... all you would need to do is make it so avatars could be *completely* undressed, and then put true reflective mirrors in EQ... now your lvl10 poledancing character suddenly sells for 50x the cost of the highest male char...
... are easily the Meccaryns (read: humans with cockney accents) from Giants : Citizen Kabuto... one of the few games where I actually bothered to watch all the cutscenes. Those guys cracked me up. They were so well designed that while you could appreciate the humour and really get to like them, at the same time they were still impressive when they opened up with their weaponry.
Im sure if the article didnt have such a massive console bias then it would have mentioned other cool characters such as:
JC Denton from Deus Ex. Cate Archer from NOLF. Garret from Thief. Gordon Freeman from Half Life.... but of course they all pale to...
THE DOOM GUY.
sure, that was his name, and he had no voice other than a couple of grunts and a great death scream, but its one of the coolest avatars out there.
i this one going to have aircraft? thats going to be interesting, but these aint your grandpas prop driven go-slo planes anymore... we're talking f4 phantoms and early MiGs... imagine being able to fly in a proper flight simulator style game against targets that were actual people on the ground... just imagine the line up at the plane spawns for that type of thing:)
also, if you can fly a phantom in BFV then ill go fill in a pre-order.
feel free to read the article... this is hardly 'insightful' because all the people that bothered to already know the answer... looks like the mods arent reading the articles either... hopefully i get to meta mod this one...
if i learn nothing else from a report that only had 7 test subjects (and quite frankly you cant, except maybe about their particular cases), i now know that doing 'exciting tasks' on the computer late at night raises my 'rectal temperature'... now i have a great excuse as to why i dont wear pants when i game late at night
"this game of ET in the balance and my ass got warm, so i had to take my pants off, mum. no, i dont how that bunch of sticky tissues got on the floor there either"
what i find most interesting about MMORPGs is that they are quite a reflection on real life; you effectively have to work to get anywhere at it, yet at the same time are incredibly pointless to play, with really no basis for playing other than to raise your own level and accumulate material wealth...
oh wow, dvdcrave.com are awesome... just quickly flicking thru the prices now... holy shit... thank you so much for pointing that place out... suddenly being a gamer in.au doesnt seem quite so bad anymore:)
(insert standard rant here about game prices in australia being top dollar all the time (the standard price is AUS$100, which is ~US$55), and hardly ever getting games on budget labels for consoles, and the fact that all these cheaper games will still be full price in.au)
in your calculations you forgot to include that massive amounts of signs proclaiming "magnetic field generator buried here. call before you dig!" so that morons dont dig it up.
actually, with that kind of power running thru it, they would probably do the cool 'hair standing on end and visible skeleton' thing from the cartoons when they touch power lines, so it might be good for a laugh BEFORE WE ALL DIE FROM NO MAGNETIC FIELD. IM NOT NORMALLY A PRAYING MAN, BUT IF YOU ARE UP THERE AND CAN HEAR ME, PLEASE, HELP US, SUPERMAN!!!
we can get over our puritan heritage that says naked is bad (even cartoon naked) but watching a guys head get splattered against a wall in a faux gunshot is ok.
yeah, this is something about society ive never been able to understand... i used to blame religion, but now im not so sure... i honestly dont see why people should have any problem with either, but the fact that people are more scared of naked bodies than they are of strong violence is quite intruiging (sp)... wtf is going on?
yeah, because absolutely everyone succumbs to the massive social pressure to find a girlfriend, marry her and have 2.4 kids. sometimes people would just prefer to spend their time exactly they way they want to, and not just be 9 to 5 sheep like your good self.
ill help you out with a little bit of free advice. the type of people that do whatever they want, even in the face of the socially acceptable norm, really, honestly, dont care what the sheep think. and they probably care even less when the derogatory comments come from chickshit AC's who dont even have the guts to stand behind their own comments.
im sure he appreciates your advice, but i wouldnt worry about him, some of us have got to the point where we dont need our mommies or AC's on online forums to tell what we should and shouldnt be doing. one day, when youre big and grown up, im sure you understand what i mean.
im sure that being a physics genius you would be well aware of the effect that the 'on/off' button has on the electron gun in the back on the teevee... (hint : it actually causes it to cease functioning)
(and yeah, best that we shield everyone from violence and sex, cause they never happen out in the real world)
wha? weve defined evolution ourselves, so we can prove it whole lot more than we can landing on the moon.
(side note : we cant prove creation either, and we cant disprove it, but lets face it, going by that logic, any book that has made outrageous claims and claimed them all to be true could be correct... and the world is completely fucked up at the moment, and thats because a lot of morons only believe in a handful of such books...)
but how does that explain how a monkey turned into me?
the moment anyone with a clue reads this, they will realise that you dont, stop reading your post, and move onto the next one... im not even going to bother explaining why to you, cause its clearly a lost cause.
whatever you do... DONT MOVE TO AUSTRALIA... we have tried to implement all sorts of those type of bullshit laws... and besides, john howard wants us to be like a cross between australia was 60 years ago, and america now...
oh yeah, and if you ever want to play a 'mature' game over here unedited (eg gta3) forget it... the bunch of ignorants at the OFLC mindlessly ban or demand the censoring of anything that involves beating up people for money (gta3) or even a hint of breast action (bmx xxx)
yeah, and its exactly that which makes them such pains in the ass:) people pushing their unwanted opinions (and lets face it, in the light of the lack of any 'proof' of what you believe in, it really is just you opinion you are pushing) on all the people that either dont care, or have bothered to check it out for themselves and have seen it for what it is.
i agree with all that you have said, and i cant help but think that a lot of games (for example deus ex and MOHAA) would greatly benefit from a co-operative multiplayer aspect. this probably isnt as relevant to making games suceed as it is to my own personal tastes, but the amount of times you just have two computers together in a LAN and are struggling to find stuff to play because either bots are retarded or one person dominates the other in DM, when all you want is a kick ass co-op experience... like system shock 2... if the saves hadnt have kept crashing on us, that would have been the Best Thing Ever (tm).
exactly. and they hate to be told that too... as a lot of the responses would indicate... i just love the argument that unless you come up with facts you are making a personal attack, but showing up obvious double standards isnt a fact (just stating the fuckin obvious). the scary thing is that the vast majority of these people will never wake up to it...
Slashdot Mirror
... all you would need to do is make it so avatars could be *completely* undressed, and then put true reflective mirrors in EQ ... now your lvl10 poledancing character suddenly sells for 50x the cost of the highest male char ...
... are easily the Meccaryns (read: humans with cockney accents) from Giants : Citizen Kabuto ... one of the few games where I actually bothered to watch all the cutscenes. Those guys cracked me up. They were so well designed that while you could appreciate the humour and really get to like them, at the same time they were still impressive when they opened up with their weaponry.
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... but of course they all pale to ...
Im sure if the article didnt have such a massive console bias then it would have mentioned other cool characters such as
JC Denton from Deus Ex.
Cate Archer from NOLF.
Garret from Thief.
Gordon Freeman from Half Life.
THE DOOM GUY.
sure, that was his name, and he had no voice other than a couple of grunts and a great death scream, but its one of the coolest avatars out there.
Link did. It was called, 'The Legend of Zelda' funnily enough.
i this one going to have aircraft? thats going to be interesting, but these aint your grandpas prop driven go-slo planes anymore ... we're talking f4 phantoms and early MiGs ... imagine being able to fly in a proper flight simulator style game against targets that were actual people on the ground ... just imagine the line up at the plane spawns for that type of thing :)
also, if you can fly a phantom in BFV then ill go fill in a pre-order.
except the difference between this and the stupid burnout, bmx xxx and shadowman 2 stunts is that virtua tennis 2 is actually a very good game ...
sounds like an idea to me ... id be much more interested in the ads if they were spray painted onto naked chicks ...
feel free to read the article ... this is hardly 'insightful' because all the people that bothered to already know the answer ... looks like the mods arent reading the articles either ... hopefully i get to meta mod this one ...
if i learn nothing else from a report that only had 7 test subjects (and quite frankly you cant, except maybe about their particular cases), i now know that doing 'exciting tasks' on the computer late at night raises my 'rectal temperature' ... now i have a great excuse as to why i dont wear pants when i game late at night
"this game of ET in the balance and my ass got warm, so i had to take my pants off, mum. no, i dont how that bunch of sticky tissues got on the floor there either"
their sparse website mentions that
as avid game players, we believe the future of video games lies in massively multiplayer on-line gaming.
gee, they have signed their own death warrant and they havent even produced a game yet. oh well, it was a nice thought.
what i find most interesting about MMORPGs is that they are quite a reflection on real life; you effectively have to work to get anywhere at it, yet at the same time are incredibly pointless to play, with really no basis for playing other than to raise your own level and accumulate material wealth ...
oh wow, dvdcrave.com are awesome ... just quickly flicking thru the prices now ... holy shit ... thank you so much for pointing that place out ... suddenly being a gamer in .au doesnt seem quite so bad anymore :)
(insert standard rant here about game prices in australia being top dollar all the time (the standard price is AUS$100, which is ~US$55), and hardly ever getting games on budget labels for consoles, and the fact that all these cheaper games will still be full price in .au)
coopers sparkling ale IS urine ;)
in your calculations you forgot to include that massive amounts of signs proclaiming "magnetic field generator buried here. call before you dig!" so that morons dont dig it up.
actually, with that kind of power running thru it, they would probably do the cool 'hair standing on end and visible skeleton' thing from the cartoons when they touch power lines, so it might be good for a laugh BEFORE WE ALL DIE FROM NO MAGNETIC FIELD. IM NOT NORMALLY A PRAYING MAN, BUT IF YOU ARE UP THERE AND CAN HEAR ME, PLEASE, HELP US, SUPERMAN!!!
we can get over our puritan heritage that says naked is bad (even cartoon naked) but watching a guys head get splattered against a wall in a faux gunshot is ok.
... i used to blame religion, but now im not so sure ... i honestly dont see why people should have any problem with either, but the fact that people are more scared of naked bodies than they are of strong violence is quite intruiging (sp) ... wtf is going on?
yeah, this is something about society ive never been able to understand
OMG! i have actually consider number 4 ... id better go update my geek code
yeah, because absolutely everyone succumbs to the massive social pressure to find a girlfriend, marry her and have 2.4 kids. sometimes people would just prefer to spend their time exactly they way they want to, and not just be 9 to 5 sheep like your good self.
ill help you out with a little bit of free advice. the type of people that do whatever they want, even in the face of the socially acceptable norm, really, honestly, dont care what the sheep think. and they probably care even less when the derogatory comments come from chickshit AC's who dont even have the guts to stand behind their own comments.
im sure he appreciates your advice, but i wouldnt worry about him, some of us have got to the point where we dont need our mommies or AC's on online forums to tell what we should and shouldnt be doing. one day, when youre big and grown up, im sure you understand what i mean.
nah, but ill start to get worried when there is a special cowboy bebop episode where spike says 'be vewy vewy qwiet ... im hunting bounty rabbits'
im sure that being a physics genius you would be well aware of the effect that the 'on/off' button has on the electron gun in the back on the teevee ... (hint : it actually causes it to cease functioning)
(and yeah, best that we shield everyone from violence and sex, cause they never happen out in the real world)
wha? weve defined evolution ourselves, so we can prove it whole lot more than we can landing on the moon. (side note : we cant prove creation either, and we cant disprove it, but lets face it, going by that logic, any book that has made outrageous claims and claimed them all to be true could be correct ... and the world is completely fucked up at the moment, and thats because a lot of morons only believe in a handful of such books ...)
but how does that explain how a monkey turned into me?
... im not even going to bother explaining why to you, cause its clearly a lost cause.
the moment anyone with a clue reads this, they will realise that you dont, stop reading your post, and move onto the next one
whatever you do ... DONT MOVE TO AUSTRALIA ... we have tried to implement all sorts of those type of bullshit laws ... and besides, john howard wants us to be like a cross between australia was 60 years ago, and america now ...
oh yeah, and if you ever want to play a 'mature' game over here unedited (eg gta3) forget it ... the bunch of ignorants at the OFLC mindlessly ban or demand the censoring of anything that involves beating up people for money (gta3) or even a hint of breast action (bmx xxx)
yeah, and its exactly that which makes them such pains in the ass :) people pushing their unwanted opinions (and lets face it, in the light of the lack of any 'proof' of what you believe in, it really is just you opinion you are pushing) on all the people that either dont care, or have bothered to check it out for themselves and have seen it for what it is.
for fucks sake, just leave us alone.
i agree with all that you have said, and i cant help but think that a lot of games (for example deus ex and MOHAA) would greatly benefit from a co-operative multiplayer aspect. this probably isnt as relevant to making games suceed as it is to my own personal tastes, but the amount of times you just have two computers together in a LAN and are struggling to find stuff to play because either bots are retarded or one person dominates the other in DM, when all you want is a kick ass co-op experience ... like system shock 2 ... if the saves hadnt have kept crashing on us, that would have been the Best Thing Ever (tm).
exactly. and they hate to be told that too ... as a lot of the responses would indicate ... i just love the argument that unless you come up with facts you are making a personal attack, but showing up obvious double standards isnt a fact (just stating the fuckin obvious). the scary thing is that the vast majority of these people will never wake up to it ...