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View Poll Results: What do you like best about SEIV??
Wiping out billions of nasty aliens, what else? 5 7.46%
Exploring the galaxy, meeting new races 13 19.40%
PBW!! All the way! 15 22.39%
Thinking up new strategies, new ship designs, etc. 17 25.37%
Modding!! 14 20.90%
What the hell kind of poll is this? Boo, you suck!! 3 4.48%
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Old September 23rd, 2004, 02:05 PM

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Default Re: Poll: What do you like most about SEIV??

Hey, I'm a roleplayer. While people my age (14ish or so) were playing resident evil and mario, I was typing in reams of text in MUSH games lol.

It shouldn't piss you off that I like player-vs-player interactions. Actually vs is the wrong thing to emphasize... its more player-player interactions. Guess I didn't emphasize the "when I lose, I don't feel bad" thing... its more "I don't feel a need to be competitive all the time". Seriously, when you get a message from the Eee, do you feel as good as when you get a well thought out message from another player?

Certain games do a very good job of "masking" the computerized fakeness, and totally immerse you in the universe (KOTOR anyone? Dues Ex?), but most games can't overcome my inherent objection to talking only to an algorithm programmed by a computer... that is why so called "eye-candy" and such helps. Eye candy is important, because it brings the game alive... I would have a lot more fun playing single player in SE:IV if there were talking heads with good voice acting representing the main AI protagonists =D.

In all my PBW games, the most fun part of playing the turn is replying to a message from a human player. I get sad when I don't get a message during a turn =D

Brian
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