Tip: people don't want to play games by stuffty people like you. Btw, you're wasting your time if you think looking at design docs is going to make you a better designer. Make things, not stare at others' things. Also you're not going to get a career in games when you're as dismissive and arrogant as you. Around actual industry forums, you would be basically ostracized for being such a prick. You're not special for being interested in making games.
Making assumptions that I:
A) Am not in industry forums
B) Act exactly like this in industry forums
C) Don't go to design events
D) Am not making things for myself and won't release them since the majority of stuff is either clones or not fun made to increase my skills or fulfil some kind of criteria for a task I've taken on board
If you think reading design documents and then brown townysing the decisions is a waste of time, good for you. For me, it actually helps as I get to see what my favourite game developers were thinking and then brown townyse the decisions in terms of where they were successful and what could have been done better.
Also, you're also super stuffty for thinking that me defending DQ even a little suggests that I don't care what a game is/do not have standards. Offering criticism, btw, isn't saying "this game is stuffty". What made you hate the character? You have said literally nothing of any use to anyone.
And you have? All you've done is come here and bitch about us. You haven't given any strong argument as to why the "game" is actually worthy of anybody's time and why it's a good game. You just went ahead and assumed we're all misogynists because we were actually discussing journalist integrity and I made a comment about how I feel the "game" didn't deserve the level of commentary from these publications that it did.
The problem had less to do with the main character (who I felt was poorly written) and more to do with the "mechanics" not engaging me enough to want to be the character in the first place. There's no feedback loop either, so I got pretty damn bored after the second time pressing a link.
lol "i have female friends"
Ah, so you're allowed to get away with saying that I'm a woman hater, but when I try and justify my position you are welcome to insult me?
