I have yet to play a WW2 game where you fight against Vichy French troops, to liberate a Nazi concentration camp, play as a Russian commissar and shoot Russian soldiers for retreating, to play as a civilian in London during the Nazi Blitz
That's because we won the war. If we had lost, we would have been portrayed as the bad guys, just as the German soldiers were portrayed as the bad guys, without a thought for why they executed their actions. If the Brittish had won the Revolutionary War, Americans would have been portrayed as thieves and murderers. If the Iraqis had won the Iraq war, we would have been portrayed as invading infedels. But we're not. They are. I can go on.
The problem with the Columbine shooting is that people take it too seriously. We can make games about killing the Viet Kong for no reason other than them wanting to change their political structure, and we can make games where you can (and are encouraged to) kill everybody in sight, like GTA. But when somebody makes a crappy little game about the Collumbine Shooting with RPG Maker, suddenly they're going to hell. That's ridiculous. 12 innocent kids died. It's sad. 2 kids shot them and blew them up, and then killed themselves. They shouldn't have. But do we ever sit down and discuss why the kids did this? Marilyn Manson? Because they were nutjobs? Because guns are too easy to get? Because they were bullied? Let's look at the things that made them do this, not just condemn the "simulation" of the act.
To the people who are saying "This kind of game shouldn't be made! That's so sick and wrong!" I have a question. If this event had never happened, would you even care? Would it be a big deal because it's violent, or because we're desecrating the dead by exploring a school shooting? I don't know about you guys, but when I die, I hope they make light of it. At least my life in this world won't have made it a more somber place.
Well, aside from the new controller, the hardware isn't exactly that "next-gen". If a Core XBOX360 can be sold at $300 (yeah, they're losing money, I know), and a GC can be sold for $99 (making a profit), then the Wii could probably go down to $150. If you apply the price of an additional Wii controller ($30-50) to the price of a Gamecube (even at launch several years ago), then they can probably still make money at that price and still flood the market with them. Personally, I think they'll have to deal with hardware shortages even at $250, so it'll start at either $200 or $250.
I was kind of hoping you'd hold it like a NES controller, with A and B shooting and punching, and twisting the controller to make your character dodge and tumble.
The players get to resurrect, so why shouldn't the monsters? What if the monsters only learned a tactic if they survived combat (run or fled), and then made it back to their base and could teach it to their teammates?
Sometimes, when I'm talking or typing, I utilize a literary technique called "sarcasm". I have to remember to start adding/sarcasm tags, or something, and not just assume referencing Donald Duck comics removes the seriousness from the conversation.
Remember the old Scrooge McDuck comic books, where the Beagle Boys would dig a hole to his safe, and then slowly steal all his gold coins, until he noticed and sent Huey, Dewey and Louie to kick their asses?
This is like that, but with less ducks.
Not buying a corporation's product is the same as stealing. If they're spending money to make it, you should be spending money to consume it. That's just common sense.
Exactly. How many people log into their webmail or their MySpace or whatever from their home computers, their laptops, their work computers, the library, their school's connection, etcetera? Almost everybody.
My old GBA has a Spider-Man decal, actually. But that's not really what I'm talking about. When they released the DS in Japan, it came out in black, silver, pink, and some sort of blue, if memory serves. Over here we all get the same ugly-ass silver one (except for those of us who bought the Mario Kart DS bundle, like me). The N64 (eventually) came in yellows, greens, transparents, with Pikachus and Donkey Kongs on them, as did the Gameboy Color. Nowadays, in America, what do we get? medium-sized gray-white-black boxes. Boring. It's been done. It's time to make an orange console with racing flames. And I don't want a sticker. I want a funky-fresh design, supplimented with pointlessly cool features, like a disco-ball or an aerodynamic case or something.
You can label me however you like, but all I'm saying is that consoles aren't cool enough. What happened to the racing fins? The cool shapes? How about adding some cool decals of spaceships shooting laser beams? But no, they just make ANOTHER gray box.
Like he said. The pricing markets the PSP (I'm assuming the 2 was a typo) at the hardcore gamers, while the DS is accessable for anyone with a little extra change.
Personally, I'd rather game consoles have cool, interesting names. First you had the Nintendo, which was nondescript, but had a ring to it. Then you had the Super Nintendo. That name was cool because it had the word "super" in it. Gameboy was patronizing, Virtual Boy was too homoerotic (for my tastes), Genesis was too Bibley, Saturn was a cool name, Lynx was okay, because it's a cat, as well, Gamegear was cool, because "gear" sounds all mechanical and cool, Playstation sounded dumb, as did Playstation 2, Playstation Portable, Gamecube, and DS. Dreamcast was a decent name, simply because it didn't mean anything. Then there's XBOX, which has the best name for a console since Super Nintendo. Plus, the thing's black.
Personally, if I released a game maching, I'd name it something like "Psychotic Dragonskull: Mechanized Deathpod Maximized." Its logo would be a flaming skull with a dagger stuck through it, and a snake wrapped around a babe going through its eyes and mouth. The box itself would be a jet black sphere, and it would play overly-angsty deathmetal screams as it started up.
And it's predecessor wouldn't be white or have the number three hundred and sixty in its name.
So it will pretty much be like the Tiger Electronics versions of video games? Like Road Rash, where you have three different bike positions, or Double Dragon, where you moved to the right and hit the punch buton?
This thing needs some new software, and it's not even out yet.
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"Because you care more about it because you had to hand over a noticable amount of cash."
If that were true, then piracy would be eliminated. And nobody would play freeware games. And nobody would buy used games.
I have yet to play a WW2 game where you fight against Vichy French troops, to liberate a Nazi concentration camp, play as a Russian commissar and shoot Russian soldiers for retreating, to play as a civilian in London during the Nazi Blitz
That's because we won the war. If we had lost, we would have been portrayed as the bad guys, just as the German soldiers were portrayed as the bad guys, without a thought for why they executed their actions. If the Brittish had won the Revolutionary War, Americans would have been portrayed as thieves and murderers. If the Iraqis had won the Iraq war, we would have been portrayed as invading infedels. But we're not. They are. I can go on.
The problem with the Columbine shooting is that people take it too seriously. We can make games about killing the Viet Kong for no reason other than them wanting to change their political structure, and we can make games where you can (and are encouraged to) kill everybody in sight, like GTA. But when somebody makes a crappy little game about the Collumbine Shooting with RPG Maker, suddenly they're going to hell. That's ridiculous. 12 innocent kids died. It's sad. 2 kids shot them and blew them up, and then killed themselves. They shouldn't have. But do we ever sit down and discuss why the kids did this? Marilyn Manson? Because they were nutjobs? Because guns are too easy to get? Because they were bullied? Let's look at the things that made them do this, not just condemn the "simulation" of the act.
To the people who are saying "This kind of game shouldn't be made! That's so sick and wrong!" I have a question. If this event had never happened, would you even care? Would it be a big deal because it's violent, or because we're desecrating the dead by exploring a school shooting?
I don't know about you guys, but when I die, I hope they make light of it. At least my life in this world won't have made it a more somber place.
Well, aside from the new controller, the hardware isn't exactly that "next-gen". If a Core XBOX360 can be sold at $300 (yeah, they're losing money, I know), and a GC can be sold for $99 (making a profit), then the Wii could probably go down to $150. If you apply the price of an additional Wii controller ($30-50) to the price of a Gamecube (even at launch several years ago), then they can probably still make money at that price and still flood the market with them. Personally, I think they'll have to deal with hardware shortages even at $250, so it'll start at either $200 or $250.
If games are fifty dollars, will you go ahead and mail me a copy of that new Zelda game?
Thanks.
If I had sixty cents for every dollar I had, I'd be Canada.
I was kind of hoping you'd hold it like a NES controller, with A and B shooting and punching, and twisting the controller to make your character dodge and tumble.
This whole article is going to be just covered in comments like this one...
The players get to resurrect, so why shouldn't the monsters? What if the monsters only learned a tactic if they survived combat (run or fled), and then made it back to their base and could teach it to their teammates?
Not if the monsters are weaker than you. And anyway, I'd be happier paying for a challenge than paying to fight a 25 line AI script.
Yeah! Damn hippies.
That's what I was thinking, too. A real news headline would be something like "Nintendo UK Speaks Out Against the Name 'Wii'"
Sometimes, when I'm talking or typing, I utilize a literary technique called "sarcasm". I have to remember to start adding /sarcasm tags, or something, and not just assume referencing Donald Duck comics removes the seriousness from the conversation.
Remember the old Scrooge McDuck comic books, where the Beagle Boys would dig a hole to his safe, and then slowly steal all his gold coins, until he noticed and sent Huey, Dewey and Louie to kick their asses?
This is like that, but with less ducks.
Not buying a corporation's product is the same as stealing. If they're spending money to make it, you should be spending money to consume it. That's just common sense.
We're just here for the dirty pictures.
Thanks for the link to the porn site, buddy.
By glorifying the Iraq war? Sure.
Exactly. How many people log into their webmail or their MySpace or whatever from their home computers, their laptops, their work computers, the library, their school's connection, etcetera? Almost everybody.
Just buy some Axe. It works on TV.
My old GBA has a Spider-Man decal, actually. But that's not really what I'm talking about. When they released the DS in Japan, it came out in black, silver, pink, and some sort of blue, if memory serves. Over here we all get the same ugly-ass silver one (except for those of us who bought the Mario Kart DS bundle, like me). The N64 (eventually) came in yellows, greens, transparents, with Pikachus and Donkey Kongs on them, as did the Gameboy Color. Nowadays, in America, what do we get? medium-sized gray-white-black boxes. Boring. It's been done. It's time to make an orange console with racing flames. And I don't want a sticker. I want a funky-fresh design, supplimented with pointlessly cool features, like a disco-ball or an aerodynamic case or something.
You can label me however you like, but all I'm saying is that consoles aren't cool enough. What happened to the racing fins? The cool shapes? How about adding some cool decals of spaceships shooting laser beams? But no, they just make ANOTHER gray box.
Like he said. The pricing markets the PSP (I'm assuming the 2 was a typo) at the hardcore gamers, while the DS is accessable for anyone with a little extra change.
Personally, I'd rather game consoles have cool, interesting names. First you had the Nintendo, which was nondescript, but had a ring to it. Then you had the Super Nintendo. That name was cool because it had the word "super" in it. Gameboy was patronizing, Virtual Boy was too homoerotic (for my tastes), Genesis was too Bibley, Saturn was a cool name, Lynx was okay, because it's a cat, as well, Gamegear was cool, because "gear" sounds all mechanical and cool, Playstation sounded dumb, as did Playstation 2, Playstation Portable, Gamecube, and DS. Dreamcast was a decent name, simply because it didn't mean anything. Then there's XBOX, which has the best name for a console since Super Nintendo. Plus, the thing's black.
Personally, if I released a game maching, I'd name it something like "Psychotic Dragonskull: Mechanized Deathpod Maximized." Its logo would be a flaming skull with a dagger stuck through it, and a snake wrapped around a babe going through its eyes and mouth. The box itself would be a jet black sphere, and it would play overly-angsty deathmetal screams as it started up.
And it's predecessor wouldn't be white or have the number three hundred and sixty in its name.
So it will pretty much be like the Tiger Electronics versions of video games? Like Road Rash, where you have three different bike positions, or Double Dragon, where you moved to the right and hit the punch buton?
This thing needs some new software, and it's not even out yet.
When I saw "Boozy Gamer" I thought for a minute I was reading about some future Ubuntu release.
Free as in Beer.
...and with those words, the great Slashdot Canada/USA Music Flamewar of '06 broke out. It was truly the "post read 'round the world."