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Vincent Baker comments on Ron Edwards' new game, Spione

Spione is, however, a game that'll inherently seem both very difficult and totally unrewarding to, well, to most gamers. It requires that its players have already developed - or be in the process of developing - certain skills, incompatible with certain other skills that most gamers rely on.

I gather the game is about cold war spies, focussing on the conflict between double agents personal lives and their roles as spooks. But apparently us traditional gamers are too brain-damaged ever to be able to play it.

Or alternatively, all he means is that the structure is radically different to a traditional RPG, and the stuff about 'incompatible skills' is either clever hype or pretentious nonsense, depending on your point of view.

Posted by TimHall at August 02, 2006 09:50 PM
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