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<blockquote data-quote="Scribble" data-source="post: 5187325" data-attributes="member: 23977">I think there's a disjunction in there that you also notice when watching movies...Game is designed so it's fun to go &quot;through&quot; the adventure, fighting bad guys, and ultimately getting to your goal.Movies are fun to watch the hero go through his adventure fighting badguys and ultimately getting to his goal.Person watching thinks... why's he fighting all those mooks when he could just blow the whole place up???The answer is, because it's fun to watch him bash on mooks.RPGs give him a stage within which to test this question though.PC blows the whole place up. Adventure ends, just as the movie would end, and the next few hours of game time are spent &quot;ad-hocking random stuff.&quot;Fun the first few times you learn you can &quot;do anything!&quot; but tends to loose it's effect after a while... and you begin to miss all the fun stuff you could have done instead of ad-hocking stuff. At least in my experience.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Scribble, post: 5187325, member: 23977"] I think there's a disjunction in there that you also notice when watching movies... Game is designed so it's fun to go "through" the adventure, fighting bad guys, and ultimately getting to your goal. Movies are fun to watch the hero go through his adventure fighting badguys and ultimately getting to his goal. Person watching thinks... why's he fighting all those mooks when he could just blow the whole place up??? The answer is, because it's fun to watch him bash on mooks. RPGs give him a stage within which to test this question though. PC blows the whole place up. Adventure ends, just as the movie would end, and the next few hours of game time are spent "ad-hocking random stuff." Fun the first few times you learn you can "do anything!" but tends to loose it's effect after a while... and you begin to miss all the fun stuff you could have done instead of ad-hocking stuff. At least in my experience. [/QUOTE]

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