Originally Posted by Rozonus
By 'gunner' I was referring to the 2nd seat in PS2 MBTs, seeing as the primary gunner is actually the driver. Reading it now should make more sense.
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I know: you assume there are two players inside. I don't. That's the difference. The one driving and in control of the main gun needs situational awareness the most. He should not wait for his gunner to tell him "hey, we're driving against a wall and apparently have been for half a minute now".
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Of course I will make sure they're there! If they aren't online I'll go play another game. I get too bored plaything any multiplayer games if it's not with a group of friends. I won't be puking because, like the majority of other players, I'm used to controlling vehicles in 1PV and I don't get any kind of sickness from it. You keep mentioning that as though it's common but I don't think I know anyone I've played with who does suffer from it.
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What you just said is called "self-centered design", what you need to realise is that "user-centered design" is a completely different way of thinking (multi-perspective, trying to imagine what it's like for someone you can hardly conceive exists to use your product).
Imagine for instance if all chairs in the world were built under your idea of "I don't have a problem with it, my sparse collection of sample players does not have a problem with it, so it doesn't matter!". Or if all pants and T-shirts were a narrow size "S" because the designer happened to be a thin female and figured that if it fit her, it should fit everyone else and they should deal with it?
You think that a game or cartoon should have flashy graphics that cause epileptic strokes just because the designer and the people he personally knows have no problem with it?
Again, you're using rather bad logic. The first thing you learn about ergonomics for mass consumption/production products in Industrial Design Engineering is that you want as many people as possible to be able to use your product and thus adapt your product to them, not them to your product.
I would also like to know which games you've played that are
pure first person vehicle shooters. The last one I played was "Super Battletank 2" on SNES. Every tank game since has been a mixture of FPS and 3rd person.
I do hope you're not suggesting this (of course in a refined form):
To be the level of tank gameplay in PS2. (It sadly demonstrates the lack of situational awareness quite well, even then, people switched to map view to get an idea of where enemies were and to not have to see the first person view too long).
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I don't play multiplayer games to get a good score, I play them because I love the feeling of teamwork so I don't care if my mates kill enemies for me! As long as I can transport them around and provide support then I'll be happy. Just because I don't care about my k/d doesn't mean my logic is bad.
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If a multiplayer game is not enjoyable to play because the gameplay mechanics are poor, certainly in comparison to other games that have a better system for the type of gameplay, then players will leave for those games and take their buddies with them.
If you have tank combat in PS2, it should be refined and well-developed and balanced by default, not deliberately gimped in controls and made semi-unplayable
just to compensate another playstyle or unit.
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