The vast majority of endgame play revolves around endless rep farming, honor farming in BGs, and doing yet another instance run.
You might be right, technically, but since the open beta I've probably played the game, on average, every other day. I had some periods of every-day-play and one period where I actually let my subscription lapse for a few months, but it probably averages out.
I've never done rep farming, or honor farming. I've never even been in raid groups with the exception of Battlegrounds and an ill-fated assault on the Undead capital. I HAVE run many instances, but only when I feel like it, and I;ve enjoyed it.
I never play when I don't feel like doing something in the world. I've always had fun. People who aren't having fun while playing WoW fall into one of two categories: First, and you know about this one, is the people who just aren't meant to play this type of game. Of course, this group exists with any game, or any entertainment. However, the second category is people who aren't even playing to have fun. They're playing to be omgz the best playar evar!!! There are a TON of people like this, but they're in the minority. Most people can just play to have fun and relax. It's easy to do, if that's your goal.
I would really like to see Blizzard, Bioware, and Obsidian doing Wii games. I respect their PC games, and I think they could help to up the ante.
I love the games of all those companies, but all that any of them (in the case of Obsidian, we're really talking about Black Isle, of course) do is take games that people have already made, and make some truly excellent evolutionary advances. I'm not aware of anything those companies made that was 'new' in any way -- they're companies focused on polish, not on creative gameplay.
Even if somebody comes up with a way to make this feasible on a large scale, it just won't matter at all.
Starting the generation after next, eh? Right. Look, the graphics for NES games are clearly old. Yes. Absolutely. Anybody who can't tell an NES game from an SNES game from an N64 game from a Gamecube game has something wrong with them. But that's over now. The systems are now, in this new generation, powerful enough to make distinctions like that a thing of the past. The system power no longer matters. If Resident Evil 4, as it was on the Gamecube (best looking version) came out exactly as it is on the PS3, it wouldn't look out of place at all despite the massive difference in power.
And yet some games still look bad. It happens. The reason isn't the fault of the system, it's the fault of the creators. Bad programming, lack of attention to detail, bad ART. And that's the key to making games pretty now -- art. Algorithms can't pull that off like humans can, they probably never will. Humans know what's pretty to humans.
I can imagine an argument that the power differences do still matter at current power levels. That's fine, it's not something that's really an arguable point. There can be disagreement but no rational argument. To the people who would disagree, though -- this isn't something that would start this generation. It would start next generation. And I think that by then, the difference in graphics will have shrunk to nothing.
The next big jump in graphics probably won't even work on a 2D screen.
I think your misunderstanding the percieved problem. Sure, the craziest ones will actually think the creators of the ad are racist, but that's really not true. Anybody who thinks about it for a second will see that. However, one issue that people DO seem to have is the fact that it portrays conflict between white and black people. For people with certain points of view, and certain backgrounds, that is a disturbing image.
Not to me, of course, since I've lived my whole life in suburbia, where all ten asians and both black people are generally treated with respect.
On the whole, I would say that PC gaming has always been far better than console gaming for anybody who doesn't mind a little bit of tweaking and upgrading every now and then. For pretty much anybody who reads slashdot, basically.
Not saying I won't be first in line for a Wii, but I know it won't take long for even its unique awesomeness to take a back seat to my PC. My Windows PC.
Once they announce their price point for a non-crippled P3 is $499 USD/EU, that DRM has been removed, and they realize that they won't have 80 percent of market share like they did with the PS2.
I'm finding that I disagree with how some people seem to define 'good parenting' in this discussion -- or at least the terms in which they discuss it, which is often (as in this case) partially determined by the specific subject of the article.
Good parenting has NOTHING to do with preventing 8-year-olds from playing GTA.
It has EVERYTHING to do with making sure that your kids ultimate response to playing GTA isn't going around and killing people.
The people that say, "Well, it's impossible for the parents to prevent them from playing these games, as long as all the kid's friends' parents aren't doing the same!" and similar are absolutely, positively correct. But it's irrelevant. If parents are doing their job, it doesn't matter what the kids play.
Once we start talking about limiting access, we're assuming a situation in which the parents have already failed.
Granted, there are people who are just crazy, and it's not their parents' fault. Absolutely. But they're crazy with or without Manhunt, anyway.
Of course he would say he was human. If the characer never knew that he was a replicant, why tell the actor? It makes the performance more authentic if the actor doesn't know either.
That only makes sense if being-a-replicant alone wouldn't affect his behavior at all. It implies that a real human is indistinguishable from a replicant-that-thinks-its-human -- but there is a difference.
It's probably one of the most successful games for the GC, and that's because the real fun comes from crouding around the TV with three of your friends and beating the living crap out of eachother.
Well, I agree, but do you mean beating the crap out of each other in the game?
Because I do it in real life when my Yoshi-playing friend swallows me and drops me off the level in egg-form.
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You might be right, technically, but since the open beta I've probably played the game, on average, every other day. I had some periods of every-day-play and one period where I actually let my subscription lapse for a few months, but it probably averages out.
I've never done rep farming, or honor farming. I've never even been in raid groups with the exception of Battlegrounds and an ill-fated assault on the Undead capital. I HAVE run many instances, but only when I feel like it, and I;ve enjoyed it.
I never play when I don't feel like doing something in the world. I've always had fun. People who aren't having fun while playing WoW fall into one of two categories: First, and you know about this one, is the people who just aren't meant to play this type of game. Of course, this group exists with any game, or any entertainment. However, the second category is people who aren't even playing to have fun. They're playing to be omgz the best playar evar!!! There are a TON of people like this, but they're in the minority. Most people can just play to have fun and relax. It's easy to do, if that's your goal.
Um, he barely says anything about Nintendo. His glowing words are all for Sega.
Controllers are way better than keyboard and mouse for platformers and most other games with third-person controls.
Plus, with a controller you can really relax and get comfortable in a way that you can't with a keyboard and mouse.
Quick! Get a lottery ball!
Or at least some horses.
That's true, even if anybody could have guessed that such things would be possible.
It's also fairly irrelevant because they're really talking about society again here.
The segment of the video after the VO says "This next test is impossible" demonstrates that this is NOT the case.
I love the games of all those companies, but all that any of them (in the case of Obsidian, we're really talking about Black Isle, of course) do is take games that people have already made, and make some truly excellent evolutionary advances. I'm not aware of anything those companies made that was 'new' in any way -- they're companies focused on polish, not on creative gameplay.
I think that what the Wii needs is new ideas.
EA is always on everybody's side. That's how they got (and how they stay) so damn big.
That won't happen... ...Blizzard won't make Starcraft 2.
What, some Slashdotters don't know who the Xel'Naga are?
So true. I remember when Devil May Cry offered me easy mode. I was offended.
But, when I sit and think about it, I suck at that game.
Don't forget the social engineering aspect.
Even if somebody comes up with a way to make this feasible on a large scale, it just won't matter at all.
Starting the generation after next, eh? Right. Look, the graphics for NES games are clearly old. Yes. Absolutely. Anybody who can't tell an NES game from an SNES game from an N64 game from a Gamecube game has something wrong with them. But that's over now. The systems are now, in this new generation, powerful enough to make distinctions like that a thing of the past. The system power no longer matters. If Resident Evil 4, as it was on the Gamecube (best looking version) came out exactly as it is on the PS3, it wouldn't look out of place at all despite the massive difference in power.
And yet some games still look bad. It happens. The reason isn't the fault of the system, it's the fault of the creators. Bad programming, lack of attention to detail, bad ART. And that's the key to making games pretty now -- art. Algorithms can't pull that off like humans can, they probably never will. Humans know what's pretty to humans.
I can imagine an argument that the power differences do still matter at current power levels. That's fine, it's not something that's really an arguable point. There can be disagreement but no rational argument. To the people who would disagree, though -- this isn't something that would start this generation. It would start next generation. And I think that by then, the difference in graphics will have shrunk to nothing.
The next big jump in graphics probably won't even work on a 2D screen.
I think your misunderstanding the percieved problem. Sure, the craziest ones will actually think the creators of the ad are racist, but that's really not true. Anybody who thinks about it for a second will see that. However, one issue that people DO seem to have is the fact that it portrays conflict between white and black people. For people with certain points of view, and certain backgrounds, that is a disturbing image.
Not to me, of course, since I've lived my whole life in suburbia, where all ten asians and both black people are generally treated with respect.
According to /.'s own literature on the subject, tagging is for whatever we say it's for.
That would be the easiest virus to write ever. Seriously. Ten seconds or so to write the actual payload, if you type slow.
I think that going through with this would be to Microsoft's disadvantage.
Making people THINK they're going to go through with it, however...
It's a moot point. By definition, pirates know how to get around stuff like this.
On the whole, I would say that PC gaming has always been far better than console gaming for anybody who doesn't mind a little bit of tweaking and upgrading every now and then. For pretty much anybody who reads slashdot, basically.
Not saying I won't be first in line for a Wii, but I know it won't take long for even its unique awesomeness to take a back seat to my PC. My Windows PC.
I played Goldeneye with some friends about three times a week for nearly three years...right up until Perfect Dark came out.
And even then our favorite levels were the ones from Goldeneye.
I was just saying to my friends today that we should fire up the N64 again for some Facility hallway camping. With remote mines.
One for three!
http://games.kikizo.com/news/200606/010.asp
You know, now that you mention it, I've never read a Dickens novel that engaged my mind more than the average strategy guide.
A lot of our 'classic' literature has always seemed pointless to me -- even when compared to the masterworks of Prima.
I'm finding that I disagree with how some people seem to define 'good parenting' in this discussion -- or at least the terms in which they discuss it, which is often (as in this case) partially determined by the specific subject of the article.
Good parenting has NOTHING to do with preventing 8-year-olds from playing GTA.
It has EVERYTHING to do with making sure that your kids ultimate response to playing GTA isn't going around and killing people.
The people that say, "Well, it's impossible for the parents to prevent them from playing these games, as long as all the kid's friends' parents aren't doing the same!" and similar are absolutely, positively correct. But it's irrelevant. If parents are doing their job, it doesn't matter what the kids play.
Once we start talking about limiting access, we're assuming a situation in which the parents have already failed.
Granted, there are people who are just crazy, and it's not their parents' fault. Absolutely. But they're crazy with or without Manhunt, anyway.
That only makes sense if being-a-replicant alone wouldn't affect his behavior at all. It implies that a real human is indistinguishable from a replicant-that-thinks-its-human -- but there is a difference.
It's probably one of the most successful games for the GC, and that's because the real fun comes from crouding around the TV with three of your friends and beating the living crap out of eachother.
Well, I agree, but do you mean beating the crap out of each other in the game?
Because I do it in real life when my Yoshi-playing friend swallows me and drops me off the level in egg-form.
And that REALLY adds to the fun factor.