{"id":39695,"date":"2016-06-23T23:38:47","date_gmt":"2016-06-24T06:38:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.quartertothree.com\/fp\/?p=39695"},"modified":"2016-06-23T23:38:47","modified_gmt":"2016-06-24T06:38:47","slug":"chaos-reborn-changes-mind-decides-like-everyone-else","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.quartertothree.com\/fp\/2016\/06\/23\/chaos-reborn-changes-mind-decides-like-everyone-else\/","title":{"rendered":"Chaos Reborn has been reborn without the chaos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Add Julian Gollop&#8217;s once brilliant Chaos Reborn, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.quartertothree.com\/fp\/2015\/11\/05\/chaos-reborn-is-a-fragile-but-precious-relic-from-another-time\/\">a precious relic of another time<\/a>, to the list of games that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.quartertothree.com\/fp\/2016\/03\/17\/skyshines-bedlam-becomes-less-fury-road-cannonball-run\/\">didn&#8217;t have confidence<\/a> in their <a href=\"http:\/\/www.quartertothree.com\/fp\/2016\/05\/11\/act-aggression-acts-aggressively-changing-mind\/\">original design<\/a>.  Today&#8217;s update adds something called law mode.  Which drastically overhauls the gameplay without bothering to explain the changes.  It&#8217;s furthermore how the single-player campaign mode plays now.  How does it work?  Who knows.  The developers can&#8217;t be bothered to include an explanation.  All I know is that whereas units used to exist in a binary state of either fully alive or fully dead, now they have a hit point bar.  Gone are the days of dramatic reversals of fortune at the hands of a ruthlessly random random number generator, which is exactly what random number generators should be.  Instead of a dragon dying on a die roll as surely as a rat, now you have to whack away at it.  Now I&#8217;m calculating attack power vs hit points.  I think that&#8217;s what I&#8217;m doing.  Until someone gets around to actually explaining how law mode works, I can&#8217;t be sure.<\/p>\n<p>To be fair, this overhaul isn&#8217;t mandatory.  You can play Chaos Reborn one of two ways.  Either the way it was designed, or the way it was redesigned to pander to people who didn&#8217;t understand the design.  There are advantages to game design being an ongoing process.  There are also disadvantages.  Chaos Reborn is an example of one of those things.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Add Julian Gollop&#8217;s once brilliant Chaos Reborn, a precious relic of another time, to the list of games that didn&#8217;t have confidence in their original design. Today&#8217;s update adds something called law mode. Which drastically overhauls the gameplay without bothering to explain the changes. It&#8217;s furthermore how the single-player campaign mode plays now. 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