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<blockquote data-quote="Caliburn101" data-source="post: 7708234" data-attributes="member: 6802178"><p>My experience was entirely different. I mistrusted the mechanic from reading it, I don't like metagame mechanics in general and the LOVE Conan - so was doubly ready to throw any attempt to spoil it out of the window.</p><p></p><p>I am perfectly capable of understanding rules by reading them, and like you, judge games from this once I have read them through.</p><p></p><p>So I guess this is down to a matter of perspective, or perhaps trust? Maybe not...</p><p></p><p>.... but anyway - <strong>you cannot understand how the mechanic plays from reading how it works.</strong></p><p></p><p>Me, and no-one I know who is now playing in my game got their assumptions about Doom right, so I suspect neither do a lot of people who haven't tried it.</p><p></p><p>You can try it for free - and perhaps might conclude from what I have said that you shouldn't be so sure of your ability to divine the gameplay from a read-through.</p><p></p><p>Mophidius, or me for that matter telling you to try it before you write what amounts to pre-judgemental negative statements about it ('I haven't tried it but it needs fixing...') is not an excuse, it's a way for those who have more experience of it to advise you to take a little time to find out your assumptions are wrong.</p><p></p><p>Everyone has the right to an opinion - but not every opinion is soundly based. Should you try it and still not like it, then coming onto a widely read website and telling us how to fix the Doom mechanic will at least be a right you exercise with sufficient awareness off the issue.</p><p></p><p>You yourself said you haven't tried it, and the counter position is that you should before you pronounce judgement, to which you have said you don't need to try it.</p><p></p><p>That is not a logical position to hold unless you think you are infallible.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Caliburn101, post: 7708234, member: 6802178"] My experience was entirely different. I mistrusted the mechanic from reading it, I don't like metagame mechanics in general and the LOVE Conan - so was doubly ready to throw any attempt to spoil it out of the window. I am perfectly capable of understanding rules by reading them, and like you, judge games from this once I have read them through. So I guess this is down to a matter of perspective, or perhaps trust? Maybe not... .... but anyway - [B]you cannot understand how the mechanic plays from reading how it works.[/B] Me, and no-one I know who is now playing in my game got their assumptions about Doom right, so I suspect neither do a lot of people who haven't tried it. You can try it for free - and perhaps might conclude from what I have said that you shouldn't be so sure of your ability to divine the gameplay from a read-through. Mophidius, or me for that matter telling you to try it before you write what amounts to pre-judgemental negative statements about it ('I haven't tried it but it needs fixing...') is not an excuse, it's a way for those who have more experience of it to advise you to take a little time to find out your assumptions are wrong. Everyone has the right to an opinion - but not every opinion is soundly based. Should you try it and still not like it, then coming onto a widely read website and telling us how to fix the Doom mechanic will at least be a right you exercise with sufficient awareness off the issue. You yourself said you haven't tried it, and the counter position is that you should before you pronounce judgement, to which you have said you don't need to try it. That is not a logical position to hold unless you think you are infallible. [/QUOTE]
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