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Cracked.Com: The 7 Commandments All Video Games Should Obey by Commander Tansin A. Darcos 12/04/2015, 12:24am PST
In this article, Cracked.com discusses "The 7 Commandments All Video Games Should Obey"

#7. Thou shalt let us play your game with real-life friends.
#6. Thou shalt not pad the length of your games.
#5. Thou shalt not force repetition on the player.
#4. Thou shalt make killing fun. **
#3. Thou shalt admit when enough is enough.
#2. Thou shalt make sure your game actually works.
#1. Better graphics do not equal innovation and/or creativity.

While Cracked is nominally a humor magazine, they sometimes have really good non-humor articles. This is one of them. Well, except for this line about CPU-assisted allies in a game, which I thought was hilarious:

"Either the AI is too stupid, or it's so sophisticated that it has become sentient and aware of the futility of living. Either way, as recently as Call of Duty 4 we've got teammates walking in front of our machine gun, eager to feel the sweet, sweet embrace of death. And then we get penalized for it."

And another about making sure games work:
"But you know what's inside an Xbox 360. There no reason, none, ever, under any circumstances, that your game should stutter and slow down because the console is choking on the graphics. This is like selling us an L-shaped condom. You know damned well what we've got to work with here."



** Wasn't #4 the title of a Fleetwood Mac song? Oh sorry, that was "You Make Loving Fun." Maybe the group The Child Molesters will do a song about a pair or serial killers called "You Make Killing Fun."

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Cracked.Com: The 7 Commandments All Video Games Should Obey by Commander Tansin A. Darcos 12/04/2015, 12:24am PST NEW
    These seem more aimed to make a reviewer's job easier by MM 12/09/2015, 3:54pm PST NEW
 
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