RE: QUITE EAGLENESTING
04-12-2012, 05:25 PM
All I know is that if starting up again, sign me in.
EDIT: Having never ever watched QI, I would say that its not really fair to abandon this concept simply because it didn't live up to its original.
My take on this was that the game was: Arbitrary questions are posed and points are given depending on the subjective take of a moderator on those statements.
I mean entering a points system to encourage interesting conversation? Ingenious.
I think the flaw in this setup was that there were specific answers that were being looked for. After all, "you go this wrong it was a yourself pun" is kind of dismissive of the interesting responses that were given. The moderator's job in a game like this is to say "wow that was original and amused me POINTS FOR YOU." or "WOW HOW STUPIDLY PREDICTABLE AND BORING. NEGATIVE POINTS."
I think a game like this could use an unapologetic, slightly insane moderator, who either LOVES or DESPISES you.
I would like to play this but as a forum game, not as some quizzical skype based jeopardy parody or whatever. (though actually that would be fun too, nevermind)
EDIT: Having never ever watched QI, I would say that its not really fair to abandon this concept simply because it didn't live up to its original.
My take on this was that the game was: Arbitrary questions are posed and points are given depending on the subjective take of a moderator on those statements.
I mean entering a points system to encourage interesting conversation? Ingenious.
I think the flaw in this setup was that there were specific answers that were being looked for. After all, "you go this wrong it was a yourself pun" is kind of dismissive of the interesting responses that were given. The moderator's job in a game like this is to say "wow that was original and amused me POINTS FOR YOU." or "WOW HOW STUPIDLY PREDICTABLE AND BORING. NEGATIVE POINTS."
I think a game like this could use an unapologetic, slightly insane moderator, who either LOVES or DESPISES you.
I would like to play this but as a forum game, not as some quizzical skype based jeopardy parody or whatever. (though actually that would be fun too, nevermind)