thread: 2005-09-02 : Meg on Ritual
On 2005-09-06, Vincent wrote:
Awesome.
Awesome! I think the question that remains is: How? Now what?
Side point: Ron's IIEE comments are about participant A objecting to participant B's input and what can she do about it - not whether she can. In Polaris, she can edit it until she doesn't object to it anymore, essentially; she can do something about it before it's real in the game. In Dogs, it's already real, and then she can do something about it. That's totally IIEE, and that's where Polaris' "nobody gets hurt" vs. Dogs' "sometimes somebody gets hurt" lives.
Just to say it again, so nobody thinks I'm crowing:
If you take Dogs to the "somebody gets hurt" place, the game will let you down. Only go there if you're already skilled and with people you've already tested. This is not to Dogs' credit.
On the other hand, it's to Polaris' great credit that you could have, oh for instance, cannibalistic incest-rape in the game without anybody getting hurt. The game seeks out the very darkest, very scariest things within your boundaries.
