You might remember a recent post I made called “Games and the Digital Age”. It turns out that it was picked up by Brian Creeden on Google Buzz. A fascinating discussion ensued!
One of the interesting tangents was the topic of the rather moderate improvements Blizzard did to the interface of StarCraft 2. Here is an interesting point made by Charles Pratt.
To me it’s like suggesting that Baseball would be better if we allowed aluminum bats in the major leagues because there would be more homeruns. While I think that it would be interesting to see in what way a different UI would change the way the game is played, games are not engineering problems and I think that it’s perfectly appropriate for the game as its played now.
Of course I disagree. Check out the discussion here. Feel free to participate!
