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Kent Paul Dolan <xanthian@well.com> roared:
> [cooking YANI]
> Don't people mostly come to these games to get _away_ from the
> world of cooking, cleaning, earning a living and such?
I think the idea is not (mainly) to add realism but something that
makes a character's life a little better, or just add some
interesting fun/pasttime to the game, but preferably both.
Take Nethack, where you can do all sorts of weird stuff. Saddles for
example. Saddles are a real life thing, and your knight starts with
a saddled pony. Where it diverges from real life (apart from half
your knights getting killed when they actually try to mount the pony
on turn one) is that the same saddle-fits-all-even-jabberwocks can
later be tied to your shiny silver dragon, on which you can gallop
up to the Castle and play your favorite nymph a song, who might then
lower the drawbridge and chase out all the critics that don't quite
agree with your taste in music.
> I know "The Sims" are making someone rich putting all that stuff
> back into game playing,
Know next to nothing about them (and only know what they are because
I was bored in front of the TV the other day, and all European NBC
seems to broadcast is people sitting in front of some computer doing
stuff with them, or alternately other people laying/reading cards
for callers ■, a true shame that, it's both in German, too, they
should show some undubbed Merkian series instead). Can't say I'm
impressed with what I saw there. Lousy graphic that just interferes
with any game that might be hidden in it, again.
> but it seems inappropriate in a dungeon crawl game.
Oh, I'd not mind a proper house or something (but not like in
Angband where you can't properly store stuff). I make myself quite
at home in the Temple, too, with things spread out and piled into
Bermuda piles almost like at home. <g>
■ Which had me stare in wonder and giggle. The first caller of
that show sounded rather fake, too. A highlight was a lady that had
'planet cards' "For the 10 planets." Eh, right.
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