Incline Chris Avellone Appreciation Station

[Jasede]

I think I speak for us all when I say we'd love to play with MCA, or at least watch him when he is playing with himself.
By himself.

 

[Fairfax]

I think I speak for us all when I say we'd love to play with MCA, or at least watch him when he is playing with himself.
By himself.

 

[Jasede]

 

[Irenaeus III]

a 1st/3rd person vampire RPG, IP-less, so no restrictions or 'guidance'

 

[Aenra]

Stick to posting "#LMAO" and :100white: comments Iren, at least these work for you. A sad fact, in as far as what we can tell about the 'audience' that apparently justifies said posting, but still..
To facilitate keeping the discussion in this thread to things MCA/RPG related, just try hard to imagine a 'Bloodlines' written today. By MC-fucking-A

(see? I'm even helping you. Now you can post some "TB incline only" response, harvest some more fists. It'd also help the discussion, so you're welcome to them. Idiot)

 

[Jasede]

To facilitate keeping the discussion in this thread to things MCA/RPG related, just try hard to imagine a 'Bloodlines' written today. By MC-fucking-A

I came in my pants. Excellent taste. Would buy unseen at $70.

 

[FeelTheRads]

Result of the meeting:

 

[Irenaeus III]

#LMAO

 

[Jasede]

I hope not, MCA needs that.

 

[Fairfax]

I was looking for a specific interview, and found that he's had a website for a while (according to Google). It's just a "coming soon" page now, though.
This is roughly what it'll look like. Looks like it'll have a blog section, by the way.

 

[CptMace]

Nice wordpress skillz

 

[Fairfax]

Now this is a real find. Dragon Magazine #207 from July 1994.
MCA talks about creating villains for PnP games on pages 92-94 (94-96 in the doc).

And Dragon Magazine #214 from February 1995. This is just a few months before he joined Interplay.
MCA wrote about "superheroic exploits" in a sort of checklist format (pages 32-35):

 

[Jedi Master Radek]

What a rare find!

 

[Immortal]

I was looking for a specific interview, and found that he's had a website for a while (according to Google). It's just a "coming soon" page now, though.
This is roughly what it'll look like. Looks like it'll have a blog section, by the way.

This website sums up MCA's career... A series of well designed and perfectly executed ideas that are all half finished.
This guy needs to seriously stop multi tasking / chasing every truck and car that passes his house.

Where's my Arcanum Let's play!

 

[Fairfax]

Does anyone other than Roguey actually believe that? MCA is a good sport about it, at least.

RPGCodex twitter is welcome, by the way.



I guess this is my only gripe with MCA's criticisms of modern RPGs. I understand that dialogue trees aren't perfect, but what is the alternative? He said he worked on amazing dialogue mechanics for VR, but I really can't see that being a better alternative, just a cool little gimmick for every once in a while.

 

[CptMace]

Ahahah

 

[FeelTheRads]

Myeah, so who the fuck is that guy? Random tard saying tweeting random shit?

 

[Fairfax]

Myeah, so who the fuck is that guy? Random tard saying tweeting random shit?

Yes, random retard. Just thought it was odd that Chris replied. Maybe he's getting that from David Gaider, who apparently replies to people bashing him.

 

[FeelTheRads]

Yes, random retard. Just thought it was odd that Chris replied.

Well, If I understand correctly tweeter's purpose is that attention-starved retards can get what they need.

 

[Smashing Axe]

What's Chris doing in Australia?

 

[Roguey]

What's Chris doing in Australia?

He's doing some queermo panels with Tim Cain and Gaider. http://www.rpgcodex.net/forums/inde...reciation-station.101693/page-50#post-4396105

 

[ERYFKRAD]

I guess this is my only gripe with MCA's criticisms of modern RPGs. I understand that dialogue trees aren't perfect, but what is the alternative? He said he worked on amazing dialogue mechanics for VR, but I really can't see that being a better alternative, just a cool little gimmick for every once in a while.

Kind of get his gripe though. If you want to give the bloke the freedom to role-play you'd want to give him a buttfuckload of options like PST and there'd still be a bloke that'd find them options inadequate. Plus I guess dialogue trees are more scripting heavy and hard to relegate to systemic interacty-whatsit.

 

[circ]

Dialogue and quests are easy and has been for a long time. Provide players with the options derived from the classic D&D alignment system: CG, NG, LG, TN, CN, LN, LE, CE, I forget what the last evil option was but you get my point. For players who for some reason feel their character can't be defined by anything - pick chaotic you fucking tard.

BUT ITS TOO MUCH WORK!

Well that's your job isn't it?

 

[Infinitron]

 

[DosBuster]

Dialogue and quests are easy and has been for a long time. Provide players with the options derived from the classic D&D alignment system: CG, NG, LG, TN, CN, LN, LE, CE, I forget what the last evil option was but you get my point. For players who for some reason feel their character can't be defined by anything - pick chaotic you fucking tard.

BUT ITS TOO MUCH WORK!

Well that's your job isn't it?

Jesus christ this made me lose brain cells.

You do realise that when a developer says "too much work" that doesn't mean "Instead of improving this part of the game I just decided to fuck off to lunch an hour early.", it in fact means, "I wanted to do this but we simply didn't have the time otherwise we'd have to take time away from higher priority tasks."