ShootMyMonkey
Veteran
That wouldn't really work with the creature. Maybe if "three" was replaced with "60+." As short as its short-term memory is, the creature was still a "universal eyecandy" type of fellow, and the lack of short term memory also meant that sometimes, it would ask the same thing more than 10 times because it would never remember if it mentioned it to you before, or because it would actually believe that it was a good idea.I've recently found a nice "guide" for this sort of thing, I think it was in a presentation about Shadow of the Colossus held at GDC. It was something along the lines "I only start implementing a feature after the designer has asked for it on three separate occasions."
If only I had thought of that on my own / earlier...
So if I'd followed that credo of 3x asked, we'd have a game where a spy glowed blue and buildings, cars, guns, and powerups (in the form of "stargates") would all be made of chrome in various colors. Yes, a "health pack" would actually be a blue chrome stargate you had to fly through to heal. We'd also have "Hitler II" being the World's Fuhrer through alien technology he stole by defeating the aliens. How did the aliens get defeated by the Nazis if they had such superior technology? Simple! Quote, "You have to remember that the Nazis were great architects, and they did so much more for society than programmers and artists will ever be able to do."... huh?!?!? Oh, yes, you'll have a sniper rifle that is "more functional" than any other ever made because it glows and shines a spotlight beam on the target you're aiming at. All guns have muzzle flashes that need to be a minimum of 4 feet wide. Of course, the final boss is Hitler II himself, and when you seemingly kill Hitler the first time, it's revealed that he's actually a liquid chrome shapeshifter who has joined with a neural network in order to become the ultimate being. So now you have to kill "King Hitler"... and then it's revealed that the neural network was just using Hitler to get to you in order to find the supreme human (in order to combine with you making a neural net cyborg), thereby making you the new World's Fuhrer so that you can rule the world with an iron hand (oops... I mean, "chrome hand") in your own image.
Ummmm........................... yeah.
Yep... not that it stayed that way, thank goodness. And actually, the creature had never played Wipeout, but "futuristic" was the credo of everything it spouted. Really the only game it had ever played prior to starting the company was RTCW. And I love how it bragged about spending 16 hours a day for 3 months to beat it. Watching the creature play Halo at one point, I realized why. You ever seen those "dumb" AIs that run into a corner and shoot into the corner when you're shooting at the bot from behind? Well, that's actually the creature.Whoah that guy took Wolfestenin3D, Matrix, Tron, Start Trek, Wipeout etc and mixed them in a blender?
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