Comments on: Editorial: The Power of Limitations

By: Andrew 'Mel' Melcon

Andrew 'Mel' Melcon — Sat, 19 Oct 2013 16:49:52 +0000

Bah, loggin’ in late.

By: Mel

Mel — Sat, 19 Oct 2013 16:49:06 +0000

haha, yeah I left it off because I felt it left a bigger impact without the usual silliness and call to comments.

But I can put a prompt here, I suppose.

Aside from Resident Evil, what other games have benefited from being limited? And what about limiting player control (tank controls in RE) as a means to increase challenge and make the player feel less powerful? Is this a legitimate way to increase challenge in a game or just a clunky inelegant one that is perhaps a limitation best left in the past?

By: Matt Dance

Matt Dance — Sat, 19 Oct 2013 16:40:14 +0000

I read this article and liked it! However, you forgot to write the “what do you think about…? Let me know in the comment” part at the end! Now I don’t know what to think about!

By: Andrew 'Mel' Melcon

Andrew 'Mel' Melcon — Fri, 18 Oct 2013 23:17:30 +0000

I realize I’ve labeled RE5 as “a disappointment” here, when in fact it was a commercial success, standing as the best selling entry in the series to date. So the disappointment really is just mine at how crap that game was, and it’s little wonder that a company like Capcom felt doing more of the same but bigger was a good move.

Thankfully it was not.