Comments on Hit Self-Destruct: Elevator Music

I wasn't a big fan of the long elevators toward th...

2008-12-19T02:50:00.000+13:00

I wasn't a big fan of the long elevators toward the end, but I didn't mind them at all originally. The conversations gave me a chance to better know the NPCs and see how they related to one another. I think the radio reports actually triggered a quest once, as well, though that may have been the DLC quest.

I was surprised by the new xbox front end, as I'd ...

2008-12-19T00:12:00.000+13:00

I was surprised by the new xbox front end, as I'd not seen much about it in advance and expected to have to trudge places with my avatar.

Stor Troopers or pretty much anything that avatars on the web should have informed game developers a long way back.

I guess I must've missed the particular conversati...

2008-12-18T13:28:00.000+13:00

I guess I must've missed the particular conversations in that elevator that were amusing..

You've mentioned similar mechanics before, Duncan - I just don't care for the this-isn't-artificial thing we've seen become fashionable the last few years, it's silly, it's unnecessary, it's fooling no one. We're all grown-ups here, I bet we can handle "not being immersed" for little whiles.

If I remember correctly, other parts of the game still had loading screens anyway.

If there's going to be a delay due to unavoidable ...

2008-12-18T08:09:00.000+13:00

If there's going to be a delay due to unavoidable technical issues, I'd prefer some sort of in-game gimmick (like the elevator ride, where at least we got amusing conversations between party members) to a bland loading screen. Similarly, while I can now instantly recognize the standard "gratuitous corridor which twists around a corner so I can't see the next area until it's fully streamed in" it's still preferable to the game just stopping.

Now, putting in stuff like that if there wasn't some technical reason -- I agree with you that's usually (though not always) a bad idea.