeff gerstman

  and...alex navarro?

  yes with the leaving of rich the flame of brhisawsomes fav staff got passed to alex...and now hes supposedly leaving also

  i really havta wonder how much the leaving of jeff influenced this, in interviews he seemed pissed,

  now it seems like the next logical candidate is going to have to be ryan mcdonald

  • Posted Jan 14, 2008 4:28 pm GMT
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