Topic: the future of non linear games

[wandering]

we should have a spore thread.

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In the non-linear game I yearn for, I am not the only determinant of how something turns out. In such a game, I can play it the same way everytime but other factors beyond my control and knowledge and turning events in such a way that I'm forced to adapt, not by choice, but by story and survival necessity.

How bout Animal Crossing?

...Not counting the survival necessity part, I mean. And the story part.

[Kairon]

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Originally posted by: wandering
we should have a spore thread.

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In the non-linear game I yearn for, I am not the only determinant of how something turns out. In such a game, I can play it the same way everytime but other factors beyond my control and knowledge and turning events in such a way that I'm forced to adapt, not by choice, but by story and survival necessity.

How bout Animal Crossing?

...Not counting the survival necessity part, I mean. And the story part.

LOL. Well then, what's left?

But seriously, the benefits I'm looking for from a non-linear game are the challenges to my self-identity, challenges to my perception of the world around me, and challenges to my ability to exist within that world. To the extent that Animal Crossing accomplishes that, I DO consider it part of my ideal non-linear experience.

~Carmine M. Red
Kairon@aol.com