That's your opinion, and you're entitled to it. My point is that it's not just people who were inexperienced with FPSes that think Halo is a great game. I don't expect the people who dislike Halo to suddenly turn around and profess their love for it: I do expect them to let go of their rationalizations and stereotypes at some point and accept that it's just another perfectly good game that doesn't appeal to them. Nothing wrong with that.
Give me a break. The story is trash sci-fi at best. And you can't possibly be standing around here protecting it if you don't have a hard-on for the 'gameplay', bad-example-of-a-console-FPS as it is.
You have no idea what you're talking about. I meant what I said: the gameplay is meh, but the story is goddamn exquisite. No story in an FPS has come CLOSE to sucking me in the way the Halo story did. You're welcome to disagree, I have no issue with that... but don't make yourself look stupid by insisting I'm lying because I have a hard-on for the gameplay. Why the hell would I waste my time lying about my opinion of a video game on an internet forum, anyway? I gain nothing from it.
This right here. This is the type of person that Halo was marketed to. If you read this and thought "yeah, this makes sense", then Halo is probably your game.
Say what you want, it's true. Or, if you're going to claim it's not, at least provide reasoning why it's not instead of a strawman like you just did. Fact: quality of a game is subjective, not objective. Fact: many, many people find Halo an excellent game (FAR more than detract from it). Since we have no objective way to measure if a game is good, the best approximation we can get is getting many people's opinions, and judging by that.
Those didn't advance the art at all. Are they important? Maybe (I personally think the GPL is a mountain of hypocrisy, and is irrelevant as a result), but they don't advance the art one bit. Programming has not become any better as a result of GPL software.
The gameplay is meh, but the story far outstrips anything that came before it, including System Shock, and especially Half-Life.
My point is, though, that because so many people think it is an excellent game, and a game's excellence is purely subjective, it is an excellent game. End of story.
Except, y'know, for the fact that Halo was actually a damned excellent game by any sane standard. You may not think it's good, but many people do (more than think it's lame), and you don't have any more authority on the matter than them.
He hasn't done anything that counters his talk of change, and it's been, what 60 days?
*jaw drops*
No, except the matter under discussion. Except continuing to follow the Bush administration's lead of secrecy in other cases, as discussed here no less. Except breaking his campaign promises while he was still campaigning, just because said promises were no longer politically expedient for him. Except appointing a cabinet member who didn't pay his taxes for years (and you don't do that just by accident). No, he's done nothing to give us reason to think he isn't the man he claimed to be.
You, and people like you, are so bent on vilifying Obama you look crazy.
No, I'm bent on examining the facts. I've seen some good done (I wholeheartedly approved of the closing of Guantanamo Bay, for example), but more bad. He's done more bad than good, so he is bad overall (so far). This isn't vilification, this is an honest, fair assessment of the man.
The holy-rollers disparage any knowledge that doesn't come from the Bible.
Bullshit. I know many Christians (although I am not one myself), and you know what they believe? They believe that scientific advances are a GOOD THING, because we're getting to understand God's creation better. Indeed, various prominent scientists have been Christians, and I think it was Maxwell who characterized his work as "thinking God's thoughts after him".
Don't get me wrong. Many religious people are great workers. Give them a job to do, convince them that Jesus or Allah will be pleased and they work their butts off. They just don't have leadership skills.
Again, bullshit. Religious people are just like any other people: some are great leaders, some aren't really meant for it, but will excel at their work nonetheless. And, just like any other person, they don't do their work just because "Jesus or Allah will be pleased" (although the Christians I know do believe that working hard is a virtue God favors), they do it because they actually enjoy it. Imagine that!?
Holy fuck, the atheist trolling and intolerance of religion is getting bad here.
He's only been in office for a 2 month! How much could he do/not do in 8 weeks? Not very much.
He's responsible for every decision that has been made in the past 8 weeks. I'm a fair man, and I'm willing to say that processes that were in place as he took office aren't his fault... but that doesn't sound like it was the case here at all.
The whole "Obama has broken his promises" thing is basically nothing but something Republicans babble about because they are sore losers.
No, it's the truth. He broke his promises before he took office (see: promises about the FISA bill, which turned out to be bullshit when they weren't politically convenient for him any more), and he's breaking them now.
Furthermore, attempting to polarize this matter into "omg Republicans vs Democrats" is naive of you, at best. I've already seen people who were happy Obama won, who have renounced their support after seeing what he's done so far in office. Not everything is about some stupid bullshit party allegiance.
I think you're kidding yourself if you think that Obama really isn't the same as any other politician, even after he's shown us several times that all his talk of change was bullshit. As several others have said already: meet the new boss, same as the old boss.
I'm pretty sure everyone got it (you were modded to +5 funny, after all), but, as with most jokes, it's not as funny if you try to continue in the vein of the original.
Personally, I have no idea what he's talking about in the first place. Unless it's an abysmally low-quality rip, MP3 sounds just like any other format. No sizzle, nothing.
I'd say Firefly was a great model on how to do a space show that wasn't Trek
I might say that if Firefly hadn't sucked. It was incredibly cheesy and stupid, I got sick of it after an episode.
Galactica has good production values and good acting but the writing is a crime.
I might say that if BSG wasn't the best-written show I've ever seen. Damn near every episode is top-notch, and the episodes that aren't are still really damn good. The show is all but perfect.
Actually, the trailer suggests that the movie is going to be epic fail. The trailer shows us a typical mindless sex and violence movie. Those are fun, but that's not the direction to take Star Trek.
He manipulated the system, and got the right votes to put him in office.
Oh, please. Bush didn't manipulate the system any more than any president ever has. The system is fucked up and stupid, true, but don't blame Bush for the fact it worked in his favor.
Consensus and standards be damned, they're just definitions!
Yeah, cause there's so much consensus on whether Pluto is a planet right now. If anything, you should be bitching about the astronomers who decided to redefine it in the first place. There was plenty of consensus before they stepped in.
Not all, but many are, yes. It's a double standard in our society that bugs me. Expecting your date to put out because you bought her a nice dinner is OK, but paying her cash for sex isn't. Go figure.
Well, what do you expect? It was flamebait. There's nothing wrong with participating in a discussion where you have limited knowledge, as long as you're willing to admit that you don't know it all, and accept information when people give it to you.
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That's your opinion, and you're entitled to it. My point is that it's not just people who were inexperienced with FPSes that think Halo is a great game. I don't expect the people who dislike Halo to suddenly turn around and profess their love for it: I do expect them to let go of their rationalizations and stereotypes at some point and accept that it's just another perfectly good game that doesn't appeal to them. Nothing wrong with that.
Hi there. I've played FPS on a PC since Doom. How's that prejudice going for you?
Give me a break. The story is trash sci-fi at best. And you can't possibly be standing around here protecting it if you don't have a hard-on for the 'gameplay', bad-example-of-a-console-FPS as it is.
You have no idea what you're talking about. I meant what I said: the gameplay is meh, but the story is goddamn exquisite. No story in an FPS has come CLOSE to sucking me in the way the Halo story did. You're welcome to disagree, I have no issue with that... but don't make yourself look stupid by insisting I'm lying because I have a hard-on for the gameplay. Why the hell would I waste my time lying about my opinion of a video game on an internet forum, anyway? I gain nothing from it.
This right here. This is the type of person that Halo was marketed to. If you read this and thought "yeah, this makes sense", then Halo is probably your game.
Say what you want, it's true. Or, if you're going to claim it's not, at least provide reasoning why it's not instead of a strawman like you just did. Fact: quality of a game is subjective, not objective. Fact: many, many people find Halo an excellent game (FAR more than detract from it). Since we have no objective way to measure if a game is good, the best approximation we can get is getting many people's opinions, and judging by that.
Those didn't advance the art at all. Are they important? Maybe (I personally think the GPL is a mountain of hypocrisy, and is irrelevant as a result), but they don't advance the art one bit. Programming has not become any better as a result of GPL software.
The gameplay is meh, but the story far outstrips anything that came before it, including System Shock, and especially Half-Life.
My point is, though, that because so many people think it is an excellent game, and a game's excellence is purely subjective, it is an excellent game. End of story.
Except, y'know, for the fact that Halo was actually a damned excellent game by any sane standard. You may not think it's good, but many people do (more than think it's lame), and you don't have any more authority on the matter than them.
But RMS, for all his faults, actually did contribute something to the art.
And what, pray tell, was that? Because I have yet to see it.
He hasn't done anything that counters his talk of change, and it's been, what 60 days?
*jaw drops*
No, except the matter under discussion. Except continuing to follow the Bush administration's lead of secrecy in other cases, as discussed here no less. Except breaking his campaign promises while he was still campaigning, just because said promises were no longer politically expedient for him. Except appointing a cabinet member who didn't pay his taxes for years (and you don't do that just by accident). No, he's done nothing to give us reason to think he isn't the man he claimed to be.
You, and people like you, are so bent on vilifying Obama you look crazy.
No, I'm bent on examining the facts. I've seen some good done (I wholeheartedly approved of the closing of Guantanamo Bay, for example), but more bad. He's done more bad than good, so he is bad overall (so far). This isn't vilification, this is an honest, fair assessment of the man.
The holy-rollers disparage any knowledge that doesn't come from the Bible.
Bullshit. I know many Christians (although I am not one myself), and you know what they believe? They believe that scientific advances are a GOOD THING, because we're getting to understand God's creation better. Indeed, various prominent scientists have been Christians, and I think it was Maxwell who characterized his work as "thinking God's thoughts after him".
Don't get me wrong. Many religious people are great workers. Give them a job to do, convince them that Jesus or Allah will be pleased and they work their butts off. They just don't have leadership skills.
Again, bullshit. Religious people are just like any other people: some are great leaders, some aren't really meant for it, but will excel at their work nonetheless. And, just like any other person, they don't do their work just because "Jesus or Allah will be pleased" (although the Christians I know do believe that working hard is a virtue God favors), they do it because they actually enjoy it. Imagine that!?
Holy fuck, the atheist trolling and intolerance of religion is getting bad here.
He's only been in office for a 2 month! How much could he do/not do in 8 weeks? Not very much.
He's responsible for every decision that has been made in the past 8 weeks. I'm a fair man, and I'm willing to say that processes that were in place as he took office aren't his fault... but that doesn't sound like it was the case here at all.
The whole "Obama has broken his promises" thing is basically nothing but something Republicans babble about because they are sore losers.
No, it's the truth. He broke his promises before he took office (see: promises about the FISA bill, which turned out to be bullshit when they weren't politically convenient for him any more), and he's breaking them now.
Furthermore, attempting to polarize this matter into "omg Republicans vs Democrats" is naive of you, at best. I've already seen people who were happy Obama won, who have renounced their support after seeing what he's done so far in office. Not everything is about some stupid bullshit party allegiance.
I think you're kidding yourself if you think that Obama really isn't the same as any other politician, even after he's shown us several times that all his talk of change was bullshit. As several others have said already: meet the new boss, same as the old boss.
Infinite time, because Diablo 3 is going to be free to play online.
I agree entirely. Calling The Sims a game is a disgrace to the term.
I'm pretty sure everyone got it (you were modded to +5 funny, after all), but, as with most jokes, it's not as funny if you try to continue in the vein of the original.
That's like judging all movies by The Fast & The Furious. It's retarded. Not all anime is crap.
Personally, I have no idea what he's talking about in the first place. Unless it's an abysmally low-quality rip, MP3 sounds just like any other format. No sizzle, nothing.
I'd say Firefly was a great model on how to do a space show that wasn't Trek
I might say that if Firefly hadn't sucked. It was incredibly cheesy and stupid, I got sick of it after an episode.
Galactica has good production values and good acting but the writing is a crime.
I might say that if BSG wasn't the best-written show I've ever seen. Damn near every episode is top-notch, and the episodes that aren't are still really damn good. The show is all but perfect.
Actually, the trailer suggests that the movie is going to be epic fail. The trailer shows us a typical mindless sex and violence movie. Those are fun, but that's not the direction to take Star Trek.
He manipulated the system, and got the right votes to put him in office.
Oh, please. Bush didn't manipulate the system any more than any president ever has. The system is fucked up and stupid, true, but don't blame Bush for the fact it worked in his favor.
Consensus and standards be damned, they're just definitions!
Yeah, cause there's so much consensus on whether Pluto is a planet right now. If anything, you should be bitching about the astronomers who decided to redefine it in the first place. There was plenty of consensus before they stepped in.
Not all, but many are, yes. It's a double standard in our society that bugs me. Expecting your date to put out because you bought her a nice dinner is OK, but paying her cash for sex isn't. Go figure.
Well, what do you expect? It was flamebait. There's nothing wrong with participating in a discussion where you have limited knowledge, as long as you're willing to admit that you don't know it all, and accept information when people give it to you.
Damn liars, always saying beta hasn't started on their forums!
...please tell me it doesn't suck. I'm counting on this game to give me my space combat sim fix!
O.o
Since when? I track the site religiously, and haven't heard a peep about beta. Either they're playing it very close to the vest, or I'm a bad reader.
Until JGE comes out, it's hardly fair to say that it won't have that tactical element.