This post is from one of several previous incarnations of this site and probably doesn’t quite fit the current format. In a former life this was a group blog and a tumblelog before it became a static jekyll site. If anything looks broken or is worded oddly that could be why. Pardon the dust.
Gabe & Tycho speak the awful truth about Spore and Mass Effect. A lot of Will Wright’s stuff seems like it’s more about entertaining him than the player. The procedural content issue is also why things like Rogue-likes and Diablo don’t appeal to me.