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Dvorak Trashes Modern Gaming Industry
oskard writes "John C. Dvorak recently posted a PCMag.com rant trashing the gaming industry, predicting a complete market-meltdown in the near future. Titled 'Doom 4: End of the Game Industry?', it was interesting to see how the 3D Realms Forums reacted to the article. He claims that 'games have hardly changed since the invention of the first-person shooter.' His kids have obviously showed him too much Halo 2, and not enough Half-Life 2." From the article: "The business is going to attempt to sustain growth and creativity by making game players buy newer and newer machines. Computer gaming has always been sustained by never-ending improvements in resolution and realism. But once we get to photorealism, what is going to sustain growth?"
Now that Dvorak said its dying, sales will sky rocket and Duke Nukem Forever will be released ahead of schedule.
"For Great Justice."
Wait a minute! Slashdotters? Sex?
Sounds like the same old Game Play vs Bells & Whistles debate again .. and again ..
One line blog. I hear that they're called Twitters now.
On a Dvorak keyboard CTRL-K decapitates the user.
I have no sig yet I must scream.
While I'm sure this is true, I bet you meant "nuances." :)
Exciting sex is finding a previously unvisited porn site.
May contain traces of nut.
Made from the freshest electrons.
Can someone predict when John Dvorak will be out of his job? Hopefully it will be before Doom 4's release.
Speak for yourself I can't get enough Donkey Konga!
Onward to the Aether Sphere!
This is the same guy who predicted the 2.5" floppy....
"All great things are simple & expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope." --Churchill
"Hey you stupid kids, get off my lawn!"
He then held up a physics boox ...and said, "Ph34r my l33t b00x0rz skillz!"
If you don't feel comfortable having sex, there's a good chance you might be doing it wrong.
Politicians are like diapers - they should be changed frequently and for the same reasons.
he's right... try loosening the cuffs a bit, and try not to bite too hard on the gag.
Interesting post, but are you saying books will always be around because they are more useful for transporting in to the past? :-)
I'm oooooold! And I'm not happy! And I don't like things now compared to the way they used to be. All this progress -- phooey! In my day, we didn't have multiplayer video games or francy-shmancy graphics. There was only one arcade in each state with one game called pong -- it was open only one hour a year. And you'd get in line, seventeen miles long, and the line became an angry mob of people -- fornicators and thieves, mutant children and circus freaks -- and you waited for years and by the time you got to the teller, you were senile and arthritic and you couldn't remember your own name. You were born, got in line, and ya died! And that's the way it was and we liked it!
... That's right! You'd sit in the middle of an open field and stare up at the sun till your eyeballs burst into flames! And you thought, "Oh, no! Maybe I shouldn't've stared directly into the burning sun with my eyes wide open." But it was too late! Your head was on fire and people were roastin' chickens over it. ... And that's the way it was and we liked it!
Life was a carnival! We entertained ourselves! We didn't need console games. In my day, there was only one game in town -- it was called "Stare at the sun!"
Progress?! Flobble-de-flee! In my day, when we were angry and frustrated, we just said, "Flobble-de-flee!" 'cause we were idiots and we didn't know what else to say! Just a bunch o' illiterate Cro-Magnons, waitin' in lines for our head to burst into flame and that's the way it was and we liked it! -- John C. Dvorak
Not when its Dvorak we're talking about...
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