thread: 2005-03-18 : Audience?
On 2005-03-18, Vincent wrote:
That all pretty much makes sense to me, Charles.
I take a hardline position about "bad audience" mode, personally: watching protagonists in action isn't boring. If you're bored when your character's off screen, probably the whole game is irretrievably broken, on account of not having genuine protagonists in it.
So I like active audience participation not as a cure for a bored audience, but instead because everybody talking at once is just the more natural way to do things.
In other words, given that there are genuine protagonists in the game, being limited to "rapt, silent attention" mode isn't boring, but stifling.
