As I've gotten older I notice myself picking games more for the story than the multiplayer aspect as I once did. I used to love gathering friends around a console to play Goldeneye or any number of popular games, but now I've began to realize most of these blockbuster games have the same basic premise where I know the outcome and the only selling point is "buy this game because everyone else will so you can play online together."
I now pick games on how well the gameplay is used to tell the story. The most recent game I played and I'm now playing through again because of the story is Fallout 3. It seems to me I could play through as several different personas and have a different outcome for the story. The game doesn't require lightning fast reflexes to just survive as the enemies are mostly used to advance the story. It should probably be noted I play most games on the easiest difficulty, unless it's a complete cakewalk, because I want the story to unfold and not get stuck in a spot with 5 bullets, a wrench, and a pack of wolves.
Please stop finding uses for these useless body parts. The day after my appendix was removed I see that they finally discovered a use for the human appendix, and yesterday I get my wisdom teeth pulled.
I'm also a former football player. I enjoyed all the perks you mentioned as well.
One thing I didn't enjoy were multiple concussions while playing. I believe in 3 years of starting games I had 5 concussions. That's not even counting the 2 in middle school/youth league. After one particularly bad concussion I forgot what had happened the previous week. If that can happen in the short term to someone who just played 12 years, I can only imagine what happens in the long term to professional athletes.
Oh yes it can happen that easily. It happened at the University I was working at about a month ago. We were ghosting a batch of 30 new laptops and showing the new tech how to set up the computers to be imaged. He inadvertently created a loop-back, and caused the entire campus network to shut down.
I live in an area that contains both a coal and natural gas power plant. Everyday the coal fired plant burns away, but the natural gas plant is hardly ever producing electricity. Yes the natural gas is cheap, but that's the problem with it. Unless the price of natural gas is above a certain level the plant doesn't run. In recent memory the only time I know of it starting was to "jump-start" the coal plant, and then shut back down.
I work at a fairly small university, and at least once a week we have a faculty member's PC get infected by a fake AV. The most recent the professor had paid for the "full" version, then a week later e-mailed the "company" because he was unsatisfied with the AV and couldn't uninstall it. The company then e-mailed him with a link for a program to uninstall the fake AV, which of course didn't work, and then he decided to call us; still not realizing that the AV was fake.
I completely agree with you as the same thing happened at my school; the school board deemed that we had to many people graduating as a valedictorian because they would take easy classes such as parenting and advanced physical education and graduated with a 4.0 even if their ACT score was 17 (yes this happened).
This policy was enacted during my 6th grade year and finally, in my sophomore year, me and a group of "gifted" students convinced one of our teachers to push for weighted GPAs. The Board of Education's response was "If AP and honor classes are weighted we must also weight classes for vocational students so it would be fair."
This year I graduated with a 4.0 after taking 8 AP/Honors classes the only thing I had to show for that at my graduation was a gold cord that 30 other students received and wasn't just limited to 4.0 students but for 3.75-4.0 students.
It just doesn't make sense that those of us who push ourselves are not honored and to me we are degraded being put in the same group as lazier students.
My guess is since in 2009 the new Camaro is supposed to be released along with a Pontiac version of the car based on the same zeta platform (Either a new Trans-Am or GTO) that is what NBC would be going with if you asked me. And we all know after Transformers that GM isn't opposed to whoring their new cars.
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Sounds a like an episode of Stargate SG-1. Can't remember the exact episode though.
Sounds like they may need some sort of space smuggler with a fast ship. I wonder who could pull off that role in a movie...
What they really need to start buying is the first car with a moustache; the Hammerhead Eagle i-Thrust AKA Geoff.
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I would also like to add that a sense of humor in a game is great to break up the monotony of go here, get item, get points.
As I've gotten older I notice myself picking games more for the story than the multiplayer aspect as I once did. I used to love gathering friends around a console to play Goldeneye or any number of popular games, but now I've began to realize most of these blockbuster games have the same basic premise where I know the outcome and the only selling point is "buy this game because everyone else will so you can play online together."
I now pick games on how well the gameplay is used to tell the story. The most recent game I played and I'm now playing through again because of the story is Fallout 3. It seems to me I could play through as several different personas and have a different outcome for the story. The game doesn't require lightning fast reflexes to just survive as the enemies are mostly used to advance the story. It should probably be noted I play most games on the easiest difficulty, unless it's a complete cakewalk, because I want the story to unfold and not get stuck in a spot with 5 bullets, a wrench, and a pack of wolves.
Dear Slashdot,
Please stop finding uses for these useless body parts. The day after my appendix was removed I see that they finally discovered a use for the human appendix, and yesterday I get my wisdom teeth pulled.
No more body parts removed for me.
Thanks.
I'm also a former football player. I enjoyed all the perks you mentioned as well.
One thing I didn't enjoy were multiple concussions while playing. I believe in 3 years of starting games I had 5 concussions. That's not even counting the 2 in middle school/youth league. After one particularly bad concussion I forgot what had happened the previous week. If that can happen in the short term to someone who just played 12 years, I can only imagine what happens in the long term to professional athletes.
Oh yes it can happen that easily. It happened at the University I was working at about a month ago. We were ghosting a batch of 30 new laptops and showing the new tech how to set up the computers to be imaged. He inadvertently created a loop-back, and caused the entire campus network to shut down.
I live in an area that contains both a coal and natural gas power plant. Everyday the coal fired plant burns away, but the natural gas plant is hardly ever producing electricity. Yes the natural gas is cheap, but that's the problem with it. Unless the price of natural gas is above a certain level the plant doesn't run. In recent memory the only time I know of it starting was to "jump-start" the coal plant, and then shut back down.
I work at a fairly small university, and at least once a week we have a faculty member's PC get infected by a fake AV. The most recent the professor had paid for the "full" version, then a week later e-mailed the "company" because he was unsatisfied with the AV and couldn't uninstall it. The company then e-mailed him with a link for a program to uninstall the fake AV, which of course didn't work, and then he decided to call us; still not realizing that the AV was fake.
Holy 2002 Batman!
Oddly enough, there were exactly 42 comments when I first saw this article. Perhaps this might turn out well...
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I completely agree with you as the same thing happened at my school; the school board deemed that we had to many people graduating as a valedictorian because they would take easy classes such as parenting and advanced physical education and graduated with a 4.0 even if their ACT score was 17 (yes this happened). This policy was enacted during my 6th grade year and finally, in my sophomore year, me and a group of "gifted" students convinced one of our teachers to push for weighted GPAs. The Board of Education's response was "If AP and honor classes are weighted we must also weight classes for vocational students so it would be fair." This year I graduated with a 4.0 after taking 8 AP/Honors classes the only thing I had to show for that at my graduation was a gold cord that 30 other students received and wasn't just limited to 4.0 students but for 3.75-4.0 students. It just doesn't make sense that those of us who push ourselves are not honored and to me we are degraded being put in the same group as lazier students.
My guess is since in 2009 the new Camaro is supposed to be released along with a Pontiac version of the car based on the same zeta platform (Either a new Trans-Am or GTO) that is what NBC would be going with if you asked me. And we all know after Transformers that GM isn't opposed to whoring their new cars.