Hell yes. My roomate and I only play co-op games together. He's really good at racing games and kicks my ass at them, but in everything else, i destroy him. So if we play vs each other, its no fun because its always lopsided. But if we fire up halo or baldurs gate or any of the rare co op games out there, we have non stop fun.
Same with the pc, when my friends get together for a lan party, we always end up playing co op ghost recon or raven shield. When someoen brought a serious sam cd, we played that co op all night. It's just way more fun to work together with your buds, and everyone can have fun accomplishing something even if they suck.
I think I only disagreed with your analagy. I doubt anyone would read this by now anyways but for what its worth...
In a pve game, where players aren't directly killing one another and competing, I wouldn't like to pay for a game where I monontonsly beat on monsters for 200 hours to get to level 50, then because I had to go get a soda or had to go to the bathroom or someone called me mid fight, lose it all. That's not the right solution for a game like that. In that case yes, I want to preserve my accomplishments. I never cared for a record in a game, but I care to keep an item I spent 30 hours trying to get. (Not that I ever did that hehe)
But anyway it really boils down to the game mechanism. Current MMORPG's aren't made for compatition and skill based winning. Belive me, I would LOVE LOVE LOVE an action oriented mmorpg (or actually just 2-6 player one online) where when we take down a troll he attacks in fixed patterns and we have to step around him and use varios attacks against the monster and team healing and group attacks. That would be awsome. And in that case, dieing and losing it all wouldnt be so bad, as long as you could jump back in and still be effective.
In todays current crop of stuff, losing it all means you can't play anymore with your friends. It's hard enough to keep a group of people paying together when some can put in more time then others. So what happens if i'm having a bad day and die, I cant adventure with my buddies anymore?
I guess you are right if you say i'm a puzzle solver? whatever that means. To me it just means that the gameplay in todays current mmorpgs isn't good enough to replay through more then 2 times (different class each time). I'll play quake and raven shield and aa over and over again till I get better no problem. Heck, I'll play sb (if the game had actually worked that is) over and over till my items get decayed to nothing. That's fine too, cause its not too much work (too much is over 3 hours) to get equipment and get up and running and have a shot at winning next time around.
The mmo's dont involve skill, because they are rpgs, and rightfully follow the forumula. You win by min maxing stats and learning what spells work best in what situation. Once you know that, and have your macros/buttons/whatever set up right so you can apply them quickly, it all becomes mechanical. This is a skill in itself, but not in the tradtional sense we think of skill in reaction time, timing, and quick thinking.
I think we actually are agreeing on the same things here. The current design of mmorpg's isnt set up for competition, and is set up for roleplaying and leveling up. I'd love to see a skill based action mmorpg, with awesome worlds to explore, fun mosters, and heart pounding combat. Maybe when we all have t1's coming into our houses we'll start to see stuff like that. But I still think we can see that on a smaller scale right now, just someone has to do it:)
I have to say, I really enjoy the shape and texture of the xbox s controller. It's actually not too bad of a joystick, its big problem is really the black and white buttons, and the shape of the buttons themselves. They are rounded up, so if i'm holding them down, I start to hurt my fingers. I got top spin a while ago and now I don't play it because it hurts my hands to hold down the buttons for a long duration. The buttons need to be flattened out like ont he gamecube or ps2. The black and white ones just suck. They are good for halo type use, flashlight on off, or switching grenades, but they arent versital enough to be used in all games. There's no reason for them to be pushed into the controller and difficult to hit.
Gamecube is nice, but the direction pad sucks and there's not enough buttons to translate cross platform games effectivly. But otherwise the layout is nice and unique, though a little hard for me to play a game where you'd have to switch which buttons you are hitting quickly, like doing x,y,b or something is tough to move your thumb to sometimes. C stick also sucks. Its like the b/w buttons on xbox, can be used for non important stuff, but why limit controls like that when you can just create an effective right analog stick?
I like the ps2's dpad the best for whatever reason. Any of the round ones you see on computer joypads suck for me, becuase I cant press absolute directions consistantly.
A personal pet peeve of mine are the big trigger buttons. Anygame where to play it you have to hold the r trigger down for the duration (driving type game or something), makes my fingers hurt when I'm done playing a long session. Its a big bulky button, and theres a lot of range of motion to get it to fire off. If the buttons were smoothly responsive the whole way from start to finish, it wouldnt be bad, but when theres like 4 cm of deadzone that just makes my finger tired. That's why I like the ps2 the best, quick little toggle triggers that I can hit quick, and they respond quick.
One big complaint for all three is playing something like soul calibur on them sucks. Whenever you have to press 2 or even 3 buttons at once, I find it very hard to do with my thumbs. So what happens is I hold the controler with my right wrist flipped over and use my index and middle finger to press the buttons. After a while though that gets painful. Hard to manage the simultanious presses now a days...
I want responsiveness from a controller and some good erganomics behind it. I don't want force feed back messing up my control and I don't want vibration that'll give me jollys when I put the thing in my lap.
Speaking of that, does anyone think adding vibration to controlers makes em die easier? Ever since I got the ps1 controler with vibration in it, the lifetime of my joysticks have been cut in half. My nes and snes and original non analog ps1 controlers still work fine, and they've had twice as much of a work out as the vibration ones. Meanwhile the vibrating ones die after a year of good use. Oh well. Can only cross my fingers and pray the next round of joys are well thought out and comfortable.
That's funny because that is the one aspect of grand turismo that bothers me. It's a simulation game all about driving well, yet you can bounce off the pack of cars, take them out, and speed on to victory, rather then actually racing past them. Heck, even just bumping it's all messed up. I WANT damage. If there was damage, grand turismo would be the best racing game ever.
Yes! Myth and Myth II were so much fun. I always loved the "big" maps like creep on the borderlands and desert between your ears. What a great game. It's unfortunate no one has attempted to copy them and improve on the formula (myth 3 felt too much the same by the time it came around).
I agree to some extent, and maybe I'm wrong to extend this to fantasy also, but usually when it comes to breaking the rules, that is what the story is all about.
Little guy who was weak, learns new powers, while he learns about the world around him (convienent way for the readers to learn as well). Then you have a few set rules that CANT BE BROKEN, those are they way things are.
Then the character breaks them, because hes special. To me, that's what happens in the great majority of the books I've read.
Well said. To each their own. Besides I don't even know if I want to introduce people to games. That's my thing, my secret little world. I don't need people to tell me how to play, and I especially don't need to fight people over play time:)
Ya help you by shooting your dog while storming your house, turning everything inside out when they find a bath party id card, then hauling your mother off for questioning. Sure are helping out!
Check out a Subaru. Since you only have one kid on the way, you just need something with 4 doors. My fionce has a civic and theres a ton of room back there, can comfortably fit two adults, so fitting two children would be no problem. But you need some 4wd action so that's why I say subaru. We've always had one in the family and now i'm a prowd owner of a wrx myself. It's got 4 doors and a child seat in the back, though it is tight back there. The awd is great, and will get you up steep driveways and over small messes of snow no problem. That's all you should need really unless you are offroading. For better traction, get some snowtires, and you can plow through streets comfortably at 40 that are covered in snow.
Nah, people stop. One day i got a flat on the garden state parkway in jersey. I've never changed a flat before or seen it done even though i'm 24. Pulled out the manual and they had the instructions for me right there. I would have had the jackpoint in the wrong spot had a done it and probably fucked up the frame of my car. Luckly for me I couldnt find a tire iron in the car so had no way to get the bolts off.
Sat and waited in the back passenger side of the car for about 30 minutes. Some truck finally stopped, was a 30ish guy, probably contruction or something, told him i had no tire iron and he gave me the wtf you incompetant fuck look and proceded to speed change the tire with me after he got some work gloves and a toolset out of the back. Then he told me he stopped cause he thought i was a woman with a baby and it was a hot day so he didnt want us to have to sit there lol.
So yeah, people will stop for ya. This isnt an age of rapists and murders, this is an age of media telling you more about them then they did in the past.
Actually I find it quite the opposite. My friend who works in construction thinks that I don't do any "real" work sitting at my desk coding because it isnt physical labor. The coin has two sides.
Generalizing is the problem. I probably spelled that wrong:)
On the average, women are less likly to know about that stuff then men. Obviously after they hear you speak for a second or two they should be able to tell that you know what you are talking about. Sad as it is, generalizations come from women coming in and not knowing what they are buying. The salesperson sees another person of type x and since the last 10 x's that came in needed to be babied, the best guess would be to baby the x coming at him, even though she's a y.
The other thing to consider is maybe you are attractive and the guys annoying you because hes trying to hit on you. I was at this thing once, opnetwork in washington. Major sausage fest but there were some cute girls in some of the workshops. I had a lot of fun watching a few of the tech support guys give the girls extra attention, kept checking up on them, making comments, offering to help. The guy was totally trying to mac it with them and it was so funny to watch. But with the type of questions he was asking it totally could have been construed like he thought they were stupid, when he was just trying to talk to them.
Anyway, best buy sucks. I heard an employee calmly telling someone that they need the same brand of monitor as their computer for it to work. I also got harassed for not buying their extended warenty. It was so annoying, female cashire, she started talking about it, I cut her off politly, no thank you. She kept going. I listened, speal went on for more then 5 seconds, I said, that's ok, I dont want it, still trying to be polite. Finally when she kept talking i had to be "firm" in telling her I don't want it. Then when I left she gave me a dirty look like I had offended her. I hate best buy. But more importantly, minimum wage employees act like minimum wage employees, even if you are polite to em, dont let them bother you so much.
I hate people like that. I make it a point to not interact with people who behave like that, and not let on that I know about tech stuff until they get to know me, which invovles acknowledging my presence.
Next time they come around asking for help just tell them you dont know and point them to google or a site they can do the research on their own at, chances are they'll go find someone else to annoy.
I know, women are so wasteful buying all that crap, we only buy what we need like video games, and 10 gigs of storage for my music, a 120 watt sub woofer, plasma tv, 5.1 surround sound, and 500 new dvds!
When I played VC, I *never* once thought, "hey, those haitians, they're pretty bloodthursty!"
Me niether, but hell, now I have a reason to run all those bastard over! In fact, these last two articles have inspired me to boot up gta again and see how high I can get my number of hatians killed. Thanks for the motivation guys!
Sounds like a good aliby to me. Let's say I use ez pass all the time, I want to go commit a crime. I take ez pass out of my vehicle. Go do the crime, come back, put ez pass back in.
Ummm practicing to shoot and playing an fps game are two completly different skills. I've never seen a gun in real life, and I would have no clue how to load or fire a gun properly, much less hit anything with it. I've played fps and violent video games since I was well around 5 years old, and i'm 24 now.
I can't believe you are actually saying that the next time I have a problem with someone, the way I'm going to react to it is by finding a gun and shooting someone because I've trained myself to do it? That is just crazy. The only thing I've trained myself to do is swivel my mouse on a mouse pad until a curser is lined up on the screen with the man shaped model in front of me. I don't know how that is going to translate to me only being able to properly hold and site a gun and fire at anything that might be blocking me from my "objective".
I mean, what the fuck is wrong with you? Playing any game well is learning all of your constraints and abilities available to you, then applying them to accomplish your goal. In counter strike, I have some grenades and fire arms, and the best way to go about getting past the guy in my way is to kill the other person. That's my rule set in the game.
In chess I have certain pieces that move around in certain ways, on a limited playing field. The only way for me to get to your king is to kill other pieces. Playing within the rule set.
If real life is a game then, because obviously I can't distinguise between looking at a 15" monitor and real life, then, I know the rule set. I know most of the actions I can take and I know what will result from them. My objective isnt to land straight in jail and hate myself for the rest of my life, so my rule set isnt going to be pull out gun and shoot someone.
God damn, I grew up without many friends, hell, I even visulised every monday during our monday morning meetings walking in there and blowing everybody and myself up because I hated myself and everyone. Was I ever going to do it? No, never in a million years. Hell, when I started getting friends later in life, I was acutally surprised when they would give me a friendly punch.
It didn't make sense to me, you don't harm your friends? But thats normal for this socieity. Men and women are competative with eachother, we are hard wired to be jealous and to establish our superiority over others. Some people don't know how to show they are better in any other way, so he took the cheap way out, a gun. His decision had nothing to do with his so called counterstrike trained reaction, and everything to do with his inability to one up the guy he pulled the gun on.
Bah whatever, arguments been made 1 gazillion times before, not going to change anything. News flash, people get pissed when they lose at anything. Move along, nothing new here.
Yeah, that's what worked with my friend and me in co-op. As soon as the witch king appeared we ran up there and took him out with both of us firing the bows. It also pays to make sure you are fully charged up on each bow shot, since it does damage quicker then if you fired as fast as you can.
Great game though, one of the best movie licensed game's I've ever seen.
I tend to agree with you. I personally subscribe to gamespot, as I agree with them more often then the IGN staff, but it's really the same. The best way to get a feel for the site is to read the review for games you already have and get a feel for how certain reviewers feel about games that you have. From there you can gauge what kind of score from then would merit you to go out and instantly buy it. Really all you need is video footage of the game and after playing on multiple platforms for multiple years, you should know exactly what you want to play, regardless of what some reviewer has said about it.
Either way, getting to know a reviewer on one site and knowing what he likes allows you to use their opintion to make a judgment about a game. And when totally flustered after checking multiple sources, go rent it instead.
I think what people have against IGN and gamespy is they have a lot more blatent and obtrustive advertising all over the site then gamespot does. That was my reason for going with gamespot over the others. I don't care if they have to advertise, slapping it in the middle of articles, and making you click through a seperate add page to "proceed to the review" just annoys me enough to not give them any of my money.
Exactly. I subscribe to gamespot and It's been worth the low cost. First thing I check is if the reader review score matches the reviewer. If it doesnt, I know to read the article and make sure I just pick out game features. For me, the 3rd opinion I go to is the screen shots and videos. After watching 2 or 3 of them, I know whether I am going to enjoy the game or not. I've played games since I was a wee lad, I can tell what I'll like and what I won't, and actually watching the game in action is more then enough to let me know what I'll like and what I wont.
That said, PC gamer is still my favorate review source ever.
I don't know if this counts as an RTS, but I definatly give RTS's credit for spawning this masterpiece of a game. Myth and Myth II were fantastic games. I LOVE tactical combat, I hate managing resouces in rts games. Give me some points, let me buy my units, and get to the fun part, the combat.
Anyway, author's just bored with rts as we all are. RTS's arent dieing, they are getting better, I see nothing but improvments to the formula on most of the bigger games. Basically there hasnt been a new genera to make you go "OMFG THIS IS SO AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!!!!111" for quite some time now. There will be something eventually though, there always is.
Wow, this can now simulate how boring it is to play baseball. Maybe I'll get stuck in right field and the ball wont come in my direction the whole game. Sounds like fun, paying monthly fees to sit around like i'm playing baseball. Cmon people, if you love the game that much, go sign up for a league and play it for real? It's not like baseball is an unaccessable sport like football or hockey. Oh well, mmorpg on..
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Hell yes. My roomate and I only play co-op games together. He's really good at racing games and kicks my ass at them, but in everything else, i destroy him. So if we play vs each other, its no fun because its always lopsided. But if we fire up halo or baldurs gate or any of the rare co op games out there, we have non stop fun.
Same with the pc, when my friends get together for a lan party, we always end up playing co op ghost recon or raven shield. When someoen brought a serious sam cd, we played that co op all night. It's just way more fun to work together with your buds, and everyone can have fun accomplishing something even if they suck.
I think I only disagreed with your analagy. I doubt anyone would read this by now anyways but for what its worth...
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In a pve game, where players aren't directly killing one another and competing, I wouldn't like to pay for a game where I monontonsly beat on monsters for 200 hours to get to level 50, then because I had to go get a soda or had to go to the bathroom or someone called me mid fight, lose it all. That's not the right solution for a game like that. In that case yes, I want to preserve my accomplishments. I never cared for a record in a game, but I care to keep an item I spent 30 hours trying to get. (Not that I ever did that hehe)
But anyway it really boils down to the game mechanism. Current MMORPG's aren't made for compatition and skill based winning. Belive me, I would LOVE LOVE LOVE an action oriented mmorpg (or actually just 2-6 player one online) where when we take down a troll he attacks in fixed patterns and we have to step around him and use varios attacks against the monster and team healing and group attacks. That would be awsome. And in that case, dieing and losing it all wouldnt be so bad, as long as you could jump back in and still be effective.
In todays current crop of stuff, losing it all means you can't play anymore with your friends. It's hard enough to keep a group of people paying together when some can put in more time then others. So what happens if i'm having a bad day and die, I cant adventure with my buddies anymore?
I guess you are right if you say i'm a puzzle solver? whatever that means. To me it just means that the gameplay in todays current mmorpgs isn't good enough to replay through more then 2 times (different class each time). I'll play quake and raven shield and aa over and over again till I get better no problem. Heck, I'll play sb (if the game had actually worked that is) over and over till my items get decayed to nothing. That's fine too, cause its not too much work (too much is over 3 hours) to get equipment and get up and running and have a shot at winning next time around.
The mmo's dont involve skill, because they are rpgs, and rightfully follow the forumula. You win by min maxing stats and learning what spells work best in what situation. Once you know that, and have your macros/buttons/whatever set up right so you can apply them quickly, it all becomes mechanical. This is a skill in itself, but not in the tradtional sense we think of skill in reaction time, timing, and quick thinking.
I think we actually are agreeing on the same things here. The current design of mmorpg's isnt set up for competition, and is set up for roleplaying and leveling up. I'd love to see a skill based action mmorpg, with awesome worlds to explore, fun mosters, and heart pounding combat. Maybe when we all have t1's coming into our houses we'll start to see stuff like that. But I still think we can see that on a smaller scale right now, just someone has to do it
Actually it's more like cleavland winning 50 games in a row, then loses one game, which resets their season record to 0-0-0 again.
I have to say, I really enjoy the shape and texture of the xbox s controller. It's actually not too bad of a joystick, its big problem is really the black and white buttons, and the shape of the buttons themselves. They are rounded up, so if i'm holding them down, I start to hurt my fingers. I got top spin a while ago and now I don't play it because it hurts my hands to hold down the buttons for a long duration. The buttons need to be flattened out like ont he gamecube or ps2. The black and white ones just suck. They are good for halo type use, flashlight on off, or switching grenades, but they arent versital enough to be used in all games. There's no reason for them to be pushed into the controller and difficult to hit.
Gamecube is nice, but the direction pad sucks and there's not enough buttons to translate cross platform games effectivly. But otherwise the layout is nice and unique, though a little hard for me to play a game where you'd have to switch which buttons you are hitting quickly, like doing x,y,b or something is tough to move your thumb to sometimes. C stick also sucks. Its like the b/w buttons on xbox, can be used for non important stuff, but why limit controls like that when you can just create an effective right analog stick?
I like the ps2's dpad the best for whatever reason. Any of the round ones you see on computer joypads suck for me, becuase I cant press absolute directions consistantly.
A personal pet peeve of mine are the big trigger buttons. Anygame where to play it you have to hold the r trigger down for the duration (driving type game or something), makes my fingers hurt when I'm done playing a long session. Its a big bulky button, and theres a lot of range of motion to get it to fire off. If the buttons were smoothly responsive the whole way from start to finish, it wouldnt be bad, but when theres like 4 cm of deadzone that just makes my finger tired. That's why I like the ps2 the best, quick little toggle triggers that I can hit quick, and they respond quick.
One big complaint for all three is playing something like soul calibur on them sucks. Whenever you have to press 2 or even 3 buttons at once, I find it very hard to do with my thumbs. So what happens is I hold the controler with my right wrist flipped over and use my index and middle finger to press the buttons. After a while though that gets painful. Hard to manage the simultanious presses now a days...
I want responsiveness from a controller and some good erganomics behind it. I don't want force feed back messing up my control and I don't want vibration that'll give me jollys when I put the thing in my lap.
Speaking of that, does anyone think adding vibration to controlers makes em die easier? Ever since I got the ps1 controler with vibration in it, the lifetime of my joysticks have been cut in half. My nes and snes and original non analog ps1 controlers still work fine, and they've had twice as much of a work out as the vibration ones. Meanwhile the vibrating ones die after a year of good use. Oh well. Can only cross my fingers and pray the next round of joys are well thought out and comfortable.
If they have it so good, why aren't you in upper managment? "Wow it fucking sucks at the bottom, might as well chill here..."
That's funny because that is the one aspect of grand turismo that bothers me. It's a simulation game all about driving well, yet you can bounce off the pack of cars, take them out, and speed on to victory, rather then actually racing past them. Heck, even just bumping it's all messed up. I WANT damage. If there was damage, grand turismo would be the best racing game ever.
Yes! Myth and Myth II were so much fun. I always loved the "big" maps like creep on the borderlands and desert between your ears. What a great game. It's unfortunate no one has attempted to copy them and improve on the formula (myth 3 felt too much the same by the time it came around).
I agree to some extent, and maybe I'm wrong to extend this to fantasy also, but usually when it comes to breaking the rules, that is what the story is all about.
Little guy who was weak, learns new powers, while he learns about the world around him (convienent way for the readers to learn as well). Then you have a few set rules that CANT BE BROKEN, those are they way things are.
Then the character breaks them, because hes special. To me, that's what happens in the great majority of the books I've read.
That's funny because I don't recall calculators needing to be plugged into the wall to work...
Well said. To each their own. Besides I don't even know if I want to introduce people to games. That's my thing, my secret little world. I don't need people to tell me how to play, and I especially don't need to fight people over play time :)
Ya help you by shooting your dog while storming your house, turning everything inside out when they find a bath party id card, then hauling your mother off for questioning. Sure are helping out!
Check out a Subaru. Since you only have one kid on the way, you just need something with 4 doors. My fionce has a civic and theres a ton of room back there, can comfortably fit two adults, so fitting two children would be no problem. But you need some 4wd action so that's why I say subaru. We've always had one in the family and now i'm a prowd owner of a wrx myself. It's got 4 doors and a child seat in the back, though it is tight back there. The awd is great, and will get you up steep driveways and over small messes of snow no problem. That's all you should need really unless you are offroading. For better traction, get some snowtires, and you can plow through streets comfortably at 40 that are covered in snow.
Nah, people stop. One day i got a flat on the garden state parkway in jersey. I've never changed a flat before or seen it done even though i'm 24. Pulled out the manual and they had the instructions for me right there. I would have had the jackpoint in the wrong spot had a done it and probably fucked up the frame of my car. Luckly for me I couldnt find a tire iron in the car so had no way to get the bolts off.
Sat and waited in the back passenger side of the car for about 30 minutes. Some truck finally stopped, was a 30ish guy, probably contruction or something, told him i had no tire iron and he gave me the wtf you incompetant fuck look and proceded to speed change the tire with me after he got some work gloves and a toolset out of the back. Then he told me he stopped cause he thought i was a woman with a baby and it was a hot day so he didnt want us to have to sit there lol.
So yeah, people will stop for ya. This isnt an age of rapists and murders, this is an age of media telling you more about them then they did in the past.
Actually I find it quite the opposite. My friend who works in construction thinks that I don't do any "real" work sitting at my desk coding because it isnt physical labor. The coin has two sides.
Generalizing is the problem. I probably spelled that wrong :)
On the average, women are less likly to know about that stuff then men. Obviously after they hear you speak for a second or two they should be able to tell that you know what you are talking about. Sad as it is, generalizations come from women coming in and not knowing what they are buying. The salesperson sees another person of type x and since the last 10 x's that came in needed to be babied, the best guess would be to baby the x coming at him, even though she's a y.
The other thing to consider is maybe you are attractive and the guys annoying you because hes trying to hit on you. I was at this thing once, opnetwork in washington. Major sausage fest but there were some cute girls in some of the workshops. I had a lot of fun watching a few of the tech support guys give the girls extra attention, kept checking up on them, making comments, offering to help. The guy was totally trying to mac it with them and it was so funny to watch. But with the type of questions he was asking it totally could have been construed like he thought they were stupid, when he was just trying to talk to them.
Anyway, best buy sucks. I heard an employee calmly telling someone that they need the same brand of monitor as their computer for it to work. I also got harassed for not buying their extended warenty. It was so annoying, female cashire, she started talking about it, I cut her off politly, no thank you. She kept going. I listened, speal went on for more then 5 seconds, I said, that's ok, I dont want it, still trying to be polite. Finally when she kept talking i had to be "firm" in telling her I don't want it. Then when I left she gave me a dirty look like I had offended her. I hate best buy. But more importantly, minimum wage employees act like minimum wage employees, even if you are polite to em, dont let them bother you so much.
I hate people like that. I make it a point to not interact with people who behave like that, and not let on that I know about tech stuff until they get to know me, which invovles acknowledging my presence.
Next time they come around asking for help just tell them you dont know and point them to google or a site they can do the research on their own at, chances are they'll go find someone else to annoy.
I know, women are so wasteful buying all that crap, we only buy what we need like video games, and 10 gigs of storage for my music, a 120 watt sub woofer, plasma tv, 5.1 surround sound, and 500 new dvds!
Yes folks, men only buy the necessities!
When I played VC, I *never* once thought, "hey, those haitians, they're pretty bloodthursty!"
Me niether, but hell, now I have a reason to run all those bastard over! In fact, these last two articles have inspired me to boot up gta again and see how high I can get my number of hatians killed. Thanks for the motivation guys!
Sounds like a good aliby to me. Let's say I use ez pass all the time, I want to go commit a crime. I take ez pass out of my vehicle. Go do the crime, come back, put ez pass back in.
"Where were you that night?"
"Home, check my ez pass records."
Ummm practicing to shoot and playing an fps game are two completly different skills. I've never seen a gun in real life, and I would have no clue how to load or fire a gun properly, much less hit anything with it. I've played fps and violent video games since I was well around 5 years old, and i'm 24 now.
I can't believe you are actually saying that the next time I have a problem with someone, the way I'm going to react to it is by finding a gun and shooting someone because I've trained myself to do it? That is just crazy. The only thing I've trained myself to do is swivel my mouse on a mouse pad until a curser is lined up on the screen with the man shaped model in front of me. I don't know how that is going to translate to me only being able to properly hold and site a gun and fire at anything that might be blocking me from my "objective".
I mean, what the fuck is wrong with you? Playing any game well is learning all of your constraints and abilities available to you, then applying them to accomplish your goal. In counter strike, I have some grenades and fire arms, and the best way to go about getting past the guy in my way is to kill the other person. That's my rule set in the game.
In chess I have certain pieces that move around in certain ways, on a limited playing field. The only way for me to get to your king is to kill other pieces. Playing within the rule set.
If real life is a game then, because obviously I can't distinguise between looking at a 15" monitor and real life, then, I know the rule set. I know most of the actions I can take and I know what will result from them. My objective isnt to land straight in jail and hate myself for the rest of my life, so my rule set isnt going to be pull out gun and shoot someone.
God damn, I grew up without many friends, hell, I even visulised every monday during our monday morning meetings walking in there and blowing everybody and myself up because I hated myself and everyone. Was I ever going to do it? No, never in a million years. Hell, when I started getting friends later in life, I was acutally surprised when they would give me a friendly punch.
It didn't make sense to me, you don't harm your friends? But thats normal for this socieity. Men and women are competative with eachother, we are hard wired to be jealous and to establish our superiority over others. Some people don't know how to show they are better in any other way, so he took the cheap way out, a gun. His decision had nothing to do with his so called counterstrike trained reaction, and everything to do with his inability to one up the guy he pulled the gun on.
Bah whatever, arguments been made 1 gazillion times before, not going to change anything. News flash, people get pissed when they lose at anything. Move along, nothing new here.
Yeah, that's what worked with my friend and me in co-op. As soon as the witch king appeared we ran up there and took him out with both of us firing the bows. It also pays to make sure you are fully charged up on each bow shot, since it does damage quicker then if you fired as fast as you can.
Great game though, one of the best movie licensed game's I've ever seen.
I tend to agree with you. I personally subscribe to gamespot, as I agree with them more often then the IGN staff, but it's really the same. The best way to get a feel for the site is to read the review for games you already have and get a feel for how certain reviewers feel about games that you have. From there you can gauge what kind of score from then would merit you to go out and instantly buy it. Really all you need is video footage of the game and after playing on multiple platforms for multiple years, you should know exactly what you want to play, regardless of what some reviewer has said about it.
Either way, getting to know a reviewer on one site and knowing what he likes allows you to use their opintion to make a judgment about a game. And when totally flustered after checking multiple sources, go rent it instead.
I think what people have against IGN and gamespy is they have a lot more blatent and obtrustive advertising all over the site then gamespot does. That was my reason for going with gamespot over the others. I don't care if they have to advertise, slapping it in the middle of articles, and making you click through a seperate add page to "proceed to the review" just annoys me enough to not give them any of my money.
Exactly. I subscribe to gamespot and It's been worth the low cost. First thing I check is if the reader review score matches the reviewer. If it doesnt, I know to read the article and make sure I just pick out game features. For me, the 3rd opinion I go to is the screen shots and videos. After watching 2 or 3 of them, I know whether I am going to enjoy the game or not. I've played games since I was a wee lad, I can tell what I'll like and what I won't, and actually watching the game in action is more then enough to let me know what I'll like and what I wont.
That said, PC gamer is still my favorate review source ever.
I don't know if this counts as an RTS, but I definatly give RTS's credit for spawning this masterpiece of a game. Myth and Myth II were fantastic games. I LOVE tactical combat, I hate managing resouces in rts games. Give me some points, let me buy my units, and get to the fun part, the combat.
Anyway, author's just bored with rts as we all are. RTS's arent dieing, they are getting better, I see nothing but improvments to the formula on most of the bigger games. Basically there hasnt been a new genera to make you go "OMFG THIS IS SO AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!!!!111" for quite some time now. There will be something eventually though, there always is.
Wow, this can now simulate how boring it is to play baseball. Maybe I'll get stuck in right field and the ball wont come in my direction the whole game. Sounds like fun, paying monthly fees to sit around like i'm playing baseball. Cmon people, if you love the game that much, go sign up for a league and play it for real? It's not like baseball is an unaccessable sport like football or hockey. Oh well, mmorpg on..