2008-09-15

Welcome

You don't care about me, and I don't know you; hopefully I'll write something interesting, and you'll comment, and that will change.

I've recently been playing an older XBox game, Chromehounds. It's a good game, but it has a definite lack of polish around its interface. Specifically there are surprisingly long delays when going from menu to menu... the game is frustrating to navigate, and you need to use many menus when building your hounds (which would probably be called Mechs if FASA didn't have a trademark on that term).

Chromehounds supports in-game packs, their name for guilds or clans. Unfortunately, like nearly all games out there, they don't support any sort of persistent messaging system... no message boards, no forum. I'd like to see that kind of guild support integrated into games, because the quality of communication between members makes a huge difference in the cohesiveness of a gaming group.