Game idea: Mario Kart Cellular. The bottom screen on the DS is used with the stylus to select numbers the game tells you to dial. The top screen is used with the D-Pad and buttons to steer. The game then has an annoying voice that asks you questions every 15-30 seconds. If you fail to answer promptly or don't dial you lose lots of speed.
I played that at a demo station in Walmart. All I could think was "Hey, I'm playing Episode 1: The Phantom Menace but with lego minifigures!" Then I went home.
You have a good point. I'd like to point out that if I did indeed wish to play the latest and greatest games, I would already have an XBOX or a PS2. I don't have that need, or the time, so I'm going to wait until the price drop.
Look at the sales figures. Did DOA: Extreme Beach Volleyball sell well? Yes. Did it have good gameplay? According to the review I looked at on Gamespot, no. Did Beyond Good and Evil sell well? Not really. Did the latest Tomb Raider games sell well? Yes, considering what they were. The bottom line is, whether you appreciate supermodel wannabes in games or not, most of America does. It's just like every other form of entertainment.
I was just playing Splinter Cell, so I'm wondering why they don't just use those launchable cameras you can attach to your silenced assault rifle's grenade launcher?
Just what it sounds like: the rate software is being pirated in relation to... how much it's not being... hey, wait a minute. Okay, maybe it's the relationship between people who pirate and people who don't? Or the relationship between copies bought and copies pirated?
My grandpa's been getting us Best Buy gift cards for Christmas, and I love it. Let me clarify first by saying that he doesn't really understand technology. Last time he tried to buy video games for christmas he got Buzz Lightyear and Mickey Mouse computer games for kids more interested in RPGs and FPSs. If I got my brother a gift card, it would be lazy. If somebody who lives in Florida and doesn't know how to hold an N64 controller buys my brother a gift card, it's better for both parties.
But by your logic I should go ahead and fork the moolah over for an XBOX360. If I spend the $400 then I get to enjoy next-gen technology for years before the next next-generation technology comes out. We all have busy schedules and limited income, but I figure I can wait until things get cheaper to buy a console I'm only going to play a few hours a week. Damn. I wish I had all the money I had now when I was younger and had more free time.
Your #1 rule is "No Guns!". Then you talk about guns in the rest of the rant. You don't want stats, armor or people fighting each other with different weapons.
Damnit, camping is a legitimate strategy! Back in 'Nam, you think people were running around with rocket launchers? How about in our current Iraqi war? You think people are jumping over cars with shotguns? No. They're hiding behind rocks and cars and trading fire. That's how wars are fought. People who complain because they get sniped are pathetic. It's like calling somebody a 'shotgun bitch' or a 'rocket whore' simply because they use a certain weapon. Please. If it's in the game then it's fair. Unless it's specified in the map title, you have no reason to get mad at campers.
Exactly. So let us have our super-power-killing-man saves/screws super-suggestive-sexy-woman fantasies. Wanting to be a protector and a big macho man killing the enemy and fornicating with the sexual ideal of a woman is a natural fantasy dating back to the days when we had to fight saber-toothed tigers and mammoths to eat. It's not perverted, it's an evolutionary survival mechanism. Now, if women want to make their own games where women are normally proportioned, or if men want to make games where women look and act normal, that's fine by me, but if they want to censor our fun and change our games just so they can feel unobjectified, that's where I draw the line.
I don't know. The $50 I save could buy 3 or 4 games if I shop around. It's really the principle, though. If I buy a PS2 or XBOX and a month from now they go down $50, that means I spent around $1.40 a day extra just so I could have it now. Plus I really don't have time to play right now, what with finals and Christmas and work, so it would just sit there taunting me. Computer games will hold me over until the price drop.
I'm working on cosmic ray research. If game developer wanted to read the papers and give me feedback, sure, I would take it under consideration. What's wrong with giving feedback about a product or service? How else will the company know what demand is really out there?
Nothing wrong with feedback. The only problem is when feedback turns into lambasting. Apparently this woman has a problem with the games she's playing, and so instead of saying "You know, maybe you could make her cleavage a little less bouncy and throw a pair of pants on her" she goes with "Why should they have to suffer through the indignities of big-breasted Valkries in chain-mail bikinis? If the game companies want our business - they should have to change those images to better suit us, right?" Fine. Then she shouldn't buy games until they change.
You don't seem to understand the difference between "realistic" and "ugly". There are a lot of drop-dead gorgeous women who are not shaped like Lara Croft et al. What's wrong with stating a preference for female characters who are both attractive and realistic?
I understand that realistic doesn't equal ugly, but, let's face it, there are a lot of humans -male and female- who aren't exactly easy on the eyes. Do I want to see them sitting around watching TV and getting even fatter when I game? No. Do I want to see attractive people doing cool things when I game? Yes. Men don't mind playing a realistic girl, they would just rather play a sex object.
Let's look at statements like this one: Gamers are not forced to passively accept a standard of beauty dictated by society, Hollywood, or men
Throughout the whole thing she's blaming men and sympathizing with women about how they're forced to think slimness is pretty. Well if society's pushing it on women, they're certainly pushing it on men, so the average joe, the guys who made Tomb Raider, not the CEO of a big company, are as much victims as women.
And to say things like: Given the abilities of computer technology, women's images and avatars can look like the most grotesque version of a wet dream ever conceived. What is the logic in this? There isn't any, and more gamers, even the men, are realizing it. Men are not fooled by these visual abominations. M. Junaid Alam, in his article "What is a Galaxy Without Stars? Drop the Sexism, Bring the Women," acknowledges that those images are eyesores at best. "It was impossible to take the game seriously; the woman's every movement revealed a risible mockery of the female form and insulted our intelligence. Exit game, uninstall and abandon ship" (online). It's just silly. What, like women don't like watching TV because there are a lot of models and actresses who don't look like them? They don't read magazines with photoshoots of people payed to look pretty? They don't buy clothes based on how trendy they are? It's women who perpetuate the stereotype too.
And even if the public's view of "thin is sexy" turned to "big noses, protruding ears and small breast are sexy", women would still complain because it's hard to grow your nose, shrink your breasts and make your ears stick out.
Men like hot women. Men have a visually oriented libido. Men make video games. Women like men who like hot women, so they want to look like hot women. What do you expect?
What do you do, and when's the last time a game developer decided to let you know how you were doing it wrong and what you should fix? I'm not trolling, I'm just saying that if women are interested in video games, they should stop complaining and make them. Same with magazines, movies and pornography. Telling game designers they offend you for creating a mass-market product that would sell less if the women were plain or ugly isn't sensical. It's just silly.
It's just like how guys want to play cool-as-ice spies and muscular street fighters. If we're going to be realistic about women in games, then we should be realistic about men in games. So now you have to fight in underground street fighting tournaments with a 120 pound guy who's never so much as slapped anybody before. You also have to play games where your 350 pound character has trouble getting into cars he's hijacking. You should see him try to fit into an air duct.
Until these changes are made, I say we just accept that women in games will be hotter than women in real life, just like men in games are cooler than men in real life.
This is just like women and lesbians. They just don't understand it. Don't ruin our entertainment because you think it's "disappointing" or dumb. We don't ruin your chick flicks by asking for less compassionate male roles. Honestly, most males are pricks, and should be portrayed as such in women's films, not as some perfect expectation of a knight in shining armor we can never live up to.
Sir, it sounds like you haven't played Life in a while. I suspect you will soon find that spinning a spinner and moving the token accordingly gets old about two rounds into the game.
I understand wanting to relive the old days, or whatever you old codgers are always rambling on about, but why not go for something from Cheapass games? They're cheap, they're original, and you're not paying $14.95 for a copy of Life. Or how about The Sims? That has destiny-choosing too.
Come on, man. I'm only trying to save you from yourself.
Life? Isn't that like Monopoly but with little pegs you can stick in your car? Right. You're better off with a strategic board game, like Chess, Checkers, Go, or something like that.
Can anyone who has it tell me if you have to connect to the intrawebs every time you want to play, like I've heard you have to with Half-Life 2? Can you host your own games, and that kind of thing, independent of Valve?
I wouldn't think it would be a problem, but I'm thinking about getting it, so I'm making sure.
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I'm tired of this "good Christian" this and "good Christian" that. What, like the rest of us are assholes?
Who started the Crusades? People with Christian values. Remember Mahatma "I'd be a Christian if it were not for the Christians!" Ghandi? He seemed like an alright guy to me.
Come on. Just because you're not Christian doesn't mean you don't have morals.
Sadly, I have to agree with you. My generation is generally stupid. They're only tech-savvy about AOL Instant Messenger and MySpace, they can't write a sentence worth a damn, and they can't spell anything. I guess it's no worse than a few hundred years ago, but it's kind of annoying to see all these great, free learning resources going to waste on a generation of idiots who don't care. Then again, maybe RPGs just need to shake off the nerd image and market to a younger crowd. I doubt most of the denizens of any given MMO have even played a Pen and Paper RPG, and if they did they might find playing it over AIM incredibly fun.
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50/50 isn't really accurate. It varies depending on your Dexterity modifiers.
Game idea: Mario Kart Cellular.
The bottom screen on the DS is used with the stylus to select numbers the game tells you to dial. The top screen is used with the D-Pad and buttons to steer. The game then has an annoying voice that asks you questions every 15-30 seconds. If you fail to answer promptly or don't dial you lose lots of speed.
I played that at a demo station in Walmart.
All I could think was "Hey, I'm playing Episode 1: The Phantom Menace but with lego minifigures!"
Then I went home.
You have a good point.
I'd like to point out that if I did indeed wish to play the latest and greatest games, I would already have an XBOX or a PS2. I don't have that need, or the time, so I'm going to wait until the price drop.
Look at the sales figures. Did DOA: Extreme Beach Volleyball sell well? Yes. Did it have good gameplay? According to the review I looked at on Gamespot, no. Did Beyond Good and Evil sell well? Not really. Did the latest Tomb Raider games sell well? Yes, considering what they were.
The bottom line is, whether you appreciate supermodel wannabes in games or not, most of America does. It's just like every other form of entertainment.
I was just playing Splinter Cell, so I'm wondering why they don't just use those launchable cameras you can attach to your silenced assault rifle's grenade launcher?
Just what it sounds like: the rate software is being pirated in relation to... how much it's not being... hey, wait a minute.
Okay, maybe it's the relationship between people who pirate and people who don't? Or the relationship between copies bought and copies pirated?
My grandpa's been getting us Best Buy gift cards for Christmas, and I love it.
Let me clarify first by saying that he doesn't really understand technology. Last time he tried to buy video games for christmas he got Buzz Lightyear and Mickey Mouse computer games for kids more interested in RPGs and FPSs.
If I got my brother a gift card, it would be lazy. If somebody who lives in Florida and doesn't know how to hold an N64 controller buys my brother a gift card, it's better for both parties.
But by your logic I should go ahead and fork the moolah over for an XBOX360. If I spend the $400 then I get to enjoy next-gen technology for years before the next next-generation technology comes out.
We all have busy schedules and limited income, but I figure I can wait until things get cheaper to buy a console I'm only going to play a few hours a week.
Damn. I wish I had all the money I had now when I was younger and had more free time.
Your #1 rule is "No Guns!". Then you talk about guns in the rest of the rant. You don't want stats, armor or people fighting each other with different weapons.
Damnit, camping is a legitimate strategy!
Back in 'Nam, you think people were running around with rocket launchers? How about in our current Iraqi war? You think people are jumping over cars with shotguns? No. They're hiding behind rocks and cars and trading fire. That's how wars are fought.
People who complain because they get sniped are pathetic. It's like calling somebody a 'shotgun bitch' or a 'rocket whore' simply because they use a certain weapon.
Please. If it's in the game then it's fair. Unless it's specified in the map title, you have no reason to get mad at campers.
Damn. I thought it was 2005.
Exactly. So let us have our super-power-killing-man saves/screws super-suggestive-sexy-woman fantasies.
Wanting to be a protector and a big macho man killing the enemy and fornicating with the sexual ideal of a woman is a natural fantasy dating back to the days when we had to fight saber-toothed tigers and mammoths to eat. It's not perverted, it's an evolutionary survival mechanism.
Now, if women want to make their own games where women are normally proportioned, or if men want to make games where women look and act normal, that's fine by me, but if they want to censor our fun and change our games just so they can feel unobjectified, that's where I draw the line.
I don't know. The $50 I save could buy 3 or 4 games if I shop around.
It's really the principle, though. If I buy a PS2 or XBOX and a month from now they go down $50, that means I spent around $1.40 a day extra just so I could have it now.
Plus I really don't have time to play right now, what with finals and Christmas and work, so it would just sit there taunting me.
Computer games will hold me over until the price drop.
I'm working on cosmic ray research. If game developer wanted to read the papers and give me feedback, sure, I would take it under consideration. What's wrong with giving feedback about a product or service? How else will the company know what demand is really out there?
Nothing wrong with feedback. The only problem is when feedback turns into lambasting. Apparently this woman has a problem with the games she's playing, and so instead of saying "You know, maybe you could make her cleavage a little less bouncy and throw a pair of pants on her" she goes with "Why should they have to suffer through the indignities of big-breasted Valkries in chain-mail bikinis? If the game companies want our business - they should have to change those images to better suit us, right?"
Fine. Then she shouldn't buy games until they change.
You don't seem to understand the difference between "realistic" and "ugly". There are a lot of drop-dead gorgeous women who are not shaped like Lara Croft et al. What's wrong with stating a preference for female characters who are both attractive and realistic?
I understand that realistic doesn't equal ugly, but, let's face it, there are a lot of humans -male and female- who aren't exactly easy on the eyes. Do I want to see them sitting around watching TV and getting even fatter when I game? No. Do I want to see attractive people doing cool things when I game? Yes.
Men don't mind playing a realistic girl, they would just rather play a sex object.
Let's look at statements like this one: Gamers are not forced to passively accept a standard of beauty dictated by society, Hollywood, or men
Throughout the whole thing she's blaming men and sympathizing with women about how they're forced to think slimness is pretty. Well if society's pushing it on women, they're certainly pushing it on men, so the average joe, the guys who made Tomb Raider, not the CEO of a big company, are as much victims as women.
And to say things like:
Given the abilities of computer technology, women's images and avatars can look like the most grotesque version of a wet dream ever conceived. What is the logic in this? There isn't any, and more gamers, even the men, are realizing it. Men are not fooled by these visual abominations. M. Junaid Alam, in his article "What is a Galaxy Without Stars? Drop the Sexism, Bring the Women," acknowledges that those images are eyesores at best. "It was impossible to take the game seriously; the woman's every movement revealed a risible mockery of the female form and insulted our intelligence. Exit game, uninstall and abandon ship" (online).
It's just silly. What, like women don't like watching TV because there are a lot of models and actresses who don't look like them? They don't read magazines with photoshoots of people payed to look pretty? They don't buy clothes based on how trendy they are? It's women who perpetuate the stereotype too.
And even if the public's view of "thin is sexy" turned to "big noses, protruding ears and small breast are sexy", women would still complain because it's hard to grow your nose, shrink your breasts and make your ears stick out.
Men like hot women. Men have a visually oriented libido. Men make video games.
Women like men who like hot women, so they want to look like hot women.
What do you expect?
What do you do, and when's the last time a game developer decided to let you know how you were doing it wrong and what you should fix?
I'm not trolling, I'm just saying that if women are interested in video games, they should stop complaining and make them. Same with magazines, movies and pornography.
Telling game designers they offend you for creating a mass-market product that would sell less if the women were plain or ugly isn't sensical. It's just silly.
It's just like how guys want to play cool-as-ice spies and muscular street fighters.
If we're going to be realistic about women in games, then we should be realistic about men in games.
So now you have to fight in underground street fighting tournaments with a 120 pound guy who's never so much as slapped anybody before. You also have to play games where your 350 pound character has trouble getting into cars he's hijacking. You should see him try to fit into an air duct.
Until these changes are made, I say we just accept that women in games will be hotter than women in real life, just like men in games are cooler than men in real life.
This is just like women and lesbians. They just don't understand it. Don't ruin our entertainment because you think it's "disappointing" or dumb.
We don't ruin your chick flicks by asking for less compassionate male roles. Honestly, most males are pricks, and should be portrayed as such in women's films, not as some perfect expectation of a knight in shining armor we can never live up to.
Yes, but when will we get a price drop on the current generation so I can buy a PS2?
Sir, it sounds like you haven't played Life in a while.
I suspect you will soon find that spinning a spinner and moving the token accordingly gets old about two rounds into the game.
I understand wanting to relive the old days, or whatever you old codgers are always rambling on about, but why not go for something from Cheapass games?
They're cheap, they're original, and you're not paying $14.95 for a copy of Life.
Or how about The Sims? That has destiny-choosing too.
Come on, man. I'm only trying to save you from yourself.
One word: paranoid.
Life? Isn't that like Monopoly but with little pegs you can stick in your car?
Right.
You're better off with a strategic board game, like Chess, Checkers, Go, or something like that.
Can anyone who has it tell me if you have to connect to the intrawebs every time you want to play, like I've heard you have to with Half-Life 2?
Can you host your own games, and that kind of thing, independent of Valve?
I wouldn't think it would be a problem, but I'm thinking about getting it, so I'm making sure.
I'm tired of this "good Christian" this and "good Christian" that.
What, like the rest of us are assholes?
Who started the Crusades? People with Christian values.
Remember Mahatma "I'd be a Christian if it were not for the Christians!" Ghandi? He seemed like an alright guy to me.
Come on. Just because you're not Christian doesn't mean you don't have morals.
If I had a company, I wouldn't hire bloggers.
Sadly, I have to agree with you.
My generation is generally stupid. They're only tech-savvy about AOL Instant Messenger and MySpace, they can't write a sentence worth a damn, and they can't spell anything.
I guess it's no worse than a few hundred years ago, but it's kind of annoying to see all these great, free learning resources going to waste on a generation of idiots who don't care.
Then again, maybe RPGs just need to shake off the nerd image and market to a younger crowd. I doubt most of the denizens of any given MMO have even played a Pen and Paper RPG, and if they did they might find playing it over AIM incredibly fun.