I agree with you in most cases, but if its a well writen review, it will give objective observations about the different nuances of the gameplay instead of poorly explained opinions. Also, hopefully you will be able to discern something about the reviewers personal tastes from how he talks about the game. I know I can read a review and tell whether the guy is biased against the game for some reason. It's always better to just play the game yourself of course, but thats not always feasible.
"Oh, the teleporter is too slow? We had to drive for an hour in a car!"
Reminds me of the comedian Dane Cook. paraphrase - "In the year 3000 everything will be instant. But the DMV will still take, like, nine seconds. 'NINE SECONDS, C'MON!!! I GOTTA BE AT WORK IN THREE SECONDS!!'"
HOD is very fun. You're right about the music. Even if the soundtrack was awesome, that tinny sounding speaker wouldn't do it justice. SOTN had an amazing soundtrack. It's one of the only two game soundtracks I ever considered actually buying, the other being Chrono Trigger.
Get yourself a Gameboy Advanced. The Castlevania games, the Mario games, the zelda games, and the upcoming Metroid: Fusion! This is truely one of the best systems on the market right now, portable or not.
Man, they've been doing this kind of stuff since the 70's. Why, I'd bet that everytime me and the gang would be investigating a mystery, some embittered ex-carnival employee, or some crooked investor would use this exact same technology to project a ghost or some other apparition to scare away people who might horn in on his fortune. Oh wait... lines... between fantasy and reality... becoming clearer....forget what I just said.
Considering that all of this, and worse, was going on in Di Vinci's time....your welcome. It must've been really bad those years right after Jesus ascended. There were probably like, 500 people across the world who died and went to heaven.
Yeah, I'll be getting a gamecube soon. Metroid looks really nice, it'll be cool to see how it plays. If you're looking for some more "traditional" metroid action, there is a new metroid game coming out for GBA that looks to be a lot like super metroid (drool...).
The new mario game won't be cellshaded (it'll be out at the end of august), but it does look pretty fun, and challenging. The waterpack that he uses is supposed to really be a big part of the gameplay, so that'll be interesting. I can't even talk about zelda. Words can't express how much I want to play that.
They gear the game around everything taking a long time, because they know that the more time you invest the less likely you are to quit the game.
How sinister. My roomate bought everquest after a few friends and I concocted a "plan" to build up and sell high level characters at a premium (he apparently took us seriously). I signed up and tried it out, but unfortunatly (actually, drop the "un") my attention span has been ruined by tv and twitch games like Deathmatch Classic. I found the game boring and canceled my service in the next couple of days. All for the better it would seem.
Then I guess there is no real argument. It's just all about moderation. Everybody's addicted to something, you just can't let it take hold of your life. (Oddly enough, despite my smarmy comment earlier, I sometimes feel addicted to going to see hardcore and punk bands play at bars and going to movies.)
it's an addiction / compulsion fuelled by the fact that its much easier and less challenging (but by that same token less rewarding)
This may be true, (I don't know, I've only played the game a couple of times) and for all I know you may be a recovering EQ addict. But if you aren't, what do you base this on? The stereotype of the wormy, pale, lit by the warm glow of a CRT geek who has no social life and can't function outside of thier fabricated, online persona? Or maybe on the news story about the imbalanced guy who killed himself? I'm not an idiot, I know these people do exist, but I don't write off any possible redeeming qualities of "getting into" the game based on that.
Maybe you're right and people who play the game 6 hours + are just feeding a dependency. But why do you think that?
Bands, movies? What a sad waste of time. How pathetic that you have to go see other people doing things in movies and on stage instead of going out and doing that I like to do.
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And shoes that big. And eyes that big. Man, I hope it's animated.
I agree with you in most cases, but if its a well writen review, it will give objective observations about the different nuances of the gameplay instead of poorly explained opinions. Also, hopefully you will be able to discern something about the reviewers personal tastes from how he talks about the game. I know I can read a review and tell whether the guy is biased against the game for some reason. It's always better to just play the game yourself of course, but thats not always feasible.
Dont trust reviews. Think for yourself.
But that takes money, and, you know....effort.
"Oh, the teleporter is too slow? We had to drive for an hour in a car!"
Reminds me of the comedian Dane Cook. paraphrase - "In the year 3000 everything will be instant. But the DMV will still take, like, nine seconds. 'NINE SECONDS, C'MON!!! I GOTTA BE AT WORK IN THREE SECONDS!!'"
HOD is very fun. You're right about the music. Even if the soundtrack was awesome, that tinny sounding speaker wouldn't do it justice. SOTN had an amazing soundtrack. It's one of the only two game soundtracks I ever considered actually buying, the other being Chrono Trigger.
I'll agree with you there... almost. Super Metroid will always beat out SOTN by a nose in my book.
Get yourself a Gameboy Advanced. The Castlevania games, the Mario games, the zelda games, and the upcoming Metroid: Fusion! This is truely one of the best systems on the market right now, portable or not.
3) Cutting their hair.
Oh c'mon, you know you were thinking it.
Man, they've been doing this kind of stuff since the 70's. Why, I'd bet that everytime me and the gang would be investigating a mystery, some embittered ex-carnival employee, or some crooked investor would use this exact same technology to project a ghost or some other apparition to scare away people who might horn in on his fortune. Oh wait... lines... between fantasy and reality... becoming clearer....forget what I just said.
Considering that all of this, and worse, was going on in Di Vinci's time....your welcome. It must've been really bad those years right after Jesus ascended. There were probably like, 500 people across the world who died and went to heaven.
Yeah, I'll be getting a gamecube soon. Metroid looks really nice, it'll be cool to see how it plays. If you're looking for some more "traditional" metroid action, there is a new metroid game coming out for GBA that looks to be a lot like super metroid (drool...).
The new mario game won't be cellshaded (it'll be out at the end of august), but it does look pretty fun, and challenging. The waterpack that he uses is supposed to really be a big part of the gameplay, so that'll be interesting. I can't even talk about zelda. Words can't express how much I want to play that.
How sinister. My roomate bought everquest after a few friends and I concocted a "plan" to build up and sell high level characters at a premium (he apparently took us seriously). I signed up and tried it out, but unfortunatly (actually, drop the "un") my attention span has been ruined by tv and twitch games like Deathmatch Classic. I found the game boring and canceled my service in the next couple of days. All for the better it would seem.
Then I guess there is no real argument. It's just all about moderation. Everybody's addicted to something, you just can't let it take hold of your life. (Oddly enough, despite my smarmy comment earlier, I sometimes feel addicted to going to see hardcore and punk bands play at bars and going to movies.)
Thought so. Your posts have "jock" written all over them. ;) Or is that an unfair assumption?
Are these people your friends, or just people you used to beat up in high school? ;)
This may be true, (I don't know, I've only played the game a couple of times) and for all I know you may be a recovering EQ addict. But if you aren't, what do you base this on? The stereotype of the wormy, pale, lit by the warm glow of a CRT geek who has no social life and can't function outside of thier fabricated, online persona? Or maybe on the news story about the imbalanced guy who killed himself? I'm not an idiot, I know these people do exist, but I don't write off any possible redeeming qualities of "getting into" the game based on that.
Maybe you're right and people who play the game 6 hours + are just feeding a dependency. But why do you think that?
Bands, movies? What a sad waste of time. How pathetic that you have to go see other people doing things in movies and on stage instead of going out and doing that I like to do.