Do you prefer computer games to be more like a book or a sport?

[Nutmeg]

A book implies:
+ Some set number of beginnings and some (maybe different) number of endings.
+ Some set number of paths to progress from some beginning to some end.
+ Author creates content, reader consumes content.

A sport implies:
+ A set of rules for a "match"
+ No beginning and end (a match of the particular sport may have a beginning and end, but the sport never does).
+ Participants create content (e.g. tournaments or team uniforms).

For example, a person who prefers computer games to be more like books might play the campaign of Age of Empires II, complete it, think it was wonderful, and put the game on the shelf. On the other hand a person who prefers computer games to be more like sports might never play the campaign of Age of Empires II, but spend hundreds of hours playing "standard games" (or whatever they're called) against an A.I or human opponent.

So which best describes your approach to computer games, and how you prefer your games to be?

 

[J1M]

Comic book. Excellent first entry in a series followed by rape.

 

[dextermorgan]

I prefer computer games to be more like computer games.

 

[warpig]

Like a book. I prefer a "closed" adventure that presents new, varied challenges, environments, enemies etc. as I go through it. I like a sense of progress and discovery in a game, I like to be curious about "what's in the next level".

 

[Excidium]

I prefer computer games to be more like computer games.

 

[DragoFireheart]

The lack of kc options enrages me.

 

[thesoup]

Is this going to be another one of those artshit discussions?

 

[Nutmeg]

Book for cRPG, when you sit in a nice cozy armchair and enjoy it with a favorite drink in hand, slow, relaxed game play. When I feel like sport, I go play FPS.

Speaking of "RPG"s, I will give another example:

A person who prefers computer games to be like books will prefer Planescape: Torment over Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup. A person who prefers computer games to be like sports will be vice versa.

 

[Delterius]

'Book' for RPGs, 'Sport' for Strategy games.

Though neither archetype is necessarily ideal. For a instance, given the history of the LP depository, many games should, instead, follow the path of chinese torture.

 

[Gurkog]

Games can be done well as either if the developers focus on providing one experience or the other. It is extremely rare for a game to do both well since it is essentially 2 games in one. This is why either multiplayer or campaigns usually feel like hastily tacked-on gimmicks.

 

[Awor Szurkrarz]

I prefer them to be more like simulations.

 

[Hoaxmetal]

Games should be like movies.

 

[dnf]

I prefer computer games to be more like console games.

'ed

 

[Awor Szurkrarz]

Games should be like poems.

 

[MetalCraze]

Speaking of "RPG"s, I will give another example:

A person who prefers computer games to be like books will prefer Planescape: Torment over Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup. A person who prefers computer games to be like sports will be vice versa.

You are pretty retarded, you know that?

 

[circ]

Analogies make no sense. Good systems are always nice.

 

[RK47]

Location:Australia

 

[Shaewaroz]

Neither one is an interactive medium, and as such neither one is a good template for games, which are inherently interactive by nature.

 

[Psquit]

Gaems should be a like a porn movie. Full of tits and with shitty dialog.

 

[Tom Selleck]

I prefer computer games to be more like Citizen Kane.

 

[DarthBehemoth]

I prefer them to be more like books. Not the shitty books you pick up for $5 at the gas station, but big epics with unpredictable twists and deaths (ala Game of Thrones)

Gaems should be a like a porn movie. Full of tits and with shitty dialog.

Go read fifty shades of grey, it has all those things and it's a book. Plus I suspect Bioware got their inspiration from it.

 

[kris]

I prefer them to be less like a book or sport.

 

[DraQ]

Do you prefer computer games to be more like a book or a sport?

Do you prefer books to be more like paintings or symphonies?

 

[Commissar Draco]

I prefer them like sailing.

 

[DraQ]

I prefer them like sailing.

Do it wrong and they'll make you sick?