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Les_the_Sarge_9_1 -> (4/17/2003 6:15:02 AM)
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Hmm I don't have a problem with you Veldor, but sometimes you sound like someone from one side of the political fence convinced that the otherside "just doesn't get it" :)
As I said, some call me elitist based on the premise my being capable of playing ASL, and capable of speaking about it competently, clearly makes me an uncooperative ASL fanatic (as it is assumed to be able to play ASL you have to be fanatical, and hence a fanatic)
I too, don't think ASL automatically is the best game ever made. It is the best game of it's type ever made maybe (remember I said maybe), but I can find you all sorts of "best game ever" contenders.
Before the computer, you either wanted to wargame or not.
It was not an old farts hobby, it is just that a lot of guys that played have not stopped aging.
I don't think most elements of classic board games are sacred either. But occasionally trying to re invent the wheel, only results in mess.
As the old saying goes, if it isn't broke...
I wonder where computer wargaming would be today, if say 5 years ago, programmers instead of producing detailed 3d graphics, had decided the visual representation of wargames was adequate, and designers had become obsessed with more innovative AI concepts.
I know people that won't play anything but Everquest. My friend made me a set of the cds, and is driving me nuts to get me to play the game. He is insisting on me using one of his many Accounts, in the hope I will get dragged in.
But running around endlessly hacking things is quite dull sounding. They can't hope to make EQ good enough "looking" to make something that sounds dull exciting.
Then there is Combat Mission. I had another friend that claimed quite confidently, once you play CM nothing else will suffice. Suffice it to say, CM is just a demo file I share with others.
The game looks good, but the interface is not dynamic enough. To much like work controlling the view angle.
So for all it's wonderous glamourous 3d imagery, the game is still poorly designed at the interface level.
But don't say that over at Battlefront, I'll be sponging up what's left of ya hehe.
I have been trolling my large collection of boardgames the last couple of weeks now (trying to write some wierd notion of article on wargaming like anyone will care hehe).
I was looking at my copy of Afrika Korps and thinking, a complete bonehead probably could succeed in putting this on the computer all onto a 3.5 floppy too.
The only problem being the monocolour map with marginal detailing, and the dullsville counters AHHHHHHH !!! run and hide god it's sooooo ugly.
That's the problem with computer gaming. It's not the people refusing to add spice to board games, it's people thinking a humble board game can't be any good unless it has more spice than Arrakis.
Afrika Korps is an established classic. Today my copy has only one failing, I have not taught it to anyone recently. It certainly doesn't need anything to make it "better". That would be truely arrogant of me to presume I could improve on a classic.
Wargaming is for wargamers. Is that such a bad thing?
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