Comments on: This is how a seemingly harmless, pretty useless feature can provide amazing gamer experience & great stories http://www.gameproducer.net/2012/03/09/this-is-how-a-seemingly-harmless-pretty-useless-feature-can-provide-amazing-gamer-experience-great/ I bake games. Indie style. Wed, 12 Jun 2013 15:09:19 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Proven http://www.gameproducer.net/2012/03/09/this-is-how-a-seemingly-harmless-pretty-useless-feature-can-provide-amazing-gamer-experience-great/comment-page-1/#comment-148024 Proven Fri, 09 Mar 2012 16:46:46 +0000 http://www.gameproducer.net/?p=6570#comment-148024 One I'm familiar with? Tripping in Super Smash Bros. Brawl. I happens often enough, although the more you play the less and less you notice it ever occurring. Makes for some moments, like say when you trip into someone's fully charges smash attack (the equivalent of an EX super in another fighting game? I've never given much thought to finding parallels in the mechanics before). There's even a banana peel item that forces someone to trip if they get hit by it or walk over it, and a character that can always spawn bananas. The only issue? Competitive gamers loathe random systems like that. And Brawl was desperately wanted by it's community to improve on the competitive aspects in Melee (some of those aspects put in there unintentionally, or at least without much thought to their use and implications). Anyway, that's what I learned as the price of drama, a whole swarm of people on the Internet, often not the ones you're used to seeing this from, enraged or bitter over your favorite game. I wonder if they'll do anything about the blue shell in Mario Kart. One I’m familiar with? Tripping in Super Smash Bros. Brawl. I happens often enough, although the more you play the less and less you notice it ever occurring. Makes for some moments, like say when you trip into someone’s fully charges smash attack (the equivalent of an EX super in another fighting game? I’ve never given much thought to finding parallels in the mechanics before). There’s even a banana peel item that forces someone to trip if they get hit by it or walk over it, and a character that can always spawn bananas. The only issue? Competitive gamers loathe random systems like that. And Brawl was desperately wanted by it’s community to improve on the competitive aspects in Melee (some of those aspects put in there unintentionally, or at least without much thought to their use and implications). Anyway, that’s what I learned as the price of drama, a whole swarm of people on the Internet, often not the ones you’re used to seeing this from, enraged or bitter over your favorite game.

I wonder if they’ll do anything about the blue shell in Mario Kart.

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