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Then play Galatea for an example of how compelling completely interactive fiction can be. In Galatea you can discover the true nature of Galatea's animation, fall in love with her, even talk her into suicide, or just ignore the game and leave it. There are literally dozens of endings and story branches, who's to say which is the "real" one?
No matter how many times I repeat this, there are always more of you that don't "get it".
Evolution is NOT thwarted by allowing "weak" individuals to live. Evolution takes place when those better fit for reproducing reproduce *more* over the long term.
Evolution is not a progression towards a perfect being, it is a reaction to changing environmental stresses. You cannot stop it, it's not a Plan, it's just the mathematics of breeding played out over millennia.
Evolution depends on a varied gene pool to be able to pull new traits from. Removing any genes, even "bad" genes, from that tool box LIMITS the capability of our species to evolve. Taking your example to the extreme: kill off all genetic strains of humanity until you are left with a single "strongest" line. Now severely change the environment. The "strongest" is suddenly at a big disadvantage and our species, lacking any other lines to draw from, quickly becomes extinct.
How can so many of you people get this stuff so wrong? It's not like what I'm describing is a deep arcane mystery. It's obvious to anyone who spends more than two minutes considering how evolution works.
But the death of a human being *didn't* occur. A collection of pixels changed status and lost the right to freely move around the game world. Even a child knows that video games aren't real before age 6.
Although for future lecturing reference, you kinda lost me when we moved onto real crystals. But that may just have been the innate complexity of the subject matter.
There's no Miramax/Lion's Gate level of big-studio-arthouse.
Then who made Darwinia? Your gripes seem to be well answered in the adventure game genre. Did you even play Indigo Prophecy? That game was better than most movies.
Maybe you haven't played many FPS games besides Doom 3?
I'm 28 as well and I found Doom 3 to be a boring rehash of obvious jump scares and scifi environments. At every turn I could predict where the "surprise" attack was and where it was going to come from. It brought back the nostalgia for the original Doom for a bit, but that quickly faded.
You had two buttons? My Atari 2600 only had one. But we did have paddle controllers, code breaker controllers (yeah, that had more than one button), and even the awesome huge weighted trackball centipede controller.
I can still wipe the floor with those kids today but that's probably because I grew up with videogames, have always played videogames, and haven't *ever* gone more than two weeks without playing video games.
I think kids who have always had video games are *way* more skilled at game play than most other gamers. It's eerie!
Yeah...imagine that. A logical assumption actually being true.
Never. 40 hours of gameplay means that there is 40 hours of content in it. Meaning that if you explore everything and follow every side quest you might get close to 40 hours of playtime. I generally take their claim and halve it for an accurate assessment.
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Just be sure to run the audio through a band-pass filter to strip out the god awful narrator.
"HEY-Y-EY it's time to make some CRAZY MONEY!" *mute*
Cervantes wins.
Because Cervantes is broken.
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Well using this you can at least explore endings that you find interesting:
http://www.mindspring.com/~emshort/cheats.htm
Ah, it is for me. I can drag and drop any bookmark (toolbar, bookmark menu, organize bookmarks) anytime here. 1.5.0.7.
Unfortunately it is so. Complexity does not breed game length. But it's fascinating while it lasts.
Then play Galatea for an example of how compelling completely interactive fiction can be. In Galatea you can discover the true nature of Galatea's animation, fall in love with her, even talk her into suicide, or just ignore the game and leave it. There are literally dozens of endings and story branches, who's to say which is the "real" one?
Play Photopia for a good example of how fiction "on rails" can be extremely compelling.
That sounds like a lame paraphrasing of the machine that burns other machines Penny Arcade joke.
I will state absolutely with no possibility of error that YANAH (You Are Not A Hit(man/woman/person)).
No matter how many times I repeat this, there are always more of you that don't "get it".
Evolution is NOT thwarted by allowing "weak" individuals to live. Evolution takes place when those better fit for reproducing reproduce *more* over the long term.
Evolution is not a progression towards a perfect being, it is a reaction to changing environmental stresses. You cannot stop it, it's not a Plan, it's just the mathematics of breeding played out over millennia.
Evolution depends on a varied gene pool to be able to pull new traits from. Removing any genes, even "bad" genes, from that tool box LIMITS the capability of our species to evolve. Taking your example to the extreme: kill off all genetic strains of humanity until you are left with a single "strongest" line. Now severely change the environment. The "strongest" is suddenly at a big disadvantage and our species, lacking any other lines to draw from, quickly becomes extinct.
How can so many of you people get this stuff so wrong? It's not like what I'm describing is a deep arcane mystery. It's obvious to anyone who spends more than two minutes considering how evolution works.
Wrong! *We* use whatever the aliens call their design for computer network protocols.
That's because we (in the movie) designed TCP/IP and even digital computers themselves based off an examination of their alien technology!
For the millionth time:
The laptop. Was connected. To the Spaceship.
Which _itself_ was. Connected. To the mothership.
Yes, it was a cheesy action movie. No, their easy alien computer connection was not an error in the context of the movie.
1) Don't need a display for audiobooks.
2) Don't need a display when jogging to my exercise playlist
3) Complements a fullsize iPod nicely
But the death of a human being *didn't* occur. A collection of pixels changed status and lost the right to freely move around the game world. Even a child knows that video games aren't real before age 6.
i have no idea why, but the PS3 already has 13 pr-orders.
So they can make a healthy profit by selling the system on eBay. $2000 for a PS3 on eBay this holiday season.
Yes. Doubleyes.
Links. It can do it all.
The biggest sex scandal? You should read your presidential history books again.
Awesome comment, thanks!
Although for future lecturing reference, you kinda lost me when we moved onto real crystals. But that may just have been the innate complexity of the subject matter.
There's no Miramax/Lion's Gate level of big-studio-arthouse.
Then who made Darwinia? Your gripes seem to be well answered in the adventure game genre. Did you even play Indigo Prophecy? That game was better than most movies.
How about Autoduel?
I didn't realize that slashdot comments were thought to be good places to advertise.
Maybe you haven't played many FPS games besides Doom 3?
I'm 28 as well and I found Doom 3 to be a boring rehash of obvious jump scares and scifi environments. At every turn I could predict where the "surprise" attack was and where it was going to come from. It brought back the nostalgia for the original Doom for a bit, but that quickly faded.
You had two buttons? My Atari 2600 only had one. But we did have paddle controllers, code breaker controllers (yeah, that had more than one button), and even the awesome huge weighted trackball centipede controller.
I can still wipe the floor with those kids today but that's probably because I grew up with videogames, have always played videogames, and haven't *ever* gone more than two weeks without playing video games.
I think kids who have always had video games are *way* more skilled at game play than most other gamers. It's eerie!
Yeah...imagine that. A logical assumption actually being true.
Never. 40 hours of gameplay means that there is 40 hours of content in it. Meaning that if you explore everything and follow every side quest you might get close to 40 hours of playtime. I generally take their claim and halve it for an accurate assessment.