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Raph Koster, the former CCO of Sony Online announces PeaceMaker. He compares it to Hidden Agenda and Balance of Power (Chris Crawford) and adds: “The fact that we only have three significant games in this genre in 17 years is a little depressing”. We couldn’t agree more.
I am very interested in posting some early comments we got from players, it just takes time to get their permission and all. And yes, feel free to post them comments in the blog… please let us know everything, why you liked and what wasn’t so right.
March 24th, 2007 at 8:27 pm
I just realized something. Peacemaker is the first video game ever in which I did not even try to save. I did not think about saving at all until long after I had finished my first game, and then only because I saw a comment in this blog that mentioned saving. I did see the save button in the options menu, so I knew it was possible.
I think this happened because the game
1) is so much about real life, and you can’t save in real life, so saving is not conceptually on the player’s mind
2) is such a smooth gaming experience I totally suspended my player paranoia and just went with the flow and took even the effects of my bad decisions in stride.
I think this is a remarkable achievement and I commend you for it.