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Re: Exactly what you said
Posted By: General Battuta <seth.dickinson@gmail.com>	Date: 12/13/10 3:05 p.m.
: Yeah that's even worse, because now you are worrying about the game even when : you aren't playing it. "What daily challenges am I missing : today?" : I would have to think about it a little more to articulate it (and maybe I : will sometime). I think it's an interesting trend, though, that the slapdash, unpolished multiplayer - Halo 1's entire multiplayer suite and the various betas, both Reach's and Halo 3's - often seem to have a spark which the final products lack. Maybe it's some kind of cognitive illusion, but I know that one of my biggest complaints about Halo 3's multi was that it felt somehow overpolished, as if the traction was gone and there was nothing to left to grab - whatever that's supposed to mean. Is it possible that the asymmetries and gaps present in the Betas and H1 allowed players to generate their own gameplay rather than playing inside the developer's rules? Or am I just being a wank?

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