Comments on: Welcome to Castle DullBrownWold

By: Gary160974

Gary160974 — Mon, 02 Jun 2014 18:58:19 +0000

There are so many historical buildings around the world that would be simple to make. Most forts and castles are simple. Europe has historic buildings galore. There could of been a whole set of historical bundles for different eras.

By: Godzprototype

Godzprototype — Mon, 02 Jun 2014 15:34:45 +0000

Of course there is this castle. Neuschwanstein! This castle seems more appropriate for PlayStation Home. It really would be a challenge to create though.

By: Gary160974

Gary160974 — Sun, 01 Jun 2014 16:55:45 +0000

I’m from the UK and lived in the shadow of one of the important castles that controlled the south east of England, preventing attacks heading towards London from the coast. Even got a film based on onesie of the sieges that took place there. That’s the difference between a brown old castle and a historical building, is the stories it has linked to it. This castle I lived near, has 3 square towers and 1 round. It was held by a limited army for so long that the attacking army damaged it so badly that once they took the castle they couldn’t hold it when reinforcements arrived. So if you create a personal space thats a castle base it on a real one if you want realistic. There’s a whole historical set of clothes MMOs furniture items to match then as well. I loved the quote we don’t want trailer park Barbie we want Malibu Barbie, which is exactly right we dont. But historic spaces from around the world id have a look at.

By: Phoenix

Phoenix — Sat, 31 May 2014 12:44:02 +0000

Wow Cass, now that’s honesty. Thank you! I did the same thing when looking at the space, only I thought about how unimpressed I was with the last nDreams space, after touring a friends, and removed this one (Castle Greywold) from my basket. Glad I did. I love castles and oddly enough I even like the one room space from the challenges that is a castle, but one is enough I don’t need two odd little castles.

By: John C. Ardussi

John C. Ardussi — Sat, 31 May 2014 07:11:06 +0000

When I was working on golf simulators they talked about hyper-reality. How often do the birds fly by? Often enough that the view is not boring. How much steam comes off the waterfall? Exactly as much as makes me wish I was standing in it.

I have this talk all the time. If reality were a crayon drawing it would have a lot of empty spaces. Developers need to fill in all the empty spaces with things that are fun for the player.

Castles as they were built were awful to live in. So don’t build a real castle, build a dream castle. It is not Trailer Park Barbie, it is Malibu Barbie even though there are a lot more Barbies in trailer parks than in Malibu.

By: NorseGamer

NorseGamer — Sat, 31 May 2014 06:29:42 +0000

Lighting plays a big part in things, too. As it applies to castles, a great example of this would be Mont Saint-Michel. Unless it’s bathed in direct midday sunlight, it’s amazing how brown everything is.

This review does raise the question of how important fantasy versus reality is, though. One of my favorite films is 1938’s “The Adventures of Robin Hood,” which is about as unrealistic a portrayal of medieval life as you’ll ever find. (Isn’t it amazing how Nottingham looks absolutely nothing like Southern California?) The color saturation in that film borders on garishness — and yet it *makes* the movie.

Doesn’t mean the reality can’t be beautiful; I’ve been to enough castles in Europe to be amazed by the variety and detail in each one. But if we had our druthers, I suspect the majority of consumers will always opt for fantasy over reality. Why settle for “just” Tintagel, for instance, if you can have Tintagel not only as it originally was, but full of color-saturated pageantry and chivalry writ large? That is the magic of Home at its best — the ability to offer heightened fantasy, and to simply live in it without having to achieve anything.