Thing is, games sold to little Johnny -are- restricted, and they are restricted in the exact same fashion that other forms of media are; by self regulation. Having serious governmental control of a means of artistic communication is beyond horrible and can lead to a slippery slope.
The problem with self regulation isn't the companies that are creating the games; it is with the people consuming them. Video games are no different than movies in this regard. I saw a parent walk into -Sin freaking City- with an 8 year old. This is the same kind of parent that would and does buy GTA for their kid. This parent is the problem.
How about instead of making new laws to control the video game industry, we take the jump and make laws to regulate the parenting community? Licensing requirments to be able to spawn progeny?
In one of his open letters to the chairperson of NIMF, Jacky Boy called him a "liberal" as if it were slander. So I'd say he can be safely classed as on one half of the table, and that'd be on the right.
Of course, in the same article he compared the game industry to the Nazis. So who knows what the loonball is thinking?
Oooh. Now we got some good paranoia cooking. But I don't think you're going far enough; I think that Jack Thompson was actually the lead designer of GTA: San Andreas.
Why don't "cameos" in the SSB games count? I assume by this that any and all characters in other fighters, such as Street Fighter, have never actually been in a video game if their appearance within it doesn't count?
At the risk of Nintendo fanboys flaming me, again debatable due to her long period of absentee.
First off, you bring up series that were earlier than than the ones that got awards and should have therefore gotten them, despite the fact that they have a "long period of absentee". Secondly, Metroid Fusion? Metroid Zero Mission? Metroid Prime? "A long absentee" is two years?
"Sharding" refers to the way that MMORPGS such as WoW handle large player loads on multiple, seperate game servers. In this way, you aren't playing one game with 4 million people, there are 4 million people playing several hundred smaller games all at the same time, on different servers that aren't connected.
And the OP was talking about similiar policies that are being instituted in Boston, which was in the United States last time I checked. The OP also acknowledges that the advice of the ACLU won't be usefull to the Londoner, either.
Attorney Bob: Hey, Mitch, have you figured out how much our clients are losing each year from piracy per anum, yet?
Accountant Mitch: One second. Three. And a five.
Attorney Bob: 35 what?
Accountant Mitch: Let's call it 3.5 Billion. That's a nice number. By the way, it was a great idea to have these planning sessions during our weekly D&D game. Finding facts and figures has never been easier.
Attorney Bob: Oooh! A critical hit!
Come on. The most recent Monkey Island game was pretty darn good. It didn't quite hit CMI levels, but then again, once you hit "The Best" it is often hard to pull a repeat performance. The opening puzzle was even a rad use of the whole 3D thing.
Sure, if you consider emulating a few popular titles the same thing as natively being backwards compatible for the entire library. PSPs play all NES titles! Amazing!
and there are no HD DVD's on store shelves yet to play anyway.
The XBox 360 is a rather large investment, and it isn't just as a game console. With the convergence happening in the home entertainment sector, it is also jockeying with DVD players. And once I've sunk 400+ dollars into it, I don't want to have to buy a brand new DVD player once HD DVD has made my old DVDs into the new VHS.
As someone who tests well, I am personally in favor of the draconian citizenship exams. I look foward to my Citizen+ account, with added rights such as the Right To Party, and the Right To Kick Prats In The Teeth.
"I'm sure sooner or later someone will work out how to circumvent security. But the way we have done the design doesn't mean that it will work on somebody else's machine."
Doesn't this suggest that the hardware in the systems won't be universal? Isn't it completely mental to have the internal guts of the console differ from unit to unit? Am I misreading this quote?
Indeed. The website should have a flash animation of a half-naked vampire stripper grinding against a pole, next to screenshots dripping with blood and gore. It should also include a bunch of ridiculously exuberant quotes from glowing reviews which clearly were written by someone who didn't spend more than ten minutes with the game.
I really hate it when a game website gives actual information that actually gives you a sense of the mechanics of a game. I demand buzz words!
The games have changed though. There seems to be less of the calm and quiet type of games such as the adventure games, Sam and Max and Grim Fandango.
Sam and Max has any part that is calm and quiet? Is this before or after they toss the decapitated head-bomb of a mad scientist into a bus that may or may not have been full of people, which is okay, so long as it was no one they knew or cared about? Or after you shorted out a circuit box by shoving that irascable little urchin Max face first into it?
When I think of a quiet game, I think Myst. When I think "game that is poster child for surrealist art, plus possum performing Swan Lake" I think Sam and Max.
With the formatting in Parent, I can't tell whether it is a response to the article or a complete quote. Regardless, I don't see how constructing an artificial island is any different from constructing a levee, at least in the sense of "changing the face of the eart".
"releasing material into the public domain" does not equal "sharing my Ray Charles Mp3s on Kazaa". Trying to release material into the public domain just won't work in fifty years, anyhow; with the continual extension of copyright and the accumulation of greater and greater amounts of material in the hands of big corporations. Eventually anyone who even wanted to make something public domain would be sued into oblivion for copy infringement, as it becomes harder and harder not to be derivitive of something that is in the vaults of the media which will stretch back over a century and a half.
It could still be balanced (in that it gives a roughly similiar judgement of the two OSes), and still be slanted horribly in Microsoft's favor if in fact Vista is really, really bad. The slant is visible best in the difference between where each things basal awesomeness is, and then comparing that to the distance they traveled in the review.
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Cutscenes no longer than a minute? Never played a Metal Gear Solid game, I take it?
Thing is, games sold to little Johnny -are- restricted, and they are restricted in the exact same fashion that other forms of media are; by self regulation. Having serious governmental control of a means of artistic communication is beyond horrible and can lead to a slippery slope.
The problem with self regulation isn't the companies that are creating the games; it is with the people consuming them. Video games are no different than movies in this regard. I saw a parent walk into -Sin freaking City- with an 8 year old. This is the same kind of parent that would and does buy GTA for their kid. This parent is the problem.
How about instead of making new laws to control the video game industry, we take the jump and make laws to regulate the parenting community? Licensing requirments to be able to spawn progeny?
In one of his open letters to the chairperson of NIMF, Jacky Boy called him a "liberal" as if it were slander. So I'd say he can be safely classed as on one half of the table, and that'd be on the right.
Of course, in the same article he compared the game industry to the Nazis. So who knows what the loonball is thinking?
Oooh. Now we got some good paranoia cooking. But I don't think you're going far enough; I think that Jack Thompson was actually the lead designer of GTA: San Andreas.
I'm not even sure if that is his real contact information; lord knows the email I tried to send bounced. Maybe it was packed, though.
That, sir, was absolutely hilarious.
Why don't "cameos" in the SSB games count? I assume by this that any and all characters in other fighters, such as Street Fighter, have never actually been in a video game if their appearance within it doesn't count?
Samus Aran (Metroid)
At the risk of Nintendo fanboys flaming me, again debatable due to her long period of absentee.
First off, you bring up series that were earlier than than the ones that got awards and should have therefore gotten them, despite the fact that they have a "long period of absentee". Secondly, Metroid Fusion? Metroid Zero Mission? Metroid Prime? "A long absentee" is two years?
"Sharding" refers to the way that MMORPGS such as WoW handle large player loads on multiple, seperate game servers. In this way, you aren't playing one game with 4 million people, there are 4 million people playing several hundred smaller games all at the same time, on different servers that aren't connected.
And the OP was talking about similiar policies that are being instituted in Boston, which was in the United States last time I checked. The OP also acknowledges that the advice of the ACLU won't be usefull to the Londoner, either.
Attorney Bob: Hey, Mitch, have you figured out how much our clients are losing each year from piracy per anum, yet?
Accountant Mitch: One second. Three. And a five.
Attorney Bob: 35 what?
Accountant Mitch: Let's call it 3.5 Billion. That's a nice number. By the way, it was a great idea to have these planning sessions during our weekly D&D game. Finding facts and figures has never been easier.
Attorney Bob: Oooh! A critical hit!
And with the Nunchaku add-on, that is exactly what you have. An analog stick to move the avatar around, and the remote to aim and shoot.
Come on. The most recent Monkey Island game was pretty darn good. It didn't quite hit CMI levels, but then again, once you hit "The Best" it is often hard to pull a repeat performance. The opening puzzle was even a rad use of the whole 3D thing.
It does play all Xbox games
Sure, if you consider emulating a few popular titles the same thing as natively being backwards compatible for the entire library. PSPs play all NES titles! Amazing!
and there are no HD DVD's on store shelves yet to play anyway.
The XBox 360 is a rather large investment, and it isn't just as a game console. With the convergence happening in the home entertainment sector, it is also jockeying with DVD players. And once I've sunk 400+ dollars into it, I don't want to have to buy a brand new DVD player once HD DVD has made my old DVDs into the new VHS.
Howard Scott Warshaw and twenty six nubile co-eds.
The humanity.
About the babies and the fell, wicked ceremonies?
It is all true.
As someone who tests well, I am personally in favor of the draconian citizenship exams. I look foward to my Citizen+ account, with added rights such as the Right To Party, and the Right To Kick Prats In The Teeth.
"I'm sure sooner or later someone will work out how to circumvent security. But the way we have done the design doesn't mean that it will work on somebody else's machine."
Doesn't this suggest that the hardware in the systems won't be universal? Isn't it completely mental to have the internal guts of the console differ from unit to unit? Am I misreading this quote?
Indeed. The website should have a flash animation of a half-naked vampire stripper grinding against a pole, next to screenshots dripping with blood and gore. It should also include a bunch of ridiculously exuberant quotes from glowing reviews which clearly were written by someone who didn't spend more than ten minutes with the game.
I really hate it when a game website gives actual information that actually gives you a sense of the mechanics of a game. I demand buzz words!
The games have changed though. There seems to be less of the calm and quiet type of games such as the adventure games, Sam and Max and Grim Fandango.
Sam and Max has any part that is calm and quiet? Is this before or after they toss the decapitated head-bomb of a mad scientist into a bus that may or may not have been full of people, which is okay, so long as it was no one they knew or cared about? Or after you shorted out a circuit box by shoving that irascable little urchin Max face first into it?
When I think of a quiet game, I think Myst. When I think "game that is poster child for surrealist art, plus possum performing Swan Lake" I think Sam and Max.
With the formatting in Parent, I can't tell whether it is a response to the article or a complete quote. Regardless, I don't see how constructing an artificial island is any different from constructing a levee, at least in the sense of "changing the face of the eart".
"releasing material into the public domain" does not equal "sharing my Ray Charles Mp3s on Kazaa". Trying to release material into the public domain just won't work in fifty years, anyhow; with the continual extension of copyright and the accumulation of greater and greater amounts of material in the hands of big corporations. Eventually anyone who even wanted to make something public domain would be sued into oblivion for copy infringement, as it becomes harder and harder not to be derivitive of something that is in the vaults of the media which will stretch back over a century and a half.
A lawsuit on what grounds, exactly? I ask only for knowledge.
It could still be balanced (in that it gives a roughly similiar judgement of the two OSes), and still be slanted horribly in Microsoft's favor if in fact Vista is really, really bad. The slant is visible best in the difference between where each things basal awesomeness is, and then comparing that to the distance they traveled in the review.
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