I've been looking through job postings for game development and one of the positions I see available most of the time is some sort of sound programmer.
Never much cared for Bethseda. I bought Daggerfall back in the day and it was so buggy and nearly unplayable that I gave up on the game and said I've never buy another product of theirs. To date, I haven't.
FF8 !? Are you fucking kidding me? All of the main characters went to the same nursery and the evil sorceress was their Nanny! Play FF3 (6 for you uber geeks with a BONER for Japan) thats a good game! I stopped at FF8 with this garbage.
Yeah but the Source engine is going to win on the consumer market because Joe Random PC user that buys a dell and doesnt know how to upgrade the video card is never going to be able to just walk through a store, pick up doom3, and have an enjoyable time playing it. He'll return it because it runs like garbage and to him a video card is just a thing with some RAM on it.
I think Blizzard should stay out of the console market, honestly in the time it takes them to release a product the next-gen consoles will be upon us. I bought a gamecube for to play Ghost on (when it came out) like 2 years ago and picked up Metriod Prime to tide me over. Well Metriod Prime 2 is released and I've finished that. Someone should give Retro a cookie if Metriod Prime 3 is out before Ghost.
Right I'm going to boycott Blizzard. They've done nothing but crank out fun games since I bought Warcraft 2 in 1995. 10 years of great gaming or listening to some Slashdotter cry about their privacy, fair use, and all of those other things that joe random linux user cries themselves to sleep at night with.
Therein lies the flaw of the rating system. It is there to help parents realize that a game has mature content and is not suitable for younger children. Now if parents don't have to monitor what their kids buy, by just signing off on some form, then its no different then them ignoring the rating system in place. But then again games are not the problem in the first place..... god do they make a good scapegoat when you FINALLY realize after 6 months that junior has been piling dead hookers in the basement.....
a hurricane and a tornado.... great place for a hi-tech facility if you ask me. Isn't New Orleans one of those locations that is techically below sea-level too? We built the first gaming company, and it sunk into the swamp.... *continue monty python joke at your own leisure*
I think I recall from reading the licensing agreement on the id site that you can not develop a game and sell it for profit with these source code releases, so it doesn't really much make a difference. I'm just glad that there are companies that release gaming code for us like this. Things like this, the make something unreal contest, and good mmog's are going to keep PC gaming alive through another generation of consoles.
See what happens when you can't hit these dumb-shit little punks? Video games aren't the problem, they give kids ideas yeah, but if you know there are consequences, either having a conscience and knowing that wrong means don't do it or being fearful of the consequences and not wanting to get punished keeps you from doing something bad then we don't have a problem. However the problem lies in that punishment doesn't exist anymore because lack of discipline and acceptance of this scapegoat makes everything okay bullshit.
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I agree with you I pronounced the genre dead when Blizzard cancelled the Warcraft Adventure game they were working on. If Blizzard can't make a game fun and exciting I don't think there are any that can.
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Geez, Shadow Warrior had all that, and it was horribly racist to boot.
First off, haven't played Eve since Sept '03. Second off I didn't do a lot of the mass murdering stuff, worst my security rating ever got was -2.6. Would take 26 days for that to go back to neutral so I stopped killing. I really feel bad for the people that are at -10.0. Anyway all I'm saying is that the game made it way too difficult to deal with being a pirate with the concord being able to lock you down and kill you before you're done loading the map you're travelling to. There were so many ways to deal with pirates in eve that I never got why people put up with them. Outnumber them 3 to 1 and watch them run. 3 cruisers used to be enough to make a battleship run. Even seen a battleship run from 6 frigates. Another trick is go into pirate space when no one is around and place waypoints (or whatever the warp to points were called) 10 km past the jumpgate so when you warp to it you come out on top of it instead of having to run through the pirates first. Or even just scan local and ask if anyone is tolling.
Heh, if you ordered the game through Steam you never even saw a CD-Key... so I'm pretty damn sure that you could never be "disabled" in this manner. However proving you purchased the game with a receipt and a cd-key from a box copy would be quite difficult. Scanned images can be faked. A receipt doesn't necessarily have a cd-key associated with it. But it sounds mostly like they're on the ball with not disabling the accounts of paying customers. These people should honestly be glad that Valve disabled their accounts as opposed to throwing the standard software copyright fines at these people.
Thank you! I totally agree with you, but then again I've been called a griefer so many times the word has lost meaning. Its not griefing if you're not breaking any rules of the game. Theres no concept of risk in games anymore, you can save anywhere you want in single player, and in multiplayer god forbid when you die you lose something. Next patch of Counter-Strike you'll respawn with all the guns you had when you died cause that wouldn't be very fair if you died and had to buy them again.
Griefers is just a term made up by people that whine alot. Some people can not deal with a game where they can lose something or have to face challenges. I was on the short end of the stick with this term when I was playing Eve-Online. On the box for the game it said you could be a pirate, so thats what I did. I milked jump gates for toll money and wasted those that didn't pay up and sold their scrap for profit. Of course so many people were crying about players like myself using this tactic that horrendous penalties were put on to players that chose to do this.
The game ran off a security rating system. Positive means you're well liked. Neutral is neutral and negative means that the cops will come after you. That however is a gross understatement. The game map is set up like an amoeba blob. In the center is secure space. On the arms (pseudopods) as we called them in 8th grade. Are the no-security sections of space. Cops and NPC corporations aren't seen out there, and you can kill anyone you want without penalty to your security rating. However for those that want to actually hit a gate where someone might be at you have to do it in secure space which means you're losing security rating. Destroying a ship takes about 20 days to come of your record. And in that time if you fly into a system with a remotely high security standing you are killed instantly by NPCs. Honestly you can't tell whether or not cops will attack you and when they do you die before the area is done loading. And with the map being set up so that you have to travel in between secure space to get between each major section of non-secure space if you have a bad security rating you can't honestly travel out of your little system. Effectively cuts off 90% of the universe.
Instant death for us so called griefers because people can't deal with an element specifically put into the game. Thats the reason I left the game.
You sure its your card? I have about the worst nvidia card (5200 FX, yes its worse thanMX, and gf4 ti line)on the market and it runs half-life 2 fine. Then again I have a gig of ram and a 3000+ xp processor
Kinda what I meant. First you get married then you're living together. Then you have kids so you need a bigger house and a better job so you're working more. Devoting time to kids, wife, and job leaves you with Sunday football in the fall and thats about it... But hey its the good life right?
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I've been looking through job postings for game development and one of the positions I see available most of the time is some sort of sound programmer.
Never much cared for Bethseda. I bought Daggerfall back in the day and it was so buggy and nearly unplayable that I gave up on the game and said I've never buy another product of theirs. To date, I haven't.
Someday they'll build a board with a nail in it big enough to destroy them all.
FF8 !? Are you fucking kidding me? All of the main characters went to the same nursery and the evil sorceress was their Nanny! Play FF3 (6 for you uber geeks with a BONER for Japan) thats a good game! I stopped at FF8 with this garbage.
Yeah but the Source engine is going to win on the consumer market because Joe Random PC user that buys a dell and doesnt know how to upgrade the video card is never going to be able to just walk through a store, pick up doom3, and have an enjoyable time playing it. He'll return it because it runs like garbage and to him a video card is just a thing with some RAM on it.
F.E.A.R. looks good. I wish Monolith would quit with Matrix Online already and crank this puppy out.
I think Blizzard should stay out of the console market, honestly in the time it takes them to release a product the next-gen consoles will be upon us. I bought a gamecube for to play Ghost on (when it came out) like 2 years ago and picked up Metriod Prime to tide me over. Well Metriod Prime 2 is released and I've finished that. Someone should give Retro a cookie if Metriod Prime 3 is out before Ghost.
Right I'm going to boycott Blizzard. They've done nothing but crank out fun games since I bought Warcraft 2 in 1995. 10 years of great gaming or listening to some Slashdotter cry about their privacy, fair use, and all of those other things that joe random linux user cries themselves to sleep at night with.
Why have I never heard CES? I've heard of E3, meh.
Therein lies the flaw of the rating system. It is there to help parents realize that a game has mature content and is not suitable for younger children. Now if parents don't have to monitor what their kids buy, by just signing off on some form, then its no different then them ignoring the rating system in place. But then again games are not the problem in the first place..... god do they make a good scapegoat when you FINALLY realize after 6 months that junior has been piling dead hookers in the basement.....
a hurricane and a tornado.... great place for a hi-tech facility if you ask me. Isn't New Orleans one of those locations that is techically below sea-level too? We built the first gaming company, and it sunk into the swamp.... *continue monty python joke at your own leisure*
I think I recall from reading the licensing agreement on the id site that you can not develop a game and sell it for profit with these source code releases, so it doesn't really much make a difference. I'm just glad that there are companies that release gaming code for us like this. Things like this, the make something unreal contest, and good mmog's are going to keep PC gaming alive through another generation of consoles.
See what happens when you can't hit these dumb-shit little punks? Video games aren't the problem, they give kids ideas yeah, but if you know there are consequences, either having a conscience and knowing that wrong means don't do it or being fearful of the consequences and not wanting to get punished keeps you from doing something bad then we don't have a problem. However the problem lies in that punishment doesn't exist anymore because lack of discipline and acceptance of this scapegoat makes everything okay bullshit.
I agree with you I pronounced the genre dead when Blizzard cancelled the Warcraft Adventure game they were working on. If Blizzard can't make a game fun and exciting I don't think there are any that can.
Geez, Shadow Warrior had all that, and it was horribly racist to boot.
I definately regretted buying a Gamecube for Metriod Prime, then Metriod Prime 2 came out.... now I'm waiting for Starcraft: Ghost
Yeah that one didn't settle with me too well either.
First off, haven't played Eve since Sept '03. Second off I didn't do a lot of the mass murdering stuff, worst my security rating ever got was -2.6. Would take 26 days for that to go back to neutral so I stopped killing. I really feel bad for the people that are at -10.0. Anyway all I'm saying is that the game made it way too difficult to deal with being a pirate with the concord being able to lock you down and kill you before you're done loading the map you're travelling to. There were so many ways to deal with pirates in eve that I never got why people put up with them. Outnumber them 3 to 1 and watch them run. 3 cruisers used to be enough to make a battleship run. Even seen a battleship run from 6 frigates. Another trick is go into pirate space when no one is around and place waypoints (or whatever the warp to points were called) 10 km past the jumpgate so when you warp to it you come out on top of it instead of having to run through the pirates first. Or even just scan local and ask if anyone is tolling.
Heh, if you ordered the game through Steam you never even saw a CD-Key... so I'm pretty damn sure that you could never be "disabled" in this manner. However proving you purchased the game with a receipt and a cd-key from a box copy would be quite difficult. Scanned images can be faked. A receipt doesn't necessarily have a cd-key associated with it. But it sounds mostly like they're on the ball with not disabling the accounts of paying customers. These people should honestly be glad that Valve disabled their accounts as opposed to throwing the standard software copyright fines at these people.
Thank you! I totally agree with you, but then again I've been called a griefer so many times the word has lost meaning. Its not griefing if you're not breaking any rules of the game. Theres no concept of risk in games anymore, you can save anywhere you want in single player, and in multiplayer god forbid when you die you lose something. Next patch of Counter-Strike you'll respawn with all the guns you had when you died cause that wouldn't be very fair if you died and had to buy them again.
Griefers is just a term made up by people that whine alot. Some people can not deal with a game where they can lose something or have to face challenges. I was on the short end of the stick with this term when I was playing Eve-Online. On the box for the game it said you could be a pirate, so thats what I did. I milked jump gates for toll money and wasted those that didn't pay up and sold their scrap for profit. Of course so many people were crying about players like myself using this tactic that horrendous penalties were put on to players that chose to do this.
The game ran off a security rating system. Positive means you're well liked. Neutral is neutral and negative means that the cops will come after you. That however is a gross understatement. The game map is set up like an amoeba blob. In the center is secure space. On the arms (pseudopods) as we called them in 8th grade. Are the no-security sections of space. Cops and NPC corporations aren't seen out there, and you can kill anyone you want without penalty to your security rating. However for those that want to actually hit a gate where someone might be at you have to do it in secure space which means you're losing security rating. Destroying a ship takes about 20 days to come of your record. And in that time if you fly into a system with a remotely high security standing you are killed instantly by NPCs. Honestly you can't tell whether or not cops will attack you and when they do you die before the area is done loading. And with the map being set up so that you have to travel in between secure space to get between each major section of non-secure space if you have a bad security rating you can't honestly travel out of your little system. Effectively cuts off 90% of the universe.
Instant death for us so called griefers because people can't deal with an element specifically put into the game. Thats the reason I left the game.
You sure its your card? I have about the worst nvidia card (5200 FX, yes its worse thanMX, and gf4 ti line)on the market and it runs half-life 2 fine. Then again I have a gig of ram and a 3000+ xp processor
Kinda what I meant. First you get married then you're living together. Then you have kids so you need a bigger house and a better job so you're working more. Devoting time to kids, wife, and job leaves you with Sunday football in the fall and thats about it... But hey its the good life right?
Hehe, its true I've been playing games since I was 6 and now I'm a programmer. Maybe even a game programmer someday if I wasn't such a slacker.
From my understanding marriage is the end of video games. Hence they won't play a large role in lifestyle.