IIRC Giant Squids and Octopuses mate with anything they think might be of the opposite sex. As a result it may be entirely correct that the octupus is trying to mate with the camera...
There is no frame of reference in the video; and that makes it hard to actually see how big [or small] the octopus is.
Especially when Joe Blow is a spotty oik of a teenager.
And I dispute that the Final Fantasy series was a step forward. It was much the same "Hack-n-Slash" game with only a marginal improvement in graphics and playability (and even then...).
i]Besides, isn't it the same thing for every human enterprise? Just because some caveman dude in the far past discovered it was cool to beat some trees in some random rythm doesn't mean some people in the future -- say, Bach or Beethoven -- would be mere mediocre rehashers to the thing called music...:)/i]
I don't think it's the same argument. For that argument to be true you would have to assume that consoles represent a massive step forward in tech'. Mr Cavemen did not have the same tools as Mr Bach; Mr PC Programmer has largely the same tools as MR Console Programmer.
I've been reading this discussion with some interest. I would like to ask when consoles started doing RPGs better than PCs? Oh, you mean "Final Fantasy" and its ilk? Sorry, but the final fantasy brand of RPG is very niche and, in my opinion, extremely boring. These games represent the sort of RPG that is archaic compared with the likes of Deus Ex, System Shock 2, Planescape Torment, KOTOR etc etc. I used to play Final Fantasy-esque style RPGs back in the day and, frankly, I've grown up since then. I would say they have niche (actually cult) appeal but I am mystified why people get so obsessed with them. They are very dull. Compare Final Fantasy VII with say... Fallout (1 or 2); Similar gameplay (isometric, turnbased) but Fallout kicks their arse in many ways.
If you like your FPS then it may be arguable that consoles are better than PC, but really, aren't we getting a little bored of them now? Half Life 2 being a flawed exception. For example; I never understood the fascination with Halo. when I played this I thought "ok, so it's pretty and you can drive the vehicles, but I've been playing these sorts of games for years now."
I like my strategy games and, frankly, I've yet to see a decent strategy game on a console. Where are the Total Wars? Why do they tie you to these rubbish controller things when I have a perfectly good pc sitting over there?
To me consoles represent the McGame industry. Fine, if you like that sort of thing, but as time goes on and the industry becomes less and less innovative expect to see increasingly derivative games - oh and much DRM. Not that you won't get DRM on a PC, just the proprietary formats and their ilk have all been problems on the console for years. I find it slightly wierd when I talk to a kid about games and he shows me the latest greates 'thing' and it's something I played years ago. Or he doesn't understand when I point out that there are better ways of doing things. It's almost as though medicority is cool and it's great that things are quite derivative.
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IIRC Giant Squids and Octopuses mate with anything they think might be of the opposite sex. As a result it may be entirely correct that the octupus is trying to mate with the camera... There is no frame of reference in the video; and that makes it hard to actually see how big [or small] the octopus is.
Especially when Joe Blow is a spotty oik of a teenager. And I dispute that the Final Fantasy series was a step forward. It was much the same "Hack-n-Slash" game with only a marginal improvement in graphics and playability (and even then ...).
i]Besides, isn't it the same thing for every human enterprise? Just because some caveman dude in the far past discovered it was cool to beat some trees in some random rythm doesn't mean some people in the future -- say, Bach or Beethoven -- would be mere mediocre rehashers to the thing called music... :)/i]
I don't think it's the same argument. For that argument to be true you would have to assume that consoles represent a massive step forward in tech'. Mr Cavemen did not have the same tools as Mr Bach; Mr PC Programmer has largely the same tools as MR Console Programmer.
I've been reading this discussion with some interest. I would like to ask when consoles started doing RPGs better than PCs? Oh, you mean "Final Fantasy" and its ilk? Sorry, but the final fantasy brand of RPG is very niche and, in my opinion, extremely boring. These games represent the sort of RPG that is archaic compared with the likes of Deus Ex, System Shock 2, Planescape Torment, KOTOR etc etc. I used to play Final Fantasy-esque style RPGs back in the day and, frankly, I've grown up since then. I would say they have niche (actually cult) appeal but I am mystified why people get so obsessed with them. They are very dull. Compare Final Fantasy VII with say ... Fallout (1 or 2); Similar gameplay (isometric, turnbased) but Fallout kicks their arse in many ways.
If you like your FPS then it may be arguable that consoles are better than PC, but really, aren't we getting a little bored of them now? Half Life 2 being a flawed exception. For example; I never understood the fascination with Halo. when I played this I thought "ok, so it's pretty and you can drive the vehicles, but I've been playing these sorts of games for years now."
I like my strategy games and, frankly, I've yet to see a decent strategy game on a console. Where are the Total Wars? Why do they tie you to these rubbish controller things when I have a perfectly good pc sitting over there?
To me consoles represent the McGame industry. Fine, if you like that sort of thing, but as time goes on and the industry becomes less and less innovative expect to see increasingly derivative games - oh and much DRM. Not that you won't get DRM on a PC, just the proprietary formats and their ilk have all been problems on the console for years. I find it slightly wierd when I talk to a kid about games and he shows me the latest greates 'thing' and it's something I played years ago. Or he doesn't understand when I point out that there are better ways of doing things. It's almost as though medicority is cool and it's great that things are quite derivative.