That one baffles me. My parents watched poker for hours. It was the same thing. Opening bets, cards dealt, someone goes all in. Rinse and repeat. Forget that there is a massive luck element involved that is almost nonexistent in other (read: real) sports.
I used to like going out and playing poker, but since these televised tournaments started, EVERY table has some asshole who goes all in in every other fraking hand. There's just no subtlety anymore.
I tried using street view a couple times when there was one available for somewhere I needed to go, but the fish eye distortion made it almost useless. Maybe it was just those two spots.
So what they did was made the dog pretty fucking integral into the game, but made you feel like a selfish dick for reviving him rather than all the other innocents that died.
Huh. I revived the dog and didn't feel selfish at all seeing as it was, you know, just a game. Now if any of those endless dead people owed me money, I might have gone a different direction.:-) Honestly, I'm baffled my Molyneux's drive to bring emotion to games like this. Is there really a demand for it? I have a totally empty and pathetic life and I'm not looking for games to give me a real one.
Who came up with the idea you can't save when you want in Fable II?
Oh, decisions must have consequences? Uh huh, that's why I play video games, so I can be *discouraged* from experimenting and trying different things. You know, Peter, experimenting- that thing you just lauded. Yeah, I really need my game worlds to be as unyielding and irreversible as real life. Especially when there is a stark good/evil morality system imposed by someone with whom I might have some real differences of opinion on that front.
And what's with the character model tweaking over time? I start out with a nice looking warrior woman and wind up with a seven foot tall linebacker by the end of the game.
I felt the same way with the Mako controls in Mass Effect. I didn't even know there was a controversy until I finished the game, went to look at what other people thought of it, and saw the hundreds of posts complaining. I thought it was sorta kinda like the Warthog in Halo. No problems on my end.
I hated the asteroid sequence. It seemed out of place and tacked on. I had just played 3 or 4 levels of smooth, well oiled gameplay, and then I get this clunky WTF segment with a vertical control hard wired to the exact opposite of what I like. I got past it in only six tries, but it was annoying. I read posts online where people tried 20 times and then stopped playing the game. It was like a turd sitting in a box of well cut gemstones.
The RE5 demo underwhelmed me. Same old control issues. I think Dead Space could be the new pillar of horror games as long as they don't bring back the fraking asteroid shooting minigame in the next one.
Another dumbass completely misunderstands a post. It's almost like they dimly realize their brains are completely within catastrophic error mode, and that's what they post AC.
I know at this point we're all supposed to get in our high horses and preach about civil duty, but I think too many people have seen too many trials where what happens in the courtroom is just flat out broken. In the face of lawyers playing their highly honed bullshit games, and an army of "experts" who can be paid to say anything, and the befuddled contradictions of witnesses of a dubious nature, the urge to seek out more information must arise quite readily.
But, no, we'll just thump our bibles and pretend the system isn't completely hosed.
People rationalized the purchase of a PS3 by saying to themselves "well, I get a blu-ray player "free" with it"
For me it was "I get a Blu-Ray player that also plays Ratchet & Clank".
The R&C games are like digital crack to me.:-) I loved Uncharted and the Resistance games as well, and Infamous is nearly here.
I own all three consoles, and still play the XBox 360 the most, but with Insomniac, Naughty Dog and Sucker Punch developing PS3 games in full force now, I expect much better things.
I'd suggest the price of the arcade versions didn't help. I'd see a VR game somewhere, look at the $10 a turn cost, and walk away. And I was someone really interested in trying it.
In the dark, dank economic times ahead, we need weapons in the iPhone because its cheery and inviting glow will attract the unemployed proletariat riff-raff out on the streets.
I suggest a titanium telescoping katana that rotates into a Calabi Yau hyperspace manifold when not in use, or an iPhone app that opens a wormhole to a universe full of angry bees.
"Beep! The subject needs clothes. Seriously. This is not porn material."
"Beep! The current angle will not sufficiently capture the dark and depressive mood for which you were aiming. I have wirelessly ordered you some Zoloft."
"Beep! Wow, that's just... really... may I suggest a different hobby?"
"Beep! This camera will now self destruct to save your family, friends and the world in general from your mind numbingly boring vacation photography. You have 30 seconds to reach minimum safe distance."
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The entire combat system in Too Human.
That one baffles me. My parents watched poker for hours. It was the same thing. Opening bets, cards dealt, someone goes all in. Rinse and repeat. Forget that there is a massive luck element involved that is almost nonexistent in other (read: real) sports.
I used to like going out and playing poker, but since these televised tournaments started, EVERY table has some asshole who goes all in in every other fraking hand. There's just no subtlety anymore.
I tried using street view a couple times when there was one available for somewhere I needed to go, but the fish eye distortion made it almost useless. Maybe it was just those two spots.
This should be the OSS equivalent of Godwins Law. As soon as you trot out the "it's free, why are you complaining?" argument - you lose!
Just like Hitler lost! Ha!!!
Just name the module "O'Reilly"
The hitch is that most people still need a brain interface to a better brain.
They totally have a line of masking tape running down the middle of the station, don't they?
So what they did was made the dog pretty fucking integral into the game, but made you feel like a selfish dick for reviving him rather than all the other innocents that died.
Huh. I revived the dog and didn't feel selfish at all seeing as it was, you know, just a game. Now if any of those endless dead people owed me money, I might have gone a different direction. :-) Honestly, I'm baffled my Molyneux's drive to bring emotion to games like this. Is there really a demand for it? I have a totally empty and pathetic life and I'm not looking for games to give me a real one.
Who came up with the idea you can't save when you want in Fable II?
Oh, decisions must have consequences? Uh huh, that's why I play video games, so I can be *discouraged* from experimenting and trying different things. You know, Peter, experimenting- that thing you just lauded. Yeah, I really need my game worlds to be as unyielding and irreversible as real life. Especially when there is a stark good/evil morality system imposed by someone with whom I might have some real differences of opinion on that front.
And what's with the character model tweaking over time? I start out with a nice looking warrior woman and wind up with a seven foot tall linebacker by the end of the game.
Or cloudsourcing. No. Crowdcomputing? Wait... Clouds of crowds sourcing computers?
They can invent "Open Bankruptcy" next. Call me when they reach "Open Assets Selloff" by the creditors.
What? Too cynical? Is that even possible anymore?
My favorite anecdote was a fresh look at the Tortoise and the Hare.
Eh. I prefer the one with Bugs Bunny where the tortoise had rocket propulsion hidden in his shell. Moral of the story: bring a gun to a knife fight.
I felt the same way with the Mako controls in Mass Effect. I didn't even know there was a controversy until I finished the game, went to look at what other people thought of it, and saw the hundreds of posts complaining. I thought it was sorta kinda like the Warthog in Halo. No problems on my end.
I hated the asteroid sequence. It seemed out of place and tacked on. I had just played 3 or 4 levels of smooth, well oiled gameplay, and then I get this clunky WTF segment with a vertical control hard wired to the exact opposite of what I like. I got past it in only six tries, but it was annoying. I read posts online where people tried 20 times and then stopped playing the game. It was like a turd sitting in a box of well cut gemstones.
This is the UN. They'd just put the Cylons in charge of a commission on human rights in the 12 colonies.
The RE5 demo underwhelmed me. Same old control issues. I think Dead Space could be the new pillar of horror games as long as they don't bring back the fraking asteroid shooting minigame in the next one.
Another dumbass completely misunderstands a post. It's almost like they dimly realize their brains are completely within catastrophic error mode, and that's what they post AC.
I know at this point we're all supposed to get in our high horses and preach about civil duty, but I think too many people have seen too many trials where what happens in the courtroom is just flat out broken. In the face of lawyers playing their highly honed bullshit games, and an army of "experts" who can be paid to say anything, and the befuddled contradictions of witnesses of a dubious nature, the urge to seek out more information must arise quite readily.
But, no, we'll just thump our bibles and pretend the system isn't completely hosed.
People rationalized the purchase of a PS3 by saying to themselves "well, I get a blu-ray player "free" with it"
For me it was "I get a Blu-Ray player that also plays Ratchet & Clank".
The R&C games are like digital crack to me. :-) I loved Uncharted and the Resistance games as well, and Infamous is nearly here.
I own all three consoles, and still play the XBox 360 the most, but with Insomniac, Naughty Dog and Sucker Punch developing PS3 games in full force now, I expect much better things.
Scott Adams, I think, in The Dilbert Future.
I'd suggest the price of the arcade versions didn't help. I'd see a VR game somewhere, look at the $10 a turn cost, and walk away. And I was someone really interested in trying it.
Get off my... uh green thing, with the, um little plants? What's it called?
I'm guessing pot garden? :-)
In the dark, dank economic times ahead, we need weapons in the iPhone because its cheery and inviting glow will attract the unemployed proletariat riff-raff out on the streets.
I suggest a titanium telescoping katana that rotates into a Calabi Yau hyperspace manifold when not in use, or an iPhone app that opens a wormhole to a universe full of angry bees.
The cameras need built in AIs that talk to you.
"Beep! This image is framed poorly."
"Beep! The subject requires better lighting."
"Beep! The subject needs clothes. Seriously. This is not porn material."
"Beep! The current angle will not sufficiently capture the dark and depressive mood for which you were aiming. I have wirelessly ordered you some Zoloft."
"Beep! Wow, that's just... really... may I suggest a different hobby?"
"Beep! This camera will now self destruct to save your family, friends and the world in general from your mind numbingly boring vacation photography. You have 30 seconds to reach minimum safe distance."
I'd say it's fine, but I'd also turn a blind eye to any of the female coworkers who kick him in the balls.