Last month, we kicked off the Monthly Musings theme here at Destructoid. Each month, Reverend Anthony proposes a theme that both the editors and the community can participate in. The Monthly Musings was created mostly to spawn interesting debate from all you C-Bloggers. Destructoid is all about the community and we wouldn’t be anything without your support. The Monthly Musings is your chance to get promoted to the front page and keep things interesting in the C-Blogs as well.
Everyone did an awesome job with this last month and I’m looking forward to promoting even more blogs for this month’s theme. Reverend Anthony will be announcing March’s new theme shortly. Until then, lets take another look at the Good Idea, Bad Idea stories that were promoted for February.
Good Idea, Bad Idea: Dynamic Difficulty Adjustment
My favorite Good Idea, Bad Idea was from unangbangkay. In it, unangbangkay talked about how various games implement the Dynamic Difficulty Adjustment system. Honestly, before I read this, I really didn’t fully understand what this system was about. To read that Max Payne had this system and that I never realized it before was a complete trip. It made me go back and play through the game again to try and see the system in action.
Good Idea, Bad Idea: The stealth level
OrangeGoblin’s Good Idea, Bad Idea on the stealth level was another one of my favorites. Mostly due to the Call of Duty 4 bit. That really was a fantastic level. It had the perfect balance between stealth and action. Plus, shotting down a helicopter with a high-powered rifle is pretty neat too.
Good Idea, Bad Idea : Voice acting
Voice acting is something that makes or breaks a game for me. I can’t get through a game if the voicing is horrible. I’ve been hearing a lot of praise for Personna 3 and I think I’ll finally pick it up thanks to Gen here.
These were my favorite of the 13 that were promoted. Hopefully, I promote double the amount for March. This feature is still evolving so look for some added incentive in the future (PRIZES!).
Here’s the rest of the promoted stories for the month of February:
- Good Idea, Bad Idea: Destructible Environments — KamikazeTutor
- Good Idea, Bad Idea: Wii motion controls — Count Grishnack
- Good Idea, Bad Idea: Brutal difficulty — Y0j1mb0
- Good Idea, Bad Idea: Customizing your RPG party — ZargonX
- Good Idea, Bad Idea: Unlimited spawns — BigPopaGamer
- Good Idea, Bad Idea: The silent protagonist — NihonTiger90
- Point and Counterpoint 6: Bad Idea — licensed games — Aerox
- Point and Counterpoint 6: Good Idea — licensed games — CaffeinePowered
- Good Idea, Bad Idea: Backwards Compatibility by way of downloadable games — pedrovay2003
- Good Idea, Bad Idea: Casual gaming — Cowzilla3
Which one did you like the best?
