Re:Grand Theft Auto? Vintage?
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The book is about games that had the most impact, not the most fun games. Besides, the amount of fun that a game provides is highly subjective. Personally, I had a blast with GTA3 and I'm sure I was more entertained by that game than at least some of the old school classics.
I do agree that GTA3 being vintage is definitely stretch though.
Civilization is a turned-based strategy game, of course the AI is going to be "better" than any real-time games. It's got at least a few seconds to minutes to make it's decisions, while other games AI has to make decisions in the timeframe of one update command. And comparing AI from one game to another is really quite pointless and silly if you think about it, since each game has it's own set of rules. I mean I could argue that Deep Blue (the AI that defeated Kasparov, the world chess champion) hands down is a more impressive AI, than CIV's AI, but again it's apple and oranges.
FF pieces can be hard, but I wouldn't say insanely hard like La Campanella or various piano concertos. I was working on the FFVII's "Fighting", it's not that hard if you are patient and practice very slow at first.
That wall of text would have filled up at least a page or two in a book. The problem is not that it's "Too much to read. " It's just that poorly organized structure of the comment is a strain on the eyes, and requires extra, unnecessary concentration. Just like run-on sentences can make perfect sense, but sometimes you are forced to read it multiple times before the idea the writer is trying to convey forms in your head, and then you can continue reading the next sentence without the uncertainty of possibility of losing track of your position in the text, or trying to think too much about what the fuck the author is trying to say because the sentence is so god damned long you forgot how it began, and you start to wonder why the asshole couldn't just separate his thoughts into a few sentences just to make things a little bit easier on you.
Umm most HD cable boxes run for at least $200 dollars, the XBox is not much more expensive. I know this is anecdotal, but I've had to replace my DirectTV box once (and had to restart my contract), and never had any problems with my XBox.
It would only work until our asses got tanned. I still agree with this idea though, only with a few modifications. I'm a male slashdotter, you can guess which modifications (in terms of who must hang their asses out) I want.
You don't know much about making games, do you? Throwing more designers/programmers/money at a game isn't necessarily going to improve it, and in many cases it will complicate things and cause your end result to be worse. You also make a horribly incorrect assumption that the money Blizzard saves by cutting on cinematics would directly improve gameplay. Blizzard is a very huge, profitable company they could hire enough designers/programmers to create 20 AAA titles if they wanted to. And I highly doubt Blizzard is having a hard time finding quality designers and programmers.
It's totally fine that you aren't in to cinematics, that's why Blizzard hired brilliant game designers that decided to give you the ability to skip them. But for people like me who enjoy a little more depth, theme, and story to their game, I think the cinematics are great. I play video games for entertainment, if they have ways to entertain me other then "gameplay" then what's the problem?
I find it pretty hard to believe that whoever was programming the physics in Quake1 didn't realize the rocket jumping possibilities that he/she was allowing. I honestly doubt that there wasn't at least one person who was play testing that thought "I wonder what would happen if I pointed my weapon down and jumped at the same time." The rocket jumping seemed like it was balanced to me. As a game programmer myself, I just don't see how programming a physical response like that wouldn't lead a programmer to think about the implications of rocket jumping.
It seems to me that John Romero and maybe some of the level designers didn't communicate with their programmers, or maybe they just didn't play the game enough before it was released.
I think very few people on Bnet play the standard maps that Blizzard originally wanted people to play. Blizzard made their own version of Big Game Hunters with almost limitless resources only because people wanted to play Starcraft without the complexities of being forced to expand. Obviously the pro-gamers still play the traditional maps, but I would say a large majority of the casual players play either BGH, some other infinite resources map, or as you mentioned, some custom scenario where you have to defend something.
Meh, I think you need to give WoW more credit than that. The game is obviously a lot more than "kinda alright" to a lot of people, otherwise it wouldn't be completely dominating the MMO market. I think your analogy would work better if you added the fact that since everyone settled on getting a burger, they decided to get the best burger in town: the WoW burger. There are many games that are quite similar to WoW (WAR comes to mind) that just can't provide the same experience that WoW can when all is said and done.
They have ships that can move from planet to planet with relative ease (and seemingly great speed) and yet they still used 6-shooters and shotguns as their weapon of choice. WTF Mate?
Honestly it wouldn't surprise me if kinetic energy (things that shoot stuff at high velocities) will always be the weapon of choice even far in the future. Even with advanced materials of today, it's really hard to stop a very fast and heavy projectile without using something very heavy which would still probably take permanent damage. Phasers just seemed silly to me because if you had the technology to create such a thing, you probably had the technological level create some lightweight device that could repel such a weapon.
Even if there were advanced weapons, the crew of Firefly could barely afford to keep the ship together, so it make sense that they would use old school weapons.
I don't know whether her agent should be praised or cursed: she's already had prominent roles in three fairly high profile TV shows, which is no mean feat at her age, but on the other hand her characters (despite being by far the most interesting in the two shows where she was a lead) almost forced her into off-the-wall, somewhat stereotyped portrayals at times.
xkcd actually touches on this topic in one of it's comics. (Read the whole series)
One of many reasons I don't buy into anything Blizzard is selling.
I hate to break this to you, but almost all PC software has a CD-key or something similar. Your statement makes no sense.
If you say that you don't buy Blizzard because of their CD-keys, then you basically should just admit that you either don't buy PC-games, pirate the games, or only play demos, because there are very few companies that don't use some sort of protection like that.
They do it out of their reverance of the black street culture, not in spite of it. In many informal interactions between blacks and non-blacks, it is acceptable for non-blacks to use the word "nigga" but NOT the word "nigger".
Oh bullshit. Kids, regardless of race, say "nigga" because they think they sound cool when they say it. When the hell do kids say ANYTHING out reverence?
If the computer science you teach is best taught with the Unix operating system, then it's probably a good idea to teach your students how to use it. There's nothing wrong with having a class or two that teaches the software that you will be using to facilitate your learning, so it becomes a tool rather than a barrier.
Yes. It's been awhile since the game has come out. Very few graphics cards could handle it when it was released, but many of the current generation cards can handle it just fine.
You're comparing Palin to Biden??? Seriously? I mean, really? I mean Biden has made some mistakes, no doubt, but can you even provide a video (or some sort evidence) where Palin is talking and she isn't sounding like a complete moron that has no idea what she is talking about? Hell most of my Republican friends voted for Obama because of Palin alone. I don't think Biden had that effect on anyone.
TFA said it costs 75 pounds. Not only would you be a retarded parent for torturing your kid and making him associate studying with confinement, but you would be retarded because even if you wanted to such a stupid thing, you could do it for much, much cheaper.
That's why there are guilds. People are assholes to strangers in real life. Why do you expect anything different from an MMO? When you get into a good guild where most people are pretty cool, that's when there's a community. Otherwise, most other players might as well be seen as NPC's.
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The book is about games that had the most impact, not the most fun games. Besides, the amount of fun that a game provides is highly subjective. Personally, I had a blast with GTA3 and I'm sure I was more entertained by that game than at least some of the old school classics.
I do agree that GTA3 being vintage is definitely stretch though.
Civilization is a turned-based strategy game, of course the AI is going to be "better" than any real-time games. It's got at least a few seconds to minutes to make it's decisions, while other games AI has to make decisions in the timeframe of one update command. And comparing AI from one game to another is really quite pointless and silly if you think about it, since each game has it's own set of rules. I mean I could argue that Deep Blue (the AI that defeated Kasparov, the world chess champion) hands down is a more impressive AI, than CIV's AI, but again it's apple and oranges.
FF pieces can be hard, but I wouldn't say insanely hard like La Campanella or various piano concertos. I was working on the FFVII's "Fighting", it's not that hard if you are patient and practice very slow at first.
That wall of text would have filled up at least a page or two in a book. The problem is not that it's "Too much to read. " It's just that poorly organized structure of the comment is a strain on the eyes, and requires extra, unnecessary concentration. Just like run-on sentences can make perfect sense, but sometimes you are forced to read it multiple times before the idea the writer is trying to convey forms in your head, and then you can continue reading the next sentence without the uncertainty of possibility of losing track of your position in the text, or trying to think too much about what the fuck the author is trying to say because the sentence is so god damned long you forgot how it began, and you start to wonder why the asshole couldn't just separate his thoughts into a few sentences just to make things a little bit easier on you.
Umm most HD cable boxes run for at least $200 dollars, the XBox is not much more expensive. I know this is anecdotal, but I've had to replace my DirectTV box once (and had to restart my contract), and never had any problems with my XBox.
It would only work until our asses got tanned. I still agree with this idea though, only with a few modifications. I'm a male slashdotter, you can guess which modifications (in terms of who must hang their asses out) I want.
From a bear, I believe... preferably a dead one.
You don't know much about making games, do you? Throwing more designers/programmers/money at a game isn't necessarily going to improve it, and in many cases it will complicate things and cause your end result to be worse. You also make a horribly incorrect assumption that the money Blizzard saves by cutting on cinematics would directly improve gameplay. Blizzard is a very huge, profitable company they could hire enough designers/programmers to create 20 AAA titles if they wanted to. And I highly doubt Blizzard is having a hard time finding quality designers and programmers.
It's totally fine that you aren't in to cinematics, that's why Blizzard hired brilliant game designers that decided to give you the ability to skip them. But for people like me who enjoy a little more depth, theme, and story to their game, I think the cinematics are great. I play video games for entertainment, if they have ways to entertain me other then "gameplay" then what's the problem?
I find it pretty hard to believe that whoever was programming the physics in Quake1 didn't realize the rocket jumping possibilities that he/she was allowing. I honestly doubt that there wasn't at least one person who was play testing that thought "I wonder what would happen if I pointed my weapon down and jumped at the same time." The rocket jumping seemed like it was balanced to me. As a game programmer myself, I just don't see how programming a physical response like that wouldn't lead a programmer to think about the implications of rocket jumping.
It seems to me that John Romero and maybe some of the level designers didn't communicate with their programmers, or maybe they just didn't play the game enough before it was released.
I think very few people on Bnet play the standard maps that Blizzard originally wanted people to play. Blizzard made their own version of Big Game Hunters with almost limitless resources only because people wanted to play Starcraft without the complexities of being forced to expand. Obviously the pro-gamers still play the traditional maps, but I would say a large majority of the casual players play either BGH, some other infinite resources map, or as you mentioned, some custom scenario where you have to defend something.
Meh, I think you need to give WoW more credit than that. The game is obviously a lot more than "kinda alright" to a lot of people, otherwise it wouldn't be completely dominating the MMO market. I think your analogy would work better if you added the fact that since everyone settled on getting a burger, they decided to get the best burger in town: the WoW burger. There are many games that are quite similar to WoW (WAR comes to mind) that just can't provide the same experience that WoW can when all is said and done.
Only if I get to keep it!
Ummm, there's quite a few English players in Chelsea (Lampard, Terry, A. Cole, etc). Besides, the only person on Chelsea who really dives is Drogba.
They have ships that can move from planet to planet with relative ease (and seemingly great speed) and yet they still used 6-shooters and shotguns as their weapon of choice. WTF Mate?
Honestly it wouldn't surprise me if kinetic energy (things that shoot stuff at high velocities) will always be the weapon of choice even far in the future. Even with advanced materials of today, it's really hard to stop a very fast and heavy projectile without using something very heavy which would still probably take permanent damage. Phasers just seemed silly to me because if you had the technology to create such a thing, you probably had the technological level create some lightweight device that could repel such a weapon.
Even if there were advanced weapons, the crew of Firefly could barely afford to keep the ship together, so it make sense that they would use old school weapons.
I don't know whether her agent should be praised or cursed: she's already had prominent roles in three fairly high profile TV shows, which is no mean feat at her age, but on the other hand her characters (despite being by far the most interesting in the two shows where she was a lead) almost forced her into off-the-wall, somewhat stereotyped portrayals at times.
xkcd actually touches on this topic in one of it's comics. (Read the whole series)
One of many reasons I don't buy into anything Blizzard is selling.
I hate to break this to you, but almost all PC software has a CD-key or something similar. Your statement makes no sense.
If you say that you don't buy Blizzard because of their CD-keys, then you basically should just admit that you either don't buy PC-games, pirate the games, or only play demos, because there are very few companies that don't use some sort of protection like that.
Sounds like you just hate Blizzard.
They do it out of their reverance of the black street culture, not in spite of it. In many informal interactions between blacks and non-blacks, it is acceptable for non-blacks to use the word "nigga" but NOT the word "nigger".
Oh bullshit. Kids, regardless of race, say "nigga" because they think they sound cool when they say it. When the hell do kids say ANYTHING out reverence?
If the computer science you teach is best taught with the Unix operating system, then it's probably a good idea to teach your students how to use it. There's nothing wrong with having a class or two that teaches the software that you will be using to facilitate your learning, so it becomes a tool rather than a barrier.
Yes. It's been awhile since the game has come out. Very few graphics cards could handle it when it was released, but many of the current generation cards can handle it just fine.
I'm willing to bet that you make at least 6 figures with a job description like that.
I wonder if I'm the only who instantly disregards what someone is saying when they use Obama's middle name every time he is referenced.
You're comparing Palin to Biden??? Seriously? I mean, really? I mean Biden has made some mistakes, no doubt, but can you even provide a video (or some sort evidence) where Palin is talking and she isn't sounding like a complete moron that has no idea what she is talking about? Hell most of my Republican friends voted for Obama because of Palin alone. I don't think Biden had that effect on anyone.
TFA said it costs 75 pounds. Not only would you be a retarded parent for torturing your kid and making him associate studying with confinement, but you would be retarded because even if you wanted to such a stupid thing, you could do it for much, much cheaper.
Hate to break this to you, but you can use your "Fiftyeight inches tv" as a monitor for your PC as well.
That's why there are guilds. People are assholes to strangers in real life. Why do you expect anything different from an MMO? When you get into a good guild where most people are pretty cool, that's when there's a community. Otherwise, most other players might as well be seen as NPC's.