[PvK]

Sure. Wanting to know the exact rules is a thing some players really want, and others don't care as much about. And yes, it is lame when a game does things in a way a player doesn't agree with yet it takes players a long time to learn that it doesn't work well for them.

Myself, with decades of game experience and specific tastes, I can often tell just by looking at screenshots or some seconds of gameplay, the kinds of things that are and are not going on, and decide not to bother with a game. I can usually figure out the gameplay is going to have have no real interest to me in less than a minute of scrutiny, and this turns out to be the case for perhaps 98% of the stuff I see. Of course, I'm a definite exception.

Even so, there can be games that seem to do things to taste, but then turn out to have major things that aren't to taste. It's a matter of specifics (and sometimes, attitude) whether such games are thus "fun for a while, until you figure out that they do some things badly", or "broken once you figure it out."

PvK

[ June 29, 2004, 20:21: Message edited by: PvK ]