Here I talk about 1st-person "story-oriented" games, not 3rd-person strategy games. How about games taking on more interesting stories? How about NPCs that can actually learn from one-another and generate some semblance of human language on the fly, characters who are not just dumb entities that you click on so they tell you everything they know as some predetermined monologue in some predetermined tone, despite your shooting your gun 5 feet from them. How about games which can generate their own subplots, so the game designers themselves can play their games?
Most games have certainly been quite bland in these arenas, and I don't think it will improve until the games industry starts hiring NLP (and other) specialists to design moderately intelligent systems which allow for more interesting character interaction. Right now the assumption is that putting games online makes them more "interactable," but that mostly makes games open to excessive PKing, cheating, and a distinct lack of role-playing. I'm sure there are some arenas where this isn't so true (personally I've played some on great NWN servers, where the story/role-playing take precedence over the obnoxious "I wanna level every night so I can show my friends I'm better" mentality of so many online gamers.
Anyhoo, perhaps one day NPC character interaction will improve and NPCs will rise up from their servitude and take over! And then we'll be sorry we mercilessly slaughtered them for their key to the crypts (when their relatives come and hunt us down).
Consequences for character actions which the game designers themselves do not even know -- that's a fascinating game feature.
If I remember correctly, Valeyard was his unused regenerations *at a point in time*. So, he should still be able to use all his slots. I do think that since we never saw the transition from McGann to Eccleston, he doesn't really count as a slot. Also, since McGann was a one-hit-wonder, he probably also shouldn't be counted.
History is full of "dead-ends," possible realities that suddenly vanish. I say let's take over where McCoy left off and re-regenerate to a longer-term actor. That is, if the storylines improve! "Rose" was a little too much like a lite beer to "Logopolis'" Guinness.
Then let's get this show on the air in the US! Sadly, NBC airs their own version of "The Office," so they would probably want to do the same with the Doctor:(
I think Katz needs to make a distinction between wargamers, role-players, arcaders, and the multitude of other subdenominations. "Gamers" used to be a term applied to those who spent hours exploring the intracasies of rules in Avalon Hills games. They tend to grow to make pretty good lawyers, that is, if they're not overly prone to wax emotional. Now it seems that all people who play games of any type are seen as gamers. Certainly you must agree that people who play chess and go are not the smae sort of gamers as those who play Super Mario Bros. or Quake.
There was a Slashdot article (I think -- who knows anymore with the plethora of media outlets bombarding us through all mediums) recently that stressed the differences in styles of software. I believe the same distinction must be made between different types of gamers.
Of course, in so doing, we open ourselves up to a class structure with respect to gamers, which is open to all sorts of myopic squabbling. I just hope to see a discourse on gaming that isn't such a monolithic view of games in general.
The real issue, is, skilled or not, workers deserve their rights. The continued imbalance of wages of workers versus wages of executives is astounding. Under the guise of 'democracy' we've seen an increase in corporate capitalism affecting people all over the world. With this global economy, and so-called 'free market,' the people who actually _do_ the work get pushed lower and lower on the rewards heap. Investors make more money than the employees of a company. This is insane.
Many foreign workers are hit hardest by this, by not only receiving the lowest wages, but then being asked to leave the country after they help build the infrastructure. The same thing happened in post-WW2 Germany, when Germans imported Turkish (and other) men and then five years later expected them to leave, and to not bring their families into the country. This is insane.
One day the workers will organize, and will not be satiated by WWF, MLB, and nudie bars. Or maybe not.
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In fact, they don't need graphics at all!
Here I talk about 1st-person "story-oriented" games, not 3rd-person strategy games. How about games taking on more interesting stories? How about NPCs that can actually learn from one-another and generate some semblance of human language on the fly, characters who are not just dumb entities that you click on so they tell you everything they know as some predetermined monologue in some predetermined tone, despite your shooting your gun 5 feet from them. How about games which can generate their own subplots, so the game designers themselves can play their games?
Most games have certainly been quite bland in these arenas, and I don't think it will improve until the games industry starts hiring NLP (and other) specialists to design moderately intelligent systems which allow for more interesting character interaction. Right now the assumption is that putting games online makes them more "interactable," but that mostly makes games open to excessive PKing, cheating, and a distinct lack of role-playing. I'm sure there are some arenas where this isn't so true (personally I've played some on great NWN servers, where the story/role-playing take precedence over the obnoxious "I wanna level every night so I can show my friends I'm better" mentality of so many online gamers.
Anyhoo, perhaps one day NPC character interaction will improve and NPCs will rise up from their servitude and take over! And then we'll be sorry we mercilessly slaughtered them for their key to the crypts (when their relatives come and hunt us down).
Consequences for character actions which the game designers themselves do not even know -- that's a fascinating game feature.
If I remember correctly, Valeyard was his unused regenerations *at a point in time*. So, he should still be able to use all his slots. I do think that since we never saw the transition from McGann to Eccleston, he doesn't really count as a slot. Also, since McGann was a one-hit-wonder, he probably also shouldn't be counted.
History is full of "dead-ends," possible realities that suddenly vanish. I say let's take over where McCoy left off and re-regenerate to a longer-term actor. That is, if the storylines improve! "Rose" was a little too much like a lite beer to "Logopolis'" Guinness.
Then let's get this show on the air in the US! Sadly, NBC airs their own version of "The Office," so they would probably want to do the same with the DoctorCheers!
What reasons are often cited for organizations continuing to use Microsoft products?
I think Katz needs to make a distinction between wargamers, role-players, arcaders, and the multitude of other subdenominations. "Gamers" used to be a term applied to those who spent hours exploring the intracasies of rules in Avalon Hills games. They tend to grow to make pretty good lawyers, that is, if they're not overly prone to wax emotional. Now it seems that all people who play games of any type are seen as gamers. Certainly you must agree that people who play chess and go are not the smae sort of gamers as those who play Super Mario Bros. or Quake.
There was a Slashdot article (I think -- who knows anymore with the plethora of media outlets bombarding us through all mediums) recently that stressed the differences in styles of software. I believe the same distinction must be made between different types of gamers.
Of course, in so doing, we open ourselves up to a class structure with respect to gamers, which is open to all sorts of myopic squabbling. I just hope to see a discourse on gaming that isn't such a monolithic view of games in general.
The real issue, is, skilled or not, workers deserve their rights. The continued imbalance of wages of workers versus wages of executives is astounding. Under the guise of 'democracy' we've seen an increase in corporate capitalism affecting people all over the world. With this global economy, and so-called 'free market,' the people who actually _do_ the work get pushed lower and lower on the rewards heap. Investors make more money than the employees of a company. This is insane. Many foreign workers are hit hardest by this, by not only receiving the lowest wages, but then being asked to leave the country after they help build the infrastructure. The same thing happened in post-WW2 Germany, when Germans imported Turkish (and other) men and then five years later expected them to leave, and to not bring their families into the country. This is insane. One day the workers will organize, and will not be satiated by WWF, MLB, and nudie bars. Or maybe not.