I havent seen much innovation come to games in a long while. For the past 5-10 years all I have seen in games is increased graphics quality, which is *supposed* to improve realism, without increased content or gameplay. What happened to Alpha Centauri, Fallout, Tribes, Carmageddon, Exile, Zork, etc etc. Their descendants are utterly uninteresting. Prerendering ultrahigh pixelcount images of fixed paths that people can take, and canning combat such that instaheal potions are the norm have led to a bunch of plastic invincible gods beating on each other with even more outlandish moves for hours. How can you top summoning a platinum dragon to breathe on your opponent? Blowing up the world your opponent is standing on of course!!
Developers need to stop and bring things back to the roots. Why not base a game off near-term asteroid exploitation... There's some outlandish stuff you can do with it, but essentially you can deliver on your promises, and since the graphics dont need to be ridiculous you can work on content. How about puzzles, and intrigue? What about a ***REAL*** space flight game, with trajectory plotting, fixed propulsion mass and kinetic interceptors...
The Wii is the first good thing to come to gaming in a long while. No emphasis on graphics. No outlandish price. A honest-to-goodness innovation in control (one thing consoles were pitifully lacking in). Screw the graphics, make 100 different actions with that controller perform different moves. Make it sensitive to speed, so you do the moves at different speeds. Make those moves at those speeds count for something. Make spellcasting require you to move that controller in actions. FFS, make things you do count in the game rather than boxing the game so that a reasonable gamer needs to increase the difficulty to Ultra-Hard before he dies once in the campaign. Are we so terrified of alienating kids by killing them repeatedly if they dont adapt to a game that all difficulty and interest has to be bled out?
I'm calm... *deep breath*
Absolutely necessary link to Robert Zubrin's "Mars Direct" mission architecture for long term stays on Mars using 1970s technology can be found here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars_Direct
This is news? I was born in 82, and I grew up with a computer from when I was a small child. Children should be given computers at each incremental age step, always loaded with interesting and engaging software to help them grow. It is absolutely foreign to me that someone would purposely wait until college to give their kid a computer. Information revolution indeed!
The thing that actually bothers me is not that people have a poor grasp of the english language, but the fact that when you correct them in a non-arrogant manner, they actually refuse your help.
Okay, okay, ignorance is one thing. Insisting on being ignorant is like... stupid.
No, space intelligence funding is not being affected in the slightest bit by the NASA funding crunch.
Yes, NASA is seriously hampered by the fact that it is a US government agency, and has to adhere to all gov standards. This makes it impossible for the scientists and engineers who know whats going on to make policy decisions.
Yes, there is work on a new CEV.
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I havent seen much innovation come to games in a long while. For the past 5-10 years all I have seen in games is increased graphics quality, which is *supposed* to improve realism, without increased content or gameplay. What happened to Alpha Centauri, Fallout, Tribes, Carmageddon, Exile, Zork, etc etc. Their descendants are utterly uninteresting. Prerendering ultrahigh pixelcount images of fixed paths that people can take, and canning combat such that instaheal potions are the norm have led to a bunch of plastic invincible gods beating on each other with even more outlandish moves for hours. How can you top summoning a platinum dragon to breathe on your opponent? Blowing up the world your opponent is standing on of course!! Developers need to stop and bring things back to the roots. Why not base a game off near-term asteroid exploitation... There's some outlandish stuff you can do with it, but essentially you can deliver on your promises, and since the graphics dont need to be ridiculous you can work on content. How about puzzles, and intrigue? What about a ***REAL*** space flight game, with trajectory plotting, fixed propulsion mass and kinetic interceptors... The Wii is the first good thing to come to gaming in a long while. No emphasis on graphics. No outlandish price. A honest-to-goodness innovation in control (one thing consoles were pitifully lacking in). Screw the graphics, make 100 different actions with that controller perform different moves. Make it sensitive to speed, so you do the moves at different speeds. Make those moves at those speeds count for something. Make spellcasting require you to move that controller in actions. FFS, make things you do count in the game rather than boxing the game so that a reasonable gamer needs to increase the difficulty to Ultra-Hard before he dies once in the campaign. Are we so terrified of alienating kids by killing them repeatedly if they dont adapt to a game that all difficulty and interest has to be bled out? I'm calm... *deep breath*
Al Gore created the Moon?
JFC. There are many ways to parent children. Playing the revenge game just because you have a longer arm doesn't always get the appropriate results.
Absolutely necessary link to Robert Zubrin's "Mars Direct" mission architecture for long term stays on Mars using 1970s technology can be found here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars_Direct
I wish there was a Rome: Total War style game set in high fantasy. The combat in that feels more realistic than all this other MMO or RTS bologna...
Innocent until proven guilty is a convention of the U.S. Justice System. Individuals are free to ass-ume whatever they desire.
Alan Rickman as the pessimistic yet lovable blue-crystal staff!
This is news? I was born in 82, and I grew up with a computer from when I was a small child. Children should be given computers at each incremental age step, always loaded with interesting and engaging software to help them grow. It is absolutely foreign to me that someone would purposely wait until college to give their kid a computer. Information revolution indeed!
The thing that actually bothers me is not that people have a poor grasp of the english language, but the fact that when you correct them in a non-arrogant manner, they actually refuse your help. Okay, okay, ignorance is one thing. Insisting on being ignorant is like... stupid.
No, space intelligence funding is not being affected in the slightest bit by the NASA funding crunch. Yes, NASA is seriously hampered by the fact that it is a US government agency, and has to adhere to all gov standards. This makes it impossible for the scientists and engineers who know whats going on to make policy decisions. Yes, there is work on a new CEV.