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Games and the 'Geek Stereotype'
ChinoH81 writes "Video games are never going to be as popular as films or music unless the people who make them concentrate on making them fun, says a leading game expert."
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Games are suppose to be fun? Since when?
I'd say more, but my guild is raiding.
Video games are never going to be as popular as films or music unless the people who make them concentrate on making them fun.
All right, show of hands. Who is a geek and exclusively plays non-fun video games?
I think that to a certain extent Games create dorks. Those dorks go on to create more games which create even more dorks who create even more games that create still more dorks that create still more games...... and slashdot.
Well.. maybe. Or Maybe not. But Definitely not sort of.
Santa: So tell your folks, "Buy me Bonestorm or go to Hell!"
Is this a joke ?!
'Leading experts agree, fun should be pleasurable.'
I nominate this article troll of the year.
Can you believe it? For the last 20+ years we've only really had BORING and FRUSTRATING games! That's why! D'oh!
To quote: "One of the main obstacles was the complicated controls of many of today's games, as well as tough levels which left many players frustrated. "You want a game that is challenging but never frustrating," said Ms Fryer.
Didn't they make the "Deer Hunter" games for those people?
-- "We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars" [Oscar Wilde]
Damn, that's a lot of popcorn! I too would need more than only 2 hours to finish that.
If you don't know what AltaVista is (was), get off my lawn.
I guess I have to scrap my 'Europe-during-the-black-plague-simulator."
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A leading game expert was flogged for making stupid remarks. Fired.
morrowind looked cool, until they decided not to have nudity in it. daggerfall had some nice surprises waiting in certain "motels".
yeah, i know i shouldn't judge a good game on the basis whether it has boobies, but i'm cheap like that...
If you don't know what AltaVista is (was), get off my lawn.
that's not a 'movie cost' that's a 'girlfriend cost', a good game can last for months, but if you spend your money on videogames instead of on taking your g/f out, you know what you're gonna get (or, actually, what you are POSITIVELY NOT gonna get ;)
-- the cake is a lie
You can't immediately reveal you're funny comments as a troll post. You have to steal the funny points from moderators and then unveil them. Then watch as they get modded down. It makes the point that these posts are not funny that much clearer. See my journal entry on the subject.
-- Fighting mediocrity one bad post at a time.
Food sells better if you make it taste good, movies would be better if people just wrote good scripts, you can play the piano simply by banging on keys in the right order, and your nose'll stop bleeding if you just keep your finger out of there!
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.....Video games need to be fun?
How obvious does an idea need to be before we stop calling it a strategy? -Dilbert
You don't KNOW fun until you've done the same flipping kick move in Enter the Matrix 4,000 times or kicked the crap out of an agent for 20 minutes, only to have him get up and kill you.
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Most current games have evolved from Strip Poker.
"I have opinions of my own, strong opinions, but I don't always agree with them." -- George H. W. Bush
And there are movies based on games:
- Super Mario Bros
- Wing Commander
- Tomb Raider
- Resident Evil
Not sure if I got all... And I leave it up the viewer to decide which movies were good and which were badMy cats ate my karma. They also wrote this comment.
Ah, but have you ever made out while playing a video game?
Actually, yes I have. It's kinda like making out while driving....adds a little more complexity. :)
"Making games fun?" So I *wasn't* having fun playing games all of those years since I got an Atari 2600! I'll tell my parents to take back every yelling they gave me for not doing my homework and "having fun" instead.
I thought that group was called "linux users".
I'm 35 and I prefer email to phone messages. Data retention is so much easier and I don't lose the little notes I write as I talk with someone on the phone. I don't IM at all. It's just a little too frenetic for my tastes.
One of the reasons I prefer email is that it keeps people at a distance. I work with computers because I like machines and don't really care for people in the flesh. They kinda' creep me out, with all their breathing and random movements and such. Not to mention their staring at me. Ugh! For what it's worth, several bosses have praised my people skills and have said that I am great at working with l'users and such. Good thing that the eyes are not the door to the soul or they'd all know how much disdain I feel for the skin bags.
I drank what? -- Socrates
Well she obviously kept going with what she was doing. So why stop playing? :-)