>They really need to learn how to leverage their strengths or they won't survive another release.
I am pretty sure they already sailed past that point a long time ago. The last few projects such as quake live have been failures and ID has ceased to an independent entity. I am fully expecting Carmack to retire or be laid off soon, then all that will be left of ID a tech engine that is "a completely unacceptable engine to do Skyrim in", and some old used up IP that no one really cares about anymore.
>Gaming is suppose to be fun. It shouldn't require substantial spends in time and effort. Same goes for simulation, unless you're training for a real world job.
I am pretty sure no game would ever exist without a large number of people's substantial spends in time and effort.
Right, because no one uses notable Chinese inventions such as paper, the compass, gunpowder, the printing press, money, land mines, cannons, exploding cannonballs, multistage rockets, the fork, noodles, the crossbow, stringed instruments, kites, manned flight, matches, natural gas as fuel, cameras, playing cards, steelworking, tea, or toilet paper anymore.
All inventions that have fallen by the wayside. Wow, if only the chinese were more creative they could have influenced modern culture even more then the oldest and most powerful nation on the face of the planet already has...
No, it's cool. you can make broad generalizations about one of the largest groups of people on earth. Humans like you are not a smart people. Opinionated yes. Smart, no.
Computers were invented as weapons of warfare. 90% of the computational power in the entire world is spend on advanced weapons research and nuclear blast simulations. I am talking big iron super computers, that is the reason why they are built. And it is not just computers, it is every industry. Every tool mankind has ever invented, from the simple hammer to the most complex geo-positional satellite network, has its roots in warfare. Applied violence is the human race's greatest motivator. If necessity is the mother of invention, then violence is the mother of necessity. That is the reason why most of our games are at their core abstract representations of armed conflict.
your plans are easily defeated by flying killbots. and flying killbots are much easier to make, because you don't have to worry about giving them legs. you just give them jet engines and wings, and let them kill their targets with long range guided missiles.
China has a more free market then the us with less regulations and fewer oversight. In addition they have some of the most fucked up religions ever invented. At least 10 million Chinese are practitioners of Falun Gong, a religious movement that can best be describes as Scientology with Kung Fu. Instead of thatens they have dragon ball z style over 9000 supernormal abilities and special powers.
Tenets include belief that "humankind is degenerating and demons are everywhere", extraterrestrials are infiltrating the earth, Africa boasts a 2-billion-year-old alien nuclear reactor, and the leader has superpowers such as flight, though he says it is against his enlightened nature to do so in public.
I rather liked the low budget "Blade" series... I always thought that a Nightstalkers series would fit in on sci fi, what with all the paranormal / ghost / vamp shows that channel loves to play. Witchblade was pretty good too, dispite having some of the worst sfx in tv history.
Its a nice thought but chances are if we develop super smart thinking machines that we will just offload all our thinking tasks to the AI to free up more brain power to consume reality tv/fox news/facebook/porn with... much the way having access to google affects your memory.
Those so called "bells and whistles" are what makes KDE technologically superior to every other system available. That "special web browser" and "music client" are basically the same program, a shell wrapper around the kioslave interface. kioslaves are hands down the single most important feature in kde, in my opinion. Sure you don't need them, but once you know what they are and how to use them, using anything else will seem like archaic crap.
Except that kde has had it like that for a very long time and gnome just recently decided to rename theirs the exact same thing.
I personally don't care what they do. gnome is crap, gtk is crap, all of the apps that require gtk are crap, and it is completely unnecessary on any of the slackware machines I run.
nethack already had everything but the kitchen sink - and then they added the kitchen sink. slashem is just like nethack but with 12 additional types of kitchen sinks...
I have been playing Global Agenda ever since it went f2p a few months ago and I am enjoying it quite a bit.
It is not first person, open source, or single player, but it is a small indy online 3rd person shooter rpg with some pretty solid solo and co-op content. It plays a lot like Tribes, TF2 and Enemy Territory, but there is a huge open world zone with mmo style quests and a bunch of instances that involve blasting 100s of robots into scrap with a plethora of sci fi weapons. The missions get pretty insane; at times its like some 3d bullet hell shmup with walls of fire flying in both directions and ragdoll robot parts bouncing around. It does have the typical online shooter pvp too, but they are variations on team games, like ctf and control. Visually it it is like a cross between Warhammer 40k, Star Wars, and Tron, with power armor, chain swords and glowing holographic overlays, and it is set in a post apocalyptic totalitarian police state ruled by ruthless cyborg clones.
It is free to download, and free to play, you can get it on steam, and if you do like it upgrading to an 'elite' account to get bonus features only costs 12$...
That is funny, I thought the indie program was to lock in indie studios to using microsoft only technology that cant be easily ported to nintendo or sony consoles.
I recently started playing Global Agenda, a 3rd person sci fi hack and slash shooter mmo rpg. The game is free to play, with a 20$ upgrade to an 'elite' account that gives you access to some additional features and bonus exp and loot at the end of instances. Everything in the game is available for purchase with both in game credits and tokens, or with real money "agenda points". Everything from costumes and dyes to the best weapons for each class.
What this means is you can buy an elite account with a 30 day exp booster and pay for your top tier OC gear and spend about 100$ to have an end game character in less then a month, or pay nothing and grind levels and farm for tokens and get the exact same top tier OC gear in about 3 months.
When both characters are L50 they will be exactly the same.
Also, in GA the top tier level 50 gear is only about 21% better then level 1 weapons that everyone starts with. There is a youtube video of someone running solo expert with no equipment.
I hate to say it but nintendo has been walking down this road for a while.
They used to be known for being hardcore. I used to be a fanboy. fzero used to be my favorite game. but wipeout is faster, has higher rez/more realistic graphics, better music and more innovative game modes. also, they have not made a new fzero in almost 10 years. instead of buying a Wii, I got a ps3, for the sole purpose of playing wipeout HD, a 20$ psn game.
nintendo announced a new system at e3. sony announced a new wipeout.
I am pretty sure sony's marketing said the ps3 was capable of all that and more. It only does everything. play games, watch movies, listen to music, surf the web, cure cancer.
I think between making babies cry and all their gaffs, it's not so much they didn't say it, its just that everyone thought they were full of shit.
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>They really need to learn how to leverage their strengths or they won't survive another release.
I am pretty sure they already sailed past that point a long time ago. The last few projects such as quake live have been failures and ID has ceased to an independent entity. I am fully expecting Carmack to retire or be laid off soon, then all that will be left of ID a tech engine that is "a completely unacceptable engine to do Skyrim in", and some old used up IP that no one really cares about anymore.
>Gaming is suppose to be fun. It shouldn't require substantial spends in time and effort. Same goes for simulation, unless you're training for a real world job.
I am pretty sure no game would ever exist without a large number of people's substantial spends in time and effort.
Right, because no one uses notable Chinese inventions such as paper, the compass, gunpowder, the printing press, money, land mines, cannons, exploding cannonballs, multistage rockets, the fork, noodles, the crossbow, stringed instruments, kites, manned flight, matches, natural gas as fuel, cameras, playing cards, steelworking, tea, or toilet paper anymore.
All inventions that have fallen by the wayside. Wow, if only the chinese were more creative they could have influenced modern culture even more then the oldest and most powerful nation on the face of the planet already has...
No, it's cool. you can make broad generalizations about one of the largest groups of people on earth. Humans like you are not a smart people. Opinionated yes. Smart, no.
Computers were invented as weapons of warfare. 90% of the computational power in the entire world is spend on advanced weapons research and nuclear blast simulations. I am talking big iron super computers, that is the reason why they are built. And it is not just computers, it is every industry. Every tool mankind has ever invented, from the simple hammer to the most complex geo-positional satellite network, has its roots in warfare. Applied violence is the human race's greatest motivator. If necessity is the mother of invention, then violence is the mother of necessity. That is the reason why most of our games are at their core abstract representations of armed conflict.
your plans are easily defeated by flying killbots. and flying killbots are much easier to make, because you don't have to worry about giving them legs. you just give them jet engines and wings, and let them kill their targets with long range guided missiles.
China has a more free market then the us with less regulations and fewer oversight. In addition they have some of the most fucked up religions ever invented. At least 10 million Chinese are practitioners of Falun Gong, a religious movement that can best be describes as Scientology with Kung Fu. Instead of thatens they have dragon ball z style over 9000 supernormal abilities and special powers.
Tenets include belief that "humankind is degenerating and demons are everywhere", extraterrestrials are infiltrating the earth, Africa boasts a 2-billion-year-old alien nuclear reactor, and the leader has superpowers such as flight, though he says it is against his enlightened nature to do so in public.
i.e, batshit insane religious extremists.
That is like saying oil spills brought environmental cleanup workers decade of lucrative employment.
...and ends with a live action Urotsukidoji starring Jessica Alba as Akemi Ito.
I rather liked the low budget "Blade" series... I always thought that a Nightstalkers series would fit in on sci fi, what with all the paranormal / ghost / vamp shows that channel loves to play. Witchblade was pretty good too, dispite having some of the worst sfx in tv history.
Its a nice thought but chances are if we develop super smart thinking machines that we will just offload all our thinking tasks to the AI to free up more brain power to consume reality tv/fox news/facebook/porn with... much the way having access to google affects your memory.
Those so called "bells and whistles" are what makes KDE technologically superior to every other system available. That "special web browser" and "music client" are basically the same program, a shell wrapper around the kioslave interface. kioslaves are hands down the single most important feature in kde, in my opinion. Sure you don't need them, but once you know what they are and how to use them, using anything else will seem like archaic crap.
Here is a link about it : http://everydaylht.com/howtos/desktop/kio-slavery/
Except that kde has had it like that for a very long time and gnome just recently decided to rename theirs the exact same thing.
I personally don't care what they do. gnome is crap, gtk is crap, all of the apps that require gtk are crap, and it is completely unnecessary on any of the slackware machines I run.
nethack already had everything but the kitchen sink - and then they added the kitchen sink. slashem is just like nethack but with 12 additional types of kitchen sinks...
I have been playing Global Agenda ever since it went f2p a few months ago and I am enjoying it quite a bit.
It is not first person, open source, or single player, but it is a small indy online 3rd person shooter rpg with some pretty solid solo and co-op content. It plays a lot like Tribes, TF2 and Enemy Territory, but there is a huge open world zone with mmo style quests and a bunch of instances that involve blasting 100s of robots into scrap with a plethora of sci fi weapons. The missions get pretty insane; at times its like some 3d bullet hell shmup with walls of fire flying in both directions and ragdoll robot parts bouncing around. It does have the typical online shooter pvp too, but they are variations on team games, like ctf and control. Visually it it is like a cross between Warhammer 40k, Star Wars, and Tron, with power armor, chain swords and glowing holographic overlays, and it is set in a post apocalyptic totalitarian police state ruled by ruthless cyborg clones.
It is free to download, and free to play, you can get it on steam, and if you do like it upgrading to an 'elite' account to get bonus features only costs 12$...
^^
That is funny, I thought the indie program was to lock in indie studios to using microsoft only technology that cant be easily ported to nintendo or sony consoles.
I recently started playing Global Agenda, a 3rd person sci fi hack and slash shooter mmo rpg. The game is free to play, with a 20$ upgrade to an 'elite' account that gives you access to some additional features and bonus exp and loot at the end of instances. Everything in the game is available for purchase with both in game credits and tokens, or with real money "agenda points". Everything from costumes and dyes to the best weapons for each class.
What this means is you can buy an elite account with a 30 day exp booster and pay for your top tier OC gear and spend about 100$ to have an end game character in less then a month, or pay nothing and grind levels and farm for tokens and get the exact same top tier OC gear in about 3 months.
When both characters are L50 they will be exactly the same.
Also, in GA the top tier level 50 gear is only about 21% better then level 1 weapons that everyone starts with. There is a youtube video of someone running solo expert with no equipment.
Not only that he managed to do it while shamelessly promoting his own product. I wonder how many hits a website gets for a +5 insightful comment.
+1 epic
you just made john carmack your bitch...
That's nothing. I *am* a huge gamer and I had no idea Gamesforwindows.com was even a place.
you can get a nintendo powerglove on ebay for about 25$.
Facebook will be around for a long time. Just like how Friendster is still around, it is just completely irrelevant.
I hate to say it but nintendo has been walking down this road for a while.
They used to be known for being hardcore. I used to be a fanboy. fzero used to be my favorite game. but wipeout is faster, has higher rez/more realistic graphics, better music and more innovative game modes. also, they have not made a new fzero in almost 10 years. instead of buying a Wii, I got a ps3, for the sole purpose of playing wipeout HD, a 20$ psn game.
nintendo announced a new system at e3. sony announced a new wipeout.
I am pretty sure sony's marketing said the ps3 was capable of all that and more. It only does everything. play games, watch movies, listen to music, surf the web, cure cancer.
I think between making babies cry and all their gaffs, it's not so much they didn't say it, its just that everyone thought they were full of shit.
...and 100% pork. I wonder who's friend in Malaysia owns a web development firm?