Make sure it fits into the story you're trying to tell first. Sure back in the day games had simple stories basically consisting of chomp these little dots while avoiding ghosts or shoot these blobs that are aliens coming toward you while you move horizontally.
They've evolved alot and I liken them more to interactive stories. I think that's why alot of games even with halfway decent gameplay blow, they may tell a story but it sucks and is usually just a rehashed story or licensed from a lame property in the first place.
It's a difficult job mixing good gameplay with good story, but some companies do a very good job b/c they don't throw in stuff that doesn't fit within their overall vision.
Bioware's KotOR was awesome b/c it did it's job but offered a lot of content and cool gameplay to do that job, and in a way dealt with social issues (Czerka corporation is an evil company willing to withhold a cure to a disease for the highest bidder and enslave an entire species.)
Games *can* include social commentary, but they don't always need it.
"...id makes most of their bank from selling engines to other companies."
This is bunk, I've posted about it before. It was in a couple different gaming magazines (gameinformer I think was one, don't remember the other, i'd dig but don't keep them for very long) over the last cpl of years. id does not make the majority of their moola off engine licenses.
That's business as usual in corporate America. CEO's and board chairman are always tooting their own horns with hardly any recognition given to the underlings who actually perform the work.
So he can give the similar performance as Nintendo and Sony. The games are what make a system and/or company. Anyone can make a box that spits out pretty interactive pictures.
Now that video games are more than niche market and Sony, Microsoft and your mom are interesting in getting a piece of the action, they're going to bash the guy that tries to stay true to their previous success.
Everyone calls Nintendo a kiddy company b/c they don't get the games where you blow cops and everyday citizens apart. (Not that there's anything wrong w/ that.) But they make some of the best adventure/platform/plain ol' fun not overly complex games I can think of.
I told my non-gamer friend to get a Gamecube, here's why: He can still get Madden and other EA Sports games, Tony Hawk games, plus the born again classics of Zelda, Metroid, Mario Games. He's played Xbox/PS2 since and says he'd still rather be playing his Gamecube.
It's a judgement by a group of scientists who feel that the current administration is screwing with things for their own gain.
Oh wait that would make the Bush Administration bias too, whatever shall we do?
Welcome to politics.
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The/. community full of nerds who talk on end about hauling around PDA's, laptops, anything they can cram in their pockets with a processor or a keypad and they want to argue that we survived w/o cellphones for thousands of years we can do it now when people in public annoy you by talking on their phone.
Look what your technology is being used for? Mass marketing, fraud, ID theft, and a litany of other crimes. And somehow we have yet to ban computers to avoid those unpleasantries in life.
The US is a country where we have yet to place a ban on all guns b/c some ppl use them properly and others don't, but we don't punish those that do w/ an outright ban.
And yet I should be crucified for using a cellphone in a public place (barring movies, plays, operas, performance venues in general) b/c people want uniterrupted peace and quiet when they're out in public?
We survived w/o movies and fine dining, cars, modern medicine... nearly anything and everything we take for granted, junk food, fast food, Target, Wal*Mart, satellite TV, cable... and yes, we lived w/o/. and the Internet.
For some reason I've let faceless hipocrits make me numb w/ disbelief.
Your rights end where my rights start, but I've never been told we have a right not to be bothered by other people while out in public.
You do not have the right to sit near me and disrupt my meal/movie for which I paid.
If someone is in the restaurant (movies are diff. I'll give u that) then they're paying the same as you. Unless you paid an extra fee to be uninterrupted while dining, then I call shenanigans. (If you did then you should complain to the managers of that establishment.)
What do you do if there's 2 ppl near you that are just talking loudly? The argument that someone on a cell in a restaurant invades on your personal space well, again I call shenanigans.
If that person happens to be blathering on overly loud that's different, they're just loud and annoying. What if someone has to have a cell on them while on their lunch or some such but they wanted to go out (all u sys admins raise ur hand if ur required to carry a cellphone during work hours/on call hours)? B/c they might offend you they have to remain @ their office? More shenanigans.
You're out in public dude, the law doesn't grant you indemnity from being annoyed, suck it up or stay home is what I say.
So you can interfere w/ their lives (by jamming their phone) but no one can invade on urs? Shenanigans.
I think it was the mayor in Ghostbusters 2 that said it best "Being miserable and treating everyone else like crap is every NY'ers [but we'll say persons] God given right.":P
I thought about a getting Palm and the Tungsten E specifically but what drove me away is that they still have the hardware graphiti area. Sony has it as a software pop-up so it seems stupid to keep throwing using the unhideable hardware format and denying customers the screen room.
You mean the USA and Russia's weapons of mass destruction, right? The ones that were made possible by the technological advancements of their respective space programs?
We (the US) had a space program in the early 40's? Wow, cool.
Stop using windows! (the glass kind) There by increasing the amount of lights you need to use in the house (esp. in the summer time) and increasing power consumption!
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If you were wasting time on /. as early as I was this morning you'd know they just have one of these on every starship too.
I wonder if it was extra or just standard equipment by then.
Todays better, faster stuff will be cheaper
Make sure it fits into the story you're trying to tell first. Sure back in the day games had simple stories basically consisting of chomp these little dots while avoiding ghosts or shoot these blobs that are aliens coming toward you while you move horizontally.
They've evolved alot and I liken them more to interactive stories. I think that's why alot of games even with halfway decent gameplay blow, they may tell a story but it sucks and is usually just a rehashed story or licensed from a lame property in the first place.
It's a difficult job mixing good gameplay with good story, but some companies do a very good job b/c they don't throw in stuff that doesn't fit within their overall vision.
Bioware's KotOR was awesome b/c it did it's job but offered a lot of content and cool gameplay to do that job, and in a way dealt with social issues (Czerka corporation is an evil company willing to withhold a cure to a disease for the highest bidder and enslave an entire species.)
Games *can* include social commentary, but they don't always need it.
Somehow I doubt the general population would be tolerant of a buncha crazed geeks running around blowing shit up all day.
So yeah, I'd say FPS games are more tolerant than the general US Population.
Colleges have pistol teams? Higher education is sounding better and better.
That bug remained in the final game I believe. I guess it was suppose to be a "feature".
Or large groups of people won't waste their time downloading anything else when there's already a supported player on their computer?
I definitively learned that Nintendo's new game device may or may not have a DS on the end of the name.
I have to go take a nap. *woofda*
"...id makes most of their bank from selling engines to other companies."
This is bunk, I've posted about it before. It was in a couple different gaming magazines (gameinformer I think was one, don't remember the other, i'd dig but don't keep them for very long) over the last cpl of years. id does not make the majority of their moola off engine licenses.
That's business as usual in corporate America. CEO's and board chairman are always tooting their own horns with hardly any recognition given to the underlings who actually perform the work.
So he can give the similar performance as Nintendo and Sony. The games are what make a system and/or company. Anyone can make a box that spits out pretty interactive pictures.
Now that video games are more than niche market and Sony, Microsoft and your mom are interesting in getting a piece of the action, they're going to bash the guy that tries to stay true to their previous success.
Everyone calls Nintendo a kiddy company b/c they don't get the games where you blow cops and everyday citizens apart. (Not that there's anything wrong w/ that.) But they make some of the best adventure/platform/plain ol' fun not overly complex games I can think of.
I told my non-gamer friend to get a Gamecube, here's why: He can still get Madden and other EA Sports games, Tony Hawk games, plus the born again classics of Zelda, Metroid, Mario Games. He's played Xbox/PS2 since and says he'd still rather be playing his Gamecube.
So that when I get attacked by Orgres I have memorized the spells I need to vanquish him
Sorta like self defense classes
They musta been runnin' their webserver on one!
*ba dum ch*
Hopefully Nintendo does this so I only have to buy one console to play the Mario, Metroid, and Zelda games ... oh wait.
I don't think it will go over so easily in the States, but I haven't even bought a PS2 so it's not like I'll be playing their exclusive games anyway.
Although Gran Turismo 4 is making the purchase of the system more likely.
It's a judgement by a group of scientists who feel that the current administration is screwing with things for their own gain.
Oh wait that would make the Bush Administration bias too, whatever shall we do?
Welcome to politics.
The /. community full of nerds who talk on end about hauling around PDA's, laptops, anything they can cram in their pockets with a processor or a keypad and they want to argue that we survived w/o cellphones for thousands of years we can do it now when people in public annoy you by talking on their phone.
... and yes, we lived w/o /. and the Internet.
Look what your technology is being used for? Mass marketing, fraud, ID theft, and a litany of other crimes. And somehow we have yet to ban computers to avoid those unpleasantries in life.
The US is a country where we have yet to place a ban on all guns b/c some ppl use them properly and others don't, but we don't punish those that do w/ an outright ban.
And yet I should be crucified for using a cellphone in a public place (barring movies, plays, operas, performance venues in general) b/c people want uniterrupted peace and quiet when they're out in public?
We survived w/o movies and fine dining, cars, modern medicine... nearly anything and everything we take for granted, junk food, fast food, Target, Wal*Mart, satellite TV, cable
For some reason I've let faceless hipocrits make me numb w/ disbelief.
Your rights end where my rights start, but I've never been told we have a right not to be bothered by other people while out in public.
You do not have the right to sit near me and disrupt my meal/movie for which I paid.
:P
If someone is in the restaurant (movies are diff. I'll give u that) then they're paying the same as you. Unless you paid an extra fee to be uninterrupted while dining, then I call shenanigans. (If you did then you should complain to the managers of that establishment.)
What do you do if there's 2 ppl near you that are just talking loudly? The argument that someone on a cell in a restaurant invades on your personal space well, again I call shenanigans.
If that person happens to be blathering on overly loud that's different, they're just loud and annoying. What if someone has to have a cell on them while on their lunch or some such but they wanted to go out (all u sys admins raise ur hand if ur required to carry a cellphone during work hours/on call hours)? B/c they might offend you they have to remain @ their office? More shenanigans.
You're out in public dude, the law doesn't grant you indemnity from being annoyed, suck it up or stay home is what I say.
So you can interfere w/ their lives (by jamming their phone) but no one can invade on urs? Shenanigans.
I think it was the mayor in Ghostbusters 2 that said it best "Being miserable and treating everyone else like crap is every NY'ers [but we'll say persons] God given right."
They'll be sued out of existence
And now we present to you a hundred jokes about Windows already being crippled and a hundred more forshadowing jokes about Windows being crippled.
(Not too unlike this one)
I thought about a getting Palm and the Tungsten E specifically but what drove me away is that they still have the hardware graphiti area. Sony has it as a software pop-up so it seems stupid to keep throwing using the unhideable hardware format and denying customers the screen room.
my 2 cents
More CRAP
You mean the USA and Russia's weapons of mass destruction, right? The ones that were made possible by the technological advancements of their respective space programs?
We (the US) had a space program in the early 40's? Wow, cool.
EU MS Rep.: Do you accept... cash!? *Ch-Ching!*
Stop using windows! (the glass kind) There by increasing the amount of lights you need to use in the house (esp. in the summer time) and increasing power consumption!
Great googly moogly