Increasingly, I am growing tired of the predominance of combat in games. Specifically, RPGs.
In some genres, it’s necessary — even the point. What’s a first person shooter without combat? Or a real time strategy game? But even with genres where it’s more of an aside, like RPGs, combat is becoming more and more the main [...]
Writing a game with mature themes, as Persona 3 has, is a dual-edged blade. On the one hand, you’re able to explore situations and characterizations that touch on things ranging from teenage social awkwardness to self-mutilation to alien sex (no, really) to death…oh, so much death.
On the other hand, by embracing such a mature [...]