I always thought so. I gave up reading reviews long ago. I read a recent one for Epic Mickey just to see how things are. The guy spent quite some time complaining about the camera and controls, and then gave the game a 9/10. Eff that. If my interface to the game world sucks, it could be a photorealistic miracle world full of elven maiden sex, but I'm still giving the game no better than a 5/10. Poor game journalism in the reviews are what made me finally get a Gamefly account and rent *everything* before buying. Too many 9 and 10 rated games with glaring flaws or just flat out broken concepts.
Agree with what you said, but, well, am I the only one who *didn't* buy albums unless I liked a solid majority of the songs? It wasn't that hard for me. If I liked an artist I generally liked most of their stuff. If I had a case of liking a couple songs, I just made a tape off a friend's record. Yes, kids, we were trading music *way* back when.;-) It helped I had a good hand me down turntable and tape deck from my dad.
I used to think that, but I have a program I wrote that creates random MP3 CDs for when I'm in the car, and I found I have no problem listening to single tracks from concept albums that show up in the mixes. What's funny is some albums have little interlude tracks between songs, and those occasionally show up for 20 second.;-) Carved In Stone by Shadow Gallery has a bunch of them. I considered adding a function to the program to filter out short tracks, but I can't be arsed to do it.
Well, I never gamed the system in Oblivion. I just role played as normal.
As for the look, from what I have read from developer interviews, they set out to do a more traditional looking environment for Cyrodil. *shrug* Given that, I thought it was beautiful looking. And then they went to the other extreme for Shivering Isles. They mix it up. I'm looking forward to February's Game Informer to get a look at Skyrim.
I also don't equate streamlining with "dumbing down." I like being able to create spells and enchant things more easily. I messed around with that for endless hours. My favorite was adding a light spell to bows, so my assassin elf babe character could literally light up her targets.;-)
Agreed on the structure of New Vegas, though. I liked how there was a definite progression through the map. The roads actually served a purpose early on- leave the road too far and die.
Or... gaming is really, really subjective. Personally, I loved FO1, FO2, FO3 (and every DLC) and FO:NV. Currently enjoying the Dead Money DLC.
The FPS in the 3D games is just a little extra edge to do some damage before going into VATS, especially when sneaking and sniping a target where VATS gives me something around 20% for the best body part. I think that mix of FPS and RPG is perfect. If someone is trying to play it pure FPS, well, as a famous cat once said, "THEYR DOIN IT RONG", but at the end of the day, if they have fun doing it that way, more power to them. I tend to not use VATS for melee and hand-to-hand attacks.
I never understood the war between Morrowind fans and Oblivion fans, either. I loved both and played both multiple times. Looking forward to Skyrim. Hopefully we can get an entertaining war on three fronts.
My secret is to just care about whether or not I'm having fun with a game. I might opine once in a while about how I might have tweaked something here or there, but not much. It's a hobby I pursue to escape life's bullshit. All this analysis and spreadsheets and hand wringing people get into over games is some of the silliest nonsense I have ever seen.
That's why I borrowed my sister's copy of AC2, and I'll borrow Brotherhood. That's one nice thing about console gaming- still easy to just borrow a game from someone else. They haven't started any limiting actions like tying a disc serial number to a console serial number on their servers. Geez, maybe I should just hush up.:-\ My PC gaming these days is older stuff I missed on Steam and GOG.
It could have. A local radio show does a "drunk hosts against DUI" public awareness stunt every St. Patrick's day, and I've heard opf others. On air drunk host experiments and demonstrations do happen. WKRP was probably just copying a real life event that the writer heard about.
Aren't more than half of the DUI convictions by repeat offenders? Can we work this at the sentencing phase after a fair trial? Take away more licenses or stiffer punishments or something, but do it *after* a proper trial. Checkpoints are just too much like, well, checkpoints.
I had a speeding Prius almost hit me in a parking lot. It was so blatant that two other guys flagged him down to stop speeding after witnessing my close call. So where does the idiot hybrid driver fit in your little spectrum of idiocy? From my observations it's the little cars who think they can zip through the eye of a needle that pull the most dangerous shit, especially on the freeway.
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That job was sucking the life out of me.
It's not that I'm particularly good at what I do.
It's that the place was dis-functional.
The only things that got done were through back channels.
With the inevitable outcome.
Spaghetti code sucks, spaghetti management is worse.
Burma shave.
Pick up lines could be odd.
"So, are you from around here... currently?"
Hey, I was aiming at Funny.
Are we reaching Peak Cloud?
I always thought so. I gave up reading reviews long ago. I read a recent one for Epic Mickey just to see how things are. The guy spent quite some time complaining about the camera and controls, and then gave the game a 9/10. Eff that. If my interface to the game world sucks, it could be a photorealistic miracle world full of elven maiden sex, but I'm still giving the game no better than a 5/10. Poor game journalism in the reviews are what made me finally get a Gamefly account and rent *everything* before buying. Too many 9 and 10 rated games with glaring flaws or just flat out broken concepts.
Oh. Great.
(sniff)
Mmmyep.
Agree with what you said, but, well, am I the only one who *didn't* buy albums unless I liked a solid majority of the songs? It wasn't that hard for me. If I liked an artist I generally liked most of their stuff. If I had a case of liking a couple songs, I just made a tape off a friend's record. Yes, kids, we were trading music *way* back when. ;-) It helped I had a good hand me down turntable and tape deck from my dad.
I used to think that, but I have a program I wrote that creates random MP3 CDs for when I'm in the car, and I found I have no problem listening to single tracks from concept albums that show up in the mixes. What's funny is some albums have little interlude tracks between songs, and those occasionally show up for 20 second. ;-) Carved In Stone by Shadow Gallery has a bunch of them. I considered adding a function to the program to filter out short tracks, but I can't be arsed to do it.
Well, I never gamed the system in Oblivion. I just role played as normal.
As for the look, from what I have read from developer interviews, they set out to do a more traditional looking environment for Cyrodil. *shrug* Given that, I thought it was beautiful looking. And then they went to the other extreme for Shivering Isles. They mix it up. I'm looking forward to February's Game Informer to get a look at Skyrim.
I also don't equate streamlining with "dumbing down." I like being able to create spells and enchant things more easily. I messed around with that for endless hours. My favorite was adding a light spell to bows, so my assassin elf babe character could literally light up her targets. ;-)
Agreed on the structure of New Vegas, though. I liked how there was a definite progression through the map. The roads actually served a purpose early on- leave the road too far and die.
Documentary? You use some fancy words, don't ya?
My way the cops poke around a bit, shrug, and hand me back a fully functioning phone.
Idiocracy
Or... gaming is really, really subjective. Personally, I loved FO1, FO2, FO3 (and every DLC) and FO:NV. Currently enjoying the Dead Money DLC.
The FPS in the 3D games is just a little extra edge to do some damage before going into VATS, especially when sneaking and sniping a target where VATS gives me something around 20% for the best body part. I think that mix of FPS and RPG is perfect. If someone is trying to play it pure FPS, well, as a famous cat once said, "THEYR DOIN IT RONG", but at the end of the day, if they have fun doing it that way, more power to them. I tend to not use VATS for melee and hand-to-hand attacks.
I never understood the war between Morrowind fans and Oblivion fans, either. I loved both and played both multiple times. Looking forward to Skyrim. Hopefully we can get an entertaining war on three fronts.
My secret is to just care about whether or not I'm having fun with a game. I might opine once in a while about how I might have tweaked something here or there, but not much. It's a hobby I pursue to escape life's bullshit. All this analysis and spreadsheets and hand wringing people get into over games is some of the silliest nonsense I have ever seen.
Just set it up so that when you give them a special anti-password, it reverts the phone to factory settings.
The Oprah Winfrey Network went on the air. Nothing could survive flying through those waves.
NO! You fool!
(universe collapses)
Well, I *might* as misdirection as I plot their painful demise once I get free. Just sayin'.
That's why I borrowed my sister's copy of AC2, and I'll borrow Brotherhood. That's one nice thing about console gaming- still easy to just borrow a game from someone else. They haven't started any limiting actions like tying a disc serial number to a console serial number on their servers. Geez, maybe I should just hush up. :-\ My PC gaming these days is older stuff I missed on Steam and GOG.
Is "peak" the new "-gate"?
It could have. A local radio show does a "drunk hosts against DUI" public awareness stunt every St. Patrick's day, and I've heard opf others. On air drunk host experiments and demonstrations do happen. WKRP was probably just copying a real life event that the writer heard about.
Aren't more than half of the DUI convictions by repeat offenders? Can we work this at the sentencing phase after a fair trial? Take away more licenses or stiffer punishments or something, but do it *after* a proper trial. Checkpoints are just too much like, well, checkpoints.
How long ago was this? Reason.org would have happily publicized this. They love police abuse stories, especially drug war tales.
No, no. We just can't criticize Wikileaks until Pope Assange causes the deaths of millions, you savvy? ;-)
I had a speeding Prius almost hit me in a parking lot. It was so blatant that two other guys flagged him down to stop speeding after witnessing my close call. So where does the idiot hybrid driver fit in your little spectrum of idiocy? From my observations it's the little cars who think they can zip through the eye of a needle that pull the most dangerous shit, especially on the freeway.
We should totally team up.
World Tree & Rampaging Beast, Private Eyes!