Comments on: Life at BioWare – July 2008 http://www.alt-shift.com/blog/2008/07/07/life-at-bioware-july-2008/ Daniel Roy's blog about life and videogames Mon, 06 Sep 2010 09:21:16 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: Daniel http://www.alt-shift.com/blog/2008/07/07/life-at-bioware-july-2008/comment-page-1/#comment-68 Daniel Tue, 08 Jul 2008 13:47:03 +0000 http://www.alt-shift.com/blog/?p=53#comment-68 Hehe. I said that totally as a joke, but you're on to something. I think the genre of RPGs is traditionally inseparable from some core gameplay mechanics which are very interesting in their own right... A good example is GTA: San Andreas integrating some light RPG character customization. I don't see why that would not be of interest to sports games fans as well. Now that I think about it, I would guess that most "sports managers"-like aspects of modern sports games could be considered RPG elements already... Hehe. I said that totally as a joke, but you’re on to something. I think the genre of RPGs is traditionally inseparable from some core gameplay mechanics which are very interesting in their own right… A good example is GTA: San Andreas integrating some light RPG character customization. I don’t see why that would not be of interest to sports games fans as well.

Now that I think about it, I would guess that most “sports managers”-like aspects of modern sports games could be considered RPG elements already…

]]> By: Monogamie http://www.alt-shift.com/blog/2008/07/07/life-at-bioware-july-2008/comment-page-1/#comment-67 Monogamie Tue, 08 Jul 2008 03:48:36 +0000 http://www.alt-shift.com/blog/?p=53#comment-67 I know you’re joking, but Madden RPG 2009 is actually a fantastic idea, and I’m 100% serious on this. I always believed the average jock, dad and/or general ’couch’ sports fan (your typical ’Madden’ crowd) wants to roleplay just as much as the geeky lvl.70 dungeon master, they just don’t want to do it as a tiny pixelated wizard. Really, is there that much of a difference between level grinding and a 80 games hockey season ? Whether we need Bioware for this or not is another matter, but the future of the sports genre lies very much into stronger role-playing features. I know you’re joking, but Madden RPG 2009 is actually a fantastic idea, and I’m 100% serious on this. I always believed the average jock, dad and/or general ’couch’ sports fan (your typical ’Madden’ crowd) wants to roleplay just as much as the geeky lvl.70 dungeon master, they just don’t want to do it as a tiny pixelated wizard. Really, is there that much of a difference between level grinding and a 80 games hockey season ?

Whether we need Bioware for this or not is another matter, but the future of the sports genre lies very much into stronger role-playing features.

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