The only diference between Mario Kart and Twisted Metal, content-wise, is that one uses goofy cartoony-looking characters in Go Karts, and the other uses gritty, angsty-looking guys in death machines. If you just replaced the character and invironment sprites with something more colorful, and with bigger heads, then you'd have a family-friendly game. It's like the rock bands who're still protested against be people with too much time on their hands, even if they don't sing about raping Jesus or something. If they cleaned up their images and played different melodies, their songs would be listened to be the people who protest them without any change in content. It's not about content. It's about how it's presented.
My favorite part: Nintendo confirms what happened to Emily is possible but the company claims that person must also be using another DS system and be within 65 feet. If the poster is 65 feet away from your child, then it would be easier to shoot your kid or flash them or something.
Man, I wish I could get Pictochat to work that way, though. A buddy list and a better chat client, and it would be great.
Yeah, like marijuana is illegal because it hurts other people...
As I understand it, there are two reasons suicide is illegal. One, because if people see it as illegal they see it as something they wouldn't do, because it's evil, and two, because they can restrain somebody and force them into healthcare if they don't manage to kill themselves.
Yeah, I know I sound like an ass, but it's true. Teen girls flipping from one craze to another for no other reason than it's popular. How can you explain why the same girls who liked the Backstreet Boys and Brittney Spears now go head-over-heels for Nelly and 50-Cent? It's a completely different genre of music, and it's the same people. The kids who used to play Pokemon now switch to Yu-Gi-Oh! and then Duel Masters or something. Sure, they might be fun, but they wouldn't be playing them if everybody else wasn't.
Hey, we're all susceptible to peer pressure, but when it gets outrageous, it's hard not to point and laugh.
But how many older gamers would be willing to constantly shell out money for new games, versus playing Popcap games? How many older gamers would really go buy a DS and Tetris rather than play web games? It's not what percentage of gamers they make up, but what percentage of market share.
A lot of them aren't, though. Almost everyone who buys a new car instead of a 4-year-old car is just buying one because the car companies tell them to. Dell catalogs advertise excellent computers for good prices and then they have a little tag next to each model telling you what it's good for ("Internet", "Internet+", which means it can run Flash and Java applications, "Multimedia", and "Games"). Most people aren't that tech-savvy when they're buying new technology, and a large enough portion of the American population isn't smart enough to buy a used car instead of taking out a loan. Now, I'm not saying I'm any different in a lot of areas (I wouldn't know the best deal on a hunting rifle or scope, or a new washer or dryer, for example), I'm just saying that, technology-wise they're not that into it.
Wait, who? Consumers appreciate prices ending in -9.95, enjoy products because other people seem to like them (pet rocks, disco, gigapets, Brittney Spears, etcetera), think that larger numbers are better when they're buying a PC ("Hmmm, 733 MHZ is better than 4.7 GHZ, right?") and actually go in debt for brand new cars that will be worth a tenth of their value in five years. If kids' friends have them, and they play them at their houses, and decide they like them, then they'll get their parents to put one on the ol' credit card. Simple as that.
That wasn't the point, though. The parent said it was $400, so I was quoting Microsoft's price point for the most expensive Windows version I could find on their site, and that's $299.
Sorry, AC, but that's not the point. Games wouldn't have had first aid kits with a big red + on them if they weren't already used on real life first aid kits. And, anyway, blaming the misuse of the red cross on the white background for your friend's death is nonsensical.
Windows is $299 for the standalone Professional version, and that's not even the lower priced Home upgrade. Also, an XBOX or PS2 is only $150, and a GC is even less.
Am I the only one here who remembers paying rent in MUDs? That was for realism, or to keep players coming back, or whatever. This is just some guy who wants the next level without grinding. Somebody should tell he shouldn't be playing MMOs if that's the kind of experience he wants.
With the SNES, you were able to do stuff you couldn't do with the NES. The SNES let you have more sprites, because it could process more (remember the flicker from too many sprites on screen from the NES?), bigger sprites, and it could just plain handle more. Games like Super Mario World, The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past, Starfox, and Super Mario Kart wouldn't have been possible on the NES, but the SNES allowed them the power to be what the game designers wanted them to be.
Besides amazing AI, which I haven't seen utilized yet, what does the XBOX360 bring to the table that we haven't seen before? Its most amazing game is an overhead space shooter.
Depending on the lineup, I'm probably going to get a Revolution. I'm not going to get an XBOX360 or a PS3, because they're really just more of the last generation, but I've been thinking about getting a Revolution ever since I got a DS, and saw how great that was. If they were four hundred, I wouldn't, but for two hundred or two fifty, it's well worth it.
Something that I think about when I think about the XBOX360 and the PS3 is that everything there is possible with worse graphics on the XBOX or PS2. With the NES, you could do stuff you couldn't do on the Atari. With the SNES you could have more sprites onscreen, and process more, so you could have cooler games. With the N64 you could get 3D games running, and with this generation you can finally fully enjoy 3D worlds. But this generation that's coming up on us, besides the Revolution, offers nothing we haven't seen before.
I think that's why a quarter of the people who tried it bought it. It's a different genre of game than most people play, it's a twelfth of a new XBOX360 game, they already have your credit card number... it's just too easy.
Maybe the people who make games like Gish should take note of this. Low price + good, easy to make game + ease of aquirement + large audience = the money.
The worldwide leaderboards will be filled with two guys, each one vying for the top slot, while everyone else sighs and goes away. Personally, I think the DS WiFi high-scores would be better if they had a more community-based system, using individual DS codes, instead of just "So and so scored 150,000,000 on X Tony Hawk level. Go cry."
Jack Thompson, somehow that's not quite the message I got from the parent's post. See, I thought he was saying that people shouldn't be so morally outraged over the drop of a hat, not that he was supportive of the wholesale slaughter of Native Americans.
Raising an adopted child is by defintion NOT pro-creating.
Okay, let's think logically about this. If what you say is true, and adoption is evil, since it doesn't propogate the genes of the responsible parties, then isn't that just as bad as homosexuality? And, if that's true, then doesn't that make the abortion of unwanted fetuses the right thing to do, since puttin them up for adoption is evil, and the combination of unloving parents, a poor economic environment, and lousy genes means the child has next to zero chance for success, and it's therefore cruel to the child and the rest of society?
'Recovered' or socially pressured into acting straight?
It really is sad when you hear "recovered"-homosexuals on the radio or on talk shows, because when they talk about "having to fight their urges every single day" or something, you just know they're needlessly torturing themselves to please a conservative Christian society.
First off, I guess my sarcasm wasn't pronounced enough. Second off, Merriam-Webster online defines Jihad as 1 : a holy war waged on behalf of Islam as a religious duty; also : a personal struggle in devotion to Islam especially involving spiritual discipline
2 : a crusade for a principle or belief
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The only diference between Mario Kart and Twisted Metal, content-wise, is that one uses goofy cartoony-looking characters in Go Karts, and the other uses gritty, angsty-looking guys in death machines. If you just replaced the character and invironment sprites with something more colorful, and with bigger heads, then you'd have a family-friendly game.
It's like the rock bands who're still protested against be people with too much time on their hands, even if they don't sing about raping Jesus or something. If they cleaned up their images and played different melodies, their songs would be listened to be the people who protest them without any change in content.
It's not about content. It's about how it's presented.
More than ever hour after our work is never over.
They were getting in the way of a man and his porn, weren't they?
*Registers the name Allahfucker*
They wouldn't sell me an airsoft target at Walmart.
Now I have nothing to shoot but other people.
My favorite part: Nintendo confirms what happened to Emily is possible but the company claims that person must also be using another DS system and be within 65 feet.
If the poster is 65 feet away from your child, then it would be easier to shoot your kid or flash them or something.
Man, I wish I could get Pictochat to work that way, though. A buddy list and a better chat client, and it would be great.
Yeah, like marijuana is illegal because it hurts other people...
As I understand it, there are two reasons suicide is illegal. One, because if people see it as illegal they see it as something they wouldn't do, because it's evil, and two, because they can restrain somebody and force them into healthcare if they don't manage to kill themselves.
Yeah, I know I sound like an ass, but it's true. Teen girls flipping from one craze to another for no other reason than it's popular. How can you explain why the same girls who liked the Backstreet Boys and Brittney Spears now go head-over-heels for Nelly and 50-Cent? It's a completely different genre of music, and it's the same people. The kids who used to play Pokemon now switch to Yu-Gi-Oh! and then Duel Masters or something. Sure, they might be fun, but they wouldn't be playing them if everybody else wasn't.
Hey, we're all susceptible to peer pressure, but when it gets outrageous, it's hard not to point and laugh.
But how many older gamers would be willing to constantly shell out money for new games, versus playing Popcap games? How many older gamers would really go buy a DS and Tetris rather than play web games? It's not what percentage of gamers they make up, but what percentage of market share.
Try MAngband.
A lot of them aren't, though. Almost everyone who buys a new car instead of a 4-year-old car is just buying one because the car companies tell them to. Dell catalogs advertise excellent computers for good prices and then they have a little tag next to each model telling you what it's good for ("Internet", "Internet+", which means it can run Flash and Java applications, "Multimedia", and "Games"). Most people aren't that tech-savvy when they're buying new technology, and a large enough portion of the American population isn't smart enough to buy a used car instead of taking out a loan.
Now, I'm not saying I'm any different in a lot of areas (I wouldn't know the best deal on a hunting rifle or scope, or a new washer or dryer, for example), I'm just saying that, technology-wise they're not that into it.
Wait, who? Consumers appreciate prices ending in -9.95, enjoy products because other people seem to like them (pet rocks, disco, gigapets, Brittney Spears, etcetera), think that larger numbers are better when they're buying a PC ("Hmmm, 733 MHZ is better than 4.7 GHZ, right?") and actually go in debt for brand new cars that will be worth a tenth of their value in five years.
If kids' friends have them, and they play them at their houses, and decide they like them, then they'll get their parents to put one on the ol' credit card. Simple as that.
That wasn't the point, though. The parent said it was $400, so I was quoting Microsoft's price point for the most expensive Windows version I could find on their site, and that's $299.
Sorry, AC, but that's not the point. Games wouldn't have had first aid kits with a big red + on them if they weren't already used on real life first aid kits. And, anyway, blaming the misuse of the red cross on the white background for your friend's death is nonsensical.
Windows is $299 for the standalone Professional version, and that's not even the lower priced Home upgrade. Also, an XBOX or PS2 is only $150, and a GC is even less.
Am I the only one here who remembers paying rent in MUDs? That was for realism, or to keep players coming back, or whatever. This is just some guy who wants the next level without grinding. Somebody should tell he shouldn't be playing MMOs if that's the kind of experience he wants.
With the SNES, you were able to do stuff you couldn't do with the NES. The SNES let you have more sprites, because it could process more (remember the flicker from too many sprites on screen from the NES?), bigger sprites, and it could just plain handle more. Games like Super Mario World, The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past, Starfox, and Super Mario Kart wouldn't have been possible on the NES, but the SNES allowed them the power to be what the game designers wanted them to be.
Besides amazing AI, which I haven't seen utilized yet, what does the XBOX360 bring to the table that we haven't seen before? Its most amazing game is an overhead space shooter.
Depending on the lineup, I'm probably going to get a Revolution. I'm not going to get an XBOX360 or a PS3, because they're really just more of the last generation, but I've been thinking about getting a Revolution ever since I got a DS, and saw how great that was. If they were four hundred, I wouldn't, but for two hundred or two fifty, it's well worth it.
Something that I think about when I think about the XBOX360 and the PS3 is that everything there is possible with worse graphics on the XBOX or PS2. With the NES, you could do stuff you couldn't do on the Atari. With the SNES you could have more sprites onscreen, and process more, so you could have cooler games. With the N64 you could get 3D games running, and with this generation you can finally fully enjoy 3D worlds. But this generation that's coming up on us, besides the Revolution, offers nothing we haven't seen before.
I think that's why a quarter of the people who tried it bought it.
It's a different genre of game than most people play, it's a twelfth of a new XBOX360 game, they already have your credit card number... it's just too easy.
Maybe the people who make games like Gish should take note of this.
Low price + good, easy to make game + ease of aquirement + large audience = the money.
It's just too bad there's a $400.00 entry point.
The worldwide leaderboards will be filled with two guys, each one vying for the top slot, while everyone else sighs and goes away.
Personally, I think the DS WiFi high-scores would be better if they had a more community-based system, using individual DS codes, instead of just "So and so scored 150,000,000 on X Tony Hawk level. Go cry."
Wait, so you're fine with your kid playing GTA: San Andreas, but you're deathly afraid of him seeing an unclothed female?
Yet another excellent example of why people should have to apply for a license before they bring children into this world.
Jack Thompson, somehow that's not quite the message I got from the parent's post.
See, I thought he was saying that people shouldn't be so morally outraged over the drop of a hat, not that he was supportive of the wholesale slaughter of Native Americans.
Raising an adopted child is by defintion NOT pro-creating.
Okay, let's think logically about this. If what you say is true, and adoption is evil, since it doesn't propogate the genes of the responsible parties, then isn't that just as bad as homosexuality? And, if that's true, then doesn't that make the abortion of unwanted fetuses the right thing to do, since puttin them up for adoption is evil, and the combination of unloving parents, a poor economic environment, and lousy genes means the child has next to zero chance for success, and it's therefore cruel to the child and the rest of society?
I'm just asking if that's what you're implying.
'Recovered' or socially pressured into acting straight?
It really is sad when you hear "recovered"-homosexuals on the radio or on talk shows, because when they talk about "having to fight their urges every single day" or something, you just know they're needlessly torturing themselves to please a conservative Christian society.
First off, I guess my sarcasm wasn't pronounced enough. Second off, Merriam-Webster online defines Jihad as
1 : a holy war waged on behalf of Islam as a religious duty; also : a personal struggle in devotion to Islam especially involving spiritual discipline
2 : a crusade for a principle or belief
I was using the second definition. Hah.