We're already seeing Pay to play games (MMORPGs) why do I get the feeling some company is going to get sick of patent wars like this and make a new image standard, get everyone onto it then slap on a 1p (2c) charge on each file saved just to screw over people for a few weeks untill the web-standard changes.
Don't they learn? What edition of PS2 laser are we on now? PS2 lasers die faster then cannon fodder in RTS games.
Most people seem to have exprience with at least slow down from the laser in a PS2 or know a friend who does, so now Sony want to take PS2 technology and move it into a main stream market (sorry but I don't class games as mainstream as fake people from Hollywood).
Maybe I'll learn to repair PS2 technology for when this is released and over charge everyone to become stinking rich.
What was it a few days ago "If it doesn't have army men it's original"?
Well this seems original but I don't find the idea very entertaining, if I want to swim around and get food then I'll goto a leisure centre, swim for an hour and grab some lunch.
Anyone remember the "Seaman" game on the Dreamcast? Same thing, different ideas. It'll fail majorly outside of the Asian market, but in that market it'll sell like hot (fish)cakes.
We live in an era where an opinion is taken as fact by most people (Hello TV). They cannot get that it doesn't matter who is right but that the truth is expressed by someone.
If I go into a shop and ask ten random people something like "Do you like apples?". 5 out of them should in theory say no, 5 should say yes. It won't work like that but it's the basic idea.
Everyone has different tastes (I dont like rap,it out sells everything right now. I can ignore it and shrug), we just have to accept and find a tolerance level for something we dislike.
There will always be "trolls" who just flame for the fun of it, s well as fanboys who would say Myst had the best gameplay ever. This is how life is, as long as no one becomes a zealot then there isn't a problem.
People need to accept that the Earth doesn't revolve around a carbon based life form with the same name as them. If we accept opinions from other people and tolerate things we don't like which they made do then the world runs fine. If we don't... well lets just say lawyers enjoy this sort of world and look where they are now..
Shall we just change the term to "Person who had a brain" instead? I can become a genius and write the next major OS which works well and does everything perfectly for everyone, but my opinion on jellyfish means jack.
You can excel at one point but it doesn't mean you know everything.
Guess he's not seen the sales figures for original games lately.
Anyone remember Bill Hatcher? Made by Sonic team, pushed eggs around, fight evil crows dressed in a chicken suit... yea thought now..
No one wants to take a risk any more because the industry is no longer about the games. It's about the money, if you get a format (FF, FPS games) you can make endeless sequals and be 99% sure of getting your money and a bit more back.
Just look at this year. Top two most wanted games are, Half-life 2, FFX whatever it is now and Doom 3. All three will sell millions and be called classic even if they suck.
Why risk money when you can have another sure fire "open my legs and ride me till dawn" sequal?
I think people want more and more "realism" in their games to the point where they look and sound like a movie (maybe even play like one cough).
Today I find music from Sonic 2 and other SNES/Megadrive (Genesis) era games to be much much better then from the 3D era. They now seem too "unclub like" (no other way to put it).
When I listen to music ingame I want it to blend in, to make me tap my foot and to be enjoyable in the background. Todays games tend to make music "just there" or a huge part of the game (Doom 3 comes to mind), but none of it is really enjoyable. Rather then make music to be enjoyed they make it to fit a game and you can't just sit there and enjoy it, rather you must hear it as it was originally ment to be or nothing at all.
Places like http://www.ocremix.org/ do a good job at keeping the old game music alive in a new format and show how much we love the classic songs.
Developers don't understand that we can still remember all the old school music to levels in a game we loved and replayed many times far far better then music we hear for a level in a game we never pick up again.
This is slashdot... and you ask why someone makes a ray gun to zap mobile phones? Hell why not ask why we need our 1mb lines to reload small webpages repeatedly untill the servers melt
Like we haven't seen enough Lara, most Tomb raider games have added little to the series and theres not a whole lot you can do with them.
Lara locks on, you bounce around and shoot with pistols. RSPCA, WWF etc. start to bitch. Wolf diesin hail of bullets, you spend five minutes trying to find that tiny hole or back tracking to get some tiny key you missed.
Find secret ammo, repeat untill new enemies, use better weapons and repeat, repeat, repeat.
In the PSX games Tomb raider made me drool (T rex anyone?) but now... it's just average, the GBA games are making more improvements for the genre on that console then any Tomb raider game after the first has.
Infact I think I've only ever finished was the one featuring various flash back missions. It made it intresting to some extent but it was still the same pattern and no real changes.
Then again Doom 1, 2 and Final doom all kinda fall into the space hole and I'm spending stupid amounts of money on a new PC to play 3 so maybe this one will change it all and do more then pixely tits.
How can you play a game which requires a GM without a GM? The scripted events must follow some sort of order and totally removes the "you pissed me off last game so this game I'm going to tentical rape you" element which makes pen and paper so fun...
We're living in an age where things no longer just run, they take leaps and bounds. We're starting to look at Terabytes of storage for the average web monkey (leech if you perfer) at a reasonable price, go back five years and it was impressive to have a HD collection going to even half that.
Once you have got 2x2 you start to get 4x4, 6x6, 12x12 and take much bigger leaps at each step untill you're talking 100 tera HDs.
I ask myself why? Half an hour isn't worth the effort it'd take to do this. For the money I can pick up a GBA, several games and a recharger set/lots of gameboy batteries.
Plus I can't think of anything more fun then Mario world to jam with:D
Saddly anyone can talk the talk but cube (as much asI love it) sales arn't fantastic right now. You can claim you're Jesus but untill you turn water into wine you're just going to look like an idiot and be laughed at.
That could be fun.. "We're sueing you for using Linux" "Try it... you can come to OUR courts and do it" "..er..erm..but we can't use our money to win there" "...hmmmm.. indeed"
I hope they do move over to it and then if Microsoft try anything they'd have to win with evidence and not with money.
You can't in any of these cases. We live in a free society and we can do as we wish. We just need to know what is acceptable...
I've played many banned games (Mortal Kombat, GTA etc.) and yet I've never commited a single crime, looking at the sales figures seems the same can be said for most fans. You can pick out just about anything and find a few people involved with a screw lose.
Remember all this crap aimed at movies a while back? Same thing but gamers don't tend to speak up so much and find it harder to get alot of people to go "I played it, didn't do me no harm", where as movies will do this easily.
If someone wants to play a game about killing Hell spawn demons (Doom 3 refrence : check), eating babies (Dunno:check) or stabbing old ladies then they should be able to. It's not their fault if some nutter goes off the rails and ends up killing someone.
I'm sick of hearing "GAMES DID IT!" because it's a cheap excuse for a fucked up society. You can't blame the car makers for a drunk driver so lets not blame the Playstation for the fucked up little kid.
Mod me troll if you wish, I don't overly care for karma compared to my opinions on this topic. I think the world is fucked up and blaming my hobby, I can earn Karma back but I can't earn back ignoring my opinions and staying silent in a discussion I feel important.
Where the myst option? There was..... well I don't know whatthere was, I got sick of it after five minutes and gave up. Donkey kong on the other hand I played throughfor quite a few levels (damn loyalty to the old country games!)
Recently manhunt got blamed for some psycho killing another kid... why arn't games like this blamed?
Games are games and need to stay where they are, when you start crossing the barrier between Mario jumping on mushrooms and abuse of mentally disturbed people you cross the line.
Things like this get into peoples heads (Urban legends style) and "a friend of a friend" type things. If it's on a console or on the internet we can shrug it off, but when you start throwing in real life stuff the line blurs so much that people who have violent urges may see this as a real event..
This maybe the kinda thing which people could blame for real life murders and looking at Slashdot it's getting more known and mainstream (I love bees for example).
Slashdot Mirror
We're already seeing Pay to play games (MMORPGs) why do I get the feeling some company is going to get sick of patent wars like this and make a new image standard, get everyone onto it then slap on a 1p (2c) charge on each file saved just to screw over people for a few weeks untill the web-standard changes.
Don't they learn? What edition of PS2 laser are we on now? PS2 lasers die faster then cannon fodder in RTS games.
Most people seem to have exprience with at least slow down from the laser in a PS2 or know a friend who does, so now Sony want to take PS2 technology and move it into a main stream market (sorry but I don't class games as mainstream as fake people from Hollywood).
Maybe I'll learn to repair PS2 technology for when this is released and over charge everyone to become stinking rich.
What was it a few days ago "If it doesn't have army men it's original"?
Well this seems original but I don't find the idea very entertaining, if I want to swim around and get food then I'll goto a leisure centre, swim for an hour and grab some lunch.
Anyone remember the "Seaman" game on the Dreamcast? Same thing, different ideas. It'll fail majorly outside of the Asian market, but in that market it'll sell like hot (fish)cakes.
We live in an era where an opinion is taken as fact by most people (Hello TV). They cannot get that it doesn't matter who is right but that the truth is expressed by someone.
If I go into a shop and ask ten random people something like "Do you like apples?". 5 out of them should in theory say no, 5 should say yes. It won't work like that but it's the basic idea.
Everyone has different tastes (I dont like rap,it out sells everything right now. I can ignore it and shrug), we just have to accept and find a tolerance level for something we dislike.
There will always be "trolls" who just flame for the fun of it, s well as fanboys who would say Myst had the best gameplay ever. This is how life is, as long as no one becomes a zealot then there isn't a problem.
People need to accept that the Earth doesn't revolve around a carbon based life form with the same name as them. If we accept opinions from other people and tolerate things we don't like which they made do then the world runs fine. If we don't... well lets just say lawyers enjoy this sort of world and look where they are now..
Shall we just change the term to "Person who had a brain" instead? I can become a genius and write the next major OS which works well and does everything perfectly for everyone, but my opinion on jellyfish means jack.
You can excel at one point but it doesn't mean you know everything.
Guess he's not seen the sales figures for original games lately.
Anyone remember Bill Hatcher? Made by Sonic team, pushed eggs around, fight evil crows dressed in a chicken suit... yea thought now..
No one wants to take a risk any more because the industry is no longer about the games. It's about the money, if you get a format (FF, FPS games) you can make endeless sequals and be 99% sure of getting your money and a bit more back.
Just look at this year. Top two most wanted games are, Half-life 2, FFX whatever it is now and Doom 3. All three will sell millions and be called classic even if they suck.
Why risk money when you can have another sure fire "open my legs and ride me till dawn" sequal?
I think people want more and more "realism" in their games to the point where they look and sound like a movie (maybe even play like one cough).
Today I find music from Sonic 2 and other SNES/Megadrive (Genesis) era games to be much much better then from the 3D era. They now seem too "unclub like" (no other way to put it).
When I listen to music ingame I want it to blend in, to make me tap my foot and to be enjoyable in the background. Todays games tend to make music "just there" or a huge part of the game (Doom 3 comes to mind), but none of it is really enjoyable. Rather then make music to be enjoyed they make it to fit a game and you can't just sit there and enjoy it, rather you must hear it as it was originally ment to be or nothing at all.
Places like http://www.ocremix.org/ do a good job at keeping the old game music alive in a new format and show how much we love the classic songs.
Developers don't understand that we can still remember all the old school music to levels in a game we loved and replayed many times far far better then music we hear for a level in a game we never pick up again.
This is slashdot... and you ask why someone makes a ray gun to zap mobile phones? Hell why not ask why we need our 1mb lines to reload small webpages repeatedly untill the servers melt
Half of our kids can't even spell, now we're wasting time on this crap?
Big tits, hot pants, huge lips...
Like we haven't seen enough Lara, most Tomb raider games have added little to the series and theres not a whole lot you can do with them.
Lara locks on, you bounce around and shoot with pistols. RSPCA, WWF etc. start to bitch. Wolf diesin hail of bullets, you spend five minutes trying to find that tiny hole or back tracking to get some tiny key you missed.
Find secret ammo, repeat untill new enemies, use better weapons and repeat, repeat, repeat.
In the PSX games Tomb raider made me drool (T rex anyone?) but now... it's just average, the GBA games are making more improvements for the genre on that console then any Tomb raider game after the first has.
Infact I think I've only ever finished was the one featuring various flash back missions. It made it intresting to some extent but it was still the same pattern and no real changes.
Then again Doom 1, 2 and Final doom all kinda fall into the space hole and I'm spending stupid amounts of money on a new PC to play 3 so maybe this one will change it all and do more then pixely tits.
If I had fingers as good as his I wouldn't be playing street fighter... I'd be banned from slashdot for having a very very satisfied girlfriend...
How can you play a game which requires a GM without a GM? The scripted events must follow some sort of order and totally removes the "you pissed me off last game so this game I'm going to tentical rape you" element which makes pen and paper so fun...
Now I can frag my friends and put them back together!
Anyone else find this read as an advert? COME NOW EXTREME PINBALL WE'LL EXTEND YOUR PENIS TOO NOW NOW NOW! like?
:)
Seems alot of people are using Slashdot as a free geek becon.. I wonder...
Is there a title for the pack?
:P
SP2 : Duke Nukem Forever
Next they will claim the source code was stolen by hackers and delay it 6 months even though it was ready to ship
We're living in an age where things no longer just run, they take leaps and bounds. We're starting to look at Terabytes of storage for the average web monkey (leech if you perfer) at a reasonable price, go back five years and it was impressive to have a HD collection going to even half that.
Once you have got 2x2 you start to get 4x4, 6x6, 12x12 and take much bigger leaps at each step untill you're talking 100 tera HDs.
I ask myself why? Half an hour isn't worth the effort it'd take to do this. For the money I can pick up a GBA, several games and a recharger set/lots of gameboy batteries.
:D
Plus I can't think of anything more fun then Mario world to jam with
Saddly anyone can talk the talk but cube (as much asI love it) sales arn't fantastic right now. You can claim you're Jesus but untill you turn water into wine you're just going to look like an idiot and be laughed at.
What about legal issues here, Nintendo own the rights to emulation if I recall correctly. Couldn't they pull the plug on this?
Emulating a server may also cross a few patents Microsoft own..
That could be fun.. "We're sueing you for using Linux"
"Try it... you can come to OUR courts and do it"
"..er..erm..but we can't use our money to win there"
"...hmmmm.. indeed"
I hope they do move over to it and then if Microsoft try anything they'd have to win with evidence and not with money.
You can't in any of these cases. We live in a free society and we can do as we wish. We just need to know what is acceptable...
I've played many banned games (Mortal Kombat, GTA etc.) and yet I've never commited a single crime, looking at the sales figures seems the same can be said for most fans. You can pick out just about anything and find a few people involved with a screw lose.
Remember all this crap aimed at movies a while back? Same thing but gamers don't tend to speak up so much and find it harder to get alot of people to go "I played it, didn't do me no harm", where as movies will do this easily.
If someone wants to play a game about killing Hell spawn demons (Doom 3 refrence : check), eating babies (Dunno :check) or stabbing old ladies then they should be able to. It's not their fault if some nutter goes off the rails and ends up killing someone.
I'm sick of hearing "GAMES DID IT!" because it's a cheap excuse for a fucked up society. You can't blame the car makers for a drunk driver so lets not blame the Playstation for the fucked up little kid.
Mod me troll if you wish, I don't overly care for karma compared to my opinions on this topic. I think the world is fucked up and blaming my hobby, I can earn Karma back but I can't earn back ignoring my opinions and staying silent in a discussion I feel important.
Where the myst option? There was..... well I don't know whatthere was, I got sick of it after five minutes and gave up. Donkey kong on the other hand I played throughfor quite a few levels (damn loyalty to the old country games!)
If I don't have a stadium near me?
Recently manhunt got blamed for some psycho killing another kid... why arn't games like this blamed?
Games are games and need to stay where they are, when you start crossing the barrier between Mario jumping on mushrooms and abuse of mentally disturbed people you cross the line.
Things like this get into peoples heads (Urban legends style) and "a friend of a friend" type things. If it's on a console or on the internet we can shrug it off, but when you start throwing in real life stuff the line blurs so much that people who have violent urges may see this as a real event..
This maybe the kinda thing which people could blame for real life murders and looking at Slashdot it's getting more known and mainstream (I love bees for example).