InXile interview on Hunted: The Demon's Forge

[nihil]

I just read this:

http://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/...r_Matt_Findley_On_Hunted_The_Demons_Forge.php

While I think the game itself could make a decent action one, the article really pissed me off. No wonder we don't get RPGs anymore when a former RPG developer says:

Well, you know, we analyzed the long history of video games. I think these games always wanted to be action games at their heart. I think all those old turn-based games, it's just that's all the technology would allow.

Just wanted to share my frustration.

 

[Peter]

Well, you know, we analyzed the long history of video games. I think these games always wanted to be action games at their heart. I think all those old turn-based games, it's just that's all the technology would allow.

Just like X-COM wanted to be a squad based shooter, right?

 

[Kraszu]

From the game trailer: http://www.huntedthegame.com/index.php/uk/index

Matt Findley:Hunted is about the sense of being lost in the world, not like literally lost where you need a map[...]



Guess there were just no technology back then to make linear corridors so they had to implement maps.

 

[markec]

Why do I gave a feeling that this is going to be completely the same piece of shit as Demon Stone.

 

[Metro]

Hunted is basically an ARPG without much gear or progression so... an action game.

 

[Black_Willow]

Well, you know, we analyzed the long history of video games. I think these games always wanted to be action games at their heart. I think all those old turn-based games, it's just that's all the technology would allow.

Just like X-COM wanted to be a squad based shooter, right?

When I played Syndicate I wanted it to be a squad based real time shooter, not turn ba...

Oh wait

 

[Shannow]

Well, you know, we analyzed the long history of video games. I think these games always wanted to be action games at their heart. I think all those old turn-based games, it's just that's all the technology would allow.

Thinking of Dungeon Master right now... But hey, that was 1987. Perhaps he was talking about games before that. Thinking of Pong...
I'd like to rage, but I've been hearing the same nonsense for almost a decade now. Fact is: people are fucking stupid and will believe anything if it fits their worldview, no matter how many facts contradict it.

 

[nihil]

I'd like to rage, but I've been hearing the same nonsense for almost a decade now. Fact is: people are fucking stupid and will believe anything if it fits their worldview, no matter how many facts contradict it.

Truth. This article went news anyway, so I guess that would be the place to rage.