Seriously, Xbox gamers miss out on so many great mods, it's not even funny. What I loved about TES3's mod engine was that it's really easy and straightforward even to code in. They just need to implement fucking brackets instead of if-endif statements and I'll feel right at home.
If any of you never played this series, then by all means do. Great open-ended game, perfect sense of immersion, good storylines, easily up there with the best.
How do they bypass the "you don't have enough stars for this door" bullshit? I don't think I was able to unlock the final bowser door before at least 75 stars... And there's no sign of OMGWTFHAX in the vid.
This is exactly what I am talking about. Basically, MMORPG's were not supposed to be "quick, gotta run through this dungeon and gain XP and gold", they were supposed to be social interaction on a massive scale. You played a role, in a game. Get it? But nowadays, it's a fucking FPS for lousy shooters.
But hey, if your idea of fun is treadmilling, don't let me stop you, and have fun being the brooding loner type, among the 50,000 other dark, brooding, loner types.
Thanks for ruining the atmosphere everywhere you are, anonymous. GB2/b/!
Please understand that this is not a troll, but there's nothing more infuriating than trying to talk to some running-around asshat who won't even acknowledge you. Totally ruins the atmosphere, dontcha think? I mean, why log on to a server with well over thousands of players if it's only to do quests alone, play alone, and not even interact with other people? It's the basic premise of an MMORPG, roleplaying! Talking, drinking an ale at the inn while sharing stories, discussing current events, exchanging gossip, political information, creating ties between guilds/factions/whatnot, haggling for prices with a player craftsman, going in to feel how it would really be if you lived there! Not a chatroom with a fantasy backdrop! Not an FPS for people who can't aim, either.
You're wrong. I own a flashcart and a passme, which allows me to run GBA and DS homebrews. I'll admit that more than once, I have played pirated games thanks to this wonderful combo, but I *wanted* to give the developpers the money they deserve for Mario Kart, Mario 64 DS, Kirby, Warioware, Advance Wars, Bomberman, Yoshi, and Lost in Blue.
There are some things I will pirate shamelessly, other things I simply RESPECT. Playing a Nintendo game, you can feel a team of people worked hard to make it fun, and nearly-flawless. Not thinking "Let's add some blood and the ad campaign will feature naked babes, this is gonna sell SO HARD!"
... the saddest thing is, it must be true. Sony, in every advertising campaign, has always tried to appeal to the 14-18 demographic that wants to look, act, and think like they're older. So why not actually emulate the gangsta lifestyle? Their customers are moronic enough to find this cool.
I'm actually surprised they still haven't don ad campaigns featuring a bong-smoking, animated CG bob marley saying "Yo mon, thees playstachion stuff trench town rocks! Fight the power, be a rebel, buy SONY."
Did you know that brain training was this year's HUGEST seller on the DS? It was priced pretty low, but it moved a ton of consoles as well. The saddest thing is that Nintendo, despite such a success, will take another five years before they think to themselves "hmm, wonder if the occidentals will like this?", just before they answer themselves "naaaaah."
... It's at least fifteen years old, and it was a huge hit in Europe, IIRC. Of course, it started as a niche game for many of us roleplaying geeks, but... Seriously, this game isn't known by each and every geek, er, slashdotter in here?
Shame on you! (not the parent, he actually has good taste in gaming)
If you can't decide on whatever console YOU want and need the input/peer pressure of anonymous strangers on the 'net to validate your opinion, then you deserve a PSP.
"OOh, my console is shiny and sleek! -My console runs mario kart."
I agree, Kameo is kind of pretty, but not really impressive, and the demo played out like un-fun shit. Yeah, it's only a demo, I will hear from the fanbois. Well, the demo failed, as it didn't convince me to get an XboX THREE-SEXXXTREEEEME!!!1!
I'm still waiting for my Lightsaber game on the Revolution;)
Cor Blimey! Didja hear that? It was the point of this article that flew over your head, back to its nest of incomprehension.
Look at gamefaqs' main page. Sometimes the whole color scheme is changed to display a commercial. Same goes for a LOT of online publications. So don't worry : the same problem applies for us, on teh intarbutt! The worst thing about it is that people, as a great big band of sheep, completely miss the issue, or don't really care. THESE PEOPLE ARE CALLING THEMSELVES JOURNALISTS. This is not even selling out at this point, it's prostitution.
Welcome to the real world! ANY and EVERY review magazine of ANY kind that boasts even one page of advertisement is bound to be corrupted. And guess what, ads are an important part of the revenue stream of these publications, and it's not going to become any better. Even BLOGS are goin' adsense! Do you know where that leads? Here's a fine example :
"If you give this game less than a 95% rating, I'll just buy my 12 pages of ads at $1,000,000 each at another gaming magazine. - MMMph! *slurp, slurp* I couldn't talk with my mouth full, O benevolent games publisher! - I thought so too, slave."
Okay, maybe with more cocksucking from the magazine's part.
If any of this makes your blood boil, nd you can't stand living in a society in which everything works through corruption and money talks, head over to http://www.adbusters.org/
Yes, the "it's for kiddies" line is mostly used by the insecure teenager crowd. But then again it's no reason to think you're more mature because you play Nintendo.
Personnally, I enjoy my Nintendo systems a great deal, but I'm certainly NOT gonna base my VIRILITY on TOYS.
You'll be modded down because you're repeating the same tired old schtick as any anti-Nintendo fanboy : "mods only like Nintendo", "it's for kiddies", "mario sucks", "hardware sucks".
Allow me to say that you sound very smart when you spout off years-old bullshit.
You talk a lot about the "sense of immersion". About knowing what a battle is about. So yeah, Medal of Honor and Call of Duty look like REAL battles alright. Are they re-enactments of 18-year olds shitting their pants, barely out from their mother's arms and into an indiscriminate rain of bullets coming from other 16-to-18 year olds? Being bombed upon by your own army to force you to go forward? And any other ACTUAL tactics used in both world wars? No, eh? But hey, look at the constant glorification of slaying your fellow man. Actually, I'm pretty harsh, because usually the devs throw in a touching scene in which a rookie pulls out a photograph of his girlfriend, and swears he will marry her after this war is over. Yeah, that's pretty original, too.
But it certainly looks badass. Throw grenade this, dodge that. "Immersion", my ass. LOL WAR HAS NEVER BEEN SO COOL!
Enjoy your mindless drone brainwashing, and sign up for the army today, my young lad! A golden future awaits you!
I'm not a "let's censor violent games" drone, it's just that asshats who speak about "immersion" in a WARGAME, but know as much about the army as Rambo told them make me laugh.
tl;dr : Can't you use a sports game to exemplify the immersion effect? At least you'll know what the fuck you're talking about, and you'll have less nightmares.
Publicity stunts = /. "News"
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So, is this what you call a "paid advertisement", or a "paid story"? I can't figure out the difference.
You are no doubt truly the elite of computer science, spouting off the same, tired, and old "ANYTHING THAT ISN'T COMMAND LINE IS FOR LAMERS" bullshit, but I usually like to use my 1000 machine to AT LEAST play DVDs on it.
But hey, look at me, I'm gonna get modded down because I want my piece of machinery to do more than a fucking minitel could in the eighties!
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Seriously, Xbox gamers miss out on so many great mods, it's not even funny. What I loved about TES3's mod engine was that it's really easy and straightforward even to code in. They just need to implement fucking brackets instead of if-endif statements and I'll feel right at home.
If any of you never played this series, then by all means do. Great open-ended game, perfect sense of immersion, good storylines, easily up there with the best.
Poor frustrated sony fanboï, I don't care about microsoft...
At least, "generic mario game" isn't a piece of shit like what you're full of.
How do they bypass the "you don't have enough stars for this door" bullshit?
I don't think I was able to unlock the final bowser door before at least 75 stars... And there's no sign of OMGWTFHAX in the vid.
This is exactly what I am talking about.
Basically, MMORPG's were not supposed to be "quick, gotta run through this dungeon and gain XP and gold", they were supposed to be social interaction on a massive scale. You played a role, in a game. Get it?
But nowadays, it's a fucking FPS for lousy shooters.
But hey, if your idea of fun is treadmilling, don't let me stop you, and have fun being the brooding loner type, among the 50,000 other dark, brooding, loner types.
Thanks for ruining the atmosphere everywhere you are, anonymous. GB2/b/!
DO NOT PLAY MASSIVELY MULTIPLAYER ONLINE GAMES!
Please understand that this is not a troll, but there's nothing more infuriating than trying to talk to some running-around asshat who won't even acknowledge you. Totally ruins the atmosphere, dontcha think?
I mean, why log on to a server with well over thousands of players if it's only to do quests alone, play alone, and not even interact with other people? It's the basic premise of an MMORPG, roleplaying! Talking, drinking an ale at the inn while sharing stories, discussing current events, exchanging gossip, political information, creating ties between guilds/factions/whatnot, haggling for prices with a player craftsman, going in to feel how it would really be if you lived there! Not a chatroom with a fantasy backdrop! Not an FPS for people who can't aim, either.
Soapbox session over.
Maybe if your industry actually stopped taking bribes from sony, we'd see the end of 10-star reviews for "generic PS2 brawler"?
You're wrong. I own a flashcart and a passme, which allows me to run GBA and DS homebrews. I'll admit that more than once, I have played pirated games thanks to this wonderful combo, but I *wanted* to give the developpers the money they deserve for Mario Kart, Mario 64 DS, Kirby, Warioware, Advance Wars, Bomberman, Yoshi, and Lost in Blue.
There are some things I will pirate shamelessly, other things I simply RESPECT. Playing a Nintendo game, you can feel a team of people worked hard to make it fun, and nearly-flawless. Not thinking "Let's add some blood and the ad campaign will feature naked babes, this is gonna sell SO HARD!"
There are *billions* of women on the internet. .jpg ...
The catch is, their names all end in
... the saddest thing is, it must be true. Sony, in every advertising campaign, has always tried to appeal to the 14-18 demographic that wants to look, act, and think like they're older. So why not actually emulate the gangsta lifestyle? Their customers are moronic enough to find this cool.
I'm actually surprised they still haven't don ad campaigns featuring a bong-smoking, animated CG bob marley saying "Yo mon, thees playstachion stuff trench town rocks! Fight the power, be a rebel, buy SONY."
Did you know that brain training was this year's HUGEST seller on the DS? It was priced pretty low, but it moved a ton of consoles as well. The saddest thing is that Nintendo, despite such a success, will take another five years before they think to themselves "hmm, wonder if the occidentals will like this?", just before they answer themselves "naaaaah."
... It's at least fifteen years old, and it was a huge hit in Europe, IIRC. Of course, it started as a niche game for many of us roleplaying geeks, but... Seriously, this game isn't known by each and every geek, er, slashdotter in here?
Shame on you! (not the parent, he actually has good taste in gaming)
If you can't decide on whatever console YOU want and need the input/peer pressure of anonymous strangers on the 'net to validate your opinion, then you deserve a PSP.
"OOh, my console is shiny and sleek!
-My console runs mario kart."
It's the best!
And you can also unlock extra stuff if you insert the GBA titles in the DS's GBA slot.
YAMS = Yet Another Music Swapper?
I agree, Kameo is kind of pretty, but not really impressive, and the demo played out like un-fun shit.
;)
Yeah, it's only a demo, I will hear from the fanbois. Well, the demo failed, as it didn't convince me to get an XboX THREE-SEXXXTREEEEME!!!1!
I'm still waiting for my Lightsaber game on the Revolution
Cor Blimey! Didja hear that?
It was the point of this article that flew over your head, back to its nest of incomprehension.
Look at gamefaqs' main page. Sometimes the whole color scheme is changed to display a commercial. Same goes for a LOT of online publications. So don't worry : the same problem applies for us, on teh intarbutt!
The worst thing about it is that people, as a great big band of sheep, completely miss the issue, or don't really care.
THESE PEOPLE ARE CALLING THEMSELVES JOURNALISTS. This is not even selling out at this point, it's prostitution.
Welcome to the real world!
ANY and EVERY review magazine of ANY kind that boasts even one page of advertisement is bound to be corrupted.
And guess what, ads are an important part of the revenue stream of these publications, and it's not going to become any better. Even BLOGS are goin' adsense!
Do you know where that leads? Here's a fine example :
"If you give this game less than a 95% rating, I'll just buy my 12 pages of ads at $1,000,000 each at another gaming magazine.
- MMMph! *slurp, slurp* I couldn't talk with my mouth full, O benevolent games publisher!
- I thought so too, slave."
Okay, maybe with more cocksucking from the magazine's part.
If any of this makes your blood boil, nd you can't stand living in a society in which everything works through corruption and money talks, head over to http://www.adbusters.org/
Yes, the "it's for kiddies" line is mostly used by the insecure teenager crowd.
But then again it's no reason to think you're more mature because you play Nintendo.
Personnally, I enjoy my Nintendo systems a great deal, but I'm certainly NOT gonna base my VIRILITY on TOYS.
You'll be modded down because you're repeating the same tired old schtick as any anti-Nintendo fanboy : "mods only like Nintendo", "it's for kiddies", "mario sucks", "hardware sucks".
Allow me to say that you sound very smart when you spout off years-old bullshit.
You talk a lot about the "sense of immersion".
About knowing what a battle is about.
So yeah, Medal of Honor and Call of Duty look like REAL battles alright. Are they re-enactments of 18-year olds shitting their pants, barely out from their mother's arms and into an indiscriminate rain of bullets coming from other 16-to-18 year olds? Being bombed upon by your own army to force you to go forward? And any other ACTUAL tactics used in both world wars? No, eh? But hey, look at the constant glorification of slaying your fellow man. Actually, I'm pretty harsh, because usually the devs throw in a touching scene in which a rookie pulls out a photograph of his girlfriend, and swears he will marry her after this war is over. Yeah, that's pretty original, too.
But it certainly looks badass. Throw grenade this, dodge that. "Immersion", my ass. LOL WAR HAS NEVER BEEN SO COOL!
Enjoy your mindless drone brainwashing, and sign up for the army today, my young lad! A golden future awaits you!
I'm not a "let's censor violent games" drone, it's just that asshats who speak about "immersion" in a WARGAME, but know as much about the army as Rambo told them make me laugh.
tl;dr : Can't you use a sports game to exemplify the immersion effect? At least you'll know what the fuck you're talking about, and you'll have less nightmares.
So, is this what you call a "paid advertisement", or a "paid story"?
I can't figure out the difference.
Or is it too obscure?
And /. hates the euro sign, so there, I owe you one € sign, to be placed anywhere you want in my previous post.
You are no doubt truly the elite of computer science, spouting off the same, tired, and old "ANYTHING THAT ISN'T COMMAND LINE IS FOR LAMERS" bullshit, but I usually like to use my 1000 machine to AT LEAST play DVDs on it.
But hey, look at me, I'm gonna get modded down because I want my piece of machinery to do more than a fucking minitel could in the eighties!
Or maybe not, maybe I'll keep on pirating my movies and music instead of giving another cent to the majors.
Screw them. I prefer indie stuff anyways.