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Message: <blockquote data-quote="FrogReaver" data-source="post: 8441027" data-attributes="member: 6795602">I've gave the same explanation about 5 times now.  Shall we go for a 6th?All these questions seem to be honing in that when the fiction changes that the play experience changes and that's absolutely true.But I think we've got to be careful in conflating potential changes in fiction impacting the play experience with the method that fiction was generated impacting the play experience. But even then method of fiction generation impacting play experience doesn't yield itself to being revealed via play excerpts1)  If one method can generate fiction the other cannot then method impacts play experience2)  If one method generates fictional outputs in a different distribution than another then that would impact play experience. Such insights would never be able to arise from examining a few post play excerpts because they don't depend on what happened but rather what could have happened.So my window into BW play is your excerpts and descriptions of it.  That your excerpts produced something that seemed very similar to living sandbox play implies 2 things to me, 1) play excerpts don't do that games play experience justice and 2) those short play excerpts share alot of similarities with living sandbox play (at least based solely on the excerpts provided).</blockquote>