But killing is all there is to most of the new games I've seen.
This shows just how much our society salivates for violence. There are plenty of non-violent games out there, but it seems like all the popular games always involve blowing the crap out of your enemy. Look at the biggest selling games in the U.S. (GTA:san andreas, Halo2, Half-life 2, Doom 3). Nintendo is big on making games that involve very little violence. You would think people might welcome this, but instead, Nintendo is slammed as the "Kiddie game" company.
If there is a problem with video game violence, it's not the video games. It's much deeper than that. "Bowling for Columbine" comes to mind. The U.S. has lower gun ownership per capita then Canada. Yet U.S. gun crime rate is much higher. In the local news, it seems like 90% of the time is devoted to who got shot and where. American movies and TV shows seem to be filled with violence too. Why doesn't that guy go after the film industry too?
What should be done about this? I don't know. But looking at video games as the lone problem won't do a damned thing.
It doesn't matter how difficult your job is. All that matters is how in demand you are.
So someone who works his/her ass off their entire life to get an engineering degree doesn't DESERVE more money/recognition than some dumb,hot blonde that gives a few blow-jobs to the right people? What kind of fucked up, fascist world do you want us living in anyways? I seriously hope you're being sarcastic.
Everyone wants to design games. Game designers are everywhere. How "hard" it is has no meaning in the equation.
Everyone wants to design games? Bullshit. A lot of people go into college wanting to design games. But once they realize what they have to do, they go into MIS...I see it all the time.
Who in the FUCK would want Vin Diesel to do voice acting? I'd rather hire a code monkey to do it instead! Hell, I'd rather get some code monkey to ACT in a movie instead of that baldie.
I took a game development class last semester. I learned that programming games is HARD work. Say you're just doing the AI part of the game. Not only do you have to make enemies act semi-intelligently, and naturally, but you have to do it using only so much CPU and memory. In fact, this is true for just about any aspect of the game. To do be able to do this you have know your programming language like the back of your hand, and be effecient as hell. Killing bugs was a total pain in the ass too. Especially when some of the other coder's on my team created some shitty-ass code.
That's another thing: people skills. If you can't work well in a team, then forget game development. You have to be in constant communication with the artists and other programmers if you want the game to come together at all.
I really enjoyed programming for games. But when we had to turn in our game...the game wasn't working the way I wanted it too, and I really stressed out. I got sick the next day...don't know if it's entirely due to the stress but I'm sure it had to do something with it.
After taking that class, I realized that alot of these developers are incredibly smart and creative. It's easy to judge games when you're just playing them. But after taking that cass, I learned to appreciate what these guys can do.
That would be nice. Although at the professional level most gamers already have the best-you-can-get systems and know all the important tweeks. And in the CPL they force everyone to play on the exact same computer and don't allow you to make very many changes to the software.
However, if console games became more competitive and internet connections more reliable and faster...we will probably see alot more online tournaments which dispense cash prizes. I know that Cal-i and a few other leagues do it for cs:s currently, but thats about it.
That reminds me of my Systems programming professor. I believed he was Korean and had a very strong accent. He also talked really fast so he was pretty hard to understand sometimes. Anyways, during one of the classes he was teaching us about the c function: putc(). When he said the name the function, it came out sounding EXACTLY like "pussy". He went on to explain this function in detail. About after saying "putc" about 8 times the whole class could not hold in their laughter. I had tears in my eyes from holding back the laughter(I was considering leaving the room cause I seroiusly was about to burst.) My professor didn't even have a clue. He thought he made a typo on the slide or something.
You're right. But the games that ARE split screen would be much better online (assuming you have a good connection). Personally, I like being able to see my rank against other people, play against many different tactics, etc...And having your whole tv to yourself is so much easier on your eyes.
And I'm not saying take away split screen. I'm just pointing out the if I have the money and theres two different versions of a same game...im gonna probably get the one with online capabilities in addition to the split-screen, as opposed to the non-online version.
I have Super Smash Bros...I love playing that game against my roomates, very entertaining, but now they rather play halo2....sigh
"Sony didn't kick ass with the PS2 because of more raw power. Its games don't look that much better than the N64. It won because of things it did differently (innovation). Integrated DVD player, optical media, backwards compaitibility, etc."
Sonny won also because of Final Fantasy X and XI, and the GTA and GT titles. These were some of the biggest selling games in NA. If I remember correctly, more copies of Vice City has been sold than any other video game in the U.S...ever.
It will be interesting to see what happens with the next generation of consoles. Because I don't think Square Enix is going to be so exclusive to the playstation. We are starting to see final fantasy titles weasel their way on to nintendo systems once again. Who knows what will happen with GTA and GT.
Online capabilities is another issue too. I think the fact that the GC didn't have online games really hurt their sales. If I'm the type of gamer that loves sports games. I would rather get an online capable version of Madden NFL. I hope nintendo offers some good possibilities with online play. I'm sick of split-screens.
I'm pretty sure it will have HD capabilities. They haven't released that much info about the system, so no one really knows for sure. But, they would have to be incredibly stupid to not include HD. And last time I check nintendo isn't THAT stupid.
I can play counterstrike on a similar set up and get 1st just about every time. But that's because I used to play it all the time and I got really good at it. I guarentee you if had a top notch system with a nice 21" CRT, you will notice an improvement on your performance. If getting top 3 everytime is good enough for you, that's cool. Some people want more.
I pissed on this guy's door in my hall once when I was drunk as hell. Probably the stupidest thing I've done in college. But he was a total asshole and deserved it!
My roomate didn't think it was that stupid though. He continued to do it every weekend throughout the semester. Amazingly never got caught. Needless to say he dropped out of college the next year.
I never had a single drink during high school either.
You're post reminds me of an interesting point. People say Star Wars (especially the new ones) totally sucked ass because of the shitty acting and bad plot. But what other sci-fi movie has award winning performances and breath-taking story. The matrix? The first one maybe. The others were kinda bleh. Other than that, very few sci-fi movies that much better in the story/acting department.
In terms of other sci-fi movies of today. The prequels of Star Wars aren't below the standards of acting/scripting. One reason for this is because most people who watch sci-fi want the visual effects and cool fighting scenes more than a moving, emotional story. I think that's why, even with all the bitching about them, the prequels owned the box office each and every time. Personally I'd much rather watch any Star Wars movie than some craptacular movie based off a really good sci-fi book (Can you seriously tell me I, Robot or Battlefield Earth was more entertaining?) It will be interesting to see how Ender's Game will turn out though. A new Stargate would be sweet too.
With (9) If they live in another dimension they could still live in our galaxy. And they aren't really hiding from us...at least not on purpose.
You're right about alot of them are just variants of them hiding from us. However, some them answer your question of: Why would they want to hide from us?
I think with so many variants of us not being able to detect them makes it more of a chance that there are other intelligent species in this galaxy...we just haven't seen them yet. Although, I'm not an astronomer so I don't know how big the Milky Way is. If we are a pretty small galaxy in terms of number of stars, than you're probably right by saying we are most likely the only intelligent beings in this galaxy.
(10) They did send a probe that passed by our solar system, but it was 50 years ago or more and we didn't have the technology to detect it.
(11) They did visit us yesterday but erased our memories in the morning.
(12) They have control of our world right now, but we are plugged in to a virtual world in which they don't exist and they use our bodies as batteries to power their machines.
(13) They created us and are watching from another galaxy.
(14) They are here on this planet right now, but anyone who says they are is "silenced" by the government.
(15) They live outside of what we currently know as the universe. However, the universe as we know it is just a small little ball that is being tossed around by a couple of their kids.
Another problem is that even if you can stop people from taking a knife aboard. How can you prevent them from breaking some hard object while in midflight turning it into a dangerous knife? You would have to no longer allow glass, plastic, aluminum, and countless other materials to prevent someone from quickly and easily creating a sharp object in flight. Even after that people can use strings of cotton or their belts to choke people.
I think airport security has gone a little to far on the sharp objects issue. I hope this doesn't take their focus off of firearms and explosives.
That's really sad considering this fact: If a model that has pics or movies in a pr0n website dies, I know of at least one that removes all the nude photos/vids of that model, and creates a whole web page in rememberance of that model. I think classmates.com should at least do the latter part.
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Oh?? Teach me.
But killing is all there is to most of the new games I've seen.
This shows just how much our society salivates for violence. There are plenty of non-violent games out there, but it seems like all the popular games always involve blowing the crap out of your enemy. Look at the biggest selling games in the U.S. (GTA:san andreas, Halo2, Half-life 2, Doom 3). Nintendo is big on making games that involve very little violence. You would think people might welcome this, but instead, Nintendo is slammed as the "Kiddie game" company.
If there is a problem with video game violence, it's not the video games. It's much deeper than that. "Bowling for Columbine" comes to mind. The U.S. has lower gun ownership per capita then Canada. Yet U.S. gun crime rate is much higher. In the local news, it seems like 90% of the time is devoted to who got shot and where. American movies and TV shows seem to be filled with violence too. Why doesn't that guy go after the film industry too?
What should be done about this? I don't know. But looking at video games as the lone problem won't do a damned thing.
It doesn't matter how difficult your job is. All that matters is how in demand you are.
So someone who works his/her ass off their entire life to get an engineering degree doesn't DESERVE more money/recognition than some dumb,hot blonde that gives a few blow-jobs to the right people? What kind of fucked up, fascist world do you want us living in anyways? I seriously hope you're being sarcastic.
Everyone wants to design games. Game designers are everywhere. How "hard" it is has no meaning in the equation.
Everyone wants to design games? Bullshit. A lot of people go into college wanting to design games. But once they realize what they have to do, they go into MIS...I see it all the time.
Who in the FUCK would want Vin Diesel to do voice acting? I'd rather hire a code monkey to do it instead! Hell, I'd rather get some code monkey to ACT in a movie instead of that baldie.
I took a game development class last semester. I learned that programming games is HARD work. Say you're just doing the AI part of the game. Not only do you have to make enemies act semi-intelligently, and naturally, but you have to do it using only so much CPU and memory. In fact, this is true for just about any aspect of the game. To do be able to do this you have know your programming language like the back of your hand, and be effecient as hell. Killing bugs was a total pain in the ass too. Especially when some of the other coder's on my team created some shitty-ass code.
That's another thing: people skills. If you can't work well in a team, then forget game development. You have to be in constant communication with the artists and other programmers if you want the game to come together at all.
I really enjoyed programming for games. But when we had to turn in our game...the game wasn't working the way I wanted it too, and I really stressed out. I got sick the next day...don't know if it's entirely due to the stress but I'm sure it had to do something with it.
After taking that class, I realized that alot of these developers are incredibly smart and creative. It's easy to judge games when you're just playing them. But after taking that cass, I learned to appreciate what these guys can do.
That would be nice. Although at the professional level most gamers already have the best-you-can-get systems and know all the important tweeks. And in the CPL they force everyone to play on the exact same computer and don't allow you to make very many changes to the software.
However, if console games became more competitive and internet connections more reliable and faster...we will probably see alot more online tournaments which dispense cash prizes. I know that Cal-i and a few other leagues do it for cs:s currently, but thats about it.
That reminds me of my Systems programming professor. I believed he was Korean and had a very strong accent. He also talked really fast so he was pretty hard to understand sometimes. Anyways, during one of the classes he was teaching us about the c function: putc(). When he said the name the function, it came out sounding EXACTLY like "pussy". He went on to explain this function in detail. About after saying "putc" about 8 times the whole class could not hold in their laughter. I had tears in my eyes from holding back the laughter(I was considering leaving the room cause I seroiusly was about to burst.) My professor didn't even have a clue. He thought he made a typo on the slide or something.
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You're right. But the games that ARE split screen would be much better online (assuming you have a good connection). Personally, I like being able to see my rank against other people, play against many different tactics, etc...And having your whole tv to yourself is so much easier on your eyes.
And I'm not saying take away split screen. I'm just pointing out the if I have the money and theres two different versions of a same game...im gonna probably get the one with online capabilities in addition to the split-screen, as opposed to the non-online version.
I have Super Smash Bros...I love playing that game against my roomates, very entertaining, but now they rather play halo2....sigh
"Sony didn't kick ass with the PS2 because of more raw power. Its games don't look that much better than the N64. It won because of things it did differently (innovation). Integrated DVD player, optical media, backwards compaitibility, etc."
Sonny won also because of Final Fantasy X and XI, and the GTA and GT titles. These were some of the biggest selling games in NA. If I remember correctly, more copies of Vice City has been sold than any other video game in the U.S...ever.
It will be interesting to see what happens with the next generation of consoles. Because I don't think Square Enix is going to be so exclusive to the playstation. We are starting to see final fantasy titles weasel their way on to nintendo systems once again. Who knows what will happen with GTA and GT.
Online capabilities is another issue too. I think the fact that the GC didn't have online games really hurt their sales. If I'm the type of gamer that loves sports games. I would rather get an online capable version of Madden NFL. I hope nintendo offers some good possibilities with online play. I'm sick of split-screens.
The article was talking about how having too much homework was hurting student's school performance, not their social lives.
I'm pretty sure it will have HD capabilities. They haven't released that much info about the system, so no one really knows for sure. But, they would have to be incredibly stupid to not include HD. And last time I check nintendo isn't THAT stupid.
I can play counterstrike on a similar set up and get 1st just about every time. But that's because I used to play it all the time and I got really good at it. I guarentee you if had a top notch system with a nice 21" CRT, you will notice an improvement on your performance. If getting top 3 everytime is good enough for you, that's cool. Some people want more.
"A's and sometimes a B, I can verify that too much homework is really screwing things up."
If you're getting A's and B's, how is too much homework that big of a problem for you?
And how many people do you know would consider that the word "nerd" is a compliment?
Whenever I hear some one say "Wow that's jewish" or "that's really gay", I just say "Wow, you're such a christian."
I pissed on this guy's door in my hall once when I was drunk as hell. Probably the stupidest thing I've done in college. But he was a total asshole and deserved it!
My roomate didn't think it was that stupid though. He continued to do it every weekend throughout the semester. Amazingly never got caught. Needless to say he dropped out of college the next year.
I never had a single drink during high school either.
You're post reminds me of an interesting point. People say Star Wars (especially the new ones) totally sucked ass because of the shitty acting and bad plot. But what other sci-fi movie has award winning performances and breath-taking story. The matrix? The first one maybe. The others were kinda bleh. Other than that, very few sci-fi movies that much better in the story/acting department.
In terms of other sci-fi movies of today. The prequels of Star Wars aren't below the standards of acting/scripting. One reason for this is because most people who watch sci-fi want the visual effects and cool fighting scenes more than a moving, emotional story. I think that's why, even with all the bitching about them, the prequels owned the box office each and every time. Personally I'd much rather watch any Star Wars movie than some craptacular movie based off a really good sci-fi book (Can you seriously tell me I, Robot or Battlefield Earth was more entertaining?) It will be interesting to see how Ender's Game will turn out though. A new Stargate would be sweet too.
With (9) If they live in another dimension they could still live in our galaxy. And they aren't really hiding from us...at least not on purpose.
You're right about alot of them are just variants of them hiding from us. However, some them answer your question of: Why would they want to hide from us?
I think with so many variants of us not being able to detect them makes it more of a chance that there are other intelligent species in this galaxy...we just haven't seen them yet. Although, I'm not an astronomer so I don't know how big the Milky Way is. If we are a pretty small galaxy in terms of number of stars, than you're probably right by saying we are most likely the only intelligent beings in this galaxy.
(9) They exist in another dimension.
(10) They did send a probe that passed by our solar system, but it was 50 years ago or more and we didn't have the technology to detect it.
(11) They did visit us yesterday but erased our memories in the morning.
(12) They have control of our world right now, but we are plugged in to a virtual world in which they don't exist and they use our bodies as batteries to power their machines.
(13) They created us and are watching from another galaxy.
(14) They are here on this planet right now, but anyone who says they are is "silenced" by the government.
(15) They live outside of what we currently know as the universe. However, the universe as we know it is just a small little ball that is being tossed around by a couple of their kids.
A couple of hundred civilian lives are a small price to pay for not letting terrorists get their way.
LOL! you're joking right? I'm sure there's some people out there who actually ARE that afraid of terrorists...unfortunately.
Another problem is that even if you can stop people from taking a knife aboard. How can you prevent them from breaking some hard object while in midflight turning it into a dangerous knife? You would have to no longer allow glass, plastic, aluminum, and countless other materials to prevent someone from quickly and easily creating a sharp object in flight. Even after that people can use strings of cotton or their belts to choke people.
I think airport security has gone a little to far on the sharp objects issue. I hope this doesn't take their focus off of firearms and explosives.
That's really sad considering this fact: If a model that has pics or movies in a pr0n website dies, I know of at least one that removes all the nude photos/vids of that model, and creates a whole web page in rememberance of that model. I think classmates.com should at least do the latter part.
Unfortunately, theres a huge number of people that would disagree with you. Counter-strike has, for the past 5 years, the largest online community for an fps BY FAR.
Oh and Macs can also play Half-life 2 and Counter-strike! oh wait....
I remember that mod...but could you run around as a quake player too?