Game Balance Quotes

We think we've got it taken care of now. Multiplayer is something that's hard to do in a turn-based game, especially a turn-based game that lasts a long time, like Civilization.

The game is balanced in Arsenal's favour.

It's important for the team not to be relying on one player.

It's high time something was done for the pitchers. They put up the stands and take down fences to make more home runs and plague the pitchers. Let them revive the spitter and help the pitchers make a living.

You need a certain type of balance in life and I know where to put football in its proper place. But my love for the game, I have it just like everybody else. If you don't, you're going to get yourself hurt out there.

I wanted to be a complete player, and I felt like the dunks started to overshadow other parts of my game.

I think DOOM had just the right mix of elements that keep people coming back to it: great monsters, excellent weapons with great balance, a spooky environment and extreme speed.

In the past, TSR and now Wizards of the Coast have asked me to do game stats for my characters, and I'm never comfortable doing that. It's all relative after all.

When did it - When did it become okay for someone to hit home runs and forget how to play the rest of the game?

I'm a game designer, so I care about the whole experience.

Good pitching will always stop good hitting and vice-versa.

It takes sometimes years in the market to get the tuning to the right place where your game is as compelling at level 100 as it was at level 10.

One of life's primal situations; the game of hide and seek. Oh, the delicious thrill of hiding while the others come looking for you, the delicious terror of being discovered, but what panic when, after a long search, the others abandon you! You mustn't hide too well. You mustn't be too good at the game. The player must never be bigger than the game itself.

I wanted to experiment with more deliberate combat but I never wanted to lose that DNA of what 'God of War' is.

As a player, you want to play a lot of games.

If the game designer produces more content than he can consume per month, some fraction of the people will say more quests, more tests, more challenges, more whatever, and they will be compelled by it.

The fact is most computer roleplaying games that offer a zillion highly specialized skills end up with nine-tenths of a zillion skills that every player quickly realizes aren't worth the experience points to buy.

Often in football a game is really balanced and one small detail will make the difference between winning and losing. We try to find the detail that makes the difference for us.

If you can utilize a guy's talents and not let other parts of the game suffer, you've got a winning mix.

When you bring one of your top scorers, your top players off the bench, it really gives your team balance.

This game is so elusive. You try to maintain the peaks and level up the valleys.

I've been a good 3-point shooter, but I've been a better midrange shooter my whole career, so it was definitely frustrating to try to figure out that balance.

Busquets is a great player. I have many things to learn from him: how he shapes the game from the back, his positioning, the balance he provided in the midfielder.

Any time you add something to your game, you still have to find ways to improve, so I'm still studying the game and trying to find out ways to increase how we use me on the floor. You're not being complacent, not falling back and floating around the perimeter too much, figuring out when to attack. I'm trying to find that balance between attacking and spotting up and things like that.

Video games are a special kind of play, but at root, they're about the same things as other games: embracing particular rules and restrictions in order to develop skills and experience rewards. When a game is well-designed, it's the balance between these factors that engages people on a fundamental level.