Not a bad idea, but it becomes completely unnatural. How do you use them? Sitting? Standing? Remember that you'd be aiming at the time. Close to the screen? Pedals under your desk?
So now you have to aim with a hand or both, and shuffle you feet between pedals. Unless you're walking, it's not comfortable, nor natural. Pointing a gun, as unsettling as it might sound, it's quite natural with a little getting used to; so is using a mouse and WASD. Not to mention much more comfortable. Your aiming reaction would improve a lot even if you're a lousy shot, but moving your feet like you move your fingers would make for a nice workout aswell.
Time Crisis got this right; to crouch you just leave your foot there and press when needed. Having one pedal per foot could work, but i don't know how much options that gives you to move arround (strafe left - strafe right - forward perhaps?)
Because it's not simple. The same movement you would need to steer around is the movement needed to aim at certain parts of the screen - which is what you'd use the gun for, otherwise it becomes a fancy mouse, letting you only shoot at the center of the screen. A lot of the "immersiveness" of FPSs comes from the fact you're pretty much free to move and look/aim arround.
I remember the Time Crisis series at the arcades used a lightgun and a pedal to take cover / reload the gun. I think that's pretty much as far as you can go without having to actually physically move.
Not only that, what's there to see isn't that impressive either (and this is from a hardcore Quake 4 fan). The models look bland and you can tell it's still work in progress. The screenshots floating arround the net were much better.
Come on, you use "h", "x", "y", and the ever popular "i" for loops and counters, and you know it!
Actually, it was kinda the same for me... it got used to descriptive variable names (...and Hungarian notation, which some people hate) when i moved from Basic / QuickBasic to Pascal and C/C++. Using short names was something i grow accostumed to with my C64 and it became a hard habit to kill until it became absolutely neccesary.
And yes, Borland Turbo Pascal was an excellent package. I don't recall a whole lot of Pascal interpreters / compilers back in the day, and i'm sure BTP had a lot to do with the popularity of Pascal in the 90s. Borland will always have a place in my heart for Borland C/C++ 3.1 though, the finest IDE in history.
Never underestimate how much money people will spend to be on the same mass-produced products to be "different."
Mod +1 Insightful. "Ricers" created a whole new market with that line of thinking; i have a friend who works on a car "tuning" shop and they move quite a lot of money.
If front plates are customizables, people will buy them like crazy; specially kids. Need proof? Check cellphones.
RPG's are for wieners that liked dungeons and dragons. Have fun "managing your resources". I wish I could be a 10th level elfen-demon like you.
You sir, are my new personal hero.
I found it great to watch. What happens is that's not a very realistic way of using weapons, but the effect in the movie was terrific IMHO. Specially in the final scene...
*SPOILER*...between him and the Big-Brother-wannabe, exchanging bullets and trying to dodge and get a clear shot at each other at the time. Great stuff.
I can vouch for that. OS/2, at that time, was truly a Windows better than Windows and certainly a DOS better than DOS. I remember being stuck with Win3.11 at home, and going to a friends' house to watch his PC with OS/2 running Windows apps, DOS games and apps and some obscure BBS software all at the time, without a hiccup.
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Oooh, absolutely! Great call.
One of the most emotional moments i've had with games was in System Shock 2 when you reach Janice Polito's office and realize... well, what's been going on all along. Sheeze, that game was incredible. The atmosphere, it was so good - it's the only game which literally freaked me out. Enough to have to play it with lights on.
Remember those damn monkeys? Those cyborgs sneaking on you? The ghosts? SHODAN's creepy voice? Priceless.
Deus Ex was incredible as well (the original one), without such a dark feeling to it, but the way the history was presented actually made you care about what happened to the characters. I mean, who didn't feel awful about Paul Denton?
And the Thief series were excellent as well. They were the first "stealth" FPSs arround, and to this day they're still among the best. Moving arround in shadows, listening footsteps...
Oh, grow up. I'm not talking drugs or guns; these are fucking movies on DVD, which is a format crippled enough as it is.
We've had movie ratings for years, why do we need stuff like ClearPlay (which, by the way, they're integrating directly into players)? You mean to tell me that you want your kid to watch R+ rated movies... but without the "naughty"? Please.
No, you said that. In fact, that's the very reason that movie ratings are there in the first place - so you, as a parent, have a parameter to decide what to show or not your kids. There's no need for "software enabling parents to skip over the sex and violence in Hollywood DVDs."
It's sad the parent poster was modded overrated. His point can't be stressed enough - if people beleive kids will be better because you can choose if they can see or not 10 minutes of tits in a movie, we're in bad shape. Never mind watching titties might actually be good to them; can't you simply watch over their actions a bit?
No matter what, you just can't shield your kids in a bubble and think that's all there is to it. Teaching them right and wrong and (god forbid!) paying atention to their actions is what parenting's all about.
Actually, atleast they cared to remark several times that the quote was a fabrication - the journalistic value of such a thing can be debated, but/. was the one that posted it on the main page as news, even though the first line in the article said the quote wasn't true.
..the guy who removed the review (which was a good one IMHO), explained why he took it down. It might be nitpicking, or perhaps he did it without putting much thinking into it, but it hardly seems like he's on Sonys' payroll.
In any case, is his site, and he can decide what to screen and what not. Don't like it? There's a whole bunch of pages with user reviews out there aswell. No biggie.
Are you sure? IMDB has as many braindead reviews as every other site on the net, imho - if anything, i think they drop the ones with insults and "l33t" talk, which is fine; it is their website after all. Same with Amazon.
Anyway, i preffer Rottentomatoes.com for accurate reviews, even though i use IMDB for specific information too - soundtracks, cast lists and so.
You can find pretty harsh reviews on JCVD movies if you browse them:)
Speaking of political sensitivity, I see that you're using the word "world" to mean "the United States of America". The rest of the industrialised nations aren't overrun by christian fundamentalists like in the U.S.A. you know.
The hell??! It might not be nice to hear, but he is right, sadly enough. I guess some moderators missed their Prozac today.
The film is believed to be set in more contemporary times than the sci-fi games, and focuses on a viral outbreak rather than an invasion from Hell - much to the annoyance of fans of the videogame series.
Bummer. I won't be paying to see it then. C'mon, it's DOOM; a game where you shoot demons from Hell. What are they keeping from it, the double-barrell shotgun? Basically, it's Resident Evil with a male lead.
Dwayne Johnson, better known as The Rock, plays a leading role in the movie, alongside Karl Urban (Lord of the Rings, The Bourne Supremacy) and Rosamund Pike (Die Another Day, The Libertine)
IIRC, Urban would play the marine (lead character) and The Rock would play the sergeant. Sounds good, not excellent, but good - Karl Urban's look is pretty fitting and i actually like The Rock in action movies.
That's great. We don't want the code, the specs would do just fine. I bet the driver developers would love to get their hands on every bit of information the manufacturers can release but are hesitant to.
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Not a bad idea, but it becomes completely unnatural. How do you use them? Sitting? Standing? Remember that you'd be aiming at the time. Close to the screen? Pedals under your desk?
So now you have to aim with a hand or both, and shuffle you feet between pedals. Unless you're walking, it's not comfortable, nor natural. Pointing a gun, as unsettling as it might sound, it's quite natural with a little getting used to; so is using a mouse and WASD. Not to mention much more comfortable. Your aiming reaction would improve a lot even if you're a lousy shot, but moving your feet like you move your fingers would make for a nice workout aswell.
Time Crisis got this right; to crouch you just leave your foot there and press when needed. Having one pedal per foot could work, but i don't know how much options that gives you to move arround (strafe left - strafe right - forward perhaps?)
Because it's not simple. The same movement you would need to steer around is the movement needed to aim at certain parts of the screen - which is what you'd use the gun for, otherwise it becomes a fancy mouse, letting you only shoot at the center of the screen. A lot of the "immersiveness" of FPSs comes from the fact you're pretty much free to move and look/aim arround.
I remember the Time Crisis series at the arcades used a lightgun and a pedal to take cover / reload the gun. I think that's pretty much as far as you can go without having to actually physically move.
Not only that, what's there to see isn't that impressive either (and this is from a hardcore Quake 4 fan). The models look bland and you can tell it's still work in progress. The screenshots floating arround the net were much better.
Still, interesting. I can't wait for Christmas.
Come on, you use "h", "x", "y", and the ever popular "i" for loops and counters, and you know it!
Actually, it was kinda the same for me... it got used to descriptive variable names (...and Hungarian notation, which some people hate) when i moved from Basic / QuickBasic to Pascal and C/C++. Using short names was something i grow accostumed to with my C64 and it became a hard habit to kill until it became absolutely neccesary.
And yes, Borland Turbo Pascal was an excellent package. I don't recall a whole lot of Pascal interpreters / compilers back in the day, and i'm sure BTP had a lot to do with the popularity of Pascal in the 90s. Borland will always have a place in my heart for Borland C/C++ 3.1 though, the finest IDE in history.
Never underestimate how much money people will spend to be on the same mass-produced products to be "different."
Mod +1 Insightful. "Ricers" created a whole new market with that line of thinking; i have a friend who works on a car "tuning" shop and they move quite a lot of money.
If front plates are customizables, people will buy them like crazy; specially kids. Need proof? Check cellphones.
Don't mind the retards. I like Slashdot, but in the last years it has filled with people with... um... way too much spare time.
Words on a screen my friend. Remember it.
RPG's are for wieners that liked dungeons and dragons. Have fun "managing your resources". I wish I could be a 10th level elfen-demon like you. You sir, are my new personal hero.
I found it great to watch. What happens is that's not a very realistic way of using weapons, but the effect in the movie was terrific IMHO. Specially in the final scene...
...between him and the Big-Brother-wannabe, exchanging bullets and trying to dodge and get a clear shot at each other at the time. Great stuff.
*SPOILER*
Not even Hale Berry in tight leather spared my eyes from bleeding. Gosh that one was bad.
PS: The fight scene with her and Sharon Stone had too many clothes. And no mud.
I can vouch for that. OS/2, at that time, was truly a Windows better than Windows and certainly a DOS better than DOS. I remember being stuck with Win3.11 at home, and going to a friends' house to watch his PC with OS/2 running Windows apps, DOS games and apps and some obscure BBS software all at the time, without a hiccup.
There's a lot of that going arround here lately, it seems...
Oooh, absolutely! Great call.
One of the most emotional moments i've had with games was in System Shock 2 when you reach Janice Polito's office and realize... well, what's been going on all along. Sheeze, that game was incredible. The atmosphere, it was so good - it's the only game which literally freaked me out. Enough to have to play it with lights on.
Remember those damn monkeys? Those cyborgs sneaking on you? The ghosts? SHODAN's creepy voice? Priceless.
Deus Ex was incredible as well (the original one), without such a dark feeling to it, but the way the history was presented actually made you care about what happened to the characters. I mean, who didn't feel awful about Paul Denton?
And the Thief series were excellent as well. They were the first "stealth" FPSs arround, and to this day they're still among the best. Moving arround in shadows, listening footsteps...
So why do you want to show them R+ rated material in the first place?
Oh, grow up. I'm not talking drugs or guns; these are fucking movies on DVD, which is a format crippled enough as it is.
We've had movie ratings for years, why do we need stuff like ClearPlay (which, by the way, they're integrating directly into players)? You mean to tell me that you want your kid to watch R+ rated movies... but without the "naughty"? Please.
No, you said that. In fact, that's the very reason that movie ratings are there in the first place - so you, as a parent, have a parameter to decide what to show or not your kids. There's no need for "software enabling parents to skip over the sex and violence in Hollywood DVDs."
Sorry, bitched at the wrong post - he's got a well deserved +4 Int. now.
It's sad the parent poster was modded overrated. His point can't be stressed enough - if people beleive kids will be better because you can choose if they can see or not 10 minutes of tits in a movie, we're in bad shape. Never mind watching titties might actually be good to them; can't you simply watch over their actions a bit?
No matter what, you just can't shield your kids in a bubble and think that's all there is to it. Teaching them right and wrong and (god forbid!) paying atention to their actions is what parenting's all about.
Actually, atleast they cared to remark several times that the quote was a fabrication - the journalistic value of such a thing can be debated, but /. was the one that posted it on the main page as news, even though the first line in the article said the quote wasn't true.
In any case, is his site, and he can decide what to screen and what not. Don't like it? There's a whole bunch of pages with user reviews out there aswell. No biggie.
Are you sure? IMDB has as many braindead reviews as every other site on the net, imho - if anything, i think they drop the ones with insults and "l33t" talk, which is fine; it is their website after all. Same with Amazon.
:)
Anyway, i preffer Rottentomatoes.com for accurate reviews, even though i use IMDB for specific information too - soundtracks, cast lists and so.
You can find pretty harsh reviews on JCVD movies if you browse them
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Speaking of political sensitivity, I see that you're using the word "world" to mean "the United States of America".
The rest of the industrialised nations aren't overrun by christian fundamentalists like in the U.S.A. you know.
The hell??! It might not be nice to hear, but he is right, sadly enough. I guess some moderators missed their Prozac today.
"Hey, he just walked through a wall, that's a clipping bug!"
Hehe, that would be a riot. "No fair sarge, he's using an aimbot!"
The film is believed to be set in more contemporary times than the sci-fi games, and focuses on a viral outbreak rather than an invasion from Hell - much to the annoyance of fans of the videogame series.
Bummer. I won't be paying to see it then. C'mon, it's DOOM; a game where you shoot demons from Hell. What are they keeping from it, the double-barrell shotgun? Basically, it's Resident Evil with a male lead.
Dwayne Johnson, better known as The Rock, plays a leading role in the movie, alongside Karl Urban (Lord of the Rings, The Bourne Supremacy) and Rosamund Pike (Die Another Day, The Libertine)
IIRC, Urban would play the marine (lead character) and The Rock would play the sergeant. Sounds good, not excellent, but good - Karl Urban's look is pretty fitting and i actually like The Rock in action movies.
That's great. We don't want the code, the specs would do just fine. I bet the driver developers would love to get their hands on every bit of information the manufacturers can release but are hesitant to.