Also, on another rant. What's YOUR solution, Bruce? You tell us how NOT to do it, but you have no solutions yourself. Oh wait, you do... you tell us we should do EXACTLY what you rant against:
I'll admit, it's coloured my expectations of enigmatic faceless space soldiers ever since, and I was hugely disappointed when I reached the end of Halo and Master Chief stubbornly refused to reveal that he was really a Mistress Chief all along. I mean, I had tissues ready and everything.
I think the author's just pining for a Haloid type ending. Not that it wouldn't be cool or anything, but I don't think it'd be quite the same.
Only the lazy went broke in the original Zelda games. Everyone else burned every tree and pushed every rock and found all the hidden rupees whenever they needed cash. There were secret treasure rooms in just about every screen on the overworld.
And if you were *really* strapped, just go to the cemetary, touch some tombstones and kill the ghosts. Those suckers droped lots of cash.
(damn, now I've got it going through my head: duuuuuun, dun-dun da dah-duh-duh.....Duuuuuuuun, dun-dun dah duh-duh-duh.......dun duh-da-duh duh-da-duh..."
It's probably to address the one bulletpoint that Bioshock didn't aim to hit (and rightfully so): Multiplayer.
Remember, Deus Ex was originally a single player game that got MP added in as a patch. I don't see the need for it, but if it could potentially help them sell another million copies of a "GOTY" edition then I'm sure someone up in management is howling for it.
As a gamer, I'm appalled that anything approaching legislating censorship of my beloved pasttime is even considered. As a new parent, I'm terrified that I don't have a way to control my new offspring 100% of the time. Neither of these positions are very moderate, nor should anyone expect them to be. Human nature has a way of emphasizing threats to our control and safety, and the only way to rationally come up with a conclusion is to discount both emotions.
Creative Freedom must be protected. I think this is paramount to the continued advancement of society as a whole. Even content that you don't personally agree with should be with should have a fundamental right to exist and be disseminated by a mature and rational public.
Parental Control must also be protected. We put locks on our doors for a reason -- so someone who is *not* acting in a mature and rational way cannot harm us. These should, however, tend towards the unobtrusive and simple to avoid any conflicts with the above protections. I can't, for example, blast white noise at a political rally to silence a speech I don't agree with. However, I also shouldn't have to have that speech broadcast into my home unabated.
The Law that Mr. Yee proposed has it's heart good intentions, but is critically flawed in protecting the rights of the artist. At best it's a goodhearted but kneejerk reaction to the GTA scandal (his take on ESRB's "failure") but doesn't take the industry or technology involved into account. At worst it's the first step towards an even more invasive Nanny state, where no one is responsible for their own actions and we blame the messager rather than the criminal.
Accountability should end where another's responsibility begins, and if we bury our heads in the sand and try to find an easy target to blame every time something bad happens, we'll end up much worse off for it. Galileo, Socrates, now Rockstar Games? Who else should we eliminate to protect ourselves from imaginary evils? If the government really wants to improve the situation they should be lauding Gaming as the next great art form, not holding it back. David and the Venus Di Milo, Halo3 and Grand Theft Auto.
If they use the extra time to polish up and make the Network Play as solid as possible, then the delay is more than worth it. If they decide at the end that they just can't make it work, or use some pathetic matching system like buddy codes it'll be a huge blow to anyone who believed the Wii was a legitimate online multiplayer platform.
murder (n) - Law. the killing of another human being under conditions specifically covered in law.
If you take it as God's word, he wasn't that specific; those were some pretty heavy tablets and he had to be concise so I doubt conditions of law played any role in the Judeo-Christian doctrine of Murder. And the law is different depending on where you go. Is it okay that some cultures have death penalties for crimes we rarely enforce? A law is a law, right?
God's law says "No Murdering." I really don't think that needs much more explanation, and waffling behind semantics to justify war or capital punishment just makes the Religious look like asshats. If you read it as it's written, no killing means NO FUCKING KILLING.
Calling the Church hypocritical over "Halo nights" is glossing over the last 20 centuries. If you want to compare it to anything, count it like the regular Bingo tournaments routinely held in just about every "House of God" these days. Only there's no money being wagered, so there's not even that to criticize.
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Why did Constantinople get the works?
Also, on another rant. What's YOUR solution, Bruce? You tell us how NOT to do it, but you have no solutions yourself. Oh wait, you do... you tell us we should do EXACTLY what you rant against:
Actually, he wrote a whole book on the subject. What have you done?
Bittorrent? I mean, really...Bittorrent? That's so 2005.
Who wants to download something in tiny bits? Streaming is the new downloading.
Or, you just add another dimension to your theory of the universe, and keep on going...
It's a perfectly cromulent word.
I'll admit, it's coloured my expectations of enigmatic faceless space soldiers ever since, and I was hugely disappointed when I reached the end of Halo and Master Chief stubbornly refused to reveal that he was really a Mistress Chief all along. I mean, I had tissues ready and everything.
I think the author's just pining for a Haloid type ending. Not that it wouldn't be cool or anything, but I don't think it'd be quite the same.
Only the lazy went broke in the original Zelda games. Everyone else burned every tree and pushed every rock and found all the hidden rupees whenever they needed cash. There were secret treasure rooms in just about every screen on the overworld.
And if you were *really* strapped, just go to the cemetary, touch some tombstones and kill the ghosts. Those suckers droped lots of cash.
(damn, now I've got it going through my head: duuuuuun, dun-dun da dah-duh-duh.....Duuuuuuuun, dun-dun dah duh-duh-duh.......dun duh-da-duh duh-da-duh..."
With the changes to the bankruptcy laws and balloon mortgages blowing up left and right, the US is headed for serfdom anyway.
I, for one, welcome our debt-holding overlords.
I don't recall that meeting. I don't remember the specifics. I don't have any recollection of that.
It's probably to address the one bulletpoint that Bioshock didn't aim to hit (and rightfully so): Multiplayer.
Remember, Deus Ex was originally a single player game that got MP added in as a patch. I don't see the need for it, but if it could potentially help them sell another million copies of a "GOTY" edition then I'm sure someone up in management is howling for it.
...to jump?
It must be. How can you harbor *without* water?
...where's my keys?
No, but three Rights make a Left.
So, Bioware's going to be doing the equivalent of pitching Colt 45 from now on?
Technically, Irrational Games made Bioshock. They just got bought at the last minute and became 2K Games when Bioshock was published.
Even they're not immune to getting bought. Pretty soon it'll just be 2k, Ubisoft, and EA.
Not for a while, but the old Phantasy Star games still deliver.
(PSO and PSU play more like Diablo, but then again some people call *that* an RPG too)
As a gamer, I'm appalled that anything approaching legislating censorship of my beloved pasttime is even considered. As a new parent, I'm terrified that I don't have a way to control my new offspring 100% of the time. Neither of these positions are very moderate, nor should anyone expect them to be. Human nature has a way of emphasizing threats to our control and safety, and the only way to rationally come up with a conclusion is to discount both emotions.
Creative Freedom must be protected. I think this is paramount to the continued advancement of society as a whole. Even content that you don't personally agree with should be with should have a fundamental right to exist and be disseminated by a mature and rational public.
Parental Control must also be protected. We put locks on our doors for a reason -- so someone who is *not* acting in a mature and rational way cannot harm us. These should, however, tend towards the unobtrusive and simple to avoid any conflicts with the above protections. I can't, for example, blast white noise at a political rally to silence a speech I don't agree with. However, I also shouldn't have to have that speech broadcast into my home unabated.
The Law that Mr. Yee proposed has it's heart good intentions, but is critically flawed in protecting the rights of the artist. At best it's a goodhearted but kneejerk reaction to the GTA scandal (his take on ESRB's "failure") but doesn't take the industry or technology involved into account. At worst it's the first step towards an even more invasive Nanny state, where no one is responsible for their own actions and we blame the messager rather than the criminal.
Accountability should end where another's responsibility begins, and if we bury our heads in the sand and try to find an easy target to blame every time something bad happens, we'll end up much worse off for it. Galileo, Socrates, now Rockstar Games? Who else should we eliminate to protect ourselves from imaginary evils? If the government really wants to improve the situation they should be lauding Gaming as the next great art form, not holding it back. David and the Venus Di Milo, Halo3 and Grand Theft Auto.
If they use the extra time to polish up and make the Network Play as solid as possible, then the delay is more than worth it. If they decide at the end that they just can't make it work, or use some pathetic matching system like buddy codes it'll be a huge blow to anyone who believed the Wii was a legitimate online multiplayer platform.
you must consider the context and society of the time when it was written, which was very different from today's.
Therefore, the Ten Commandments are outdated and irrelevant to today's society as writ.
I'm not disagreeing with you.
As absurd as it seems to spend $400 on a system to play $5 games on.
I wonder how many Xbox360s games like Geometry Wars and Online Uno have sold.
I totally agree with the luring independent developers part. I wonder if we'll ever port of a "game" like Hotel to the PS3.
murder (n) - Law. the killing of another human being under conditions specifically covered in law.
If you take it as God's word, he wasn't that specific; those were some pretty heavy tablets and he had to be concise so I doubt conditions of law played any role in the Judeo-Christian doctrine of Murder. And the law is different depending on where you go. Is it okay that some cultures have death penalties for crimes we rarely enforce? A law is a law, right?
God's law says "No Murdering." I really don't think that needs much more explanation, and waffling behind semantics to justify war or capital punishment just makes the Religious look like asshats. If you read it as it's written, no killing means NO FUCKING KILLING.
Please explain the difference. Either all life is sacred, or it's not. If it's not, who decides when it is and not? You? Me? GWB?
Calling the Church hypocritical over "Halo nights" is glossing over the last 20 centuries. If you want to compare it to anything, count it like the regular Bingo tournaments routinely held in just about every "House of God" these days. Only there's no money being wagered, so there's not even that to criticize.
I play Skaven all the time. Skaven rocks!
Though some days, I dig Purple Motion just a bit more.