Ken Levine's new game is not linear but geometric

[Makabb]

Could you have characters, conflicts, and dialogue that could end not in 100 states, not in 1,000, but in X to the Y states? Goodbye linear, hello geometric!

Our new game is chess meets Hamlet.

http://www.gamespot.com/articles/bioshock-creator-ken-levine-teases-new-game/1100-6424257/

 

[Shaewaroz]

At least it can't be worse than BS: I.

 

[Makabb]

At least it can't be worse than BS: I.

It can.

 

[Night Goat]

He's gone Full Molyneux. Never go Full Molyneux.

 

[Wirdschowerdn]

He's known to be an RTS/Xcom nuts. I expect this game to be a philosophical Freedom Force/Xcom bullshit thing being marketed in a way to support his typical NYC-native "This is the most important thing ever and I'm smarter than you" arrogance.

 

[Gangrelrumbler]

I may be retarded but didn't basically describe The Sims? I mean, every Sim can love, hate etc. every other Sim, can have dozens of occupations, can be dead, alive, sick etc. So wouldn't the Sims also fit that description? In fact I doubt that his game will be anything more than just a normal adventure game with heavy Sims elements.

 

[pippin]

Chess meets Hamlet. Well, there's something rotten indeed, so there's a link.

 

[Turjan]

I may be retarded but didn't basically describe The Sims?

Godus meets The Sims?

 

[Alienman]

He's known to be an RTS/Xcom nuts. I expect this game to be a philosophical Freedom Force/Xcom bullshit thing being marketed in a way to support his typical NYC-native "This is the most important thing ever and I'm smarter than you" arrogance.

So Hipster X-com?

 

[Darth Slaughter]

Games are geometric since starfox on the SNES in the console side, and even before that on computer. How long since elite?

 

[kingcomrade]

Could you have characters, conflicts, and dialogue that could end not in 100 states, not in 1,000, but in X to the Y states? Goodbye linear, hello geometric!

Our new game is chess meets Hamlet.

http://www.gamespot.com/articles/bioshock-creator-ken-levine-teases-new-game/1100-6424257/

So, this is Sid Meier level bullshit? Christ man. Why do they do it? There's no conspiracy, it's probably not even ego. What are they doing? Is this their idea of clever marketing, maybe?
You don't have to be a software engineer to realize how fucking much time it would take to make a game with geometric branching paths. Fuck, the Codex has talked about this before most of its current posters stopped shitting in diapers. There is a literal, mathematical result of trying to do stuff like this. In reality it will be like fucking Spore. Super complex and clever programming, but the game sucks and is bland and boring.
I am super salty about spore. All the intelligence by programmers going into a game that sucked. Think of what they could have done instead. We don't even know, because they were working on Spore instead.

 

[Night Goat]

Coke is a hell of a drug.

 

[Drax]

 

[Gragt]

More matter with less art.

 

[Zarniwoop]

He's gone Full Molyneux. Never go Full Molyneux.

Just once, I'd like to see one of these game-designer-turned-celebrities not lose their shit after having a wildly overrated, successful game/franchise.

I wonder how long before Fargo goes off the deep end, Wasteland 2 was pretty successful.

Besides, whatever the new game is I'm sure it will have a lighthouse, a man and a city. All this bullshit about "narrative" just proves once again Levine's nothing but a wannabe film-maker.

 

[Shaewaroz]

At least it can't be worse than BS: I.

It can.

I don't see how. Did BS: I have any redeeming qualities?

 

[Night Goat]

The waifu was hot at least. Maybe the next game's female lead will look like a Dragon Age: Inquisition character.

 

[Gragt]

At least it can't be worse than BS: I.

It can.

I don't see how. Did BS: I have any redeeming qualities?

No matter what you believe, it can always get worse.

 

[Forest Dweller]

Nothing that tries to emulate Hamlet is ever good.

 

[Night Goat]

Nothing that tries to emulate Hamlet is ever good.

WRONG

 

[Forest Dweller]

Umm...

 

[Gragt]

Nothing that tries to emulate Hamlet is ever good.

He speaks, yet he says nothing.

 

[Neckbeard Shitlord]

Do you give the beggar 1 dollar or do you give him infinity dollars? You make the choice and watch the game unfurl according to your decisions!

 

[<3sRichardSimmons]

Hopefully this is Freedom Force 3 Hopefully this is not Freedom Force 3.

Way to go Ken. I would give you my dick-cheese if I could.

 

[Cyberarmy]

Goodbye linear, hello geometric!

Our new game is chess meets Hamlet.

My head hurts...