Rob Pardo speaks about Blizzard game design

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3-12-2010 @ 5:19PM

Eli said...

Your answer would make sense if every gamer was a physicist, brain surgeon, doctor, engineer, philosopher, or any other mentally taxing profession. As they clearly are not, I disagree with you.

Yes, minds are obviously complex, but that's not what as being said. He said that there's a limit to what we can process. i.e. It'd be kind of hard if you had to watch out for 150 different actions a boss could do, not to mention how those actions would interact with each other, how players could interrupt them (or not) or get rid of the effects etc.

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