Comments on: What Not To Do (Vol 3)

By: Joshua Brown

Joshua Brown — Wed, 12 May 2010 23:20:11 +0000

my favorite character on the Plants Vs. Zombies game is none other than the Michael Jackson zombie.:.,

By: Michael Aulia

Michael Aulia — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 05:12:03 +0000

The Last Remnant is one of those fantastic RPGs but it’s so bad because of the loading times on just about everything! :@

The Witcher had this problem but it was patched afterwards

By: Chaz

Chaz — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 19:24:39 +0000

Totaly agree with you, I see lots of games that look fantastic aesthetically but feel sluggish and uninspired when playing. I think its definately something you need to realise whilst in production too, as realising it 5% from completion just isn’t worth anything, so you’re effectively releasing a game you know is bad.

Nice article!

By: Porter

Porter — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 05:19:37 +0000

Excellent example of another professional game that was well known, yet suffered these issues. Thanks for reading, and for adding more evidence to my ideas.

By: sketch

sketch — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 21:15:34 +0000

speaking of games where you can outrun your bullets… in the Twisted Metal series, you could launch a Reco-Bomb, but when using turbos… you would hit it instantly, because you were going faster than it’s launch speed (launch speeds were not relative to the speed of what launched it). this classic failure carried on through each version i remember playing.

also, the same game series suffered from slow game play due to a change in physics when the game changed hands after Twisted Metal 2. Took me a while to think of why it felt less fun, and I boiled it down the wall collisions being harder to recover from.

and I agree with the need to fast-forward time in tower defense games, Plants vs Zombies lacked this surprisingly.

great topic!

By: rosedragon

rosedragon — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 19:59:18 +0000

Very goooood point!