Considering time travel is theoretically possible I propose that the dinosaurs were killed when in the future the governments of the world embraced peace and disposed of all nuclear weapons by sending them back to the dawn of time, where they would naturally decay over the eons. Unfortunately one day a pesky Veloca Raptor stumbled upon the weapons and accidentally detonated them all causing a massive nuclear winter which wiped out the Dinosaurs.
So basically it's easier to set up this complicated system for tracking mouse clicks and system usage that surreptitiously reports back to home base which I imagine probably looks something like...
1:00pm paintbrush selected 1:03pm eraser selected 1:07pm paintbrush selected 1:08pm save file hm_build_001.psd 9.3mb 1:10pm program idle 2:45pm paintbrush selected
As opposed to going out and saying to the customers 'What do you like about Photoshop? What tools work? What would you change? please limit your responses to 500 words. We appreciate your business and look forward to providing superior digital imaging software till the day god comes down from the heavens and smites you all for making sinful images'
What god damned mook of a market researcher thought a blow by blow report of what a customer clicks on while working on a project is superior to actually talking to the customer?
That's absolutely true. I mean the SNES version of Aliens Vs. Predator has a better storyline than the new movie coming out. I mean what does that say when a second rate game from over 10 years ago has a better story than a supposed Hollywood blockbuster?
All I'm saying is this game had better redefine the first person shooter genre. It has to make every game made to date look like garbage. Literally, when I finally play Duke Nukem Forever, I had better have to look at my other games and seriously consider throwing them all in the garbage. This is my expectation of the game.
As it stands now the teaser hasn't shown anything remotely impressive. It's just a lot of generic looking monsters swiping at the camera. The old 2001 trailer still looks better than this teaser. I suppose it's better to wait for an official trailer
It's always interesting to see some celebrity try to bum rush some other genre just because they have some big name, and therefore that makes then (in their little mind) qualified as an expert in whatever other genre they're trying to straddle.
Lord knows we don't have enough explosions and special effects in video games already.
New and innovative games are a risk though. Just look what happened with the Wind Waker. At its core it was The Legend of Zelda and it had great gameplay and visuals. But a lot of people didn't like the look of the game so they stayed away from it. I remember reading reviews on it saying the game was only fit for 'mewling kittens'. Mind you, not ALL games are like that, but I imagine developers still see these sorts of projects as too much of a risk. Have a look at how many companies are either making MMORPGS or first person shooters. So really it's easier just to make games based on the market research and bribe the reviewers. Any reviewers that get out of line can be dealt with.
Really PC Gamer would go belly up if they gave honest reviews.
I remember pretty much every old game by Raven had outright awful level design. Every level is like a maze and it just winds up being an extremely aggravating experience. I always thought Hexen II was an awesome game. The level design was complete shit though.
I think one of the big problems with the Video Games industry is that it's still considered to be entertainment almost exclusively for children. This is why you get these parents groups up in arms about ultra violent video games being available. You have to compare video games to some other form or entertainment to actually get some perception on it. You can get both movies for children and adults in the same format that play on the same DVD player. Somehow people have managed to figure out the difference between the two and not rent pornographic movies to children, and not attempt to have violent movies banned from being sold.
Of course parents who get up in arms about violent video games are idiots to begin with.
Considering how genuinely good Bioshock was I'll actually be looking forward to a sequel.
I just have to ask, who's this Ken fellow, and why doesn't the Bioshock team ever want to work with him again? Seems to me like that would be a much more interesting story than 'Hey a new game is coming out'
It's always interesting to read the tripe these people spout when attempting to predict the future 'In the year 2020 man will be as one with the four legged zebra, and so shall our notions of internet security!' 'Could you elaborate please?' 'We suspect hackers will become more sophisticated in their methods' 'So where does that lead internet security?' 'We suspect new security issues will be addressed as they become apparent' 'So in ten years say, where will internet security be?' 'I believe I addressed that question previously with my statement of man becoming as one with the four legged zebra'
It's not gonna happen. Blizzard's not about to take their baby and throw it to the wolves just because they had a merger.
It's like one day they'll just go to the WOW dev team 'Hey gang, we've had a good run but you're all fired. Get the hell out right now. Your personal belongings will be burned, and security has been authorized to tazer you if you try to say goodbye to any of your former co-workers. Activision is bringing in a gaggle of hillbillies to take over the project, I hope you all rot in hell'
When I was just a baby my mama told me 'son always be a good boy, don't ever play with guns' But I shot a man in Bioshock just to watch him die. When I hear that whistle blowin' I hang my head and cry.
Simple, they can take bribes without feeling guilty. It's not like game reviews have any impact on society at large. If a reviewer accepts a new computer for a favorable review of the new id game, people aren't going to lose their lives, no corrupt politician is going to get undeserved votes, or false press. Life will pretty much go on as usual except a bunch of people who believed the review will be out $70, and John Carmack will have a new ivory back scratcher.
I hope this serves as a lesson to any other company working on a first person shooter (it really won't)
the market's so bloody diluted with FPS's now if they can't knock it out of the park, there's no point in trying.
Or better yet, how bout I use Open Office and get ad-free documents? Somehow I don't see a professional document being very professional if adverts are included.
'So you see the fiscal outlook for this quarter were much larger than previous quarters this can be -what the?! Oh uhh, sorry folks, you'll have to bear with me. I clicked 'larger' and I'm being re-directed to a penis enlargement website. If everybody would please avert their eyes from the screen and maybe look at the non ad-laced budget forecast printout provided while I try to close these pop ups'
If I've done my math right.. NASA would have to have exactly 71 507 bake sales in order to pay for this mission. I can see why they put the launch date so far off.
How does this stuff even make the news? Is this some rule in the media that if somebody files a class action suit for anything no matter what it is or how ludicrous it makes the papers?
I see your point. However, in my day we had system administrators who could do something like get a new couch to replace the old one (since the couch is still digital and can be copied an unlimited amount of times) then go after the person who stole the couch to begin with and delete their account and blacklist them from the game.
This is still all technically not real and shouldn't be subjected to the same laws as in the real world.
Getting somebodies bank info online then draining their account has more real life implications than losing an image of a couch that can easily be replaced.
I have no sympathy for anybody who gets their virtual possessions virtually stolen. I say kudos to the people who stole the things, they're helping point out just how bloody stupid paying real world money for fake commodities is.
You don't hear about anybody getting arrested for downloading copies of Photoshop anymore these days. Thankfully I can still download whatever illegal software I want and not get caught, but if I pinch a copy of a digital couch that can't actually be used for anything other than an avatar to sit on I'm looking at hard time.
Chaos.. If the MMORPG stays true to the actual Elder Scrolls games it's gonna be nothing but mass looting and murdering (that's assuming everybody plays the game the same as me though...) Why buy that 1000 hp armor when you can just pick it up and make a run for it? If the shop keeper calls the guards you just bring up your friends list and get them to help you out. I imagine though the Elder Scrolls folks will castrate those game play elements that made the game so much fun. So it'll be basically the same as every other MMORPG out there, just one big cash grab. I really didn't care too much about any of the characters in the game. It was more the element of YOU CAN DO WHATEVER YOU WANT TO DO. Like if you wanted to go kill the king with you bare hands, knock yourself out. I just don't see that happening in any sort of online game. EVER.
People fail to grasp the idea that games reviewers exist for the sole purpose of helping game developers sell games. If reviewers actually did the job they claimed they did we wouldn't have so many crap first person shooters out there. Developers would actually stop and say 'we'd better come up with something original otherwise the reviewers will crucify us'
If you have a job where it's perfectly acceptable to take bribes for good reviews, why would you want to suddenly stop? It's not like they're real journalists for gods sake.
The idea is game sales correlate directly to game reviews. It's in the companies best interests to bribe the hell out of the reviewers.
The best example of this was with the PC Gamer review of Doom 3. They got a lot of negative feedback from their review of the game, so they felt it necessary in the next issue to print an article defending why they gave Doom 3 such a great review. They said things like 'People expect games these days to be able to cure cancer while riding a unicycle wearing high heels and juggling'. So that's their justification for giving Doom 3 a good review? Because people expect too much out of games? I think it had largely to do with the sales of Doom 3 and the numerous full page ads id software took out in the magazine.
In my opinion games journalism is probably the most dishonest and cooked form of journalism there is. Mind you, taking shameless bribes goes with a lot of other reviewing jobs.
As per standard slashdot asshole protocol you missed my point all together. You're repeating what I already said. id software is only good at making engines. Their games leave a lot to be desired.
Say for example all you fanboys were wet for Doom 3 when it came out against Far Cry. Far Cry was obviously a better game but since you'd gladly be John Carmacks personal urinal if you had the chance, the quality of the game doesn't matter.
I'm quite sharp actually. That's why I make astute observations like that and why you have to be an anynomus coward in order to reply to my comment. Too worried about your precious karma to use your real name.
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Considering time travel is theoretically possible I propose that the dinosaurs were killed when in the future the governments of the world embraced peace and disposed of all nuclear weapons by sending them back to the dawn of time, where they would naturally decay over the eons. Unfortunately one day a pesky Veloca Raptor stumbled upon the weapons and accidentally detonated them all causing a massive nuclear winter which wiped out the Dinosaurs.
So basically it's easier to set up this complicated system for tracking mouse clicks and system usage that surreptitiously reports back to home base which I imagine probably looks something like...
1:00pm paintbrush selected
1:03pm eraser selected
1:07pm paintbrush selected
1:08pm save file hm_build_001.psd 9.3mb
1:10pm program idle
2:45pm paintbrush selected
As opposed to going out and saying to the customers
'What do you like about Photoshop? What tools work? What would you change? please limit your responses to 500 words. We appreciate your business and look forward to providing superior digital imaging software till the day god comes down from the heavens and smites you all for making sinful images'
What god damned mook of a market researcher thought a blow by blow report of what a customer clicks on while working on a project is superior to actually talking to the customer?
That's absolutely true. I mean the SNES version of Aliens Vs. Predator has a better storyline than the new movie coming out. I mean what does that say when a second rate game from over 10 years ago has a better story than a supposed Hollywood blockbuster?
All I'm saying is this game had better redefine the first person shooter genre. It has to make every game made to date look like garbage. Literally, when I finally play Duke Nukem Forever, I had better have to look at my other games and seriously consider throwing them all in the garbage. This is my expectation of the game. As it stands now the teaser hasn't shown anything remotely impressive. It's just a lot of generic looking monsters swiping at the camera. The old 2001 trailer still looks better than this teaser. I suppose it's better to wait for an official trailer
It's always interesting to see some celebrity try to bum rush some other genre just because they have some big name, and therefore that makes then (in their little mind) qualified as an expert in whatever other genre they're trying to straddle.
Lord knows we don't have enough explosions and special effects in video games already.
New and innovative games are a risk though. Just look what happened with the Wind Waker. At its core it was The Legend of Zelda and it had great gameplay and visuals. But a lot of people didn't like the look of the game so they stayed away from it. I remember reading reviews on it saying the game was only fit for 'mewling kittens'. Mind you, not ALL games are like that, but I imagine developers still see these sorts of projects as too much of a risk. Have a look at how many companies are either making MMORPGS or first person shooters. So really it's easier just to make games based on the market research and bribe the reviewers. Any reviewers that get out of line can be dealt with.
Really PC Gamer would go belly up if they gave honest reviews.
I remember pretty much every old game by Raven had outright awful level design. Every level is like a maze and it just winds up being an extremely aggravating experience. I always thought Hexen II was an awesome game. The level design was complete shit though.
I think one of the big problems with the Video Games industry is that it's still considered to be entertainment almost exclusively for children. This is why you get these parents groups up in arms about ultra violent video games being available.
You have to compare video games to some other form or entertainment to actually get some perception on it. You can get both movies for children and adults in the same format that play on the same DVD player. Somehow people have managed to figure out the difference between the two and not rent pornographic movies to children, and not attempt to have violent movies banned from being sold.
Of course parents who get up in arms about violent video games are idiots to begin with.
Considering how genuinely good Bioshock was I'll actually be looking forward to a sequel. I just have to ask, who's this Ken fellow, and why doesn't the Bioshock team ever want to work with him again? Seems to me like that would be a much more interesting story than 'Hey a new game is coming out'
It's always interesting to read the tripe these people spout when attempting to predict the future
'In the year 2020 man will be as one with the four legged zebra, and so shall our notions of internet security!'
'Could you elaborate please?'
'We suspect hackers will become more sophisticated in their methods'
'So where does that lead internet security?'
'We suspect new security issues will be addressed as they become apparent'
'So in ten years say, where will internet security be?'
'I believe I addressed that question previously with my statement of man becoming as one with the four legged zebra'
You know the BEST part about independent games?
If somebody give them a bad review the game maker can't have the reviewer fired.
It's not gonna happen. Blizzard's not about to take their baby and throw it to the wolves just because they had a merger.
It's like one day they'll just go to the WOW dev team 'Hey gang, we've had a good run but you're all fired. Get the hell out right now. Your personal belongings will be burned, and security has been authorized to tazer you if you try to say goodbye to any of your former co-workers. Activision is bringing in a gaggle of hillbillies to take over the project, I hope you all rot in hell'
When I was just a baby my mama told me 'son always be a good boy, don't ever play with guns'
But I shot a man in Bioshock just to watch him die. When I hear that whistle blowin' I hang my head and cry.
Simple, they can take bribes without feeling guilty. It's not like game reviews have any impact on society at large. If a reviewer accepts a new computer for a favorable review of the new id game, people aren't going to lose their lives, no corrupt politician is going to get undeserved votes, or false press. Life will pretty much go on as usual except a bunch of people who believed the review will be out $70, and John Carmack will have a new ivory back scratcher.
I hope this serves as a lesson to any other company working on a first person shooter (it really won't) the market's so bloody diluted with FPS's now if they can't knock it out of the park, there's no point in trying.
Or better yet, how bout I use Open Office and get ad-free documents?
Somehow I don't see a professional document being very professional if adverts are included.
'So you see the fiscal outlook for this quarter were much larger than previous quarters this can be -what the?! Oh uhh, sorry folks, you'll have to bear with me. I clicked 'larger' and I'm being re-directed to a penis enlargement website. If everybody would please avert their eyes from the screen and maybe look at the non ad-laced budget forecast printout provided while I try to close these pop ups'
If I've done my math right.. NASA would have to have exactly 71 507 bake sales in order to pay for this mission. I can see why they put the launch date so far off.
How does this stuff even make the news? Is this some rule in the media that if somebody files a class action suit for anything no matter what it is or how ludicrous it makes the papers?
I see your point. However, in my day we had system administrators who could do something like get a new couch to replace the old one (since the couch is still digital and can be copied an unlimited amount of times) then go after the person who stole the couch to begin with and delete their account and blacklist them from the game. This is still all technically not real and shouldn't be subjected to the same laws as in the real world. Getting somebodies bank info online then draining their account has more real life implications than losing an image of a couch that can easily be replaced. I have no sympathy for anybody who gets their virtual possessions virtually stolen. I say kudos to the people who stole the things, they're helping point out just how bloody stupid paying real world money for fake commodities is.
You don't hear about anybody getting arrested for downloading copies of Photoshop anymore these days. Thankfully I can still download whatever illegal software I want and not get caught, but if I pinch a copy of a digital couch that can't actually be used for anything other than an avatar to sit on I'm looking at hard time.
Funny how life works.
Chaos..
If the MMORPG stays true to the actual Elder Scrolls games it's gonna be nothing but mass looting and murdering (that's assuming everybody plays the game the same as me though...)
Why buy that 1000 hp armor when you can just pick it up and make a run for it? If the shop keeper calls the guards you just bring up your friends list and get them to help you out.
I imagine though the Elder Scrolls folks will castrate those game play elements that made the game so much fun. So it'll be basically the same as every other MMORPG out there, just one big cash grab. I really didn't care too much about any of the characters in the game. It was more the element of YOU CAN DO WHATEVER YOU WANT TO DO. Like if you wanted to go kill the king with you bare hands, knock yourself out. I just don't see that happening in any sort of online game. EVER.
People fail to grasp the idea that games reviewers exist for the sole purpose of helping game developers sell games. If reviewers actually did the job they claimed they did we wouldn't have so many crap first person shooters out there. Developers would actually stop and say 'we'd better come up with something original otherwise the reviewers will crucify us'
If you have a job where it's perfectly acceptable to take bribes for good reviews, why would you want to suddenly stop? It's not like they're real journalists for gods sake.
The idea is game sales correlate directly to game reviews. It's in the companies best interests to bribe the hell out of the reviewers. The best example of this was with the PC Gamer review of Doom 3. They got a lot of negative feedback from their review of the game, so they felt it necessary in the next issue to print an article defending why they gave Doom 3 such a great review. They said things like 'People expect games these days to be able to cure cancer while riding a unicycle wearing high heels and juggling'. So that's their justification for giving Doom 3 a good review? Because people expect too much out of games? I think it had largely to do with the sales of Doom 3 and the numerous full page ads id software took out in the magazine. In my opinion games journalism is probably the most dishonest and cooked form of journalism there is. Mind you, taking shameless bribes goes with a lot of other reviewing jobs.
As per standard slashdot asshole protocol you missed my point all together.
You're repeating what I already said. id software is only good at making engines. Their games leave a lot to be desired.
Say for example all you fanboys were wet for Doom 3 when it came out against Far Cry. Far Cry was obviously a better game but since you'd gladly be John Carmacks personal urinal if you had the chance, the quality of the game doesn't matter.
I'm quite sharp actually. That's why I make astute observations like that and why you have to be an anynomus coward in order to reply to my comment. Too worried about your precious karma to use your real name.
Fuck you.