The problem with gun games is that they have limited replay value. They are designed to be played in arcades, so they can't take longer to beat than an hour or so, tops. What they should do is create an online distribution system for levels, and release a new campaign every month. For example, they could create an engine with an easy to use, flexible level editor, and then create a shooting game where your some sort of Enforcer who upholds the law Lethally. Then they could release new missions every month or so, that could be downloaded and played online, and it would only take a team of one or two guys to churn out levels. Step one: Create mesh. Step two: insert spawn points, paths, and shootables. Step three: Throw in a boss or two. Step four: Charge $2.50 to download.
While we're discussing lightguns, though, I personally want a full sized sniper rifle lightgun, maybe packaged with a Silent Scope kind of game. I also think a pump action shotgun would be cool. All I really want is a cool "Ka-Chink" sound when you pump it, though.
We're nerds. Besides snorting while we snicker at Star Trek jokes and posting on news websites for nerds, that's pretty much the only social interaction we do.
I thought I may have been wrong about that one. Thank you, kind sir.
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A better, but much longer, question regarding OSS was posted above. It also didn't directly ask the man we're asking questions to place his games on the internet for free.
Take M.U.L.E., for example...
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The Civilization games all seem to be pretty much the same, with the only difference being upgraded graphics and features. Do you feel the strategy game genre needs to introduce new concepts to keep itself innovative and interesting?
Actually, due to sprite flipping, in a Link to the Past he carries it both ways. In some (Maybe all) of the Gameboy ones, you get to select two items to have ready at once, so you can wield it either way, I believe. I may be wrong about that last one, though.
I love how the article focuses entirely on alternative MMORPGs, but everyone still ends up comparing the 3 big ones.
I wish I had enough mod points to rate everybody offtopic...
The only people who like Runescape like it because they can play it on library computers. You've seen them. Sitting, crowded around two or three computers, laughing nerdily and pointing like mentally challenged apes. I don't care what anyone says, it's not worth playing, let alone paying $5.00 a month for. That's just silly.
...or we could just copywrite the shape of a nuclear missile. Or we could copywrite radioactive substances. Hell, we could copywrite steel, so that they can't use microscopes, metal folding chairs, or cars. That would impede their progress.
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The problem with gun games is that they have limited replay value. They are designed to be played in arcades, so they can't take longer to beat than an hour or so, tops.
What they should do is create an online distribution system for levels, and release a new campaign every month. For example, they could create an engine with an easy to use, flexible level editor, and then create a shooting game where your some sort of Enforcer who upholds the law Lethally. Then they could release new missions every month or so, that could be downloaded and played online, and it would only take a team of one or two guys to churn out levels.
Step one: Create mesh. Step two: insert spawn points, paths, and shootables. Step three: Throw in a boss or two. Step four: Charge $2.50 to download.
Their controler is a freakin' lightgun!!
While we're discussing lightguns, though, I personally want a full sized sniper rifle lightgun, maybe packaged with a Silent Scope kind of game. I also think a pump action shotgun would be cool. All I really want is a cool "Ka-Chink" sound when you pump it, though.
10 minutes of web surfing is worth $15.00? Where the heck do you work, and how much do you make an hour?!
The term ad-supported implies spyware or adware.
Yeah, slashdotters, go sign up and pay to download roms.
So now I can download spyware for free? Wow.
I don't know if they can put Internet Explorer out of business, though. It does it automatically.
We're nerds. Besides snorting while we snicker at Star Trek jokes and posting on news websites for nerds, that's pretty much the only social interaction we do.
I thought I may have been wrong about that one.
Thank you, kind sir.
A better, but much longer, question regarding OSS was posted above.
It also didn't directly ask the man we're asking questions to place his games on the internet for free.
The Civilization games all seem to be pretty much the same, with the only difference being upgraded graphics and features. Do you feel the strategy game genre needs to introduce new concepts to keep itself innovative and interesting?
Actually, due to sprite flipping, in a Link to the Past he carries it both ways.
In some (Maybe all) of the Gameboy ones, you get to select two items to have ready at once, so you can wield it either way, I believe. I may be wrong about that last one, though.
Yup, ol' Shiggy has contributed a lot to the world.
And the other 34% are often wrong.
"Let's name our spyware installer 'poison' and see how many people we can get to install it anyway."
You guys are just fishing for karma. why don't you sea if you can find something more useful to do with your time.
Why don't they just make iPod SPs? It worked for the gameboy, they're smaller, still easy to use, and the screen is never scratched.
Funny or Insightful?
I love how the article focuses entirely on alternative MMORPGs, but everyone still ends up comparing the 3 big ones. I wish I had enough mod points to rate everybody offtopic...
The only people who like Runescape like it because they can play it on library computers.
You've seen them. Sitting, crowded around two or three computers, laughing nerdily and pointing like mentally challenged apes.
I don't care what anyone says, it's not worth playing, let alone paying $5.00 a month for.
That's just silly.
Even the National Wrestling Association might be able to come up with better ideas than this.
America has spoken. Now America has to live with its decision.
...or we could just copywrite the shape of a nuclear missile. Or we could copywrite radioactive substances. Hell, we could copywrite steel, so that they can't use microscopes, metal folding chairs, or cars.
That would impede their progress.
I'm sure those Mortal Kombat dudes are gonna sue the advocates of Vishnu because he bares too close a resemblance to Goro.
...exclaimed the 14-year-old white boy, violently.
There are plenty of people agains piracy. Just because they don't have/use computers doesn't make them any less human.