{"id":676,"date":"2007-06-08T13:42:47","date_gmt":"2007-06-08T17:42:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/2007\/06\/08\/the-expectation-game\/"},"modified":"2008-02-18T03:19:19","modified_gmt":"2008-02-18T07:19:19","slug":"the-expectation-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/2007\/06\/08\/the-expectation-game\/","title":{"rendered":"The Expectation Game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you don&#8217;t read Kieron Gillen&#8217;s blog, you should. Though he&#8217;s branched out into comics and music, he&#8217;s still one of the best writers in the business. He&#8217;s more than Mr. New Games Journalism.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, <a href=\"http:\/\/gillen.cream.org\/wordpress_html\/?p=1394\">he has an essay up today<\/a> about &#8220;fans&#8221; of what he calls the Immersive Sim. (There <em>has<\/em> to be a better term than that&#8230;). He means games like <em>Thief<\/em> and <em>Deus Ex<\/em> and <em>System Shock<\/em> &#8211; games in the netherworld of FPS\/Adventure\/RPG.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>There are people there who won\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t buy <em>Bioshock<\/em> if it doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t let you kill the Little Sisters with whatever they have to hand. There are people who won\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t by <em>Bioshock<\/em> because it features an integrated training level rather than a separate one. There are people there who apparently won\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t buy <em>Bioshock<\/em> if it doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t allow you to turn off equipment items flickering slightly.<\/p>\n<p>They\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re puritans, basically. They want games which are totally committed to the belief in being a complicated Immersive Sim, or they\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re not interested in playing. Screw that dumbed down shit.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Of course, you can find this mindset anywhere in the gaming world. Check out the strong dissents on <em>Fallout 3<\/em>. Or the people already calling <em>SimCity: Societies<\/em> a catastrophe (mostly because it is not <em>SimCity 5<\/em>, no matter what you read on Slashdot.) Then there&#8217;s the RTS audience that now thinks every RTS should be like <em>Company of Heroes<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>I love gamers. But sometimes I wonder why they even let us breed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you don&#8217;t read Kieron Gillen&#8217;s blog, you should. Though he&#8217;s branched out into comics and music, he&#8217;s still one of the best writers in the business. He&#8217;s more than Mr. New Games Journalism. Anyway, he has an essay up today about &#8220;fans&#8221; of what he calls the Immersive Sim. (There has to be a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5GFeQ-aU","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/676"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=676"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/676\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}