There are a few titles that try to give the combat experience in a realistic way. Theres always room for more realism, but these games are much more real than your typical shotter.
Ok, I get it. Hes out to make a point, he probably know the existence of these games. But is a moot point, only people that want that exact experience buy and play these games. Most other people want different degrees of realism. From high realism to e-sport: - ???? - ArmA - Red Orchestra - Battlefield 1942 - Modern War 2 and Batman: Arkham Asylum - Counter-strike - Quake 3 / Warsow - ????
Point: people that want realism in games already are playing realism games. Point: people that want more realism in games play "realism mods" in realism games. Stament: most people seems to like some fantasy and realism mixed for most fun. Stament: some people seems to like "electronic sport" games, like Quake3 or Warsow Stament: people that make staments about realism, and play games like B:AA that have life regen ala "MW2" sould play different games...
every wikipedia can have somewhat different rules, seems, and the german one is taken over by the deletionism party and the anti-stubs party. If you create new articles in the German wikipedia, odds are that these articles will be removed prior to then to grow enough to have enough citations, notability, etc.. IMHO, the people that drive this style don't "GET" the idea of a wiki. But maybe is me, sure... is me.
This don't make much sense. You can go to work in a F1 car, or your normal car. You in theory will go faster in the F1 car.
In real world, there are other "fasters". The normal car is "faster to buy" (cheaper), "faster to mantain" (cheaper to mantain), and lots others "faster" that make faster your normal car than your F1 car. Facebook is probably one of the few sites that could have written part of it on fast C++ code. In a F1 race, you will use a F1 car.
I don't know what is the truth, but heres my humble opinion:
Any program, except the most simple one, has bugs. The ones that haven proven matematically that have zero bugs, are both the judge and the plaintiff.
On commercial software, the target is to solve problems quick. A quick and cheaper solution now, is better than the theorical perfect solution that can come in 4 years, but not so, because it never delivered, and is unusable anyway.
In mathemathics and science.. it may make sense to create stuff that is proven perfect, but not on something commercial.
Now games:
Games use to be CMMI1. People doing "heroic actions" to finnish in time and in budget. Is getting better, and It will get better and better. Planification is better than heroism in software crafting. Probably crafting games need some room for improvisation, so probably is a industry where total planification is suboptimal, but It will move there, because will be cheaper and more convenient for everyone.
Is obvious for everyone that understand how it work. Geez...
As the email of Gave (from Valve) is well know, and gravatars can be used in a pseudoanonymous way, I tried to search internet for the hash of is email in images.google.com. Not found. Either Gabe don't talk in forums gravatar powered, or he use a different email address.
So, If you use gravatars, and other people know your email, can search your post. This is obvious from the use of md5. With your addres hashed with md5 spamm bots can't collect address, but thats is, not privacy.
If there are mature people in Aus, it make sense to able productions intended for mature people (>18). Also, what is the logic of banning somethin unclassified by default? fans production, personal texts and games.. the world don't revolve around Aus, so there are more games that will never ask for unclassification, than games classified. All these flash games, indie games, and open source games will pretty much ignore a classification board. Maybe the board sould work the other way, ban things that are proven bad for everyone.
If you don't like your govern, vote different people next time.
If something is already illegal in a country A, we don't need more laws or services, because you can already arrest this man. If something is legal, he is allowed to do that in his country, even if that is not something other countrys like.
Also, thats not how the internet work. The internet work in "networks". If you have a problem with a student, on a university, you call the ISP / university. If you have a problem in other country, you contact the authorities of that other country.
I can't work with music, but I can work with noise
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I have programmed drunk, with not enough sleep, in my dreams (thats code that always run but is written in the most volatile material), angry, happy, hot,...everything. I have programmed in enviroments with HEAVY noise around, not problem. But I can't work with music, and much less with radio of people talking. My mind is distracted by sound (information) that has a message. To be honest, I like programming in the night, with zero sounds. I like the silence much more than music.
Google is taking steps to get more information as possible, and this is bad. But also use that data in a anonymous way, so don't really care that YOU like Pink Flamingos pages. Is probably collecting more information that the guys on Bing can even dream. But the Bing guys work for Microsoft, Microsoft don't lack the stimulus to take that much information, lack the skill. And have proven that have not problem doing more than we like (and critice). Microsoft will probably share with others your information, and use it for nefarius things.
So, what you want? more information in good hands (Google), but litte information in the wrong hands (Microsoft). I know what I want.
Is imposible to make videogames on "The void", so all games have ideas from all other games. From the menu system, the way to reward or inform the player, to how to store the textures/extra files, how to distribute, how to sells, develop and some share code, but most share ideas, all share ideas. And the first one, was a "tennis" like clone.
Also, even the worst games ( PACMAN clones ) try to add something to the table.
We don't say that Warcraft 3 is a clone of dune 2, or thief, we say Warcraft 3 is a RTS.
"JesusEncinar "Vais a hacer que internet en España sea como China?" pregunta @iescolar. Responden: "Ya lo es""
The blogger ask if "You guys will make internet work in Spain like in China?". The ministry representant "It already work like that".
note: to be honest, I don't see evil on some pages bloqued (terrorist stuff), so theres some blocking on the spanish ISP. But china works on a more serius "lets filter internet based on a bias" stuff. Comparing China with Spain is madness.
A mod, modificacion of a game, often have to distribute files of the original game modified. On some games this is allowed, so is not gray area, is white area, but on others theres not text that allow you to do that.
Is sad, but mods that use a popular IP are... popular. Not all mods are based on movies, books, etc.. but there are big group of then. These mods are almost all gray area, very few have the authorization of the owner of the ip.
Modding use to be something that add value to a game and the studio that created that game. People are more inclined to buy a game where there are a strong mod community and cool mods.
But Microsoft changed this with the concept of DLC's. Now companies salivate with the idea to create these mods thenselves,... small amateurist modificatios that can be created in a hour of work, and sell for $10 or $4. As a result, modding is something that remove value from a game. DLC's is modding done by the original authors. It was created on the consoles, because consoles can't have modding, but now is leaking and poisoning the PC world. Games like Total War have started to encript the datafiles, to stop modding from flourish.
Modders thenselves have changed. The original profile for a modder where Hackers, in the old sense of creative people that like to hack fun stuff. Thats what created these hacked wolfesten.exe's. Nowdays the modder scene is a hybrid of indie and amateur developpers. Amateur people that have a voice, and claim for quality in the SDK. Mods tend to be total conversions (everywhere but a few games, like the TES serie), made by people that invest time and maybe money, and some expect that to help then take a position in the game industry and get experience in game developping.
So modding is more or less dyiing. And the companys will change his opinion and modders, and there will be some badwill.. and probably we will return again to the hackers, times, where to change the weapon speed on a MW2 server, you first need to hack the exe. So we hare returning to these wolfestein.exe times.
Not everyone that read these YRO articles have a life. Maybe is people that want everyone to move to SSL and IPv6, and read all these news in a "see, I told you so"-way.
The game is reusing a old engine, that probably already has lots exploits well know, and his weakness well know. But this time the attacker can run the server. So he can do anything to the server.
So you start with something that is weak, vulnerable and his problems well know, and move to a setup that make it more vulnerable, and remove any ability from the community to self-protect from jerks.
the destructoid article shows the use of a patch that enable the console, to change game defaults configs to something insane (insane fun? the video looks like fun). It can be a step to dedicated server, but is NOT a dedicated server. Is still a machine hosted by a player logued and playing the game, it needs a GPU, etc, etc..
Only a minority of gamers read reviews, get fact before buy. Theres a big group of people that just buy a game based on the box. And this groups is probably the bigger.
I am tempted to say that very few people that buy games are gamers (!). I mean, gamers as people that have gaming as his hobby.
I did a quake engine, the article about it survived about 4 years, and got deleted. More important stuff than my engine got deleted. The whole quake thing is "asking" for a deletionism run, since most of these stuff was online-only. Hell.. the "quake-hub" website is down for a few years already. Probably you can get similar scenarios with old stuff like VRML, SGML, etc. Websites are not here forever, break and die. I read the deletion logs, with intense facepalm sentiments, with text like "I have search at google, and theres not hits for X", say dude that know *nothing* about the topic of the article he is discussing to delete.
Somehow, the deletionism group win the war, and has Wikipedia ransom. Live in some "HardDisk is full" scenario, where having more articles is bad, so theres the need to remove these that don't fit some limited vision of notability. Limited as in... how can people that have no idea of quake engines discuss about the notability of some quake thing? Is like me discussing the notability of some greek poet... I know nothing of that. Lame and sad.
Is obvious that the wikipedia is roting, and part of it will suck because of that.
Hell.. have you guys see the talk pages? simplicity has died. I use to sign my coments as "--Tei" logged or unloged. Now this is not enough... argh.
Go get your googles:
- Galcon, better version of the Stars! idea.
- Gratitous Space Battles. strategic shop design
- Mount & Blade. Medieval sandbox withouth termination date (infinite gameplay) with a awesome community (YES, there are a LOTR and German and Star Wars mods)
- Plants and Zombies (there are zombies on your lawn)
- Puzzle Quest
And If you want FPS arcade:
- Tremulous (gloom like gameplay)
- OpenArena (quake3 like gameplay)
Is impossible to be impressed with Chrome OS. Is just a linux that start a browser in 7 seconds. Well... is a achievement, but not a earth breaking one.
The comment from Microsoft.... is infuriating,..his last shit of a OS, Windows 7, hardly will run on my netbook. My netbook got released with 512 MB of RAM, and 4GB of hard disk, has not moving parts and runs fantastic. Windows 7 for all I see, need more than 600 MB to run, and about 10 GB of hard disk for himself. Heck.. his design waste screen space like is a feature or something. If theres a OS that is NOT optimized for netbooks is the Windows 7. Probably is one of the good windows, and is followed by a bad one, so we can probabbly say "best than Vista", and let it here. How can somhome be so intelectually malicious, lack any moral sense, to suggest than Windows 7 is anything good for netbooks? The guys a liar the size of texas, but how a guy can tell lieas that big, knowing everybody know are lieas.. He has not shame? ridiculous and sad.
Most, maybe all, Netbooks release with windows are released with XP. This microsoft dude is stupid or a liar, maybe both.
If using direct-x, mean more direct access to the privileged code, for CSS/javascript bugs It looks like a good idea. A better javascript engine, or a better architecture, is a good idea, but giving more direct access to the hardware to something as "external" as third party javascript/css, seems a bad idea. Microsoft, don't do that, is a bad idea. IE is already very fast, faster than Firefox. Fix all the CSS bugs, make it a better supporting the standards browse, or start another browser from scratch if the oldcodebase don't support the changes needed.
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There are a few titles that try to give the combat experience in a realistic way. Theres always room for more realism, but these games are much more real than your typical shotter.
Ok, I get it. Hes out to make a point, he probably know the existence of these games. But is a moot point, only people that want that exact experience buy and play these games. Most other people want different degrees of realism.
From high realism to e-sport:
- ????
- ArmA
- Red Orchestra
- Battlefield 1942
- Modern War 2 and Batman: Arkham Asylum
- Counter-strike
- Quake 3 / Warsow
- ????
Point: people that want realism in games already are playing realism games.
Point: people that want more realism in games play "realism mods" in realism games.
Stament: most people seems to like some fantasy and realism mixed for most fun.
Stament: some people seems to like "electronic sport" games, like Quake3 or Warsow
Stament: people that make staments about realism, and play games like B:AA that have life regen ala "MW2" sould play different games...
every wikipedia can have somewhat different rules, seems, and the german one is taken over by the deletionism party and the anti-stubs party. If you create new articles in the German wikipedia, odds are that these articles will be removed prior to then to grow enough to have enough citations, notability, etc.. IMHO, the people that drive this style don't "GET" the idea of a wiki. But maybe is me, sure... is me.
But is on expect-exchange.
This don't make much sense. You can go to work in a F1 car, or your normal car. You in theory will go faster in the F1 car.
In real world, there are other "fasters". The normal car is "faster to buy" (cheaper), "faster to mantain" (cheaper to mantain), and lots others "faster" that make faster your normal car than your F1 car.
Facebook is probably one of the few sites that could have written part of it on fast C++ code. In a F1 race, you will use a F1 car.
Hacking would be to add or change something on that code on a original but cheap way to produce a practical result. Chop chop.. hack hack.
The article sounds more like deassembling the code. but IANGE.
I don't know what is the truth, but heres my humble opinion:
Any program, except the most simple one, has bugs. The ones that haven proven matematically that have zero bugs, are both the judge and the plaintiff.
On commercial software, the target is to solve problems quick. A quick and cheaper solution now, is better than the theorical perfect solution that can come in 4 years, but not so, because it never delivered, and is unusable anyway.
In mathemathics and science.. it may make sense to create stuff that is proven perfect, but not on something commercial.
Now games:
Games use to be CMMI1. People doing "heroic actions" to finnish in time and in budget. Is getting better, and It will get better and better. Planification is better than heroism in software crafting. Probably crafting games need some room for improvisation, so probably is a industry where total planification is suboptimal, but It will move there, because will be cheaper and more convenient for everyone.
imho.
Is obvious for everyone that understand how it work.
Geez...
As the email of Gave (from Valve) is well know, and gravatars can be used in a pseudoanonymous way, I tried to search internet for the hash of is email in images.google.com. Not found. Either Gabe don't talk in forums gravatar powered, or he use a different email address.
So, If you use gravatars, and other people know your email, can search your post. This is obvious from the use of md5. With your addres hashed with md5 spamm bots can't collect address, but thats is, not privacy.
this is stupid, so i can make a cards game on the internet, and ignore aussia boards, and these isp are forced to block my game (maybe on sf.com?).
guys, change this aus govern NOW
If there are mature people in Aus, it make sense to able productions intended for mature people (>18). Also, what is the logic of banning somethin unclassified by default? fans production, personal texts and games.. the world don't revolve around Aus, so there are more games that will never ask for unclassification, than games classified. All these flash games, indie games, and open source games will pretty much ignore a classification board. Maybe the board sould work the other way, ban things that are proven bad for everyone.
If you don't like your govern, vote different people next time.
If something is already illegal in a country A, we don't need more laws or services, because you can already arrest this man. If something is legal, he is allowed to do that in his country, even if that is not something other countrys like.
Also, thats not how the internet work. The internet work in "networks". If you have a problem with a student, on a university, you call the ISP / university. If you have a problem in other country, you contact the authorities of that other country.
I have programmed drunk, with not enough sleep, in my dreams (thats code that always run but is written in the most volatile material), angry, happy, hot, ...everything. I have programmed in enviroments with HEAVY noise around, not problem. But I can't work with music, and much less with radio of people talking. My mind is distracted by sound (information) that has a message. To be honest, I like programming in the night, with zero sounds. I like the silence much more than music.
Google is taking steps to get more information as possible, and this is bad. But also use that data in a anonymous way, so don't really care that YOU like Pink Flamingos pages. Is probably collecting more information that the guys on Bing can even dream.
But the Bing guys work for Microsoft, Microsoft don't lack the stimulus to take that much information, lack the skill. And have proven that have not problem doing more than we like (and critice). Microsoft will probably share with others your information, and use it for nefarius things.
So, what you want? more information in good hands (Google), but litte information in the wrong hands (Microsoft).
I know what I want.
Is imposible to make videogames on "The void", so all games have ideas from all other games. From the menu system, the way to reward or inform the player, to how to store the textures/extra files, how to distribute, how to sells, develop and some share code, but most share ideas, all share ideas. And the first one, was a "tennis" like clone.
Also, even the worst games ( PACMAN clones ) try to add something to the table.
We don't say that Warcraft 3 is a clone of dune 2, or thief, we say Warcraft 3 is a RTS.
"The problem is, who defines what is terrorist stuff?"
Judges. Thats the point of the angry people. Moving the ability to block pages from judges to burocrats is a dangerous move.
"JesusEncinar "Vais a hacer que internet en España sea como China?" pregunta @iescolar. Responden: "Ya lo es""
The blogger ask if "You guys will make internet work in Spain like in China?".
The ministry representant "It already work like that".
note: to be honest, I don't see evil on some pages bloqued (terrorist stuff), so theres some blocking on the spanish ISP. But china works on a more serius "lets filter internet based on a bias" stuff. Comparing China with Spain is madness.
A mod, modificacion of a game, often have to distribute files of the original game modified. On some games this is allowed, so is not gray area, is white area, but on others theres not text that allow you to do that.
Is sad, but mods that use a popular IP are... popular. Not all mods are based on movies, books, etc.. but there are big group of then. These mods are almost all gray area, very few have the authorization of the owner of the ip.
Modding use to be something that add value to a game and the studio that created that game. People are more inclined to buy a game where there are a strong mod community and cool mods.
But Microsoft changed this with the concept of DLC's. Now companies salivate with the idea to create these mods thenselves,... small amateurist modificatios that can be created in a hour of work, and sell for $10 or $4. As a result, modding is something that remove value from a game. DLC's is modding done by the original authors. It was created on the consoles, because consoles can't have modding, but now is leaking and poisoning the PC world. Games like Total War have started to encript the datafiles, to stop modding from flourish.
Modders thenselves have changed. The original profile for a modder where Hackers, in the old sense of creative people that like to hack fun stuff. Thats what created these hacked wolfesten.exe's. Nowdays the modder scene is a hybrid of indie and amateur developpers. Amateur people that have a voice, and claim for quality in the SDK. Mods tend to be total conversions (everywhere but a few games, like the TES serie), made by people that invest time and maybe money, and some expect that to help then take a position in the game industry and get experience in game developping.
So modding is more or less dyiing. And the companys will change his opinion and modders, and there will be some badwill.. and probably we will return again to the hackers, times, where to change the weapon speed on a MW2 server, you first need to hack the exe. So we hare returning to these wolfestein.exe times.
Not everyone that read these YRO articles have a life. Maybe is people that want everyone to move to SSL and IPv6, and read all these news in a "see, I told you so"-way.
The game is reusing a old engine, that probably already has lots exploits well know, and his weakness well know.
But this time the attacker can run the server. So he can do anything to the server.
So you start with something that is weak, vulnerable and his problems well know, and move to a setup that make it more vulnerable, and remove any ability from the community to self-protect from jerks.
the destructoid article shows the use of a patch that enable the console, to change game defaults configs to something insane (insane fun? the video looks like fun). It can be a step to dedicated server, but is NOT a dedicated server. Is still a machine hosted by a player logued and playing the game, it needs a GPU, etc, etc..
NOT DEDICATED.
Only a minority of gamers read reviews, get fact before buy. Theres a big group of people that just buy a game based on the box. And this groups is probably the bigger.
I am tempted to say that very few people that buy games are gamers (!). I mean, gamers as people that have gaming as his hobby.
People like you are killing wikipedia.
You think you are contributing, using the delete button, but you are just putting a filter that will put the obscure / not popular information out.
You are blind, so you obviously don't see what we will lose with this.
I did a quake engine, the article about it survived about 4 years, and got deleted. More important stuff than my engine got deleted.
The whole quake thing is "asking" for a deletionism run, since most of these stuff was online-only. Hell.. the "quake-hub" website is down for a few years already. Probably you can get similar scenarios with old stuff like VRML, SGML, etc. Websites are not here forever, break and die. I read the deletion logs, with intense facepalm sentiments, with text like "I have search at google, and theres not hits for X", say dude that know *nothing* about the topic of the article he is discussing to delete.
Somehow, the deletionism group win the war, and has Wikipedia ransom. Live in some "HardDisk is full" scenario, where having more articles is bad, so theres the need to remove these that don't fit some limited vision of notability. Limited as in... how can people that have no idea of quake engines discuss about the notability of some quake thing? Is like me discussing the notability of some greek poet... I know nothing of that. Lame and sad.
Is obvious that the wikipedia is roting, and part of it will suck because of that.
Hell.. have you guys see the talk pages? simplicity has died. I use to sign my coments as "--Tei" logged or unloged. Now this is not enough... argh.
Go get your googles:
- Galcon, better version of the Stars! idea.
- Gratitous Space Battles. strategic shop design
- Mount & Blade. Medieval sandbox withouth termination date (infinite gameplay) with a awesome community (YES, there are a LOTR and German and Star Wars mods)
- Plants and Zombies (there are zombies on your lawn)
- Puzzle Quest
And If you want FPS arcade:
- Tremulous (gloom like gameplay)
- OpenArena (quake3 like gameplay)
Is impossible to be impressed with Chrome OS. Is just a linux that start a browser in 7 seconds. Well... is a achievement, but not a earth breaking one.
The comment from Microsoft.... is infuriating, ..his last shit of a OS, Windows 7, hardly will run on my netbook. My netbook got released with 512 MB of RAM, and 4GB of hard disk, has not moving parts and runs fantastic. Windows 7 for all I see, need more than 600 MB to run, and about 10 GB of hard disk for himself. Heck.. his design waste screen space like is a feature or something. If theres a OS that is NOT optimized for netbooks is the Windows 7. Probably is one of the good windows, and is followed by a bad one, so we can probabbly say "best than Vista", and let it here. How can somhome be so intelectually malicious, lack any moral sense, to suggest than Windows 7 is anything good for netbooks? The guys a liar the size of texas, but how a guy can tell lieas that big, knowing everybody know are lieas.. He has not shame? ridiculous and sad.
Most, maybe all, Netbooks release with windows are released with XP. This microsoft dude is stupid or a liar, maybe both.
If using direct-x, mean more direct access to the privileged code, for CSS/javascript bugs It looks like a good idea. A better javascript engine, or a better architecture, is a good idea, but giving more direct access to the hardware to something as "external" as third party javascript/css, seems a bad idea. Microsoft, don't do that, is a bad idea.
IE is already very fast, faster than Firefox. Fix all the CSS bugs, make it a better supporting the standards browse, or start another browser from scratch if the oldcodebase don't support the changes needed.