The game title doesn't matter. Could have been a care bears game and the media will find some way of convincing you it is deadly. If it isn't a murder sim, it's soo addictive that you'll forget to eat or sleep for three days and die. If it gets any coverage from the media, you can be sure that it will be something that can kill you.
The problem in question here is not censorship. It's media.
They have free reign to be completely wrong without any adverse reaction from the masses. One of the first news stories I remember was that killer African bees were coming and America was in danger. Never happened. Exploding school buses, nevcer happened. How many looming epidemics that never happened? I would have never guessed SARS killed less than 1% of infected people if it wasn't for South Park. Shooting at police helicopters during Katrina? Nope. Iraq WMDs, nada. Do they tell you what kind of missions shuttle crews are going on? No, but they will replay the challenger explosion and talk about the dangers of foam and heat shielding damage for hours.
I could go on for hours here, but I'm sure you get the point. Media doesn't care if they get anything right, they only care about it scaring you in to staying tuned until after the next commercial break.
no way to build tension
Well, there is that impending destruction of the galaxy thing going on.
Hadn't really thought about it until I saw Landfall, but there is a good story angle there. As others pointed out, reliving Master Chiefs exploits may be a bit redundant. In the game you come across groups of soldiers that you never really think about why they got there and what happened before you arrived. During the game, they aren't useful to you. But like is shown in Landfall, they were there making it possible for Master Chief to do what he needed to do. I could see a movie capturing their struggles with Master Chief being a point of reference and excuse for the occasional overkill badassery.
Playing the game as Master Chief, you never get that sense of desperation and urgency you get from the ODSTs in Landfall because you are basically invincible. To the basic Marine in the short, things seemed to look much more terrifying. I think it would make for a good movie to go through the Halo storyline from that point of view rather than that of one easily in control of things.
BTW
I reckon it'd end up on the "aren't soldiers great people" track, which is hard to swallow when we hear every other week about one or two "bad apples" who've been caught raping, pillaging, torturing and murdering.
Completely retarded, for many reasons.
I don't know, I was pretty impressed with the 2nd and third segments of Landfall. The only complaint I have is that it doesn't quite capture the feel of the game. Which may, in fact, be good for many people. The film was alot grittier than anything you experience in game. But then again, in the game you are a Spartan not an ODST.
BTW, since when could an ODST drive like that? If I was in the back of that warthog in game, we would have hit every one of those walls. Or simply stopped in front of each one for 15 seconds figuring out how to get around it.
If people haven't decided on a console by TBA, I'm sure it will move units. If the consoles hit $200 before then, I suspect it will be to late to make a huge difference.
I'd believe they turned a profit due to Halo (impossible not to considering the sales numbers and the fact that expeted console & repair losses were already written off previous quarters), but the division does include the Zune. I'd imagine that since the entire division made a profit, the news is being spun to look like all products in that division had strong sales, not just Halo (which probably covered losses on consoles and the Zune). That's just the gut opinion talking though.
I didn't see a 2 in my comment. 2 is $60 and no real major improvement over the first one you can get for $30. It was never ported to the PS3, and the PS2 port was miserable.
First of all, I doubt Halo 3 is done moving consoles. As long as Sony fans are left waiting for a Halo killer, there will be converts.
Second, their overall collection of very good games (but not real console movers) is far outpacing Sony. The best game Sony will have before spring 2008 is the Orange Box, which Xbox already has. Their next best game, Oblivion (IMO), Xbox had early as well. Resistance was pretty good, but on Xbox you have Gears Of War beating it out. Sony needs more than one or two good games to catch up. Xbox box has (will have by years end) many solid unanswered games: Dead Rising, Forza, Ace Combat 6, Bioshock, Mass Effect, Saints Row, Perfect Dark Zero, Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter, etc.
I do think Xbox made a huge mistake in promoting Halo over their overall line-up. A Halo killer will come along eventually. But where their biggest lead over Sony will be is overall line-up (and online service). To their credit, they do have some exclusive RPGs meant to combat FF, but they just don't do it. They might, however, be enough to lure someone that was waiting on that single PS3 game and liked some of Xbox's other titles.
I'm not to concerned with the margin of error of a poll asking people if they want the internet in their brains. Even if it is safe, what does that even mean? Safe as in security (no one hacking your brain), health (implant doesn't actually damage your brain), or content (Think about a farm and get bombarded with animal sex pictures)?
More than half of Americans believe that Internet content such as video should be controlled in some way by the government? That can only come from a group of people where more than a tenth of them seem to think that internet directly into their brain is a good idea.
1.) For the most part, yes. But you wouldn't tell by the amount of complaining they do.
2.)Sometimes. No one has that kind of job security.
3.)For the cost of living, they are doing well.
I do know several mechanical engineers that moved out of engineering into IT, programming, or drafting. But that was because they had become more interested in that or found someone willing to pay more for those jobs.
They found new customers that don't want intense games, therefor they are the only "Next Gen"? Nonsense, all he is doing is disregarding the gamers that have made the industry as strong as it has been.
I agree. I'm in northern MN. The pay for many engineering jobs here would look discouraging to most if you didn't also look into the cost of living here. Sure gas, cars, etc. all cost the same, but a house with a fenced in double lot only cost me $90K. You'll never catch me complaining about the area, that's for sure. Sure there isn't much of a nightlife, but the fishing and recreation is awesome. Production, mining, and energy are making a major comeback up here and from what I have seen, the market for engineers is very good. I'm a techie that works for an engineering department, so I don't have it too bad either.
I think too much development has fried his brain. The Wii does have a cool control scheme. But to completely discount processing power and graphics capability is simply foolish. To many of us, the jump to high def is a major leap in consoles. And if that is only incremental, why isn't changing the controller on a gamecube an incremental change?
I can't speak to nanotech or really high level fields, but from what I've seen, the market seems to be really good for mechanical, industrial, and chemical engineers. As production facilities become more automated, it is inevitable. It seems like everyone is looking for them. But then again, they aren't usually $70K (at least not in my area) jobs and they don't require grad school.
More than the market demands? Maybe it's just local, but I know we have trouble filling engineering positions. I have many friends that are engineers and none of them had trouble finding work after college. That would tell me there isn't exactly a glut of supply in the job market.
I'm a person that just happens to blog, code for a living, and play video games, too. I also have an addiction to Lucas, Adams, and Tolkien. When something bad happens, I say that "Someone set me up the bomb!". I've skipped school to play a chess game against a master. I've waited in line for video game releases. Being a person that just happens to do all these things makes me a nerd.
I used to not like the term nerd. But once you get into the professional world, the term nerd is no longer a bad thing. It goes form meaning social outcast to smart person who somehow makes computers and technology work just like you want them to. And best of all, it pays pretty well to.
While the terms nerd and geek may be offensive growing up, any grown up should embrace the terms, I think.
What are you talking about? These baseless accusations have to stop! It's corrrosive and divisive at a time when we need to come together.
That's why we should support Gulianni for President. 9/11. Now more than ever. Rudy, 9/11, is a good, 9/11, candidate to bring us all together, 9/11, and remind us that the, 9/11, president serves all the people. Not just, 9/11, some of them. By the way, Rudy was there on 9/11 and saw first hand what will surely happen again if you don't vote for him.
Offtopic, but:
About the Major hockey site, what is it? I'm a fan of NHL games. I generally craft my franchise teams of all former Gopher and UMD players. Many can be found in the minor rosters that the newer games now include. I grew up with and even played (sat the bench) on teams with many of them. (Adam Hauser, Gino Guyer, Andy Sertich, Adam Johnson, Beau Geisler, Josh Miskovich, Marco Peluso)
Is it really necessary that Boba Fett was the father to every clone out there AND tussled with Obi-Wan
First of all, Jango Fett is the father of all the clones. Boba is a clone of Jango. Second of all, Obi Wan is on the Jedi Counsel. There are millions of clones being ordered in their name mysteriously at a time when Jedi are concerned of a large plot brewing. It would make sense that he, or at least another counsel member, would go investigate. Jango Fett is already wanted by the Jedi for an attempted assassination. So it would also make sense that there would be a confrontation between them. Also, I didn't hear any mention of Jango wanting a clone for the purpose of catching Han Solo. Just that he wanted an pure clone, not modified to be more docile. Which would explain why the clones sucked in comparison.
The whole point of the prequels was to give the backstory to the characters in the original. I don't see how you could logically NOT focus so much on them. Since in the originals, the fate of the universe rested in the hands of a few, why would it not during their backstory?
The original made it a point that the droids R2D2 and 3CPO had a history with Obi Wan, so they made a logical tie in.
I'm talking about advertising in general, I don't care who is doing it. Don't worry about my support for goverment/military, I care so much about people protecting my freedom that I give them 35% of my salary each year. If only they would bother doing something useful with that money. Oh well.
To a point. Although I enjoy the humourous fictional ones in GTA or some Baseball games much more. But take, for instance Burnout. When am I going to feel real racing a mobile Hardees resteraunt? Where will I see a Spike TV billboard every tenth of a mile? Or GRAW, Although it is cool to have realistic vehicles, since when is every vehicle on the streets of Mexico a new Dodge Ram? Not to mention the billboards.
The standard release price for games is ~$60. Many spend top dollar developing games without overbearing ads in game Ex(Gears, Halo, Half Life, Etc. The have the same price tag as a game that was paid a lot to flood it with ads. Even to the point of annoyance. If they are going to make the game less enjoyable by saturating it with ads, they should at very least pass on the money they got from ad revenue in the form of cost savings on the game purchase. Some have done this. I think they all should.
When we are getting peppered with ads during games, I fell pretty cheated that there wasn't a discount on the price. It's bullshit. If you are going to flood the game with ads, make it cheaper or free! For example, Yaris for Xbox live or the Burger King games. Although I must say that Burger Kings presence in Fight Night was sickening. Especially when I had to pay $60 to get "the King" as a trainer fighting in a BK themed ring!
I don't mind the concept of ads in games if it discounts the game. But I can't stand being charged full price for a game when the studio was paid to force gamers to sit through a commercial.
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The game title doesn't matter. Could have been a care bears game and the media will find some way of convincing you it is deadly. If it isn't a murder sim, it's soo addictive that you'll forget to eat or sleep for three days and die. If it gets any coverage from the media, you can be sure that it will be something that can kill you.
The problem in question here is not censorship. It's media.
They have free reign to be completely wrong without any adverse reaction from the masses. One of the first news stories I remember was that killer African bees were coming and America was in danger. Never happened. Exploding school buses, nevcer happened. How many looming epidemics that never happened? I would have never guessed SARS killed less than 1% of infected people if it wasn't for South Park. Shooting at police helicopters during Katrina? Nope. Iraq WMDs, nada. Do they tell you what kind of missions shuttle crews are going on? No, but they will replay the challenger explosion and talk about the dangers of foam and heat shielding damage for hours.
I could go on for hours here, but I'm sure you get the point. Media doesn't care if they get anything right, they only care about it scaring you in to staying tuned until after the next commercial break.
no way to build tension
Well, there is that impending destruction of the galaxy thing going on.
Hadn't really thought about it until I saw Landfall, but there is a good story angle there. As others pointed out, reliving Master Chiefs exploits may be a bit redundant. In the game you come across groups of soldiers that you never really think about why they got there and what happened before you arrived. During the game, they aren't useful to you. But like is shown in Landfall, they were there making it possible for Master Chief to do what he needed to do. I could see a movie capturing their struggles with Master Chief being a point of reference and excuse for the occasional overkill badassery.
Playing the game as Master Chief, you never get that sense of desperation and urgency you get from the ODSTs in Landfall because you are basically invincible. To the basic Marine in the short, things seemed to look much more terrifying. I think it would make for a good movie to go through the Halo storyline from that point of view rather than that of one easily in control of things.
BTW
I reckon it'd end up on the "aren't soldiers great people" track, which is hard to swallow when we hear every other week about one or two "bad apples" who've been caught raping, pillaging, torturing and murdering.
Completely retarded, for many reasons.
BTW, since when could an ODST drive like that? If I was in the back of that warthog in game, we would have hit every one of those walls. Or simply stopped in front of each one for 15 seconds figuring out how to get around it.
If people haven't decided on a console by TBA, I'm sure it will move units. If the consoles hit $200 before then, I suspect it will be to late to make a huge difference.
I'd believe they turned a profit due to Halo (impossible not to considering the sales numbers and the fact that expeted console & repair losses were already written off previous quarters), but the division does include the Zune. I'd imagine that since the entire division made a profit, the news is being spun to look like all products in that division had strong sales, not just Halo (which probably covered losses on consoles and the Zune). That's just the gut opinion talking though.
I agree about the flamebait. I think the guy is wrong, but it wasn't by any means flamebait.
I didn't see a 2 in my comment. 2 is $60 and no real major improvement over the first one you can get for $30. It was never ported to the PS3, and the PS2 port was miserable.
First of all, I doubt Halo 3 is done moving consoles. As long as Sony fans are left waiting for a Halo killer, there will be converts.
Second, their overall collection of very good games (but not real console movers) is far outpacing Sony. The best game Sony will have before spring 2008 is the Orange Box, which Xbox already has. Their next best game, Oblivion (IMO), Xbox had early as well. Resistance was pretty good, but on Xbox you have Gears Of War beating it out. Sony needs more than one or two good games to catch up. Xbox box has (will have by years end) many solid unanswered games: Dead Rising, Forza, Ace Combat 6, Bioshock, Mass Effect, Saints Row, Perfect Dark Zero, Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter, etc.
I do think Xbox made a huge mistake in promoting Halo over their overall line-up. A Halo killer will come along eventually. But where their biggest lead over Sony will be is overall line-up (and online service). To their credit, they do have some exclusive RPGs meant to combat FF, but they just don't do it. They might, however, be enough to lure someone that was waiting on that single PS3 game and liked some of Xbox's other titles.
Nonsense. Once the first "sex with Angelina Jolie" and "sex with Brad Pitt" sims came out, the human race would come grinding to a hault.
I'm not to concerned with the margin of error of a poll asking people if they want the internet in their brains. Even if it is safe, what does that even mean? Safe as in security (no one hacking your brain), health (implant doesn't actually damage your brain), or content (Think about a farm and get bombarded with animal sex pictures)?
More than half of Americans believe that Internet content such as video should be controlled in some way by the government? That can only come from a group of people where more than a tenth of them seem to think that internet directly into their brain is a good idea.
2.)Sometimes. No one has that kind of job security.
3.)For the cost of living, they are doing well.
I do know several mechanical engineers that moved out of engineering into IT, programming, or drafting. But that was because they had become more interested in that or found someone willing to pay more for those jobs.
They found new customers that don't want intense games, therefor they are the only "Next Gen"? Nonsense, all he is doing is disregarding the gamers that have made the industry as strong as it has been.
I agree. I'm in northern MN. The pay for many engineering jobs here would look discouraging to most if you didn't also look into the cost of living here. Sure gas, cars, etc. all cost the same, but a house with a fenced in double lot only cost me $90K. You'll never catch me complaining about the area, that's for sure. Sure there isn't much of a nightlife, but the fishing and recreation is awesome. Production, mining, and energy are making a major comeback up here and from what I have seen, the market for engineers is very good. I'm a techie that works for an engineering department, so I don't have it too bad either.
I think too much development has fried his brain. The Wii does have a cool control scheme. But to completely discount processing power and graphics capability is simply foolish. To many of us, the jump to high def is a major leap in consoles. And if that is only incremental, why isn't changing the controller on a gamecube an incremental change?
I think he's way off on this one. Sorry Will.
I can't speak to nanotech or really high level fields, but from what I've seen, the market seems to be really good for mechanical, industrial, and chemical engineers. As production facilities become more automated, it is inevitable. It seems like everyone is looking for them. But then again, they aren't usually $70K (at least not in my area) jobs and they don't require grad school.
More than the market demands? Maybe it's just local, but I know we have trouble filling engineering positions. I have many friends that are engineers and none of them had trouble finding work after college. That would tell me there isn't exactly a glut of supply in the job market.
I'm a person that just happens to blog, code for a living, and play video games, too. I also have an addiction to Lucas, Adams, and Tolkien. When something bad happens, I say that "Someone set me up the bomb!". I've skipped school to play a chess game against a master. I've waited in line for video game releases. Being a person that just happens to do all these things makes me a nerd. I used to not like the term nerd. But once you get into the professional world, the term nerd is no longer a bad thing. It goes form meaning social outcast to smart person who somehow makes computers and technology work just like you want them to. And best of all, it pays pretty well to. While the terms nerd and geek may be offensive growing up, any grown up should embrace the terms, I think.
Obviously, It's coming right for us!
That's why we should support Gulianni for President. 9/11. Now more than ever. Rudy, 9/11, is a good, 9/11, candidate to bring us all together, 9/11, and remind us that the, 9/11, president serves all the people. Not just, 9/11, some of them. By the way, Rudy was there on 9/11 and saw first hand what will surely happen again if you don't vote for him.
Offtopic, but: About the Major hockey site, what is it? I'm a fan of NHL games. I generally craft my franchise teams of all former Gopher and UMD players. Many can be found in the minor rosters that the newer games now include. I grew up with and even played (sat the bench) on teams with many of them. (Adam Hauser, Gino Guyer, Andy Sertich, Adam Johnson, Beau Geisler, Josh Miskovich, Marco Peluso)
Is it really necessary that Boba Fett was the father to every clone out there AND tussled with Obi-Wan
First of all, Jango Fett is the father of all the clones. Boba is a clone of Jango. Second of all, Obi Wan is on the Jedi Counsel. There are millions of clones being ordered in their name mysteriously at a time when Jedi are concerned of a large plot brewing. It would make sense that he, or at least another counsel member, would go investigate. Jango Fett is already wanted by the Jedi for an attempted assassination. So it would also make sense that there would be a confrontation between them. Also, I didn't hear any mention of Jango wanting a clone for the purpose of catching Han Solo. Just that he wanted an pure clone, not modified to be more docile. Which would explain why the clones sucked in comparison.
The whole point of the prequels was to give the backstory to the characters in the original. I don't see how you could logically NOT focus so much on them. Since in the originals, the fate of the universe rested in the hands of a few, why would it not during their backstory?
The original made it a point that the droids R2D2 and 3CPO had a history with Obi Wan, so they made a logical tie in.
I'm talking about advertising in general, I don't care who is doing it. Don't worry about my support for goverment/military, I care so much about people protecting my freedom that I give them 35% of my salary each year. If only they would bother doing something useful with that money. Oh well.
To a point. Although I enjoy the humourous fictional ones in GTA or some Baseball games much more. But take, for instance Burnout. When am I going to feel real racing a mobile Hardees resteraunt? Where will I see a Spike TV billboard every tenth of a mile? Or GRAW, Although it is cool to have realistic vehicles, since when is every vehicle on the streets of Mexico a new Dodge Ram? Not to mention the billboards.
The standard release price for games is ~$60. Many spend top dollar developing games without overbearing ads in game Ex(Gears, Halo, Half Life, Etc. The have the same price tag as a game that was paid a lot to flood it with ads. Even to the point of annoyance. If they are going to make the game less enjoyable by saturating it with ads, they should at very least pass on the money they got from ad revenue in the form of cost savings on the game purchase. Some have done this. I think they all should.
Well done lightsaber duals? Check.
Cool looking robots fighting? Check.
Chase scene through asteroid field? Check.
Space battles? Check.
Wookies fighting robots? Check.
Yoda decapitating whatever is in his way? Check.
Excellent CGI? Check.
So there was some weak lines in it and Jar Jar was poor comic relief. Still way better than most movies.
When we are getting peppered with ads during games, I fell pretty cheated that there wasn't a discount on the price. It's bullshit. If you are going to flood the game with ads, make it cheaper or free! For example, Yaris for Xbox live or the Burger King games. Although I must say that Burger Kings presence in Fight Night was sickening. Especially when I had to pay $60 to get "the King" as a trainer fighting in a BK themed ring!
I don't mind the concept of ads in games if it discounts the game. But I can't stand being charged full price for a game when the studio was paid to force gamers to sit through a commercial.