Maybe get a license for Grim Fandango, or Beyond Good and Evil, or Pandora Directive, or Gabriel Knight
No, in the name of all that is good and holy, no. Those are good games with good story lines and I hope to god if anyone ever gets the movie rights to them it's someone who will do them justice.
No, thats the point of conditioning. You do something over and over until it becomes a habit. Maybe a few would think about it but most would act on what they have conditioned themselves to do. I play paintball, I play video games, I've handled a range of real weapons and am quite a good shot with a rifle but none of that makes me a soldier. Having not been exposed to real combat the paintball players would most likely either be target practice for the experienced combatant or curl up in a hole and have a panic attack from the stress.
Maybe I'm biased, as the Final Fantasy games are some of my favorites, but they are not really sequels(barring X-2). True, play mechanics and general plot is often very similar between the games and this could use some work but I think for the most part Final Fantasy games have been pretty solid. I always think of the Madden series in light of being sequeled to death, but I am also not a fan of football, much less football games.
Come on, chemistry is tons of fun. Maybe not what they teach in high schools or colleges but that can be the entrance into the exciting field of high explosives. Combine explosives with engineering and you have demolitions, add some aeronautics and you have rocketry. Combine all three and build your own ICBM.
Nah, I've seen it already and have multiple copies. I plan on buying the DVD and I am by no means the biggest FF7 fanatic that I know. No, it's not going to sell as many copies as Finding Nemo or Shrek and I would bet Wal-Mart isn't going to have a huge display for it, but the Squenix marketing guys know this already.
Here's what it really means: People are actually going to hear about this game now. Not only that they are going to hear that it has something offensive in it (what is offensive dosen't really matter, as log as it is) and want to see what it is about so their going to go out and buy it.
My guess is that it really means more sales for Activision.
Oh yeah, I play FlightSims and RTS games...guess I'm a fighter pilot capable of leading massive numbers of troops into battle. Now I'm quitty my crappy boring job.
Yeah, there was a trick to that...it involved black hole generators, stasis fields and subspace teleporters. Two types of ships, armed with as many mauler devices as you can fit on them, all with teleporters. One type has the black hole generator, the other has the stasis field. TP up to them, hit them with the black hole generator (number of ships destroyed depends on the number of ships in the targeted fleet) then the stasis field so they can't move for their next turn. Repeat.
Didn't you hear? Blizzard has decided not to release SC2 until all the current fans are old and grey and will most likely die before finding out what happens to all our favorite characters.
Don't bother with it unless you like to suffer. It's far to complex (I usually like complex games but this has gone to far) and is getting to the point on not being a game anymore.
Come on, we all know it but just usually don't admit it: This country (the United States) is not really "free", nor is the rest of the world (anarchy isn't really free either). There is just enough of an illusion of freedom to keep the populace fat and happy. We can see where it's going too, take more and more freedoms...but just a little at a time with "reasons" that sound good. Eventually someone, be it a person or governing body, will have their chance at a power grab and take it, then we can kiss even our illusions goodbye.
I have to agree with the parent, especially on the bit about the history of the computer. From the decidedly non-geek people I know (most of the people I know) what they would use (or not) the most is a step-by-step guidebook that could walk them through common problems that they might encounter. "My computer isn't connecting to the internet, how can I fix it? My printer is spitting out blank pages, what's wrong? OMFG i got te blue screen, WTF popups I can't stop them!!" The "average" person isn't concerned that Tim Berners-Lee is credited with the invention of the WWW or that the internet sprang from ARPANET. Me and you may care about PARC and ENIAC but most people would really rather not know. They want to know how to get their instant messenger and email working again and stop their computer from locking up on them.
Anyways, a nobel goal and I hope you are able to pull this off
Yeah, thats a great game. I play it all the time and it really reduces travel time. For some reason though the black and white cars with flashing lights don't seem to like me playing it to much.
1. It wasn't an argument, only a statement. I was expressing how I felt, based on experience. What does logic really have to do with it?
2. What does the public education system have to do with anything?
3. I like my car, thank you. It's not flashy but gets me from point A to point B at about 30 MPG, is reliable, cheap to maintain (when it need maintenance), and looks nice.
4. Do you always get up on the wrong side of the bed, or is math your only friend? Lighten up.
I would say something about worthless snots such as yourself, and how they are a drag on society as much as any welfare junkie, however I conceder myself a better person...wait, to late...guess I'm just an OK person. And it's not that I don't have money, it's that I actually have a life besides video games (imagine that) and find my hard earned cash is better spent on something better than crappy video games.
Oh, and not shopping at Walmart is good, but not for those reasons.
Personally, I would love to see a store that allowed me to try out any game they had before I bought it. I have a very limited budget and I can't stomache the idea of dropping $60, $50, $40, or even $30 on a game I'm not going to play for more than an hour or so (if that). I know, I know, there are demos, especially for PC games, but I live in the sticks and don't have access to broadband. Half a gig on dial up isn't going to happen. It would take some monitoring to keep something like this from being abused though.
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Really?! I though that was a sniper motto....
No, in the name of all that is good and holy, no. Those are good games with good story lines and I hope to god if anyone ever gets the movie rights to them it's someone who will do them justice.
No, thats the point of conditioning. You do something over and over until it becomes a habit. Maybe a few would think about it but most would act on what they have conditioned themselves to do. I play paintball, I play video games, I've handled a range of real weapons and am quite a good shot with a rifle but none of that makes me a soldier. Having not been exposed to real combat the paintball players would most likely either be target practice for the experienced combatant or curl up in a hole and have a panic attack from the stress.
Maybe I'm biased, as the Final Fantasy games are some of my favorites, but they are not really sequels(barring X-2). True, play mechanics and general plot is often very similar between the games and this could use some work but I think for the most part Final Fantasy games have been pretty solid. I always think of the Madden series in light of being sequeled to death, but I am also not a fan of football, much less football games.
If my understanding serves me correctly I believe that there would be more of a "BOOM" than a "SPLAT"
Come on, chemistry is tons of fun. Maybe not what they teach in high schools or colleges but that can be the entrance into the exciting field of high explosives. Combine explosives with engineering and you have demolitions, add some aeronautics and you have rocketry. Combine all three and build your own ICBM.
Nah, I've seen it already and have multiple copies. I plan on buying the DVD and I am by no means the biggest FF7 fanatic that I know. No, it's not going to sell as many copies as Finding Nemo or Shrek and I would bet Wal-Mart isn't going to have a huge display for it, but the Squenix marketing guys know this already.
Here's what it really means: People are actually going to hear about this game now. Not only that they are going to hear that it has something offensive in it (what is offensive dosen't really matter, as log as it is) and want to see what it is about so their going to go out and buy it.
My guess is that it really means more sales for Activision.
Oh yeah, I play FlightSims and RTS games...guess I'm a fighter pilot capable of leading massive numbers of troops into battle. Now I'm quitty my crappy boring job.
Yeah, there was a trick to that...it involved black hole generators, stasis fields and subspace teleporters. Two types of ships, armed with as many mauler devices as you can fit on them, all with teleporters. One type has the black hole generator, the other has the stasis field. TP up to them, hit them with the black hole generator (number of ships destroyed depends on the number of ships in the targeted fleet) then the stasis field so they can't move for their next turn. Repeat.
Have you tried out the Source Code Project?
http://scp.indiegames.us/news.php
It can be a pain to get to work right but graphically I'll put it up aginst anything else out there.
I agree, an under-rated game. Don't happen to have the expansion pack do you?
No game is going to last forever.
Nethack
Didn't you hear? Blizzard has decided not to release SC2 until all the current fans are old and grey and will most likely die before finding out what happens to all our favorite characters.
Don't bother with it unless you like to suffer. It's far to complex (I usually like complex games but this has gone to far) and is getting to the point on not being a game anymore.
Have you played the original? It seriously beat the second and third ones. I shrudder when I think about all the time I have lost to that game....
Come on, we all know it but just usually don't admit it: This country (the United States) is not really "free", nor is the rest of the world (anarchy isn't really free either). There is just enough of an illusion of freedom to keep the populace fat and happy. We can see where it's going too, take more and more freedoms...but just a little at a time with "reasons" that sound good. Eventually someone, be it a person or governing body, will have their chance at a power grab and take it, then we can kiss even our illusions goodbye.
I have to agree with the parent, especially on the bit about the history of the computer. From the decidedly non-geek people I know (most of the people I know) what they would use (or not) the most is a step-by-step guidebook that could walk them through common problems that they might encounter. "My computer isn't connecting to the internet, how can I fix it? My printer is spitting out blank pages, what's wrong? OMFG i got te blue screen, WTF popups I can't stop them!!" The "average" person isn't concerned that Tim Berners-Lee is credited with the invention of the WWW or that the internet sprang from ARPANET. Me and you may care about PARC and ENIAC but most people would really rather not know. They want to know how to get their instant messenger and email working again and stop their computer from locking up on them.
Anyways, a nobel goal and I hope you are able to pull this off
You got to the end boss? Hell, I can't hardly get bast the first few levels. Can you send me a stratagy guide or walkthrough?
Yeah, thats a great game. I play it all the time and it really reduces travel time. For some reason though the black and white cars with flashing lights don't seem to like me playing it to much.
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Non-standard use of punctuation.
1. It wasn't an argument, only a statement. I was expressing how I felt, based on experience. What does logic really have to do with it?
2. What does the public education system have to do with anything?
3. I like my car, thank you. It's not flashy but gets me from point A to point B at about 30 MPG, is reliable, cheap to maintain (when it need maintenance), and looks nice.
4. Do you always get up on the wrong side of the bed, or is math your only friend? Lighten up.
I would say something about worthless snots such as yourself, and how they are a drag on society as much as any welfare junkie, however I conceder myself a better person...wait, to late...guess I'm just an OK person. And it's not that I don't have money, it's that I actually have a life besides video games (imagine that) and find my hard earned cash is better spent on something better than crappy video games.
Oh, and not shopping at Walmart is good, but not for those reasons.
Yeah, but I'm talking more about PC games. I can get a few from the library, but not very many, even fewer new ones and even fewer good one.
Personally, I would love to see a store that allowed me to try out any game they had before I bought it. I have a very limited budget and I can't stomache the idea of dropping $60, $50, $40, or even $30 on a game I'm not going to play for more than an hour or so (if that). I know, I know, there are demos, especially for PC games, but I live in the sticks and don't have access to broadband. Half a gig on dial up isn't going to happen. It would take some monitoring to keep something like this from being abused though.