Are You a Top or a Bottom

Designer that is. I should have probably gone with one of those Rocky and Bullwinkle style titles such as "I Like It on Top OR Bottoms Up!". Who knows maybe something even a little more Ron Jeremy from the 70s. Alas, this is just a thread reminding me to read an article on Bottom Up and Top Down game design. Sort of relevant to work as of late. I tend to prefer the bottom up approach, I imagine, as, to me, story is nice flavor and you can't beat a game like Fallout that just has the right flavor going for it, but, at the end of the day, I'm a gamer, a designer, and not a writer, and if it isn't fun, then I don't really want to read your story. How's that for a run-on sentence. Eat it Ms. Crabtree!

Oh yeah, btw, did you see that now that Bethesda has cashed in on the once great franchise of Fallout, good ole Interplay is still planning to do that MMO. Here's a little prediction for you. Bethesda doesn't think much about Fallout as an MMO when they can do Oblivion and it will be so much more the WoW killer. Uh...yeah. Whatever. I wonder what the hell Matt was thinking when he went over there.

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