Comments on: okami http://malvasiabianca.org/archives/2006/10/okami/ Sat, 05 Jul 2008 10:33:33 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: malvasia bianca » Blog Archive » go buy okami http://malvasiabianca.org/archives/2006/10/okami/#comment-89565 malvasia bianca » Blog Archive » go buy okami Mon, 21 Apr 2008 21:26:06 +0000 http://malvasiabianca.org/archives/2006/10/okami/#comment-89565 [...] of you who own a Wii (or a PS2) and who haven’t played the game yet to go out and buy a copy. More here, but the short version is: it’s an adventure game based on Japanese mythology with a [...] [...] of you who own a Wii (or a PS2) and who haven’t played the game yet to go out and buy a copy. More here, but the short version is: it’s an adventure game based on Japanese mythology with a [...]

]]> By: david carlton http://malvasiabianca.org/archives/2006/10/okami/#comment-7269 david carlton Wed, 01 Nov 2006 05:50:56 +0000 http://malvasiabianca.org/archives/2006/10/okami/#comment-7269 Yeah, I was curious about where it first showed up in video games, but, wherever that was, D&D is probably where it first came from. Having said that, it feels different in video games than it does in my dim recollections of paper/dice RPGs. Dungeons and the overworld aren't so different, but the roles of towns are pretty different: I think they're much more of a destination in video games than in paper/dice RPGs. I think it's because towns in video games provide (a weak form of) interaction that you'd instead get from your fellow players in paper/dice RPGs. Yeah, I was curious about where it first showed up in video games, but, wherever that was, D&D is probably where it first came from. Having said that, it feels different in video games than it does in my dim recollections of paper/dice RPGs. Dungeons and the overworld aren’t so different, but the roles of towns are pretty different: I think they’re much more of a destination in video games than in paper/dice RPGs. I think it’s because towns in video games provide (a weak form of) interaction that you’d instead get from your fellow players in paper/dice RPGs.

]]> By: Jim Blandy http://malvasiabianca.org/archives/2006/10/okami/#comment-7234 Jim Blandy Mon, 30 Oct 2006 23:31:11 +0000 http://malvasiabianca.org/archives/2006/10/okami/#comment-7234 Maybe everyone who would play Okami knows this, but the name is a great Japanese double entendre: 'okami' means wolf, and 'o-kami' (that is, 'kami' with an honorific 'o') means 'god'. (Now, if only I could speak enough Japanese to tell simple stories about my children to their relatives...) Maybe everyone who would play Okami knows this, but the name is a great Japanese double entendre: ‘okami’ means wolf, and ‘o-kami’ (that is, ‘kami’ with an honorific ‘o’) means ‘god’.

(Now, if only I could speak enough Japanese to tell simple stories about my children to their relatives…)

]]> By: John Cowan http://malvasiabianca.org/archives/2006/10/okami/#comment-7210 John Cowan Mon, 30 Oct 2006 14:02:28 +0000 http://malvasiabianca.org/archives/2006/10/okami/#comment-7210 <i>The town / overworld / dungeon split has been around at least since (early in) the Apple ][ days. (It was certaintly present in the original Ultima; any good examples from before 1981?)</i> Alive and well in the original D&D, published 1974 but designed several years before. (I played my first game of D&D in late '75.) The town / overworld / dungeon split has been around at least since (early in) the Apple ][ days. (It was certaintly present in the original Ultima; any good examples from before 1981?)

Alive and well in the original D&D, published 1974 but designed several years before. (I played my first game of D&D in late ‘75.)

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