While playing XIII the last few days (I'm very near the end. I'm fighting who I assume to be the second to last boss. Very tough but I'm getting a little closer to killing him each time I try. And then there's the 'shocking twist' of who #1 is yet to be revealed. I don't know for a fact who #1 (the head conspirator in a plot to take over the country) is but I'm still expecting it to be the person I expected it to be the very first time I played the game. In fact if they really wanted to shock me they'd have someone else be #1. Anyway enough digressing.) an idea occurred to me. The game's storyline (which is pretty good except for the aforementioned predictability of the final reveal) takes place in a fairly short period of time and all the missions have a time of day both when you start and finish a level. The time has nothing to do with the time in the real world but it got me thinking. I think it would be cool to have a game where you have a set amount of real time to beat it. There are lots of games out there that give you a set amount of in-game time to win but to my knowledge there's no games that require you to beat them in a certain amount of real-time.

I think it would add to the suspense factor of a game like XIII. As the time limit counted down there would be a real concern about failing your mission and getting a game over screen. There are very few games that you can actually lose in this day and age. Virtually all games have infinite continues even if they have a limited number of lives. I think you'd have to give the player the option of setting their own time limit to take in to account the fact that some people have little free time whereas others have lots. Unfortunately some people would probably abuse that facet and set really high time limits that they didn't need but for the player who liked a challenge it could really add a sense of urgency to the gameplay (and also increased the feeling of accomplishment if/when you succeed). It's times like this when I wished I had my own video game company. And oodles of dollars. And a time machine. And some sort of death clock.

Quote of the Yesterday: "If I'm not back in five minutes, call the Pope."
- Jesus

I wasn't really expecting anyway to get this as I didn't know that anyone else had seen Jesus Christ: Vampire Hunter but apparently Yume has so she gets in to a tie for first place on the leaderboard I've yet to post.

Quote of the Day: "I'm just a drop in an ocean of badness. Or, rather, more of a bucketful."
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