I really don't understand what is wrong with you people. Why is that in every conversation that has something to do with the PS3 or XBOX360 you have to talk about your Wii? Ahh, I was mad...but after reading what I just wrong I can't help but laugh.
Are you stupid? I don't know why I ask that because the answer is obvious.
Should the person who practices more be better at something? If you go out to a soccer field and play against people who play every day when you play once a month...do you expect them to all get on their knees to make up for your inability?
And quite frankly, what you say isn't even right. I work a full time job, own a house that keeps me real busy, and I can get on any fps and be at the top. I think you just suck at these types of games. Try an RPG...that way you can level up if something is too hard for you.
Disclaimer: not putting down RPGs, I play and love them. This guy should just stay away from multiplayer FPS because it actually takes some hand/eye coordination.
Cheaters would rather claim that they were unfairly banned than admit to their cheating. Additionally, there are tons of Nintendo/Sony zealots that will say anything to defame the consoles they don't own (not saying that there isn't 360 zealots, just that obviously they wouldn't be involved in this). There probably are a few false positives...but not nearly as many as people claim.
Perhaps you are unable to read. Or you selectively read...but many scientists do that just to confirm their own pretentious hypotheses. (I am actually a scientist too, but this isn't my field). I say in my post that it is a good idea to cut down emissions. Also, I know this guy isn't doing shit to help the people he says we aren't concerned about because he has enough time and enough means to be posting on Slashdot. People working in third world countries don't do that. There is too much to do. So yeah, I am 100% sure the guy is full of crap. And if that makes you sick...maybe you aren't smart enough to draw simple conclusions.
The reason I perceive it as hype is that it is being pushed by politicians and hollywood. My post got modded up because it is ok to be skeptical on here. It got modded up because people on here are smart enough to know the difference between facts and belief. And quite frankly, the facts are not conclusive.
But no matter what you think of me, at least I have the balls to post using my name.
Yes...EQ was brilliant. I wish more game developers would design things that served no other purpose but waste hours of your time and effort. They really should integrate that in to single player games. In Final Fantasy, it should erase your last 10 save games are start you out with 0 gold. That way you will really be scared when you fight that last boss! (obvious sarcasm)
I'm sorry, but the people who actually yearn for this type of game are a much smaller number than the people who play games to enjoy them. WoW is not dumb. WoW reduced the penalty for death to something you don't want but is ultimately trivial. It makes the leveling part of the game quick and enjoyable (for the masses) and made the end game where they would focus on challenge and teamwork (for the "hardcores"). They combined the best of all worlds and dropped most of the boring crap and that is why it is popular.
The ex-EQers are just like those old people that complain about how hard they had it. How they had to suffer walking to school in snow up hill both ways. And, apart from the obvious bs of walking uphill both ways, they did have it harder in many ways. EQ players didn't have a choice...so they got used to their lot in life. But now there are choices...and very few people are going to choose to play a game that is the gaming equivalent of going to the dentist. EQ was like a psychological experiment to see how much they could torture a player before they quit.
I understand there is more of a rush when you have more on the line. And some people like that. And there are niche games like Eve Online that supposedly cater to that sort of personality type. The problem with these games that are high risk...people take less risks and it becomes boring. Eve, for example, has most people hiding away in safe parts of the empire. The less safe parts are full of large groups of people that try to find someone all by themselves. It makes for stupid and uninteresting PvP.
In EQ, are you going to take on that strange monster you never saw before that is a bunch of levels above you? Of course not, you are going to run for safety. In WoW, you can take bigger risks because it isn't a big deal. If you succeed, there is your rush. If you fail, well, you just didn't waste half a day of "work".
Yes, because the Wikipedia is 100% accurate an non-biased! Not that I don't agree that there is global warming...just that every single link people provide are from biased sources...either pro or against.
You just want to believe in global warming because you want to think of yourself as a good, responsible person, and you want to change others lifestyles because you judge them as wrong. You were already convinced of your point before you started to read the article, and as soon as you found one point that could challenge your viewpoint, you skipped to the next one to avoid thinking about it.
This more and more sounds like a religious debate to me...not a scientific one.
The problem by labeling "global warming skepticism" as a pseudoscience means that you have already shut off the ability to listen to any counter views (no matter how valid or scientifically sound). No one doubts you can provide evidience that there is a warming trend. But the climate is not something that is stable. It is always going to be doing something. So for a short peroid of time in the history of the world (and I mean really short) it has been getting warmer. Could this be due to human's? Absolutely. But there are 1000s of other factors as well. I used to be firmly in your camp...but after looking at the hysteria about this and reading some counter views...I am under the impression that you guys are overreacting. I believe that a lot of people are just going along with it to decrease our pollution rather than being scientifically honest. It takes a lot to get the public to care about something that will inconvienince them.
And just for fun, try looking at this from the other side. Look at the enviromentalists as the ones presenting the pseudoscience. After all, they are biased as well. When the global temperature next year actually is a little cooler...will you be so ready to throw out the belief that we are headed for disaster (and that we are solely responsible for it)?
I have lived in a desert all my life. Normally, this time of year every day is full of sunshine with not a cloud in sight. But this year, more than any other, it is cloudy, cool and rainy (this is really really strange). Who is to say that global warming won't actually increase rainfall in some areas? There is more water because the water from the polar ice caps are melting. There is more surface area for the water to evaporate from since the tide is rising. On a global level, it is warmer, so there should be more evaporation. Thus it is possible for it to rain more in these areas saving lives.
Obviously, I am no expert. But I am extremely skeptical of these "experts". I can see how they can trend global climate change...but rainfall predictions in certain areas? Give me a break, we can predict that two weeks out with very much accuracy.
Quite frankly, the climate is always changing regardless of what we do. Should we try to do less to pollute...absolutely. Is global warming a huge deal. Not as much as people are trying to make it out. We have less effect than people want to believe. In fact, a few decades ago scientists were predicting global cooling. And if the climate was always stable...explain the ice age.
People like you make me sick. If you are so worried about people dieing than give up your house, your car, your friends, your spouse, and move to those countries with the extremely poor and work to help them. Just because you right some self-righteous post on Slashdot doesn't mean you are any better than the people who like cool A/C and watch Fox News. What the heck does that mean anyways? Does CNN give off less greenhouse emissions.
This has nothing to do with politics for me. I can't stand the current administration and am a registered Democrat. I think Fox News is so horribly skewed to the right that it can only be viewed for entertainment purposes. My objection to the global warming hype is that it just doesn't make sense. They are only presenting one side of the picture and they are doing in a way that is wrong. Just like Bush uses the fear of terroists to win votes, it seems like these people are now trying to use the fear of global climate change to push their agenda. I suggest you try actually reading the counter-opinions instead of just reading the stuff that says the same thing. There are intelligent people who are unbiased that think this is overblown. At one time most scientists thought the sun revolved around the earth. Scientists are not always right...no many how big a herd of them there are.
I'd be more worried about your inability to spell. That will probably do more damage to your report card than Halo will. But maybe you skipped Spelling/English to play Halo 2.
Ok, it seems you don't understand that you and your opinion isn't the opinion of everyone. A lot of people like Halo and are excited about it and love to hear any news about it. A lot of game journalists are also reporting on other games...ones you might even enjoy. So basically...get over yourself.
The guy is kidding. How can you not pick up on that? It is getting harder and harder for me to read anything on Slashdot games (or even in general). The stuff that gets modded up is all pro-Nintendo/Mac/Linux without any sanity. Slashdot is just going to alienate all of the intelligent, unbiased individuals until it is 100% groupthink instead of the 85% it is now. I'm just wondering if there is anyone else that feels this way and how to combat it? I like Slashdot...I don't want to see it ruined by the zealots (any more than it already is).
I don't know. I would think it is common sense not to let a bunch of crazy football fans climb up on fences to topple to their injury or death. (kidding)
Quite frankly, stupid people do and say stupid things. THAT is common sense. Which, in this case, you lack.
Original flamebait post aside. I play both type of FPSs on multiple platforms. I am a gamer in the truest sense of the word...I don't care what the game is on, if it is good, I will play it. But there is a difference between KB + mouse and a controller. The difference is like that between men's and women's pro golf. It is the same game, you have great players on both platforms, but the women just don't have enough power to compete with the men so they have closer tees and are better off competing with each other. Sure, sometimes a female golfer can make it in to the men's league, and that is great. But the Tiger Woods of the FPS world is going to be someone on KB + Mouse. They just have a finer control over their aiming than is possible with an analog stick.
God...what is wrong with you. Do you understand you sound just as stupid as the people who say that Nintendo is for kids? But turning it around and saying the opposite gets you insightful? You are just as much a moron as the people you mock. And so are the people who mod up anything that is positive about the Wii without actually reading what the person wrote.
Cool! I want to rollplay. But what are the rules? Is this rolling around with some virtual girl in the grass? That would be pretty cool. Or is it some form of sport...tossing buttered rolls to one each other. That sounds kind of lame. Either way, let me know...I might sign up for SL if this is going on.
I'm sorry, but if you are in the gaming industry and choose to ignore everything made by SquareEnix...then you just don't get it. I am 29, have a real job, have played nearly every single FF game out there, so I fit your final sentence. Square makes games that millions of people want to play. They can't peak the series every single time...but they very consistently deliver a game that is worth playing. The problem (it seems to me) is that you have changed and the kind of game you like is different. I agree the current installment of FFXII lacked...something...that really made you care about the characters. The story was interesting...but almost too adult...too political. It is easier to write a story where the ULTIMATE EVIL is going to kill everything and you have to stop it. So I appreciate what they attempted to do...but it just didn't work for me.
Really, Square pushes the envelope on a platform's graphics...but to think they do that at the detriment of gameplay is daft. Every iteration they try to bring something new and original. Anyways, let's get to your point.
1) I think they have this down pretty well, actually. FFXII allows you to beat the game straight through with out too much extra leveling if you want the main story. The additional side content adds to the challenge (the only unfortunate side effect is that if you do all the side things, you quickly make the storyline too easy). I think WoW proves that a game isn't sunk if you fight the same enemy more than 20 times as long as the gameplay is interesting.
Blah...real time gameplay is so innovative! Except the Tales series has been doing it forever. I know you don't like it, but some people like turn-base styled RPGs. That's why they kept DQ8 the way it was. I don't need every RPG to be Tales...let Tales be Tales and FF and DQ do what they want.
Your synopsis thing is a nice idea (obviously not original since some games do it) but not anything I would consider necessary. Just like a book, you can't expect to put it down for a year and come back to it and remember everything. RPGs are basically books that want to be read from start to finish. Your ADD in finishing games just means that these types of games no longer are what are going to make you happy.
Quite frankly, I think you have a lot to learn. The way you do that is by looking at these huge franchises and see what they are doing right...not saying that you want to "avoid" them. Square has built a legendary company by making games that people want to play. None of your ideas are fresh or original (i.e. 2 and 3). And you have to be naive if you think companies don't understand 1.
I am really not an avid fanboy...they just make games I like to play. It always amuses me when someone who is not involved with anything remotely as successful thinks they know better than a giant. They got there for a reason. If you want to play in their league, you better figure out all the things they are doing right before you rip them apart and think you could do better.
What I've heard said minority in the playerbase saying it wants in terms of world pvp is a scenario where regions can literally be taken by one side or the other. In other words, although Hillsbrad for example might start out neutral/contested, there could be a scenario where Alliance players could invade it and it could literally become an Alliance zone. At the moment, zone allegiance is static; it never changes.
WoW has already done this. You must not have played for awhile. Check out Halaa some time.
Eve is horrible...and a far cry from second. It attracts a differnt crowd...the elitist prick types that think they are too smart for WoW. When all they are doing is playing an excel spreadsheet with a GUI interface. The servers can't even handle any large scale battles and PvP amounts to people camping at gates to kill people that have no way to defend themselves. It's broke.
I don't think you actually played WoW. I mean, you probably leveled up a character...maybe made it to 60/70...did a few 5 or 10 mans. But I can guarantee you didn't do raiding or do competitive PvP. That is where "hard" is. If there wasn't anything that was hard...raiding guilds wouldn't exist because it would be so easy everyone could just pug it. So no, you don't know what you are talking about. (And I am not defending it out of addiction...I quit a few months back)
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I really don't understand what is wrong with you people. Why is that in every conversation that has something to do with the PS3 or XBOX360 you have to talk about your Wii? Ahh, I was mad...but after reading what I just wrong I can't help but laugh.
Are you stupid? I don't know why I ask that because the answer is obvious.
Should the person who practices more be better at something? If you go out to a soccer field and play against people who play every day when you play once a month...do you expect them to all get on their knees to make up for your inability?
And quite frankly, what you say isn't even right. I work a full time job, own a house that keeps me real busy, and I can get on any fps and be at the top. I think you just suck at these types of games. Try an RPG...that way you can level up if something is too hard for you.
Disclaimer: not putting down RPGs, I play and love them. This guy should just stay away from multiplayer FPS because it actually takes some hand/eye coordination.
Cheaters would rather claim that they were unfairly banned than admit to their cheating. Additionally, there are tons of Nintendo/Sony zealots that will say anything to defame the consoles they don't own (not saying that there isn't 360 zealots, just that obviously they wouldn't be involved in this). There probably are a few false positives...but not nearly as many as people claim.
Perhaps you are unable to read. Or you selectively read...but many scientists do that just to confirm their own pretentious hypotheses. (I am actually a scientist too, but this isn't my field). I say in my post that it is a good idea to cut down emissions. Also, I know this guy isn't doing shit to help the people he says we aren't concerned about because he has enough time and enough means to be posting on Slashdot. People working in third world countries don't do that. There is too much to do. So yeah, I am 100% sure the guy is full of crap. And if that makes you sick...maybe you aren't smart enough to draw simple conclusions.
The reason I perceive it as hype is that it is being pushed by politicians and hollywood. My post got modded up because it is ok to be skeptical on here. It got modded up because people on here are smart enough to know the difference between facts and belief. And quite frankly, the facts are not conclusive.
But no matter what you think of me, at least I have the balls to post using my name.
I think WoW proves that most people don't want pointless difficulty.
Yes...EQ was brilliant. I wish more game developers would design things that served no other purpose but waste hours of your time and effort. They really should integrate that in to single player games. In Final Fantasy, it should erase your last 10 save games are start you out with 0 gold. That way you will really be scared when you fight that last boss! (obvious sarcasm)
I'm sorry, but the people who actually yearn for this type of game are a much smaller number than the people who play games to enjoy them. WoW is not dumb. WoW reduced the penalty for death to something you don't want but is ultimately trivial. It makes the leveling part of the game quick and enjoyable (for the masses) and made the end game where they would focus on challenge and teamwork (for the "hardcores"). They combined the best of all worlds and dropped most of the boring crap and that is why it is popular.
The ex-EQers are just like those old people that complain about how hard they had it. How they had to suffer walking to school in snow up hill both ways. And, apart from the obvious bs of walking uphill both ways, they did have it harder in many ways. EQ players didn't have a choice...so they got used to their lot in life. But now there are choices...and very few people are going to choose to play a game that is the gaming equivalent of going to the dentist. EQ was like a psychological experiment to see how much they could torture a player before they quit.
I understand there is more of a rush when you have more on the line. And some people like that. And there are niche games like Eve Online that supposedly cater to that sort of personality type. The problem with these games that are high risk...people take less risks and it becomes boring. Eve, for example, has most people hiding away in safe parts of the empire. The less safe parts are full of large groups of people that try to find someone all by themselves. It makes for stupid and uninteresting PvP.
In EQ, are you going to take on that strange monster you never saw before that is a bunch of levels above you? Of course not, you are going to run for safety. In WoW, you can take bigger risks because it isn't a big deal. If you succeed, there is your rush. If you fail, well, you just didn't waste half a day of "work".
Bah, I call bullshit back at you. Good voice acting improves a game. Bad voice acting makes it worse.
I mean, come on...just think of Nethack as read by Patrick Stewart.
Yes, because the Wikipedia is 100% accurate an non-biased! Not that I don't agree that there is global warming...just that every single link people provide are from biased sources...either pro or against.
You just want to believe in global warming because you want to think of yourself as a good, responsible person, and you want to change others lifestyles because you judge them as wrong. You were already convinced of your point before you started to read the article, and as soon as you found one point that could challenge your viewpoint, you skipped to the next one to avoid thinking about it.
This more and more sounds like a religious debate to me...not a scientific one.
The problem by labeling "global warming skepticism" as a pseudoscience means that you have already shut off the ability to listen to any counter views (no matter how valid or scientifically sound). No one doubts you can provide evidience that there is a warming trend. But the climate is not something that is stable. It is always going to be doing something. So for a short peroid of time in the history of the world (and I mean really short) it has been getting warmer. Could this be due to human's? Absolutely. But there are 1000s of other factors as well. I used to be firmly in your camp...but after looking at the hysteria about this and reading some counter views...I am under the impression that you guys are overreacting. I believe that a lot of people are just going along with it to decrease our pollution rather than being scientifically honest. It takes a lot to get the public to care about something that will inconvienince them.
And just for fun, try looking at this from the other side. Look at the enviromentalists as the ones presenting the pseudoscience. After all, they are biased as well. When the global temperature next year actually is a little cooler...will you be so ready to throw out the belief that we are headed for disaster (and that we are solely responsible for it)?
I have lived in a desert all my life. Normally, this time of year every day is full of sunshine with not a cloud in sight. But this year, more than any other, it is cloudy, cool and rainy (this is really really strange). Who is to say that global warming won't actually increase rainfall in some areas? There is more water because the water from the polar ice caps are melting. There is more surface area for the water to evaporate from since the tide is rising. On a global level, it is warmer, so there should be more evaporation. Thus it is possible for it to rain more in these areas saving lives.
Obviously, I am no expert. But I am extremely skeptical of these "experts". I can see how they can trend global climate change...but rainfall predictions in certain areas? Give me a break, we can predict that two weeks out with very much accuracy.
Quite frankly, the climate is always changing regardless of what we do. Should we try to do less to pollute...absolutely. Is global warming a huge deal. Not as much as people are trying to make it out. We have less effect than people want to believe. In fact, a few decades ago scientists were predicting global cooling. And if the climate was always stable...explain the ice age.
People like you make me sick. If you are so worried about people dieing than give up your house, your car, your friends, your spouse, and move to those countries with the extremely poor and work to help them. Just because you right some self-righteous post on Slashdot doesn't mean you are any better than the people who like cool A/C and watch Fox News. What the heck does that mean anyways? Does CNN give off less greenhouse emissions.
This has nothing to do with politics for me. I can't stand the current administration and am a registered Democrat. I think Fox News is so horribly skewed to the right that it can only be viewed for entertainment purposes. My objection to the global warming hype is that it just doesn't make sense. They are only presenting one side of the picture and they are doing in a way that is wrong. Just like Bush uses the fear of terroists to win votes, it seems like these people are now trying to use the fear of global climate change to push their agenda. I suggest you try actually reading the counter-opinions instead of just reading the stuff that says the same thing. There are intelligent people who are unbiased that think this is overblown. At one time most scientists thought the sun revolved around the earth. Scientists are not always right...no many how big a herd of them there are.
I'd be more worried about your inability to spell. That will probably do more damage to your report card than Halo will. But maybe you skipped Spelling/English to play Halo 2.
I'm sorry...but what the hell are you talking about? Look up the word lope and tell me how that fits in to whatever you are rambling about.
This is Slashdot. They expect Microsoft to support Apple/Nintendo/Linux but not themselves. Because that is evil. Or something.
Ok, it seems you don't understand that you and your opinion isn't the opinion of everyone. A lot of people like Halo and are excited about it and love to hear any news about it. A lot of game journalists are also reporting on other games...ones you might even enjoy. So basically...get over yourself.
Ah, the Mustang, the ghetto sport car of our time. I know whenever I see one drive past that the driver's top concern is fuel efficiency.
The guy is kidding. How can you not pick up on that? It is getting harder and harder for me to read anything on Slashdot games (or even in general). The stuff that gets modded up is all pro-Nintendo/Mac/Linux without any sanity. Slashdot is just going to alienate all of the intelligent, unbiased individuals until it is 100% groupthink instead of the 85% it is now. I'm just wondering if there is anyone else that feels this way and how to combat it? I like Slashdot...I don't want to see it ruined by the zealots (any more than it already is).
I don't know. I would think it is common sense not to let a bunch of crazy football fans climb up on fences to topple to their injury or death. (kidding)
Quite frankly, stupid people do and say stupid things. THAT is common sense. Which, in this case, you lack.
Original flamebait post aside. I play both type of FPSs on multiple platforms. I am a gamer in the truest sense of the word...I don't care what the game is on, if it is good, I will play it. But there is a difference between KB + mouse and a controller. The difference is like that between men's and women's pro golf. It is the same game, you have great players on both platforms, but the women just don't have enough power to compete with the men so they have closer tees and are better off competing with each other. Sure, sometimes a female golfer can make it in to the men's league, and that is great. But the Tiger Woods of the FPS world is going to be someone on KB + Mouse. They just have a finer control over their aiming than is possible with an analog stick.
God...what is wrong with you. Do you understand you sound just as stupid as the people who say that Nintendo is for kids? But turning it around and saying the opposite gets you insightful? You are just as much a moron as the people you mock. And so are the people who mod up anything that is positive about the Wii without actually reading what the person wrote.
Cool! I want to rollplay. But what are the rules? Is this rolling around with some virtual girl in the grass? That would be pretty cool. Or is it some form of sport...tossing buttered rolls to one each other. That sounds kind of lame. Either way, let me know...I might sign up for SL if this is going on.
I'm sorry, but if you are in the gaming industry and choose to ignore everything made by SquareEnix...then you just don't get it. I am 29, have a real job, have played nearly every single FF game out there, so I fit your final sentence. Square makes games that millions of people want to play. They can't peak the series every single time...but they very consistently deliver a game that is worth playing. The problem (it seems to me) is that you have changed and the kind of game you like is different. I agree the current installment of FFXII lacked...something...that really made you care about the characters. The story was interesting...but almost too adult...too political. It is easier to write a story where the ULTIMATE EVIL is going to kill everything and you have to stop it. So I appreciate what they attempted to do...but it just didn't work for me.
Really, Square pushes the envelope on a platform's graphics...but to think they do that at the detriment of gameplay is daft. Every iteration they try to bring something new and original. Anyways, let's get to your point.
1) I think they have this down pretty well, actually. FFXII allows you to beat the game straight through with out too much extra leveling if you want the main story. The additional side content adds to the challenge (the only unfortunate side effect is that if you do all the side things, you quickly make the storyline too easy). I think WoW proves that a game isn't sunk if you fight the same enemy more than 20 times as long as the gameplay is interesting.
Blah...real time gameplay is so innovative! Except the Tales series has been doing it forever. I know you don't like it, but some people like turn-base styled RPGs. That's why they kept DQ8 the way it was. I don't need every RPG to be Tales...let Tales be Tales and FF and DQ do what they want.
Your synopsis thing is a nice idea (obviously not original since some games do it) but not anything I would consider necessary. Just like a book, you can't expect to put it down for a year and come back to it and remember everything. RPGs are basically books that want to be read from start to finish. Your ADD in finishing games just means that these types of games no longer are what are going to make you happy.
Quite frankly, I think you have a lot to learn. The way you do that is by looking at these huge franchises and see what they are doing right...not saying that you want to "avoid" them. Square has built a legendary company by making games that people want to play. None of your ideas are fresh or original (i.e. 2 and 3). And you have to be naive if you think companies don't understand 1.
I am really not an avid fanboy...they just make games I like to play. It always amuses me when someone who is not involved with anything remotely as successful thinks they know better than a giant. They got there for a reason. If you want to play in their league, you better figure out all the things they are doing right before you rip them apart and think you could do better.
What I've heard said minority in the playerbase saying it wants in terms of world pvp is a scenario where regions can literally be taken by one side or the other. In other words, although Hillsbrad for example might start out neutral/contested, there could be a scenario where Alliance players could invade it and it could literally become an Alliance zone. At the moment, zone allegiance is static; it never changes.
WoW has already done this. You must not have played for awhile. Check out Halaa some time.
Eve is horrible...and a far cry from second. It attracts a differnt crowd...the elitist prick types that think they are too smart for WoW. When all they are doing is playing an excel spreadsheet with a GUI interface. The servers can't even handle any large scale battles and PvP amounts to people camping at gates to kill people that have no way to defend themselves. It's broke.
I don't think you actually played WoW. I mean, you probably leveled up a character...maybe made it to 60/70...did a few 5 or 10 mans. But I can guarantee you didn't do raiding or do competitive PvP. That is where "hard" is. If there wasn't anything that was hard...raiding guilds wouldn't exist because it would be so easy everyone could just pug it. So no, you don't know what you are talking about. (And I am not defending it out of addiction...I quit a few months back)