...that these are probably GOP-influenced lawyers, right? They just had their asses handed to them, and we're 2 years from electing a new pupp, er....president. Best get started now. If they can really rile up a good shitstorm, "They wanna take away your guns so the terrorists can kill you!" will make for a very effective stump speech.
Wii Sports has a Fitness function, sort of like Brain Age, that's meant to help you stay consistent, but it's not very in-depth. A more in-depth version could do a lot. And the parent is right that the cow throwing game in Rayman gives you a MAJOR workout.
Didn't see it listed. Apologies if I missed it. But it's the best/easiest 2P game I've ever played. It's supposed to be available on the Wii's Virtual Console.
I'm sure it does. And if you're referring to "Father Frags Best," then it was made by the guy that did "Male Restroom Etiquette," the current YouTube sensation.
These are some of the larger community sites. Or you could try finding productions you like, and contacting the producers themselves. At this stage, machinima is above no one;)
- Game companies don't care if you make the machinima..heck, it's even free advertising for them.
- Some productions, like Tra5hta1k by the ILL Clan, use cheap engines (Torque) that you can afford to buy the rights
- Red vs. Blue was found by Bungie, and they arranged for Rooster Teeth to get the rights to their product, so they can sell t-shirts, DVDs, etc. This so far is a unique case. Other Halo machinimas have been turned down by M$, most likely thanks to the upcoming movie.
- Most machinima can't make money directly, but there's an increasing potential for careers in the industry. Recently both Blizzard and BioWare have hired from the machinima community (I'm one of the hires;P), and I imagine there will be more. Companies have also gone to machinima producers to create content without joining the company.
Double Cliffs:
- Is it legal to take any game, make machinima out of it, and sell it? NO! Has there been any lawsuits yet? No. Has there been cease/desist requests? Yes, a couple that I know of. Asking the legal questions regarding machinima don't get solid answers because there are no solid answers yet. We're still in its infancy.
Here's the nominees for this year's "Mackies," at the Machinima Film Festival in November. Most of the nominees are up on GameVideos.com. I would definitely suggest "Bill et John."
http://festival.machinima.org/mackies.html
(Shameless self-plug: My productions got three nominations)
http://www.themureview.com/
All NINE endings?! It's not really meant to be a long, single game. It's more of a Choose Your Own Adventure. Each segment is quite short, but each one is quite different, with lots of unlockables. I've had the game over a month and still haven't gotten them all (I don't play a TON, though). Plus it eventually goes into Hard mode, so even the first ending path has different levels.
The things Apple continually receives praise for and advertises about, included applications and higher security, Microsoft gets sued over. Yeah, that's fair.
How could you possibly challenge me on FPSes and then use a console game? Seriously. There's not a single FPS that can even touch PC FPSes...YET. Wii is the really the only thing that might change that. Yes resolution is important in FPSes, but you don't NEED 1920x1080. A solid frames-per-second count (never dropping below 30...60 or so average) is MUCH more important. If you knew FPSes, you'd know that. You would also be able to see how the Wii might finally let you accurately control FPSes on a console, unlike with the control pads of other systems.
If you're worried about getting tired, your loss. I'm sure with the way competitive FPS players play, you'd get tired there, too. I know my wrists will cramp up if I play too much T:V. That's what happens when you're chasing/shooting live targets instead of stuff to just blow up, like in Black.
Yes. I didn't care about Wind Waker because I didn't own a Gamecube, and it was the same old controls.
No, I didn't care about Donkey Kong Country. At all.
I'm not even really a Nintendo fan. I'm a games fan. Whoever gives me the best experience has my loyalty.
This is getting really f-ing old
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I guarantee you that I'm a more "dedicated" gamer than 99% of the people out there. I've been playing all my life, played almost every classic game and every sleeper hit in some form or another. I've played games on every platform, and I've played multiplayer games on competitive levels. I've played almost every MMOG in existence to some extent. Next month I'm joining one of the world's best game developers to work on what will be some of the next few years' biggest games.
AND I DON'T GIVE A FLYING FUCK ABOUT THE GRAPHICS ARMS RACE!! I WANT INNOVATION, NEW EXPERIENCES, QUALITY GAME DESIGN, AND HAVE A SHITLOAD OF FUN ALONG WITH IT!! THAT is why I can't fucking wait for the Wii to come out. It may not be the second coming, but the DS has proven to me that Nintendo means it when they're going for fun over graphics power. And if WoW, HL2, RE4, Shadow of the Colossus, and other games like them have taught us anything it's that you don't need the ridiculous power to have wonderful graphics.
So all those people saying "Wii won't sell to 'true' or 'hardcore' gamers" or "Wii is for casual gamers, non-gamers, and families only"...you can all fuck off. You wanna prove you're more hardcore than me? Let's hop in a Halo PC or Tribes: Vengeance server and I'll show you what a real gamer plays like.
And no I'm not bitter;P Just tired of being called a lesser gamer.
If you're only watching the big headlines and TV commercials, of course you'll wonder how all these sequels and the joke of PS3 is a "golden age." There is an awful lot of crap out there, probably more than before.
But if you keep your eye on the good stuff, it has never been equalled. HL2 (and its episodes), the upcoming Portal and TF2, Oblivion, all the DS's great games, the upcoming Wii, Shadow of Colossus, that painted dog game on PS2 (forget name sorry), Xbox Live, upcoming Mass Effect, MMOGs like EVE and WoW. The list just goes on and on of games that are at the height of design.
It's like television. If you look at all the crap, there's sure a whole lotta crap. The best of today's television is the best television there's ever been, though. Battlestar Galactica, Adult Swim, Six Feet Under, Sopranos, The Wire; as well as shows that were on only a year ago like Everybody Loves Raymond and Band of Brothers (guess that's a little older). I even think some of the reality shows are really good. Shows like Project Runway show you into an industry you'd probably never be able to enter, without it having to be a sitcom "about an eclectic bunch of friends living in Manhattan" that happen to work in fashion. Yes it's tuned for entertainment, but there's a helluva lot more reality in a reality show than there is in a sitcom.
Maybe if you did a mathematical breakdown averaging the quality of shows, this decade might not win because of all the total crap. That's obviously not fair since there used to only be a dozen channels. If you look at the best of time, though, I'd put the stuff we have now up against anything. All-time greats like The Cosby Show or MASH or Homicide: Life in the Streets alone can't beat the number of quality shows we have today.
But of course since this is the internet this opinion makes me very uncool. Oh well. That'd be a problem if I had any respect whatsoever for the "Everything Sucks, Everything Else is Better" attitude of the internet.
The same arguments that were made against the DS are being used against the Wii ("gimmicky," lesser graphics power, etc.) as that Game Informer article proves. He hardly even mentioned the DS. He also neglects to mention the Sony backlash, and the fact that we're now in a time where people are a bit tired of the graphics arms race between M$ and Sony, and would like something new. At least to a further extent than has been true for consoles in the past.
That doesn't guarantee success by any means. There's just a lot of positive angles that the author was ignoring.
"Another source is always a good thing."
Agreed. We've got the traditional encyclopedias on one end, and wikipedia on the other. Now we can go a bit in the middle and see what comes of it. I like the idea. Admittedly, though, I am a bit of a technocrat.
HL2 I think is the greatest example of art for games so far, though Ico and Shadow of the Colossus are certainly qualifiers as well. Why do we care what Roger Ebert thinks, though? He's the only movie critic whose opinion I even care about, but he's only a movie critic. He knows NOTHING about games. Even his friend "experts" know nothing. I remember them talking about Doom being the height of gaming. That's like saying a Bruckheimer movie is the height of cinema. He just doesn't know. We gamers do know, though. Games most definitely are art.
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BioWare didn't make KotOR 2.
Last year 1.4 billion people lived in China. I'm sorry, but your OSU, MUSE numbers are not impressive. (re: get some perspective)
Believe me...anyone playing Grim Fandango is having a great deal more fun than someone playing anything currently available for the PS3.
"The only thing that would be better than Double Dragon is multiplayer River City Ransom." ...or Gunstar Heroes on Virtual Arcade.
...that these are probably GOP-influenced lawyers, right? They just had their asses handed to them, and we're 2 years from electing a new pupp, er....president. Best get started now. If they can really rile up a good shitstorm, "They wanna take away your guns so the terrorists can kill you!" will make for a very effective stump speech.
Wii Sports has a Fitness function, sort of like Brain Age, that's meant to help you stay consistent, but it's not very in-depth. A more in-depth version could do a lot. And the parent is right that the cow throwing game in Rayman gives you a MAJOR workout.
Didn't see it listed. Apologies if I missed it. But it's the best/easiest 2P game I've ever played. It's supposed to be available on the Wii's Virtual Console.
That's good news. I haven't talked with Chris in a while, so I'll have to be sure to ask him at the festival.
I'm sure it does. And if you're referring to "Father Frags Best," then it was made by the guy that did "Male Restroom Etiquette," the current YouTube sensation.
www.machinima.com
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www.mprem.com (Machinima Premiere)
www.sims99.com
www.warcraftmovies.com
These are some of the larger community sites. Or you could try finding productions you like, and contacting the producers themselves. At this stage, machinima is above no one
I'll give the cliffs:
;P), and I imagine there will be more. Companies have also gone to machinima producers to create content without joining the company.
- Game companies don't care if you make the machinima..heck, it's even free advertising for them.
- Some productions, like Tra5hta1k by the ILL Clan, use cheap engines (Torque) that you can afford to buy the rights
- Red vs. Blue was found by Bungie, and they arranged for Rooster Teeth to get the rights to their product, so they can sell t-shirts, DVDs, etc. This so far is a unique case. Other Halo machinimas have been turned down by M$, most likely thanks to the upcoming movie.
- Most machinima can't make money directly, but there's an increasing potential for careers in the industry. Recently both Blizzard and BioWare have hired from the machinima community (I'm one of the hires
Double Cliffs:
- Is it legal to take any game, make machinima out of it, and sell it? NO! Has there been any lawsuits yet? No. Has there been cease/desist requests? Yes, a couple that I know of. Asking the legal questions regarding machinima don't get solid answers because there are no solid answers yet. We're still in its infancy.
Here's the nominees for this year's "Mackies," at the Machinima Film Festival in November. Most of the nominees are up on GameVideos.com. I would definitely suggest "Bill et John." http://festival.machinima.org/mackies.html (Shameless self-plug: My productions got three nominations) http://www.themureview.com/
The best of the best.
No kidding. This was a bit of a shock to see as a "headline."
All NINE endings?! It's not really meant to be a long, single game. It's more of a Choose Your Own Adventure. Each segment is quite short, but each one is quite different, with lots of unlockables. I've had the game over a month and still haven't gotten them all (I don't play a TON, though). Plus it eventually goes into Hard mode, so even the first ending path has different levels.
Yeah, the "fairness when it serves me" argument stands up just SO well.
The things Apple continually receives praise for and advertises about, included applications and higher security, Microsoft gets sued over. Yeah, that's fair.
How could you possibly challenge me on FPSes and then use a console game? Seriously. There's not a single FPS that can even touch PC FPSes...YET. Wii is the really the only thing that might change that. Yes resolution is important in FPSes, but you don't NEED 1920x1080. A solid frames-per-second count (never dropping below 30...60 or so average) is MUCH more important. If you knew FPSes, you'd know that. You would also be able to see how the Wii might finally let you accurately control FPSes on a console, unlike with the control pads of other systems. If you're worried about getting tired, your loss. I'm sure with the way competitive FPS players play, you'd get tired there, too. I know my wrists will cramp up if I play too much T:V. That's what happens when you're chasing/shooting live targets instead of stuff to just blow up, like in Black.
Yes. I didn't care about Wind Waker because I didn't own a Gamecube, and it was the same old controls. No, I didn't care about Donkey Kong Country. At all. I'm not even really a Nintendo fan. I'm a games fan. Whoever gives me the best experience has my loyalty.
I guarantee you that I'm a more "dedicated" gamer than 99% of the people out there. I've been playing all my life, played almost every classic game and every sleeper hit in some form or another. I've played games on every platform, and I've played multiplayer games on competitive levels. I've played almost every MMOG in existence to some extent. Next month I'm joining one of the world's best game developers to work on what will be some of the next few years' biggest games.
;P Just tired of being called a lesser gamer.
AND I DON'T GIVE A FLYING FUCK ABOUT THE GRAPHICS ARMS RACE!! I WANT INNOVATION, NEW EXPERIENCES, QUALITY GAME DESIGN, AND HAVE A SHITLOAD OF FUN ALONG WITH IT!! THAT is why I can't fucking wait for the Wii to come out. It may not be the second coming, but the DS has proven to me that Nintendo means it when they're going for fun over graphics power. And if WoW, HL2, RE4, Shadow of the Colossus, and other games like them have taught us anything it's that you don't need the ridiculous power to have wonderful graphics.
So all those people saying "Wii won't sell to 'true' or 'hardcore' gamers" or "Wii is for casual gamers, non-gamers, and families only"...you can all fuck off. You wanna prove you're more hardcore than me? Let's hop in a Halo PC or Tribes: Vengeance server and I'll show you what a real gamer plays like.
And no I'm not bitter
If you're only watching the big headlines and TV commercials, of course you'll wonder how all these sequels and the joke of PS3 is a "golden age." There is an awful lot of crap out there, probably more than before.
But if you keep your eye on the good stuff, it has never been equalled. HL2 (and its episodes), the upcoming Portal and TF2, Oblivion, all the DS's great games, the upcoming Wii, Shadow of Colossus, that painted dog game on PS2 (forget name sorry), Xbox Live, upcoming Mass Effect, MMOGs like EVE and WoW. The list just goes on and on of games that are at the height of design.
It's like television. If you look at all the crap, there's sure a whole lotta crap. The best of today's television is the best television there's ever been, though. Battlestar Galactica, Adult Swim, Six Feet Under, Sopranos, The Wire; as well as shows that were on only a year ago like Everybody Loves Raymond and Band of Brothers (guess that's a little older). I even think some of the reality shows are really good. Shows like Project Runway show you into an industry you'd probably never be able to enter, without it having to be a sitcom "about an eclectic bunch of friends living in Manhattan" that happen to work in fashion. Yes it's tuned for entertainment, but there's a helluva lot more reality in a reality show than there is in a sitcom.
Maybe if you did a mathematical breakdown averaging the quality of shows, this decade might not win because of all the total crap. That's obviously not fair since there used to only be a dozen channels. If you look at the best of time, though, I'd put the stuff we have now up against anything. All-time greats like The Cosby Show or MASH or Homicide: Life in the Streets alone can't beat the number of quality shows we have today.
But of course since this is the internet this opinion makes me very uncool. Oh well. That'd be a problem if I had any respect whatsoever for the "Everything Sucks, Everything Else is Better" attitude of the internet.
The same arguments that were made against the DS are being used against the Wii ("gimmicky," lesser graphics power, etc.) as that Game Informer article proves. He hardly even mentioned the DS. He also neglects to mention the Sony backlash, and the fact that we're now in a time where people are a bit tired of the graphics arms race between M$ and Sony, and would like something new. At least to a further extent than has been true for consoles in the past.
That doesn't guarantee success by any means. There's just a lot of positive angles that the author was ignoring.
"Another source is always a good thing." Agreed. We've got the traditional encyclopedias on one end, and wikipedia on the other. Now we can go a bit in the middle and see what comes of it. I like the idea. Admittedly, though, I am a bit of a technocrat.
I'm sure most videogame companies/advocates would like to forget Reagan as an example of keeping mentally fit :P
HL2 I think is the greatest example of art for games so far, though Ico and Shadow of the Colossus are certainly qualifiers as well. Why do we care what Roger Ebert thinks, though? He's the only movie critic whose opinion I even care about, but he's only a movie critic. He knows NOTHING about games. Even his friend "experts" know nothing. I remember them talking about Doom being the height of gaming. That's like saying a Bruckheimer movie is the height of cinema. He just doesn't know. We gamers do know, though. Games most definitely are art.