   Nintendo's "Play the game for you"
  I'm not sure how many people have heard of this but it was initially brought to my attention a couple months ago.How many people actually think this is a good idea. And they even patented it! I curious what the patent actually is for.  LINK 1.) I can't think of too many games that I had to ever cheat on to finish.2.) Is this really worth the effort for them to develop and how many people are going to use it. I think it's geared towards the new older audience they have, but I don't see that audience playing anything beyond wii sports and wii fit.[Edited by - dpadam450 on June 18, 2009 1:36:39 AM]
  I think it's great for toddlers who start to figure out they're not always winning all the time.   ;  Looks like it is for a local game with local co-op, so I have no problem with it.It's not exactly a new tactic.  In co-op Lego Star Wars you could do this by getting yourself close to position.  The AI partner would start the action.  You could join as player 2 and immediately dropping out on player 1, exploiting the AI doing the action.So for local play -- great idea.  If something is particularly confusing to a player for any reason they can use it.  If they're age 5 and don't understand a puzzle they can still play, or age 60 and don't know the puzzle thenthey can play.  If they don't want to devote an hour to hitting jump at exactly the right time, they can still play.So put me for a vote on the "good" category.If this were a network game or something with online rankings then it would be an obvious exploitable flaw.  Hopefully stupid companies don't start doing that.As for the patent, do you have a link?  It would be interesting to see what the patent actually says and what it directly and indirectly covers.  It may be narrow or over-broad, but you can only tell by actually reading it.   ;  Not all gamers are hardcore ... its something we have to live with if we are to have jobs in this industry.   ;  If someone can't do a part of the game either...i) They're not suited to the game.  It's beyond their skill level.ii) It's simply disproportionally difficult.iii) The game suffers from bad design, and as a result an unintuitive problem has appeared.To be honest, this just reads like a cop-out for point (iii)   ;  I guess if your into cheats/walkthroughs, this makes it more convenient.Having the game play for you reminds me of buying WoW characters though.;Quote:Original post by argonautNot all gamers are hardcore ... its something we have to live with if we are to have jobs in this industry.False.   ;Quote:Original post by programmermattcQuote:Original post by argonautNot all gamers are hardcore ... its something we have to live with if we are to have jobs in this industry.False.Are you saying that both his statements are false, or are you only referring to the job one?   ;Quote:Original post by programmermattcQuote:Original post by argonautNot all gamers are hardcore ... its something we have to live with if we are to have jobs in this industry.False.=============================BlogProjectsFalse.Sidenote: There's a paradox in your signature: The one link reads "geekswithblogs", implying that you are a Geek with Blog, the other one points to a site where you use Comic Sans MS like there's like no tommorow (proof). Only Non-Geeks and Non-Geeks only would ever use Comic Sans, or Papyrus, or other Typographic Incarnations of Satan Himself.   ;Quote:Original post by phresnelOnly Non-Geeks and Non-Geeks only would ever use Comic Sans, or Papyrus, or other Typographic Incarnations of Satan Himself.No true Scotsman, eh? ;)   