Awesome By Proxy: Addicted to Fake Achievement

Re:Awesome By Proxy: Addicted to Fake Achievement by roc on Tuesday November 24, 2009 @03:39PM (#959923)

I'm not sure how well genre maps to his argument, though I'd agree 'difficulty' as a distinct axis fits fairly well.

Yes, the Gygax/Arneson-style advancement system, when applied in CRPGs often becomes a dynamic difficulty-scaling mechanism. But one needn't look any further than this year's Most Important Game Ever (Call of Duty... 6?) to see similar systems in the most sacred of 'skill based' genres: online, multiplayer, first-person shooter. Put in the time, get power-ups.

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Re:Awesome By Proxy: Addicted to Fake Achievement by dkarl on Tuesday November 24, 2009 @03:52PM (#959938)

Yep, playing your best in COD and leveling up fast in COD are basically incompatible. To play well, you have to be fresh and sharp. To level up fast, you have to keep playing long past the point where you get groggy and start slowing down. More than a few times I forced myself to keep playing until 3am even when I was logging 5 kill / 15 death games, because I knew it would bring me closer to weapons like the PTRS sniper rifle.

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