Games Quotes - Page 203

Coin matching and finger flashing were among the first formal games to arise in the history of gambling. The class of Morra games extends back to the pre-Christian era, although not until comparatively recent times have game-theoretic solutions been derived.

[John Foster Dulles] invented Brinkmanship, the most popular game since Monopoly.

If humans weren't here and we didn't care about anything that lives here, if this were a video game, I'd push the button and see what happens, because it'd be really exciting; but it's not a video game.

I have an RSS reader, Feeddler. I mostly subscribe to board game blogs - they have reviews of new games and discussions about trends. It's straight-up dork talk.

The amount of times my wife has rolled her eyes at board games is impossible to count.

Gaming has been a great way to get to know people. That's part of what I love about games, that they are social.

Game of Thrones' is just incredible, what they pull off every week.

Larger game teams are often a bit more experienced at working with writers, which is often a huge relief. However, it also means that there are more people wanting to wander around the narrative kitchen telling you how you should be making your story pies.

They are very good reasons why voice acting in games can be so terrible. Writers are in a great position to be able to bridge this gap.

Traditionally games never used professional writers to create their narrative, so there's definitely a residual feeling that hiring a proper writer is somewhat of a luxury, rather than a necessity. Like a feng shui consultant.

Games aren't created by writers rocking up to developers saying 'I have this great game story.' It's about establishing relationships and working hand in hand to create something wonderful.

You can't really measure your game. You can shoot seven under and lose and you can shoot even and win.

What we were trying very hard to do, just in the way we shot it, was to make it feel as if we're in that environment ourselves, just so we can get a grasp on what it is. A lot of our influence was about getting stuck on a level on any of those video games, where you find yourself caught and you can't get out, and it's maddening. We talked a lot about that.

If you don't start out aiming for the big game, you almost never can get there.

Zen is the game of insight, the game of discovering who you are beneath the social masks.

Interactivity is a big part of video games, which have been a big part of entertainment for 20 years. That's what we think of as a 'lean-forward' type of entertainment. It's much more intense. But TV is more of a 'lean-back' entertainment - so the big improvement there is on-demand, because it conforms to your schedule.

People have to understand what my game is. It's not all about numbers. There's a bigger picture here. I don't create off the dribble. I rely on my teammates; my role is to set screens and get rebounds

Completing a recovery session the day after a game is just as important. I like to go for a walk or a swim and have a stretch

One thing we said as an offense is we want to start games fast ... we want the other team to play catch-up to us.

I'm really looking forward to seeing the next game in the Wasteland series!

There is a huge set of consequences that start stacking up as you approach the end-game. And even in terms of the ending itself, it continues to break down to some very large decisions. So it's not like a ****c game ending where everything is linear and you make a choice between a few things - it really does layer in many, many different choices, up to the final moments, where it's going to be different for everyone who plays it.

I played pretend games as a kid, army, whatever, but I never wanted to be an actor.

It's poetry to watch the game when the game is left alone, when there's not a bunch of flags on the ground.

In an era that's run on free agency, everybody's going where the dollars are. They go after the dollars and they forget that the game will always come down to brotherhood.

Any game that you step on, you can get beat.