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Dulan · 05-01-2002, 08:59 PM

My comments:

What I posted was not flames. Blunt, yes, but they were not flames. (Trust me on that).

Now, what I am looking for is something that makes Alexander credible. He hosts on Geocities. Just that, in itself, makes me want to run for life (and reproductive organs) for a GDG club being hosted there.

See, Alexander comes off as a 'fanboy' to me. As Threshold pointed out many times, his research seems extremely....limited, and not particularly well-done. NWN is NOT revolutionary. Many games, pointed out by other posters, have entered the ground it has. Honestly, I think he is as full of it as Xanferious. Is that flaming? Not really. I think he is full of it - but, I'm not insulting him in that statement. That is a statement based on my opinion of him, and what opinions he has given out.

Honestly, while he may have been working on -games- for 20 years (And if he uses that definition, I've been working on games for 15+ years), I do not see how that applies towards _online_ games. If anyone doubts - an online game is a whole different breed than an offline game. I can tell you that from personal experience. Claiming to have experience in game design of offline games when you speak of online games is like claiming experience in 8 years of (implied) C++, when you have been writing in C for 8, and C++ for a couple months. (I'll maintain that C++ is an entirely different beast than C.) While they do have similarities, by no means are they the same -genre- really.

05-01-2002, 08:59 PM	#22
Dulan Senior Member Join Date: Apr 2002 Posts: 354	My comments: What I posted was not flames. Blunt, yes, but they were not flames. (Trust me on that). Now, what I am looking for is something that makes Alexander credible. He hosts on Geocities. Just that, in itself, makes me want to run for life (and reproductive organs) for a GDG club being hosted there. See, Alexander comes off as a 'fanboy' to me. As Threshold pointed out many times, his research seems extremely....limited, and not particularly well-done. NWN is NOT revolutionary. Many games, pointed out by other posters, have entered the ground it has. Honestly, I think he is as full of it as Xanferious. Is that flaming? Not really. I think he is full of it - but, I'm not insulting him in that statement. That is a statement based on my opinion of him, and what opinions he has given out. Honestly, while he may have been working on -games- for 20 years (And if he uses that definition, I've been working on games for 15+ years), I do not see how that applies towards _online_ games. If anyone doubts - an online game is a whole different breed than an offline game. I can tell you that from personal experience. Claiming to have experience in game design of offline games when you speak of online games is like claiming experience in 8 years of (implied) C++, when you have been writing in C for 8, and C++ for a couple months. (I'll maintain that C++ is an entirely different beast than C.) While they do have similarities, by no means are they the same -genre- really.