"A pontification on "Feel"" Topic
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UshCha | 09 Sep 2022 1:00 p.m. PST |
I have been on holiday for a few days this gave me time to read a book of fiction, a very rare event for me. The book was set in India, relatively modern day. Having read a good half I put it down and thought it felt like India. This was an utter "load of cobblers" anybody who quoted me as an incitement to buy the book based on "It feels like India" would be peddling nothing but lies. I have never been to India and have never ever gave it more than a passing thought and probably only seen India through Hollywood and that itself is about as an invalid assessment as you can get. So my opinion on the refection of life in India is utterly worthless and possibly even misleading which is even worse. Therefore any valid assessment based on Feel must be grounded in an assessment of the "feeler". Give me a book on WW2 and I could make a reasonable assessment of its relation to reality, I have read and studied much so my opinion would have at least some basis for it being a plausible assessment. Hence any assessment of a simulation based on "feel" can only be useful if it is accompanied be an understanding of the person's bona fides and knowledge of the period. I don't generally play with war gamers that do not have a deep interest in the period. They lack understanding to make a good game, they need to know how the historic counterparts behaved else chaos ensues. A simulation shows the results of decisions, if they are stupid or ill-conceived the result is adequately modeled but does not make for a good game. Similarly such a player while he may have his own opinions on a game, his comments on the veracity of the simulation are no guide to the quality of the simulation as he has no valid basis to make a considered value judgement. He may have valid comments as to the "game" but even they may be tainted by having no real understanding of the period. So in summary, comments based on a feeling of historic veracity without an understanding of the individual making the statement is worthless, like my comment on the book I read. |
Martin Rapier | 09 Sep 2022 11:21 p.m. PST |
A sense of place (and character) is a hallmark of good writing. I wouldn't dismiss it out of hand because it doesn't align with your personal experience. |
UshCha | 10 Sep 2022 2:27 a.m. PST |
True the book was fine. but Feel for sccuracy is just cobblers unless its informed. To many war games are said to get the feel of the period. This is only a usefull stement if the feeler has a detaile knolwdge of the period and is interested in the history and not wanting to overly compromise putting Game ovER history or plausability. Non linear rangeing for instance is instant inploseability. Any body feeling such a thing is not making a credible value judgement on the real world. |
Bashytubits | 10 Sep 2022 11:19 a.m. PST |
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bobm1959 | 22 Sep 2022 8:19 a.m. PST |
Rather than "feel" perhaps what is being sought is to be "convinced" by the book, the wargame whatever. Convincing describes how it personally affects you rather than an absolute that can be inferred by feel. Perhaps…anyway |
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