Devil May Cry had a good solution to this. Holding down the control to the right would make your char run right. Sometimes the camera angle would swap, as you were running right down a hall, the angle would all of a sudden have you running to the left. If you kept the direction held to the right, the character would still keep running down the hall, to the left, on the swap. Once you let the controler sit in neutral, the directions returned to normal. This was a very nice feature.
I can flip through those magazines and not have it effect me in the same way that it would clearly affect a heterosexual male.
Right, women can handle magazine images and models much better then men. Really, they won't think their breasts are too small, thighs too fat, stomach not toned enough. No way, it's not like it might help them along the path to an eating disorder or anything. Yup, most women sure aren't effected by the pictures...
People may not be hunting deer with ak-47's, but they might be collecting them, or firing them at the range, or both. There are legitimate uses. There are illegal uses. I don't believe it is fair to ban the product because it may be used illegally.
It doesn't matter that the majority of people who purchase the chips are using them illegally. It is the people who make the decision to break the law, not the mod chip creators. Remember that t-shirt, "Guns don't kill people, I kill people?" Same thing, mod chips don't make me illegally copy games, I illegally copy games.
Anyway, when I eventually have children, I fully intend to back up all of my games and only keep the backups out for use. At 50 a pop, a 60 dollar mod chip and some hard drive space is well worth the investment.
I picked up fight night 2004. I love the game, it's probably the most fun I had in a boxing game since 4d sports boxing way back.
The one thing I hate about it is the whole game is "thugafied". Well really, I just hate the announcer. They make each thing out to be a ghetto affair, like two guys slugging it out in a back ally somewhere. What happened to "lets get ready to rumble?". Oh well.
Why is it a bad thing to not be able to max out your games? Do you have that option with consol games? Why would you want to take options away? When I eventually upgrade my pc (I haven't in about 3 years), I pull out my old games and max the resolution and amazingly, they look good again. When I pull out my ps1 games, they look like complete ass.
Just because you can, doesnt mean you need to. Play the game at 800x600 and put everything to medium detail. Tweak as you want. I like being able to choose what I want to see in high detail and what I don't care to look at in low detail.
When the game is installing, you could also do yourself a favor and read the instructions. I know most people now a days don't bother to read them, but while you are installing, that's the best time to read up on how to play.
A pc game is MINE, I can do what I want with it, I can mod it, I can go look at text files in it, I can grab all the small audio files in it, I can find menu graphics in it, it's mine to play with, destroy, repair, or leave a lone.
Most pc games auto detect what hardware you are running, and set the detail level accordingly. Most of the time settings don't need to be changed when you open the game.
I just don't understand why you want to take the ability to configure away from yourself. I think it's the pressure of seeing a friend play the same game and have it look completely different on his machine. It makes you envious, want to tweak settings, or buy a new graphics card so it can be as cool as theirs. You don't have to do all that, just leave the default auto configs in, and play.
That, or do as another poster suggested, and play and buy your pc 12 months back off the bleeding edge. It'll be a lot cheaper and rewarding.
Well said. I remember people said it was justified to pay the fees because they would be adding new content and continually developing the world. Now they add new content in expansions that cost 30 dollars. What the hell is the 15 dollars a month people are paying for?
Oh well, who am I to tell people where to spend their money?
It's a great idea. Perhaps I wouldn't want that as my primary phototaking method, but those cameras do yeield some pretty hilarious pictures. I've been to 3 weddings that had table cameras recently, and the resulting photos were great. You get photo's of all the guests, as well as some startling and/or funny shots. Guests do a great job photographing things.
Is not talking about what you are passionate about the way to get a girl? That's who you are, and what you love doing. You shouldn't have to pretend to be anyone else.
Of coarse, you should also be able to tell when you are boring the crap out of your audience and change the subject.:)
Yeah, that or just pay 20 a year for something like gamespot.com where they have gameplay movies and numerous screen shots of practically every game that is released for any system. That's how you browse a game store's entire library...
Same deal here. I started at my university as a lab monitor doing a lot of printer loading and spacing out in front of the room and writing down problems. Eventually I got to talking with the unix admin during one of the classes he was teaching while I was the lab assistant.
He introduced me to the director of ITS who was sort of gathering up kids who knew web stuff to start creating web apps for teachers.
While working there, I had the opportunity to take one of the full time positions that were created as a result of the need for more of the aps. I chose to finish my cs degree instead.
Near graduation, I went and helpped a secratary work on her website which does football pools. She payed me a little bit of cash for the time, but I then spent about 5 hours gabbing with her, her husband, and her daughter.
After graduating i had sent out a ton of resumes looking for asp web work since I had experience with it. I heard back from no one, and all my followup calls told me the position was filled. Then out of nowhere I got a request for an interview. Turns out the secratary was someone's contact at the university, and when they asked for a cs student, she highly recomended me, which basically got me the job. I just had to show up and not be a jackass.
So here I am two years later doing simulation and modeling. It's programming, and I love it, as well as the people I work with, bosses included.
Same thing here. Not sure how it works, I just know that when I make a left at a certain light to start my run, if there's not traffic blocking my left, and I hammer it, I can hit a couple greens. Normally there's traffic, so I just go slow and meander up to the red light, and it usually turns just as I get there. Then I'll have to hammer it hard to get to the next one before it turns red. If I don't make that light, I get stuck in every other one on the way home. Otherwise, after I clear that one light, if I stay around the speed limit i'll cruise through every light without much waiting.
I am not religous at all, but I would love to see some different themed games. For one, I think the adventure game genera would fit in with their goals nicely. With some good animators drawing some really nice 2d artwork, it could make for a fun game. They could theme it a bible setting, or the garden of eden, or even do a modern story with someone finding faith through some adventures. I don't mind what the message is behind the game as long as it's well written and nicely animated.
Maybe they could invent some sort of sim game where you run a church and have to deal with the same types of things that most church administors have to deal with. That could be interesting, letting you build and expand the church, while trying to run programs that increase the amount of worshipers coming in. You could try to generate aditional income by using different donation collection methods all the way to installing a cell phone tower in your steeple for 12,000 a month. Throw in some events, such as weddings and funerals, and you've got an interesting game.
This could be interesting, but I know it will result in some people making crappy games trying to make a few bucks by using the term "christian" in the title and marketing it as the safest video games EVER for concerd parents.
We've seen that (at least mostly) nonviolent games reach even the "hardcore" market and become very popular. Here's a list of a few of my favorites:
# the Simcity series
# Super Mario Brothers
# Any racing games
Actually, those can all be pretty violent. In super mario brothers, this army of goobas came in and conquored whatever world it was. The imprisoned the princess and held her captive. Mario smashes bricks with his head, then stomps and kills cute little mushroom guys and turtles. He throws fireballs at them and kills them. He solves all his problems with violence, killing his foes whenever he can.
In any racing game, they are not intially violent, but can quickly turn so, ramming into other cars, driving in a reverse dirction on the track, causing 30 car pile ups. But this doesnt force the player to be violent, so i'll give you the racing games.
Sim city's the worst offender. After you build up your city, you can watch floods, fires, earthquakes, and rampent monsters destroying your city on a massive scale. Thousands of people would probably die in these "fun" simulated disasters. Just because you don't see the bodies, doesnt mean they are there. That is usually the case when you see wreckage on tv, you only see the buildings, not the countless corpses laying underneath it all.
Let's just face it, simulating violence and destroying things we built is FUN. But it's still violence at the heart of it.
I have mod points, but I want to comment in this thread after I've read some. I was about to throw that away and mod you insightful.
The one man, one woman thing, is really what turns the guy one. Some people like feet, some people like to crap all over their partners, and some like the fact that their wife is pure and untouched. This guy just has the mistaken belief that everyone wants to think like he does.
My fionce hasn't been with another person before me, and when we are together, the though of her not having been with someone and her being pure and good does not enter my mind at all. I choose to love her for the person she is, and enjoy the moment we are sharing together, and let go and forget about everything else except the two of this. She could have been with 100 different men for all I care, it wouldn't make a difference.
So please, do not tell me my love and intimacy is bs because she could be "unclean".
What's funny, is going to a pre cana (sp?) class as required by the church (i have no faith while my fionce is catholic), some of the couples speaking there mentioned how the first half of their lives married together was bad, emotionally and sexually, because the woman had ben molsested as a child. She said that it wasn't until they had sought counceling that they were able to overcome their problems and have a healthier relationship.
Your time together isnt a secret hidden afair. That just seems to be a hold over from when you were a teen and had to hide from your parents what you were doing. You are an adult now, it's ok to acknowledge that people like to be intimate.
I agree. I really love tactical rts games where you don't worry about building bases and just worry about moving your guys around and combat. The demo was really fun and ran nice on my machine, which is becoming a rare event with games now a days. I'm looking forward to the real thing too:)
Sure, I have a ps2, xbox, gamecube and gba. I love games. PC gaming was my first love though, and is still my favorite. As soon as I can play pc style games on my consol, I guess I could give up windows, but that won't be happening anytime soon.
Will look just like final fantasy: spirits within, or finding nemo, or whatever the latest and greatest cgi film is out. With enough time, processors will be renderings tuff like that in real time, and I'm sure they'll have figured out a whole bunch of new tricks to make everything stop looking strangly perfect.
As well as the suggested all quiet on the western front, I highly suggest hbo's mini-series, band of brothers. This is probably one of the best war type films I've ever watched, and although I've obviously never been in combat, feel it gives a very accurate picture of what was going on out there. The whole things gets you going with very "cool" combat, yet, at the same time, is utterly depressing. Definatly check it out, esp since moh or cod (forget which) took some of their level ideas from the series.
I was going to agree with the above, but caught your last statment about k-12 schools, and figured that you had the same views about high school education. They just tell you what things are, and have you spit out the facts.
I think it might be excusable in elementry school throw out the ham stories with little moral lessons instead of telling the truth. This is probably because elementry kids are going to have a tough time understanding "adult situations" that might lead to certain events happening. I know the above poster said columbus was sent sailing to so he would stay away from the queen. If I was a 4th grader, I don't know if I would understand what this meant, simply because I wouldn't be able to grasp what it is to be in a relationship and what is invovled in it. I wouldn't really have a good grasp of fear, jealocy or whatever the motivation was to move a person.
But as we go into highschool there really isn't an excuse for it, as kids are old enough to start understanding these things.
But as for the game, if you can stimulate intrest in a subject, it's done a good job. I don't think the game should be part of the class, but should sold as something to do on their own, or made avaialbe for extra credit after school or something.
But a good civ game, where the unit description involves accurate information about the real type of unit, as well as having real historical effects, would do well. But as was said above, europa unvervsalis, victoria, and crusader kings already do a wonderful job of this.
Before that, shogun total war did the same thing. They included a very nice history section to read through all about the timeperiod the game was set in. Actually, a lot of games in the past did this. I recall learning a tremendious amount of information about the battle of britton from reading the instructions from flight sim of the same name. Games with histoircal backgrounds don't do as good of a job to educate us about at them as the older games.
Exactly. Wtf is the monthly fee for? They said it's because they are constantly working on it and will always be adding to it. It's so bad now that they give you nothing for your monthly fee except bug fixing, which they should do for free anyhow. Unfortunatly every new mmorpg wants to follow this same fuck you in the ass policy.
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Devil May Cry had a good solution to this. Holding down the control to the right would make your char run right. Sometimes the camera angle would swap, as you were running right down a hall, the angle would all of a sudden have you running to the left. If you kept the direction held to the right, the character would still keep running down the hall, to the left, on the swap. Once you let the controler sit in neutral, the directions returned to normal. This was a very nice feature.
I can flip through those magazines and not have it effect me in the same way that it would clearly affect a heterosexual male.
Right, women can handle magazine images and models much better then men. Really, they won't think their breasts are too small, thighs too fat, stomach not toned enough. No way, it's not like it might help them along the path to an eating disorder or anything. Yup, most women sure aren't effected by the pictures...
Another great open source strategy game can be found right here:
Battle for Wesnoth
They pretty much hit the mark on this one in terms of gameplay. It is definatly worth the download.
People may not be hunting deer with ak-47's, but they might be collecting them, or firing them at the range, or both. There are legitimate uses. There are illegal uses. I don't believe it is fair to ban the product because it may be used illegally.
It doesn't matter that the majority of people who purchase the chips are using them illegally. It is the people who make the decision to break the law, not the mod chip creators. Remember that t-shirt, "Guns don't kill people, I kill people?" Same thing, mod chips don't make me illegally copy games, I illegally copy games.
Anyway, when I eventually have children, I fully intend to back up all of my games and only keep the backups out for use. At 50 a pop, a 60 dollar mod chip and some hard drive space is well worth the investment.
I picked up fight night 2004. I love the game, it's probably the most fun I had in a boxing game since 4d sports boxing way back.
The one thing I hate about it is the whole game is "thugafied". Well really, I just hate the announcer. They make each thing out to be a ghetto affair, like two guys slugging it out in a back ally somewhere. What happened to "lets get ready to rumble?". Oh well.
Why is it a bad thing to not be able to max out your games? Do you have that option with consol games? Why would you want to take options away? When I eventually upgrade my pc (I haven't in about 3 years), I pull out my old games and max the resolution and amazingly, they look good again. When I pull out my ps1 games, they look like complete ass.
Just because you can, doesnt mean you need to. Play the game at 800x600 and put everything to medium detail. Tweak as you want. I like being able to choose what I want to see in high detail and what I don't care to look at in low detail.
When the game is installing, you could also do yourself a favor and read the instructions. I know most people now a days don't bother to read them, but while you are installing, that's the best time to read up on how to play.
A pc game is MINE, I can do what I want with it, I can mod it, I can go look at text files in it, I can grab all the small audio files in it, I can find menu graphics in it, it's mine to play with, destroy, repair, or leave a lone.
Most pc games auto detect what hardware you are running, and set the detail level accordingly. Most of the time settings don't need to be changed when you open the game.
I just don't understand why you want to take the ability to configure away from yourself. I think it's the pressure of seeing a friend play the same game and have it look completely different on his machine. It makes you envious, want to tweak settings, or buy a new graphics card so it can be as cool as theirs. You don't have to do all that, just leave the default auto configs in, and play.
That, or do as another poster suggested, and play and buy your pc 12 months back off the bleeding edge. It'll be a lot cheaper and rewarding.
Well said. I remember people said it was justified to pay the fees because they would be adding new content and continually developing the world. Now they add new content in expansions that cost 30 dollars. What the hell is the 15 dollars a month people are paying for?
Oh well, who am I to tell people where to spend their money?
It's a great idea. Perhaps I wouldn't want that as my primary phototaking method, but those cameras do yeield some pretty hilarious pictures. I've been to 3 weddings that had table cameras recently, and the resulting photos were great. You get photo's of all the guests, as well as some startling and/or funny shots. Guests do a great job photographing things.
Is not talking about what you are passionate about the way to get a girl? That's who you are, and what you love doing. You shouldn't have to pretend to be anyone else.
:)
Of coarse, you should also be able to tell when you are boring the crap out of your audience and change the subject.
Yeah, that or just pay 20 a year for something like gamespot.com where they have gameplay movies and numerous screen shots of practically every game that is released for any system. That's how you browse a game store's entire library...
Same deal here. I started at my university as a lab monitor doing a lot of printer loading and spacing out in front of the room and writing down problems. Eventually I got to talking with the unix admin during one of the classes he was teaching while I was the lab assistant.
He introduced me to the director of ITS who was sort of gathering up kids who knew web stuff to start creating web apps for teachers.
While working there, I had the opportunity to take one of the full time positions that were created as a result of the need for more of the aps. I chose to finish my cs degree instead.
Near graduation, I went and helpped a secratary work on her website which does football pools. She payed me a little bit of cash for the time, but I then spent about 5 hours gabbing with her, her husband, and her daughter.
After graduating i had sent out a ton of resumes looking for asp web work since I had experience with it. I heard back from no one, and all my followup calls told me the position was filled. Then out of nowhere I got a request for an interview. Turns out the secratary was someone's contact at the university, and when they asked for a cs student, she highly recomended me, which basically got me the job. I just had to show up and not be a jackass.
So here I am two years later doing simulation and modeling. It's programming, and I love it, as well as the people I work with, bosses included.
Networking is the way you land jobs.
Same thing here. Not sure how it works, I just know that when I make a left at a certain light to start my run, if there's not traffic blocking my left, and I hammer it, I can hit a couple greens. Normally there's traffic, so I just go slow and meander up to the red light, and it usually turns just as I get there. Then I'll have to hammer it hard to get to the next one before it turns red. If I don't make that light, I get stuck in every other one on the way home. Otherwise, after I clear that one light, if I stay around the speed limit i'll cruise through every light without much waiting.
I am not religous at all, but I would love to see some different themed games. For one, I think the adventure game genera would fit in with their goals nicely. With some good animators drawing some really nice 2d artwork, it could make for a fun game. They could theme it a bible setting, or the garden of eden, or even do a modern story with someone finding faith through some adventures. I don't mind what the message is behind the game as long as it's well written and nicely animated.
Maybe they could invent some sort of sim game where you run a church and have to deal with the same types of things that most church administors have to deal with. That could be interesting, letting you build and expand the church, while trying to run programs that increase the amount of worshipers coming in. You could try to generate aditional income by using different donation collection methods all the way to installing a cell phone tower in your steeple for 12,000 a month. Throw in some events, such as weddings and funerals, and you've got an interesting game.
This could be interesting, but I know it will result in some people making crappy games trying to make a few bucks by using the term "christian" in the title and marketing it as the safest video games EVER for concerd parents.
We've seen that (at least mostly) nonviolent games reach even the "hardcore" market and become very popular. Here's a list of a few of my favorites:
# the Simcity series
# Super Mario Brothers
# Any racing games
Actually, those can all be pretty violent. In super mario brothers, this army of goobas came in and conquored whatever world it was. The imprisoned the princess and held her captive. Mario smashes bricks with his head, then stomps and kills cute little mushroom guys and turtles. He throws fireballs at them and kills them. He solves all his problems with violence, killing his foes whenever he can.
In any racing game, they are not intially violent, but can quickly turn so, ramming into other cars, driving in a reverse dirction on the track, causing 30 car pile ups. But this doesnt force the player to be violent, so i'll give you the racing games.
Sim city's the worst offender. After you build up your city, you can watch floods, fires, earthquakes, and rampent monsters destroying your city on a massive scale. Thousands of people would probably die in these "fun" simulated disasters. Just because you don't see the bodies, doesnt mean they are there. That is usually the case when you see wreckage on tv, you only see the buildings, not the countless corpses laying underneath it all.
Let's just face it, simulating violence and destroying things we built is FUN. But it's still violence at the heart of it.
I have mod points, but I want to comment in this thread after I've read some. I was about to throw that away and mod you insightful.
The one man, one woman thing, is really what turns the guy one. Some people like feet, some people like to crap all over their partners, and some like the fact that their wife is pure and untouched. This guy just has the mistaken belief that everyone wants to think like he does.
My fionce hasn't been with another person before me, and when we are together, the though of her not having been with someone and her being pure and good does not enter my mind at all. I choose to love her for the person she is, and enjoy the moment we are sharing together, and let go and forget about everything else except the two of this. She could have been with 100 different men for all I care, it wouldn't make a difference.
So please, do not tell me my love and intimacy is bs because she could be "unclean".
What's funny, is going to a pre cana (sp?) class as required by the church (i have no faith while my fionce is catholic), some of the couples speaking there mentioned how the first half of their lives married together was bad, emotionally and sexually, because the woman had ben molsested as a child. She said that it wasn't until they had sought counceling that they were able to overcome their problems and have a healthier relationship.
Your time together isnt a secret hidden afair. That just seems to be a hold over from when you were a teen and had to hide from your parents what you were doing. You are an adult now, it's ok to acknowledge that people like to be intimate.
I read the headline and though "oh wow, they are upset it's going to be 3rd person too". My bad...
I agree. I really love tactical rts games where you don't worry about building bases and just worry about moving your guys around and combat. The demo was really fun and ran nice on my machine, which is becoming a rare event with games now a days. I'm looking forward to the real thing too :)
Sure, I have a ps2, xbox, gamecube and gba. I love games. PC gaming was my first love though, and is still my favorite. As soon as I can play pc style games on my consol, I guess I could give up windows, but that won't be happening anytime soon.
Games.
Will look just like final fantasy: spirits within, or finding nemo, or whatever the latest and greatest cgi film is out. With enough time, processors will be renderings tuff like that in real time, and I'm sure they'll have figured out a whole bunch of new tricks to make everything stop looking strangly perfect.
As well as the suggested all quiet on the western front, I highly suggest hbo's mini-series, band of brothers. This is probably one of the best war type films I've ever watched, and although I've obviously never been in combat, feel it gives a very accurate picture of what was going on out there. The whole things gets you going with very "cool" combat, yet, at the same time, is utterly depressing. Definatly check it out, esp since moh or cod (forget which) took some of their level ideas from the series.
I was going to agree with the above, but caught your last statment about k-12 schools, and figured that you had the same views about high school education. They just tell you what things are, and have you spit out the facts.
I think it might be excusable in elementry school throw out the ham stories with little moral lessons instead of telling the truth. This is probably because elementry kids are going to have a tough time understanding "adult situations" that might lead to certain events happening. I know the above poster said columbus was sent sailing to so he would stay away from the queen. If I was a 4th grader, I don't know if I would understand what this meant, simply because I wouldn't be able to grasp what it is to be in a relationship and what is invovled in it. I wouldn't really have a good grasp of fear, jealocy or whatever the motivation was to move a person.
But as we go into highschool there really isn't an excuse for it, as kids are old enough to start understanding these things.
But as for the game, if you can stimulate intrest in a subject, it's done a good job. I don't think the game should be part of the class, but should sold as something to do on their own, or made avaialbe for extra credit after school or something.
But a good civ game, where the unit description involves accurate information about the real type of unit, as well as having real historical effects, would do well. But as was said above, europa unvervsalis, victoria, and crusader kings already do a wonderful job of this.
Before that, shogun total war did the same thing. They included a very nice history section to read through all about the timeperiod the game was set in. Actually, a lot of games in the past did this. I recall learning a tremendious amount of information about the battle of britton from reading the instructions from flight sim of the same name. Games with histoircal backgrounds don't do as good of a job to educate us about at them as the older games.
:)
Can't wait for rome, total war though
Yes, they sure educated me when I came across the grave stone of "ASSFUCKER" out on the plains :P
Exactly. Wtf is the monthly fee for? They said it's because they are constantly working on it and will always be adding to it. It's so bad now that they give you nothing for your monthly fee except bug fixing, which they should do for free anyhow. Unfortunatly every new mmorpg wants to follow this same fuck you in the ass policy.