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Time Extend on Black and White

Posted by Zonk on from the heady-days-when-gods-had-pets dept.

Edge Online is featuring another edition of its Time Extend article series, this time looking back at Peter Molyneux's Black and White. From the article: "It's this contradiction which is at the heart of all god games. Although promising ultimate power, the design challenge is always focused on how to limit that power: it wouldn't have made Black & White a better game if you'd been able to toss off a mouse gesture that casts 'I Win'. And so your potency is metered, dependent on the prayers of your followers. Your influence is circumscribed, penned in by a smoky ring of red. In an odd ecological twist, you're even dependent on natural resources: strip the land of trees and the seas of fish and your godhood can soon be brought up short."

4 of 10 comments (clear)

  1. Just in time for by SnoopJeDi · · Score: 5, Funny

    Martin Luther King Jr. Day

  2. Not a game. by rylin · · Score: 2, Funny

    it wouldn't have made Black & White a better game if you'd been able to toss off a mouse gesture that casts 'I Win'.

    It's not a game - it's a simulation.
    You don't see "God" waving his hand, giving me first post - do you?

    1. Re:Not a game. by FidelCatsro · · Score: 2, Funny

      I saw him Waving something at a first post once , but it involved a raised middle finger and a lightning bolt .

      --
      The only things certain in war are Propaganda and Death. You can never be sure which is which though
  3. Erm... by david.given · · Score: 3, Interesting
    The referenced link 404s, the search box on the root page bombs madly, and if you try to access http://www.edge-online.co.uk/archives/, you get:

    spykids ownz you

    I suspect someone at Edge is having a really bad day. Oh dear...