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| Sid! Meiers! News! Item! 2000-01-06 Chet |
Sid Meier, not content to have just another
.plan file for his upcoming game - tentatively called "Dinosaurs" (my bet on the
shipping title is "Sid Meier's Dinosaurs!") - has decided to document the
wondrous creative process that led to such unflushed virtual turds as Sid Meier's Covert
Action!
In the latest installment of Sid's "Sid Meier's .plan file" he debates the pros
and cons of turn based vs. real time action. We're in the year 2000, man. 2000.
And you're still wondering whether your dinosaur game should be turn-based?
Meanwhile, every other developer is making arrangements to have their new
game plug directly into my fucking eye. Yet in just 6 long pages Sid is
able to pimp every one of his previous games, come up with no new ideas, and still have
time to brag about his team at Firaxis. Firaxis? Sure Gettysburg! was kind of
fun for a few minutes back in the nineties when we were all so obsessed with the Civil
War. But Alpha Centauri blew and hasn't gotten any better with age and was voted
worst game of 1999 by every major gaming website. Do we really need an
in-depth look at how this team develops a turn-based dinosaur game? Maybe Firaxis
could develop fingerpaint handprints and then use construction paper to make them look
like turkeys! Then the rest of us could hang them on our year 2000 talking
refrigerators, and get busy playing any of the hundreds of three dimensional, force
feedback, realtime shooting and dancing games about tank commanding apes that will be
released this year. At the risk of having to read six more pages from Meier's
no-doubt therapeutic dream journal, allow me to throw out this idea: Sid Meier's
hand held LED football!
But, is anyone really surprised by Sid's need for attention? Given his
well-documented deep hatred of Peter Molyneux! and Peter's upcoming release of the
potentially ground-breaking but probably enormously unfun Black & White, Sid is
feeling the heat. Why should Sid sit on the sidelines of the hype machine while
Molyneux is permitted by everyone but us to continue spewing insane
bullshit to children?
Sid is fighting back. Armed with nothing more than a high school history book and a
few pee-stained old gaming ideas, he has taken his cues from the promotional master, Evil Knievel, and decided to set the hype machine to full
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