May 23, 201411 yr “If you don’t like to read, don’t play this game” -Josh Sawyer, project director and lead designer As much as I hate sentences like this.... this.
May 23, 201411 yr “If you don’t like to read, don’t play this game” -Josh Sawyer, project director and lead designer As much as I hate sentences like this.... this. Why do you hate sentences like this? Curious.
May 23, 201411 yr No, he doesn't mean sentences like that. He means sentences like...this. Edited May 23, 201411 yr by Infinitron
May 23, 201411 yr If I had to guess, he hates them because they can be interpreted 7 different ways and always end up offending rather than just meaning what they mean. Like that one. If you literally can't stand the fact that there are words to read in front of you on the screen -- if that bothers you, in and of itself, then you really probably should not play this game. Yet, people interpret it as "OMG, so if reading isn't like, our all-time favorite thing, you're telling us not to play this game? What a snob!" No. Literally, if you do not like reading, as opposed to disliking reading -- not 17 paragraphs every second, just, the act of reading things to discern stuff -- then you're probably not going to enjoy a game that uses text to drive a huge narrative throughout. Should we not start with some Ipelagos, or at least some Greater Ipelagos, before tackling a named Arch Ipelago? 6_u
May 23, 201411 yr Yet, people interpret it as "OMG, so if reading isn't like, our all-time favorite thing, you're telling us not to play this game? What a snob!" I disagree with this mentality. All games aren't made for everyone as we all have diferent tastes, contrary to AAA wishes. I would appreciate if devs were more forthcoming and said to me, "this game isn't made for people like you, find another one" It would save us all a lot of trouble and many negative feelings down the road.
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