RotR

One of the things which drive us to play games are the rewards. Gratifications, medals, stamps, percentage completed, anything which marks our progress as extraordinarily or stunning.

Many PSP games have this simple feature. GTA wants you to complete all story and side quests to proceed on its percentage scale; Ace Combat forces you to redo your missions and shot specific targets outside the mains to gain access to the medals and special parts; the Lego games let you replay your missions in freeplay mode for the goodies and so on. Read the rest of this entry »