View Single Post Lt. Commander Join Date: Dec 2007 Posts: 120 #
2 12-04-2011, 08:41 AM I'm pretty staunchly opposed to sandbox
games and someone who LOVES novel grinds and theme park games.
Sandbox games are to MMO snobs what French art films are to film
snobs or amazingly pungent foods are to foodies.  There's always
this concession in there that sandbox games are less popular
with Joe Blow and this assumption that if people ONLY KNEW and
UNDERSTOOD what the sandbox enthusiast knows, they would jump
ship on their theme park games.  It's just not true.  I think a
lot of people are aware of the theme park's hamster
wheel/skinner box with light, CRAFTED narrative. If they play it
at all at endgame, they are aware of it. And they LIKE it, they
just want that endgame to be balanced RIGHT to their tastes and
aesthetics and are looking for the game that does that.  But
they aren't going to be satisfied with a sandbox.  That's like
taking a bus load of costumed Juggalos to a baby shower.  The
theme park is always f