I think the internet has made it impossible for some people to like anything.
Maybe the reason the video game industry is seeing a slow down is that no matter what any company does we bitch about it. The small publishers are too small, the big publisers are to big, the inovative games are too inovative and everything else is not inovative enough... We need to grow up and quit this fanboyism and infighting, we all may have diffrent taste but we all want one thing, qualtiy entertanment.
I agree, John Stewart is a very intelegent man and a great comic for it. I respect the fact that he seems to ask the questions he would like answers to rather than just making the people who come on his show look foolish.
Meh... the only thing I have ever actualy used on his site was the slipstreaming guide (quite good compared to others I have seen). Paul's site seems to be getting less and less relivant to the working Microsoft product support technitian (Or at least this is true for me0.
It is not exactly easy for some to see him as a charecter (the Stephen Clobert on the show is a fictonal charecter, played by an actor with the same name)... I wonder if somtimes there are people watching the Clobert Report that actualy agree with some of his less over the top asertions.
It suprises me that The Daly Show and The Colbert Report can find guests anymore, you would think the popularity of these shows would "spoil the joke" at some point.
Does it fool anyone anymore? Can you honestly say you feel safer because of the War on Drugs, the War on Terrorism or the War on (insert political crap here)? We can't just throw money we don't have at these things forever and I would feel much better if I thought there would be any lasting effects to any of these "wars".
I would like to be treated like an adult for a change.
With how much chatter there is about these quasi-sequels I have to assume the game gets better after you throw the soda can away (I always get intrupted in the blank blank train station).
As much as I support the idea of Net Nutrality (at least the idea of telecomms not "double dipping" or controling user access to content) that last bit about testing a network for nutrality is interesting to me, I wonder what kind of things you could find out about the state of the "free" internet we wish to protect.
The more I read the more i begin to realise that maybe market presure will keep the Telecomms honest... I know I wouldn't pay fpr access that didn't let me use services just because they say it is more exspensive to provide access to that content (I don't think it is, technicaly 1 million hits on google should be the same as 1 million hits on 1 million small servers).
You underestimate the power of Halo to attract fans (even die hard old school FPS fans) and inspire those fans to rabid loyalty.
Halo is not just an FPS it is the FPS to it's fan base, even if it is just OK by industry standards.
Frankly... they should do something about that perception then. If I (who would vote for them just to oppose our current path) think they are jerks, how are they going to win any undecided votes?
I would love to see some sane legislation from anyone... but it seems that is not possible anymore.
What baffels me is half the time they say in one breath they need relaxed rules and in the next breath say they never broke the rules and don't need to.
But come on...
The big scary Democrats are going to call it the "Dubay" adminstration and giggle while the world goes to crap... That's it, That's your plan? It didn't work in 2004 (or ever). what makes you think it will work now?
I have a better idea... lets all stop bickering and elect people with IQs above 70 (all officals in both parties not just the president) and that repreent our real concerns (not ones made up every two to four years as needed) I would like a world (non Mad Max if I had a choice) to leave to my children.
All polititians suck, contribute nothing, have too much power and they only care how there actions afect themselves in the extreme short term.
Yeah I didn't mean gamers didn't get along... just that people in diffrent countries genaraly have diffrent taste.
There are always strange peopel like my who buck the trend (I am an American with a deep love of Sci-Fi, that goes past the summer action movie).
I assume you are refering to Mechassult. I don't consider that a Mechwarrior... and I regret that the days of the "competitive Sim" style of gameplay are ending becaus of the general lack of maturity in the modern gamer and there relentless cries for "balance".
Maybe Fantasy (having much more "prior work") doesn't have to work as hard to immerse the player in the game world (a wizard is a wizard a goblin is a goblin), Sci-Fi on the other hand is a collection of vastly diffrent worlds and themes (even in the space of one autor's work) and each world needs it's own complete story to function on an immersive level, to put it another way good Sci-Fi requires more homework than good fantasy.
I also think that part of the issue is that there arn't many Sci-Fi role players (a benifit of playing CoH is meeting people who prefer all diffrent MMO styles) or at least that Sci-Fi MMOs attract more powergames to the point of alienating casual and role players. Many of my friends regard Sci-Fi as "less serious" than fantasy (I'm the opposite) I personaly don't understand that, and they seem unwilling to try to explain but I know many others feel this way.
A big part of this has to be the kind of player a game attracts, Sci-Fi (at least pop Sci-Fi) by it's nature includes cool technology spaceships and explosions these things attract a very diffrent person than the "traditonal" fantasy MMORPG.This effect can be seen with WoW in that many people not normaly intrested in an MMO where attracted by the developer (I won't get into the fact that Blizzard never really inovated more than they blended other good ideas).
The only truely great Sci-Fi MMO I have played Was Eve... but I think what makes it great is equal parts story, design and the way players are treated by the developers (as adults for the most part).
Another point I think involves the fact that Americans and Koreans (the bulk of MMO players if I had to guess) for the most part seem to prefer fantasy over Sci-Fi in there games. Other parts of the world (parts of Europe and England... again guessing) seem to have diffrent tastes.
Yeah really... The one thing I have to give to Eve is it's mature attitude towards PvP... players actualy hunt down the farmers and disrupt there trade. I would like to see a WoW player care that much about the health of there game.
SWG failed because they changed everything about the game. The jedi class had nothing to do with it. Only that the kind of people to get a kick out of being a leet class were not the type who should have been in SWG. The game called for more balanced players. If you want a score to show how good you are you need a system like WoW and EQ has.
Yeah... those where the exact people who where playing it.
To answer your question, I liked both versions of the game for diffrent reasons. I admit that I liked the pre-NGE game more and probably would have played longer had it not changed, I also admit it was the Star Wars connection that first brought me to the game, I see nothing wrong with that.
At any rate I got out with some good experinces and very few bad ones, I will not likely go back to the game because it turely is a mess on many levels(not all of which are directly the fault of the developers).
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I think the internet has made it impossible for some people to like anything.
Maybe the reason the video game industry is seeing a slow down is that no matter what any company does we bitch about it. The small publishers are too small, the big publisers are to big, the inovative games are too inovative and everything else is not inovative enough... We need to grow up and quit this fanboyism and infighting, we all may have diffrent taste but we all want one thing, qualtiy entertanment.
I agree, John Stewart is a very intelegent man and a great comic for it. I respect the fact that he seems to ask the questions he would like answers to rather than just making the people who come on his show look foolish.
Meh... the only thing I have ever actualy used on his site was the slipstreaming guide (quite good compared to others I have seen). Paul's site seems to be getting less and less relivant to the working Microsoft product support technitian (Or at least this is true for me0.
It is not exactly easy for some to see him as a charecter (the Stephen Clobert on the show is a fictonal charecter, played by an actor with the same name)... I wonder if somtimes there are people watching the Clobert Report that actualy agree with some of his less over the top asertions.
It suprises me that The Daly Show and The Colbert Report can find guests anymore, you would think the popularity of these shows would "spoil the joke" at some point.
Does it fool anyone anymore? Can you honestly say you feel safer because of the War on Drugs, the War on Terrorism or the War on (insert political crap here)? We can't just throw money we don't have at these things forever and I would feel much better if I thought there would be any lasting effects to any of these "wars".
I would like to be treated like an adult for a change.
Making him read Timecube... Isn't that a bit harsh and possibly illegal?
Only $599.99!*
* Xbox 360 not included.
It's sad when you realise what we really need to figure out is "dumb" AI.
With how much chatter there is about these quasi-sequels I have to assume the game gets better after you throw the soda can away (I always get intrupted in the blank blank train station).
As much as I support the idea of Net Nutrality (at least the idea of telecomms not "double dipping" or controling user access to content) that last bit about testing a network for nutrality is interesting to me, I wonder what kind of things you could find out about the state of the "free" internet we wish to protect.
The more I read the more i begin to realise that maybe market presure will keep the Telecomms honest... I know I wouldn't pay fpr access that didn't let me use services just because they say it is more exspensive to provide access to that content (I don't think it is, technicaly 1 million hits on google should be the same as 1 million hits on 1 million small servers).
Weird...
Well anyway, those are the best of the series in my humble opinion.
You underestimate the power of Halo to attract fans (even die hard old school FPS fans) and inspire those fans to rabid loyalty. Halo is not just an FPS it is the FPS to it's fan base, even if it is just OK by industry standards.
The "super magnets" are part of the head movement mecanism.
Frankly... they should do something about that perception then. If I (who would vote for them just to oppose our current path) think they are jerks, how are they going to win any undecided votes?
I would love to see some sane legislation from anyone... but it seems that is not possible anymore.
What baffels me is half the time they say in one breath they need relaxed rules and in the next breath say they never broke the rules and don't need to.
But come on... The big scary Democrats are going to call it the "Dubay" adminstration and giggle while the world goes to crap... That's it, That's your plan? It didn't work in 2004 (or ever). what makes you think it will work now? I have a better idea... lets all stop bickering and elect people with IQs above 70 (all officals in both parties not just the president) and that repreent our real concerns (not ones made up every two to four years as needed) I would like a world (non Mad Max if I had a choice) to leave to my children. All polititians suck, contribute nothing, have too much power and they only care how there actions afect themselves in the extreme short term.
Nothing is bigger than Bono's ego.
Yeah I didn't mean gamers didn't get along... just that people in diffrent countries genaraly have diffrent taste. There are always strange peopel like my who buck the trend (I am an American with a deep love of Sci-Fi, that goes past the summer action movie).
I assume you are refering to Mechassult. I don't consider that a Mechwarrior... and I regret that the days of the "competitive Sim" style of gameplay are ending becaus of the general lack of maturity in the modern gamer and there relentless cries for "balance".
I think you are absolutely correct here.
Maybe Fantasy (having much more "prior work") doesn't have to work as hard to immerse the player in the game world (a wizard is a wizard a goblin is a goblin), Sci-Fi on the other hand is a collection of vastly diffrent worlds and themes (even in the space of one autor's work) and each world needs it's own complete story to function on an immersive level, to put it another way good Sci-Fi requires more homework than good fantasy.
I also think that part of the issue is that there arn't many Sci-Fi role players (a benifit of playing CoH is meeting people who prefer all diffrent MMO styles) or at least that Sci-Fi MMOs attract more powergames to the point of alienating casual and role players. Many of my friends regard Sci-Fi as "less serious" than fantasy (I'm the opposite) I personaly don't understand that, and they seem unwilling to try to explain but I know many others feel this way.
A big part of this has to be the kind of player a game attracts, Sci-Fi (at least pop Sci-Fi) by it's nature includes cool technology spaceships and explosions these things attract a very diffrent person than the "traditonal" fantasy MMORPG.This effect can be seen with WoW in that many people not normaly intrested in an MMO where attracted by the developer (I won't get into the fact that Blizzard never really inovated more than they blended other good ideas).
The only truely great Sci-Fi MMO I have played Was Eve... but I think what makes it great is equal parts story, design and the way players are treated by the developers (as adults for the most part).
Another point I think involves the fact that Americans and Koreans (the bulk of MMO players if I had to guess) for the most part seem to prefer fantasy over Sci-Fi in there games. Other parts of the world (parts of Europe and England... again guessing) seem to have diffrent tastes.
Thank you, that was bugging me.
Yeah really... The one thing I have to give to Eve is it's mature attitude towards PvP... players actualy hunt down the farmers and disrupt there trade. I would like to see a WoW player care that much about the health of there game.
At any rate I got out with some good experinces and very few bad ones, I will not likely go back to the game because it turely is a mess on many levels(not all of which are directly the fault of the developers).
I don't doubt an "8 core" desktop will exist in the near future. Then again he has a point... we won't likely need it.