I haven't seen any new genres, including FPS. I would argue that the first FPS game ( that I played) is at least 17 years old ( Dungeons of Daggorath ). Ok, it wasn't a shooter exactly, but that was technology limiting the concept. For those who don't remember it, it was a first person perspective wireframe '3D' dungeon crawl. It was real time instead of turn based, but your movement was restricted to 'cells'.
'Space Hulk' was a fairly innovative concept, being a turn based strategy + tactical squad first person shooter in the same game! I don't know why no one followed up on it. If it'd been less buggy, it would have been a hall of famer.
Anyway, the best games are usually refinements on an initial concept rather than something brand new. Examples:
Prince of Persia - Side scrolling action game
Ultima Underworld - first person shooter / puzzle
Alone in the Dark - third person perspective game
A notable oddity is Sword of the Samurai, as a mixed genre game it ruled, but I'm not sure if any of the individual pieces were actually that excellent. I still fondly remember wandering up and down Japan insulting the ancestors of my rivals.
I'm rambling like an old fart, so I'm off to get caffiene, blessed ambrosia from the plastic teat of the goddess of commerce.
Re:Illegal... but should it be?
on
Voteauction.com
·
· Score: 1
ARE YOU NUTS?
Of course it should be illegal. Otherwise, whichever corporation ( let's say Microsoft hypothetically, since everyone here is used to thinking of them as the bad guy ) has the most free cash available in an election year just buys 25-30 candidates, and rams through an anti-trust exemption + government subsidies after the election. Subsequent elections become easier to buy as they control more and more of the economy. It would bring the Onion article about Microsoft buys US gov't to life. The only way it wouldn't happen is if a blocking coalition could be formed somehow, but even so things would get out of control.
Actually the most likely result would be a total domination of senior citizens, who have the most assets per capita. They'd buy votes for whichever candidate offered to raise social security and medicare benifits. Hyperinflation and dollar devaluation would result, and all of the younger populace would have to hoard their 'vote sale dollars' in order to afford food and housing.
The point system is a great idea, especially for filtering out pr0n as they put it. I used to do searches for articles about sexuality on AltaVista, and turn up so much porn I couldn't actually get to any real information. You wouldn't believe how much of the porn got filtered out by adding:
AND NOT ("swollen pussy lips" OR "throbbing penis" OR "throbbing manhood" OR "hot slut" OR "nude pics")
I will not think of the Stay Puff Marshmallow Man. Seriously though, Suck was right about skin's being a giant backward leap in interface design. Customize away your usability instantly, woo hoo. Yeah, I know in theory that a more usable application could be developed with skins, but how do you keep it from being lost in the noise?
Going through this process as we speak. For me the prioritized list to analyze is the following: Testing -- Find a site that's doing something similar to what you want to at each colocation facility, and test access to that site from your customer's perspective!!!!! SLA's -- put yo money where yo mouth is latency, bandwidth, packet loss, and server downtime should be covered. Backbone & Peering -- They make you sign NDA's to look at this for some reason. Who cares how many people they peer with, look for the big 5 (UUNET, SPRINT, CWUSA, GTE, ATT) and see how good the peering relationship is. I personally like colo's that use InterNAP for connectivity as they proactively balance 11 different backbone connections. Facility and Security -- make sure it's appropriate to what you're paying, and what your needs are. N+1 redundancy all the way is nice, but if you can afford downtime more that $$ who cares. For security, the best facilities have security escort every visitor, and everyone has to sign in on a very short access list. Convenience is the trade off, and you may not care as much about security as you do being able to easily access you cage at all times. One thing to ask is if they ever test the power generators, and if they're kept idling. Cold starting one of those behemoths just ain't going to happen in a timely fashion. Batteries can be in line or out of line, it matters as far as power cleanliness goes, which will affect your hard drive failure rate.
Gore is a marathon runner. It seems pretty clear that he'd win any gladitorial contest which wasn't held in a very small room, or with ranged weaponry.
Slashdot Mirror
I haven't seen any new genres, including FPS. I would argue that the first FPS game ( that I played) is at least 17 years old ( Dungeons of Daggorath ). Ok, it wasn't a shooter exactly, but that was technology limiting the concept. For those who don't remember it, it was a first person perspective wireframe '3D' dungeon crawl. It was real time instead of turn based, but your movement was restricted to 'cells'.
'Space Hulk' was a fairly innovative concept, being a turn based strategy + tactical squad first person shooter in the same game! I don't know why no one followed up on it. If it'd been less buggy, it would have been a hall of famer.
Anyway, the best games are usually refinements on an initial concept rather than something brand new. Examples:
Prince of Persia - Side scrolling action game
Ultima Underworld - first person shooter / puzzle
Alone in the Dark - third person perspective game
A notable oddity is Sword of the Samurai, as a mixed genre game it ruled, but I'm not sure if any of the individual pieces were actually that excellent. I still fondly remember wandering up and down Japan insulting the ancestors of my rivals.
I'm rambling like an old fart, so I'm off to get caffiene, blessed ambrosia from the plastic teat of the goddess of commerce.
ARE YOU NUTS?
Of course it should be illegal. Otherwise, whichever corporation ( let's say Microsoft hypothetically, since everyone here is used to thinking of them as the bad guy ) has the most free cash available in an election year just buys 25-30 candidates, and rams through an anti-trust exemption + government subsidies after the election. Subsequent elections become easier to buy as they control more and more of the economy. It would bring the Onion article about Microsoft buys US gov't to life. The only way it wouldn't happen is if a blocking coalition could be formed somehow, but even so things would get out of control.
Actually the most likely result would be a total domination of senior citizens, who have the most assets per capita. They'd buy votes for whichever candidate offered to raise social security and medicare benifits. Hyperinflation and dollar devaluation would result, and all of the younger populace would have to hoard their 'vote sale dollars' in order to afford food and housing.
The point system is a great idea, especially for filtering out pr0n as they put it. I used to do searches for articles about sexuality on AltaVista, and turn up so much porn I couldn't actually get to any real information. You wouldn't believe how much of the porn got filtered out by adding:
AND NOT ("swollen pussy lips" OR "throbbing penis" OR "throbbing manhood" OR "hot slut" OR "nude pics")
I will not think of the Stay Puff Marshmallow Man. Seriously though, Suck was right about skin's being a giant backward leap in interface design. Customize away your usability instantly, woo hoo. Yeah, I know in theory that a more usable application could be developed with skins, but how do you keep it from being lost in the noise?
Going through this process as we speak. For me the prioritized list to analyze is the following: Testing -- Find a site that's doing something similar to what you want to at each colocation facility, and test access to that site from your customer's perspective!!!!! SLA's -- put yo money where yo mouth is latency, bandwidth, packet loss, and server downtime should be covered. Backbone & Peering -- They make you sign NDA's to look at this for some reason. Who cares how many people they peer with, look for the big 5 (UUNET, SPRINT, CWUSA, GTE, ATT) and see how good the peering relationship is. I personally like colo's that use InterNAP for connectivity as they proactively balance 11 different backbone connections. Facility and Security -- make sure it's appropriate to what you're paying, and what your needs are. N+1 redundancy all the way is nice, but if you can afford downtime more that $$ who cares. For security, the best facilities have security escort every visitor, and everyone has to sign in on a very short access list. Convenience is the trade off, and you may not care as much about security as you do being able to easily access you cage at all times. One thing to ask is if they ever test the power generators, and if they're kept idling. Cold starting one of those behemoths just ain't going to happen in a timely fashion. Batteries can be in line or out of line, it matters as far as power cleanliness goes, which will affect your hard drive failure rate.
Gore is a marathon runner. It seems pretty clear that he'd win any gladitorial contest which wasn't held in a very small room, or with ranged weaponry.
-Aaron