05-05-2012, 01:14 PM
7E6E6A7E527E6B1F0 wrote: [quote author=5040575E5E320 link=1334071748/58#58 date=1336064017]One more thing - since we are discussing som of the changes Vern made in MM HD:
I've said it before and I'll say it again that MM is Vern's game and it is totally up to him how he wants to present his game to us, the customers. I, however, feel that his changes are not improving anything and in some instances they are reducing my innovativity as a builder.
I'm completely with you on that, Brell.
Please see also what I said about this in my last post below, guided at Rob. (
Reply #59)
It was always BECAUSE of all the quirks and irregularities (and even bugs) in the original game that we could come up with so many innovations, new twists etc. for so long - and they contributed a large part to why the game stayed fresh until today.
If those debatable
improvementswere only restricting our creativity for future designs it'd be bad enough - BUT there are several cases where the changes are responsible for screwing up old designs so they no longer work.... often without the resp. designer even knowing about it until someone stumbles over it.
There the real frustration starts......
Sherryl199 put it very well when we were discussing the removal of the ladderjump while testing MM2:
Things that Vern has taken out can, perhaps, be put back in - I don't think anything in MM is an absolute or most of us would not play or design. It's beauty and fun is, in my opinion, the flexibility and responsiveness to players wishes. At least that is why I continue to play MM. The game is the MM community and reflects players' and designers' growth. Otherwise Vern would be back at MM with only 8 mansions.