You guys are such wimps! I work 168 hours per week. Every christmas I take a day off to sleep, but then I'm right back on the job. I ship four games per year and my supervisor has complimented me many times, saying that his golf vacations have become even more pleasurable knowing that I'm hard at work making his money.
Frankly, I think you guys just should just suck it up and learn how to be men. Real men sit in soft chairs for 99% of their life and stare at glowing phosphorus tubes so that adolescents can pretend they are football coaches. What did you expect from life? A wife? A sense of intrinsic happiness? A healthy body? That's not how it works.
Life is hell and everyone who doesn't enjoy that fact is wussier than me.
If some gaming company came out with an X-Wing clone in which the gameplay mechanics were exactly the same as the original X-wing, with no gameplay enhancements or innovations, and yet the graphics and sound were out of this world, and there was a new and compelling plot, I would buy the shit out of it.;)
I don't think a game has to be innovative. Just really damn fun. I don't think Zelda: A Link To The Past was innovative. It was basically The Legend of Zelda with some graphical bells and whistles and a more cartoony/fun world. But damn if it wasn't fun.
ID Software has no fair distribution of power and they do just fine.
The idea that an individual automatically has a weaker moral compass than a group, simply because he is an individual is not correct, and frankly, is insidious.
The number of people who agree with you is not a barometer of your "correctness". Stupidity and immorality typically travel in packs.
In fact, I would go so far as to argue that companies with a nebulous board of directors have done far more wrong than companies headed up by a single individual. But I can't back that up with any fact because I don't feel like researching 200 years of american corporate history on this lazy sunday morning.
I think WingCommander gets the award for most blatant ignoring of science.
There is a scene where Freddy Prinze Jr.'s (why the fuck is he in a movie?) fighter is sliding across the deck of the carrier, and then falls of the edge.
...In space.
He fell off the edge in space. Dude? I think an eleven year old could have made a better space movie.
Don't forget Marketroid, the game where you must explore the labyrinth of earth's economy and find innovative companies to buy and add as components to your powered business model.
But watch out for software pirates and Mother BitTorrent!
Oh my god, he made a mistake? We should burn him at the stake and let a gorilla rape him.
I'm sure it was all a nefarious plot to get you to buy the game! In fact, I bet microsoft secretly developed DOOM 3 and Carmack is in fact a robot controlled by Bill Gates! WOW!
In all seriousness, perhaps he meant something else, or something more specific that the context of the article didn't pick up on. Interviews so often come across poorly in text and I wouldn't be surprised if he was talking about some feature or aspect of maps/source that truly is a first for release inclusion. Somehow I doubt he is stupid and/or ignorant of what Epic has done with Unreal.
"Making good money by coming up with bullshit theories that vaguely fit the data? That must be one of the best jobs on Earth!"
Yeah, but it's taken. Although I hear there's an election this fall.
I was never a big fan of the occult elements of Wolfenstein. Of course, I don't mean for moral reasons or anything. I just got more of a kick out of the traditional gunfights as opposed to fighting zombies and monsters.
I thought Return to Castle Wolfenstein was pretty fun. I liked the cool little sub machine gun you got. And I enjoyed sneaking around the Nazi town, etc.
For some reason, I was inordinately frightened by that game. It was just terrifying and I was never able to put my finger on why it bothered me so much more than most "scary" games.
And where do people get money? From businesses. Free software is highly insignificant on a large scale. The economy is not driven by free software and people cannot eat free software or build autobiles out of it.
I was right about everything I said in my first post.
It's not a question of whether they know what to do with it. They simply didn't earn it.
Every single thing in this country that we have is courtesy of business. Even government services are funded by corporations that pay taxes. A world without "greedy" business is a world of foraging for berries and dying of mysterious ilnesses like the flu.
Giving people with no ability money is a backwards way of doing things.
ID has stated that the focus is definately on the single player experience, but there is a multiplayer component. The first tournament will be held at QuakeCon. =)
Our constitution is highly misinterpreted by the conservatives. The constitution only really says that we have the right to form a private militia in order to defend the country. It doesn't say anything about Joe Blow owning a handgun for fun and I wish people would revisit that clause.
I'm some one who is impressed by interesting numbers, and I just get a thrill out of the idea of travelling 2 miles per second. That is incredibly cool.
I could do my daily commute in 15 seconds. That would be fun.
I also played games as a child because they transported me to amazing and otherwise impossible worlds. I used to love exploring the worlds of Sierra's 2D Adventure games, or blowing up incredibly blocky and ugly looking tie-fighters in X-Wing.
The primitive graphics of those games are not the virture; having bad graphics does not make a game "cool" or "old school". The issue was, the developers concentrated on tapping into my imagination, not blitzkrieging my eyeballs.
It's like books; books have the worst graphics of any story-telling medium in the world. And yet, the book industry is still thriving (and I happen to love books and still read them). I think games have a great opportunity to capture our imagination with book-like creativity and immersiveness, and yet dazzle and addict us with the quality gameplay elements of video gaming. The graphics of a game are not totally unimportant of course, but should be used to enhance the imagination's interpretation of the game, not replace it.
I don't see why winning the Japanese market is so important.
There are a lot of american game players who, contrary to popular internet belief, don't wish and pretend that they were japanese and who don't enjoy anime and prefer a hard hitting FPS to a more artsy game.
I think Microsoft has made good strides in the console market, but also some bad moves that, in my opinion (which is almost worth the server space this post takes up), came almost entirely from a marketing standpoint.
If they would just work hard on their console and say to the gaming world, "Look, we are Microsoft and we really like gaming and would like to perform well at it. We want to add to gaming and make some really impressive and immersive interactive software. We hope you check out what we come up with and enjoy it."
But no, the marketing department cranks up the volume and screams at you. "Microsoft is going to kick your ass and steal your girlfriend! We are going to rape Sony like a five dollar whore and leave it begging for mercy. We are awesome and you should just suck it down!"
There are a lot of good engineers at microsoft. I am good friends with a couple of them. They are smart, innovative, and talented individuals and many of them wish the marketing department over there would just shut the heck up.
Oh, and much of the anti-microsoft vitriol in this thread is grossly uninformed and irrational.
My boss is angry because since this news broke, there has been a constant stream of poop coming out of my butt. Doom 3 has literally caused me to poop my pants.*
Well, I don't think we know for sure whether he had a fully developed hypothesis regarding wind shear because he didn't really say much about anything.
It would be unusual for him to expound greatly upon windshear when so little else was revealed about the rest of the craft.
I suppose that the chances that it is a catch all explanation are about 50/50, given the sparse nature of his comments.
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You guys are such wimps! I work 168 hours per week. Every christmas I take a day off to sleep, but then I'm right back on the job. I ship four games per year and my supervisor has complimented me many times, saying that his golf vacations have become even more pleasurable knowing that I'm hard at work making his money.
Frankly, I think you guys just should just suck it up and learn how to be men. Real men sit in soft chairs for 99% of their life and stare at glowing phosphorus tubes so that adolescents can pretend they are football coaches. What did you expect from life? A wife? A sense of intrinsic happiness? A healthy body? That's not how it works.
Life is hell and everyone who doesn't enjoy that fact is wussier than me.
[for the love of god, note the sarcasm] =)
Yes because American men need more incentive to ignore their wives. =) [joking] [uh, sorta..heh]
I sort of disagree with Scott Miller.
;)
If some gaming company came out with an X-Wing clone in which the gameplay mechanics were exactly the same as the original X-wing, with no gameplay enhancements or innovations, and yet the graphics and sound were out of this world, and there was a new and compelling plot, I would buy the shit out of it.
I don't think a game has to be innovative. Just really damn fun. I don't think Zelda: A Link To The Past was innovative. It was basically The Legend of Zelda with some graphical bells and whistles and a more cartoony/fun world. But damn if it wasn't fun.
Isn't that like less than 1% of India's population? ;)
ID Software has no fair distribution of power and they do just fine.
The idea that an individual automatically has a weaker moral compass than a group, simply because he is an individual is not correct, and frankly, is insidious.
The number of people who agree with you is not a barometer of your "correctness". Stupidity and immorality typically travel in packs.
In fact, I would go so far as to argue that companies with a nebulous board of directors have done far more wrong than companies headed up by a single individual. But I can't back that up with any fact because I don't feel like researching 200 years of american corporate history on this lazy sunday morning.
Cool, this will give me something interesting to read next week when their servers cool down. ;)
I think WingCommander gets the award for most blatant ignoring of science.
...In space.
There is a scene where Freddy Prinze Jr.'s (why the fuck is he in a movie?) fighter is sliding across the deck of the carrier, and then falls of the edge.
He fell off the edge in space. Dude? I think an eleven year old could have made a better space movie.
Yes choices indeed. For instance,
1) Do I ditch the girl and go to the game convention?
or
2) Do I ditch the girl, go to the game convention, and buy a t-shirt?
choices, choices...
Don't forget Marketroid, the game where you must explore the labyrinth of earth's economy and find innovative companies to buy and add as components to your powered business model.
But watch out for software pirates and Mother BitTorrent!
Raven is also developing Quake IV, which I think is totally rad. Raven kiks butt.
Oh my god, he made a mistake? We should burn him at the stake and let a gorilla rape him.
I'm sure it was all a nefarious plot to get you to buy the game! In fact, I bet microsoft secretly developed DOOM 3 and Carmack is in fact a robot controlled by Bill Gates! WOW!
In all seriousness, perhaps he meant something else, or something more specific that the context of the article didn't pick up on. Interviews so often come across poorly in text and I wouldn't be surprised if he was talking about some feature or aspect of maps/source that truly is a first for release inclusion. Somehow I doubt he is stupid and/or ignorant of what Epic has done with Unreal.
nothing, I repeat, NOTHING can be ruined by naked women. Nothing. It makes everything more fun.
"Making good money by coming up with bullshit theories that vaguely fit the data? That must be one of the best jobs on Earth!" Yeah, but it's taken. Although I hear there's an election this fall.
He should just toss in some comments near the bug that have some one else's name in them. [evil grin]
I was never a big fan of the occult elements of Wolfenstein. Of course, I don't mean for moral reasons or anything. I just got more of a kick out of the traditional gunfights as opposed to fighting zombies and monsters.
I thought Return to Castle Wolfenstein was pretty fun. I liked the cool little sub machine gun you got. And I enjoyed sneaking around the Nazi town, etc.
For some reason, I was inordinately frightened by that game. It was just terrifying and I was never able to put my finger on why it bothered me so much more than most "scary" games.
eh, I'll probably get the new one.
And where do people get money? From businesses. Free software is highly insignificant on a large scale. The economy is not driven by free software and people cannot eat free software or build autobiles out of it.
I was right about everything I said in my first post.
It's not a question of whether they know what to do with it. They simply didn't earn it.
Every single thing in this country that we have is courtesy of business. Even government services are funded by corporations that pay taxes. A world without "greedy" business is a world of foraging for berries and dying of mysterious ilnesses like the flu.
Giving people with no ability money is a backwards way of doing things.
Community programs are a bottomless pit into which tons of cash is wasted, I mean spent.
At least some up and coming business can get some good deals on expensive equipment.
ID has stated that the focus is definately on the single player experience, but there is a multiplayer component. The first tournament will be held at QuakeCon. =)
Our constitution is highly misinterpreted by the conservatives. The constitution only really says that we have the right to form a private militia in order to defend the country. It doesn't say anything about Joe Blow owning a handgun for fun and I wish people would revisit that clause.
I'm some one who is impressed by interesting numbers, and I just get a thrill out of the idea of travelling 2 miles per second. That is incredibly cool.
I could do my daily commute in 15 seconds. That would be fun.
If I had mod points, I would mod this up.
I also played games as a child because they transported me to amazing and otherwise impossible worlds. I used to love exploring the worlds of Sierra's 2D Adventure games, or blowing up incredibly blocky and ugly looking tie-fighters in X-Wing.
The primitive graphics of those games are not the virture; having bad graphics does not make a game "cool" or "old school". The issue was, the developers concentrated on tapping into my imagination, not blitzkrieging my eyeballs.
It's like books; books have the worst graphics of any story-telling medium in the world. And yet, the book industry is still thriving (and I happen to love books and still read them). I think games have a great opportunity to capture our imagination with book-like creativity and immersiveness, and yet dazzle and addict us with the quality gameplay elements of video gaming. The graphics of a game are not totally unimportant of course, but should be used to enhance the imagination's interpretation of the game, not replace it.
I don't see why winning the Japanese market is so important.
There are a lot of american game players who, contrary to popular internet belief, don't wish and pretend that they were japanese and who don't enjoy anime and prefer a hard hitting FPS to a more artsy game.
I think Microsoft has made good strides in the console market, but also some bad moves that, in my opinion (which is almost worth the server space this post takes up), came almost entirely from a marketing standpoint.
If they would just work hard on their console and say to the gaming world, "Look, we are Microsoft and we really like gaming and would like to perform well at it. We want to add to gaming and make some really impressive and immersive interactive software. We hope you check out what we come up with and enjoy it."
But no, the marketing department cranks up the volume and screams at you. "Microsoft is going to kick your ass and steal your girlfriend! We are going to rape Sony like a five dollar whore and leave it begging for mercy. We are awesome and you should just suck it down!"
There are a lot of good engineers at microsoft. I am good friends with a couple of them. They are smart, innovative, and talented individuals and many of them wish the marketing department over there would just shut the heck up.
Oh, and much of the anti-microsoft vitriol in this thread is grossly uninformed and irrational.
My boss is angry because since this news broke, there has been a constant stream of poop coming out of my butt. Doom 3 has literally caused me to poop my pants.*
*not true. =)
Well, I don't think we know for sure whether he had a fully developed hypothesis regarding wind shear because he didn't really say much about anything.
It would be unusual for him to expound greatly upon windshear when so little else was revealed about the rest of the craft.
I suppose that the chances that it is a catch all explanation are about 50/50, given the sparse nature of his comments.