The point of satire is to present an argument that is along the same vein of your opponent's beliefs, but so ludicrous that it exposes the folly of your enemy's position. What Thompson did wasn't satirical to the video game industry at all, he simply attempted to "call out" the industry with the same rhetoric he's been using all along. He assumed no one would take him up on the offer, and thus he would come out on top and could show that the video game industry was afraid to victimize itself, because they were scared they'd train their own murderers. It's a ludicrous argument, yes, but it's one he's been presenting for years. If he managed to satirize anyone, it was only himself. The man simply isn't very clever.
Maybe Bungie will do us all a favor and reimagine Myth for Xbox.
Sorry, but Bungie lost the rights to the Myth franchise to Take 2 when they were bought by Microsoft, and good luck getting those guys to do anything worthwhile. View Myth III for evidence.
Bungie did this with the Myth series (which had highly competitive online play) by implementing "rolling resets" whereby three of the twelve or so game types were reset to zero every month. It was a great system, people couldn't simply whore points in one game type for any great span of time, and players who became inactive lost all their points in a set amount of time. It also allowed to players who were best at the game to rise to the top, instead of just those who were best at one game-type.
IIRC, the manuals for Doom and Doom II never came out and called it the "Big F'ing Gun," but in the item description there was something along the lines of "...we'll leave it to you to figure out what the BFG stands for..."
Jesus man, don't give CNN any ideas or for the next six months we'll be inundated with reports of terrorists plotting to attack New York with a T-Rex built from black market DNA.
Although, the military applications of a T-Rex would be great. If only we could figure out how to mount this friggin' laser beam...
I'll give it to you that the PSP will likely capture a larger market share than the DS based on the popularity of the PSX/PS2, but to say that Sony "will always have the better franchises" is lunacy. Franchises like what? GTA (out now for PC and XBox!)? Final Fantasy (hasn't been Sony exclusive for some time)?...Crash Bandicoot?
No thanks, give me Mario and Zelda any day.
I personally would absolutely love to own an iQue, especially with the new USB functionality. But , like you said, it'll never happen here because people are willing to pay outrageous amounts of money for the GBA ports of old games.
I was only hazarding my guess in my post; I didn't make that aparent though. Thanks for clearing it up. I never really got a close enough look at one of the things, when I walked past it always looked just like the NesterDC menu to me. Aparently most of the games in the menu are fakes too, from what others are saying.
Oops, you're right, I meant to type analog and got technology dyslexic.
I personally am not a big fan of the pressure sensing buttons on the PS2 controller, it's a royal pain in the ass to push hard on them. As much as I hate the Game Cube controller, the analog shoulder buttons on them are a thing of beauty, even surpassing the excellent triggers on the Dreamcast controller IMHO.
The PS2 is FULLY backwards compatible with the PS1, controllers and memory cards included. This isn't something Sony kept under wraps, it was common knowledge when the PS2 was released.
Also, every button on the PS2 dual-shock controllers is digital (save the start and select buttons), whereas the only digial component of the PS1 dual-shock controllers is the control sticks.
It's worse than just one or two Nintendo first-party games. From the ones of these I've seen they appear to be running an emulator (the menu system looks nearly identical to NesterDC) with a nearly full library of NES titles. The ones in my local mall were nearly constantly hooked into a TV with Contra loaded into them, but sometimes Castlevania or other third-party titles.
There was one of these kiosks in my local mall as of Saturday night, everytime I walked past it I wondered how long it was going to take them to be sued into submission.
If Nintendo would make something like this, only with higher quality parts (the controllers on these things felt horrible and were obviously poorly made) I'm hard pressed to believe they wouldn't sell extremely well given the right price point. Then again, they're able to sell single games for twenty bucks apiece for the GBA...
Firstly, Advent Children is a film, not a game. Secondly, the Final Fantasy series has no continuity; FF2 was sequal of FF, FF3 is not a sequal of FF2, etc. (with the exception of FFX-2, a direct sequal to FF10). This movie takes place after the events in FF7, but is in no way tied to the other games.
OKCupid is an excellent free service run by the guys who ran TheSpark which was one of the more humorous sites on the interweb before it was sold into evil, soul-less capitalism. The site can be quite entertaining without using the match-making capabilities at all, but also allows you to browse "matches" to find potential dates, check it out.
I thirdly agree, this is exactly what I did during my sentence to dorms freshman year. It blocked out the clickity-clicks as well as the soccer being played in the hall at 3am.
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The point of satire is to present an argument that is along the same vein of your opponent's beliefs, but so ludicrous that it exposes the folly of your enemy's position. What Thompson did wasn't satirical to the video game industry at all, he simply attempted to "call out" the industry with the same rhetoric he's been using all along. He assumed no one would take him up on the offer, and thus he would come out on top and could show that the video game industry was afraid to victimize itself, because they were scared they'd train their own murderers. It's a ludicrous argument, yes, but it's one he's been presenting for years. If he managed to satirize anyone, it was only himself. The man simply isn't very clever.
Not exactly the same concept, but the Solar Death Ray always reminded me of this.
I don't think monopoly means what you think it does.
Maybe Bungie will do us all a favor and reimagine Myth for Xbox.
Sorry, but Bungie lost the rights to the Myth franchise to Take 2 when they were bought by Microsoft, and good luck getting those guys to do anything worthwhile. View Myth III for evidence.
I happen to know of a very good one.
Bungie did this with the Myth series (which had highly competitive online play) by implementing "rolling resets" whereby three of the twelve or so game types were reset to zero every month. It was a great system, people couldn't simply whore points in one game type for any great span of time, and players who became inactive lost all their points in a set amount of time. It also allowed to players who were best at the game to rise to the top, instead of just those who were best at one game-type.
Parent post is currently at +5, Funny.
Where's the "Ironic" meta-moderation option?
IIRC, the manuals for Doom and Doom II never came out and called it the "Big F'ing Gun," but in the item description there was something along the lines of "...we'll leave it to you to figure out what the BFG stands for..."
a metric assload of solid fuel
If you can't properly express your units of measure in standard Libraries on Congress I'll have nothing to do with your argument.
Jesus man, don't give CNN any ideas or for the next six months we'll be inundated with reports of terrorists plotting to attack New York with a T-Rex built from black market DNA.
Although, the military applications of a T-Rex would be great. If only we could figure out how to mount this friggin' laser beam...
I'll give it to you that the PSP will likely capture a larger market share than the DS based on the popularity of the PSX/PS2, but to say that Sony "will always have the better franchises" is lunacy. Franchises like what? GTA (out now for PC and XBox!)? Final Fantasy (hasn't been Sony exclusive for some time)? ...Crash Bandicoot?
No thanks, give me Mario and Zelda any day.
I personally would absolutely love to own an iQue, especially with the new USB functionality. But , like you said, it'll never happen here because people are willing to pay outrageous amounts of money for the GBA ports of old games.
I was only hazarding my guess in my post; I didn't make that aparent though. Thanks for clearing it up. I never really got a close enough look at one of the things, when I walked past it always looked just like the NesterDC menu to me. Aparently most of the games in the menu are fakes too, from what others are saying.
Oops, you're right, I meant to type analog and got technology dyslexic.
I personally am not a big fan of the pressure sensing buttons on the PS2 controller, it's a royal pain in the ass to push hard on them. As much as I hate the Game Cube controller, the analog shoulder buttons on them are a thing of beauty, even surpassing the excellent triggers on the Dreamcast controller IMHO.
The PS2 is FULLY backwards compatible with the PS1, controllers and memory cards included. This isn't something Sony kept under wraps, it was common knowledge when the PS2 was released.
Also, every button on the PS2 dual-shock controllers is digital (save the start and select buttons), whereas the only digial component of the PS1 dual-shock controllers is the control sticks.
It's worse than just one or two Nintendo first-party games. From the ones of these I've seen they appear to be running an emulator (the menu system looks nearly identical to NesterDC) with a nearly full library of NES titles. The ones in my local mall were nearly constantly hooked into a TV with Contra loaded into them, but sometimes Castlevania or other third-party titles.
There was one of these kiosks in my local mall as of Saturday night, everytime I walked past it I wondered how long it was going to take them to be sued into submission.
If Nintendo would make something like this, only with higher quality parts (the controllers on these things felt horrible and were obviously poorly made) I'm hard pressed to believe they wouldn't sell extremely well given the right price point. Then again, they're able to sell single games for twenty bucks apiece for the GBA...
*FF2 was not a sequal of FF...
bleh
Yes, and 10, and 11, and soon to be 12...
Firstly, Advent Children is a film, not a game. Secondly, the Final Fantasy series has no continuity; FF2 was sequal of FF, FF3 is not a sequal of FF2, etc. (with the exception of FFX-2, a direct sequal to FF10). This movie takes place after the events in FF7, but is in no way tied to the other games.
Gabe and Tycho love Peter Molyneux!
No Grendel! Stop attacking my village! I think you forgot "cluster."
OKCupid is an excellent free service run by the guys who ran TheSpark which was one of the more humorous sites on the interweb before it was sold into evil, soul-less capitalism. The site can be quite entertaining without using the match-making capabilities at all, but also allows you to browse "matches" to find potential dates, check it out.
I thirdly agree, this is exactly what I did during my sentence to dorms freshman year. It blocked out the clickity-clicks as well as the soccer being played in the hall at 3am.
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