Thanks for posting that Ed, everyone who reminds everyone else about not posting opinions without necessarily backing them up also needs to be reminded of the fact that CD isnt their own personal gracious fiefdom that is closed off to anyone with a different opinion or anyone who doesnt know the rules yet.
That being said! To the topic of the thread at hand. This year's game involves just as much if not more strategy than last year's. A couple interesting points of comparision, similar scoring systems based around manipulation of only one element. Tetras Vs. Balls. Scoring Under vs. Corner Goals. Stacking tetras vs. Centre Goal Shots (obviously the disparity here will be much bigger) and of course, the end zone bonuses. Altogether, I think FIRST has done the best job they can in terms of levelling the playing field again for new teams and veteran teams. There is a lot of damage a single push defensive bot can do versus the same amount of damage a highly effective and mobile shooter can do.
In terms of crowd excitement, while there will be contact, I get the distinct feeling there will be some initial confusion for the first few totally new audience goers to the game, mostly due to the offensive/defensive periods (everyone understands to shoot the ball into the big target)
but then again nothing can compare to the excitement and simplicity of 2003.
Overall for a team point of view, this game offers up a well-rounded avenue of strategies to build with enough variation on how to score or prevent others from scoring that it represents a decent effort by the GDC. They are hard pressed every year to come up with a game and really no one can tell at this stage how well it will be received. Nevertheless, they did their job and came up with a game that I think will be just as good as the games of the past, but at this point in the season, I dont see it as being any better either.
It is just a FIRST game that can leave you with that feeling one hour or two into build season
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Originally Posted by Koko Ed
Hey everybody.
I see NeedMoreEngines is taking quite a hit to his rep. I think he got the point there no need to pile on him and drive him from the site.
How about we let up on the guy, OK?
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