A little OT, but a friend of mine (who is serbian and was in the nasty part of the war) was affected the moment he saw me playing call of duty (the first one). To clarify: he has no military training outside the mandatory training and was more or less involuntarily in this war. Even though it was a different war that was in the game, he got really nervous all of a sudden. Wide eyes, shaking and sweating and amplified reactions to ingame events (onscreen: enemy crossfire, him: ducking and cowering).
He later told me it was because the depiction of some situations alone (a scene in a house with intense room to room fighting in particular) brought everything back to him because for the first time in a game the developers went too close to "the real thing".
This makes me think that it really doesn't matter how recent a war or which war it is. If the depiction of the actions of war are very close to the real thing in some ways, vets will be affected. Again, not right on the topic of TFA, but somewhat related.
Lots of fun tournaments on LAN parties i organized painted a completely different picture. While PC gamers rule everything in the FPS domain, they completely fail to adapt quickly to an unrelated genre, while console gamers are quite fast in switching from something like geometry wars over to puzzle quest.
i'd rather see myself loosing to a perfectly choreographed fight sequence that inspires awe than to just drop dead and respawn with no idea where the sniper camps.
Same with winning. Clicking with a crosshair shaped cursor on aa avatar of someone who is miles away cannot compare with the fun of beating someones ass that sits right next to you.
As if Racing or fighting games can not be just as sophisticated as FPS. Plus all the other genres on the consoles that can demand a high level of skill.
The notion that PC gamers are more intelligent is just elitist bashing. Just because a gamer is proficient in some RTS, doesn't mean he cannot be a complete moron otherwise.
I have seen state class FPS players get stumped by something as simple as tetris.
Actually, the "top side fingers" have a higher mobility due to one more joint than the thumb. Besides bringing us civilization, the thumb itself is the worst coordinated finger of them all.
Yeah, pressing "12" really looks convenient on the thing. Seriously, why are the thumb buttons on ALL mice placed that way? They should be at the same height as the left click, as the stretched thumb has about the same reach as the "curved around the mouse" index finger.
>50% failure rate is not the truth anymore. In fact this RROD situation has cleared up about two years ago. Maybe we get a new round of it with the new design, there is always hope for the MS-bashers:)
P.S.: I am in an environment with lots of 360s, and the RROD situation actually was even worse then 70%. But for the last 1,5 years, none of my peers had to send in their xboxes anymore...
So the fake hot lesbians who want to hump me are now directly on my block? BRB, ringing on random doors holding a printout of some adult friend finder banner....
i never brought myself to pay the fee to be able to submit games. What i somehow got that in certain instances you can even browse for the XNA stuff on xbox.com and get rejected at the checkout - maybe thats the same with submitting? You are allowed to pay the license fee but are rejected when you actually submit? That would be classical microsoft/xbox live behaviour. The Web part of xbox live is a mess.
yeah, if you live in america. In Austria for instance, we do not have XNA indie games. Also XNA restricts a lot what you can do (no media players, no emulators, no browsers and so on), and the no-limits-homebrew scene is only for people with certain boxes and you have to give up live.
So in that regard, actually wii is the least oppressive. Games still work online if your wii is hacked, even if you do not update. The only functionality lost by not updating is the godawful mega slow store.
I use a prepaid credit card for all my online business. I don#t do much online shopping, so the higher fee does not bug me. Everyone can leech my number for what i care - they have to catch the 5 minutes where there is actually money on it.
There is always the talk of how older people don't get new technology, but i think this only described the people who grew up without IT and were confronted with it at a late age for the first time.
This might be naive, but i think now is the time where people grew up in this high tech scenario and for the first time actually grew old with it, too. Society needs to understand that the "new old guys" are just as proficient in adapting new technology as the young ones because adapting is what they did their whole life.
I would not see Modern Warfare as a pure hardcore game anymore. Sure, to play online you gotta have skills and dedication, but the singleplayer, and the way it is handled is really casual. "Casual gamers" just set their game to easy and go with it. I don't even care for multiplayer anymore except if its with some friends.
And titles like MW2, or Halo ARE bought by the casual crowd, because the hypemachine is just not ignorable on such titles.
I remember back when i brought my xbox to the office for fun. Lots of nongamers and casual gamers there, and everyone of them only asked "but do you have Halo for it?", dismissing Gears of War and a load of other games that are better.
Yeah, but for gaming it can add a new - uhm - dimension.
Not just visually, it can change the way we play a little. People have already commented that playing Racing Games in stereo changes the way how you approach turns. I myself tried stereoscopic Q3 a few years back and found that it was a bit easier to calculate trajectories of grenades.
The 3DTVs sold around here (=Austria) rely on shutterglasses. You run your TV in 200 Hz, and show one frame for the left and then one for the right eye and shutter accordingly. Wouldn't interleaving defy the whole concept?
Also 100Hz per eye is not exactly PAL flicker anymore.
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Doom is about 1 guy alone going rambo on some aliens..
And there is the problem. If you have zombies/monsters in a movie, you need a group of people so you can spectacularly kill of some of them to establish fear from the monsters. That exact same problem was the reason why I, Legend was such a boring piece and the monsters were completely unintimidating.
I enjoyed Doom. Only thing that pissed me of was the "virus makes zombies" angle instead of the original "devils from hell" stuff of the games.
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At least they are thinking with portals.
A little OT, but a friend of mine (who is serbian and was in the nasty part of the war) was affected the moment he saw me playing call of duty (the first one). To clarify: he has no military training outside the mandatory training and was more or less involuntarily in this war.
Even though it was a different war that was in the game, he got really nervous all of a sudden. Wide eyes, shaking and sweating and amplified reactions to ingame events (onscreen: enemy crossfire, him: ducking and cowering).
He later told me it was because the depiction of some situations alone (a scene in a house with intense room to room fighting in particular) brought everything back to him because for the first time in a game the developers went too close to "the real thing".
This makes me think that it really doesn't matter how recent a war or which war it is. If the depiction of the actions of war are very close to the real thing in some ways, vets will be affected. Again, not right on the topic of TFA, but somewhat related.
And the emulator should demand you to blow really hard at the ROM files for them to work!
Lots of fun tournaments on LAN parties i organized painted a completely different picture. While PC gamers rule everything in the FPS domain, they completely fail to adapt quickly to an unrelated genre, while console gamers are quite fast in switching from something like geometry wars over to puzzle quest.
i'd rather see myself loosing to a perfectly choreographed fight sequence that inspires awe than to just drop dead and respawn with no idea where the sniper camps.
Same with winning. Clicking with a crosshair shaped cursor on aa avatar of someone who is miles away cannot compare with the fun of beating someones ass that sits right next to you.
As if Racing or fighting games can not be just as sophisticated as FPS. Plus all the other genres on the consoles that can demand a high level of skill.
The notion that PC gamers are more intelligent is just elitist bashing. Just because a gamer is proficient in some RTS, doesn't mean he cannot be a complete moron otherwise.
I have seen state class FPS players get stumped by something as simple as tetris.
that is just replacing the troll with a troll of a different color, really.
Actually, the "top side fingers" have a higher mobility due to one more joint than the thumb. Besides bringing us civilization, the thumb itself is the worst coordinated finger of them all.
Yeah, pressing "12" really looks convenient on the thing.
Seriously, why are the thumb buttons on ALL mice placed that way? They should be at the same height as the left click, as the stretched thumb has about the same reach as the "curved around the mouse" index finger.
I am going with a cup that adjusts with the weight of the breast in it.
>50% failure rate is not the truth anymore. In fact this RROD situation has cleared up about two years ago. Maybe we get a new round of it with the new design, there is always hope for the MS-bashers :)
P.S.: I am in an environment with lots of 360s, and the RROD situation actually was even worse then 70%. But for the last 1,5 years, none of my peers had to send in their xboxes anymore...
So the fake hot lesbians who want to hump me are now directly on my block? BRB, ringing on random doors holding a printout of some adult friend finder banner....
i never brought myself to pay the fee to be able to submit games.
What i somehow got that in certain instances you can even browse for the XNA stuff on xbox.com and get rejected at the checkout - maybe thats the same with submitting? You are allowed to pay the license fee but are rejected when you actually submit? That would be classical microsoft/xbox live behaviour. The Web part of xbox live is a mess.
mod funny or troll?
yeah, if you live in america. In Austria for instance, we do not have XNA indie games. Also XNA restricts a lot what you can do (no media players, no emulators, no browsers and so on), and the no-limits-homebrew scene is only for people with certain boxes and you have to give up live.
So in that regard, actually wii is the least oppressive. Games still work online if your wii is hacked, even if you do not update. The only functionality lost by not updating is the godawful mega slow store.
I use a prepaid credit card for all my online business. I don#t do much online shopping, so the higher fee does not bug me.
Everyone can leech my number for what i care - they have to catch the 5 minutes where there is actually money on it.
most of the old star trek cast are dead you insensitive clod!
yeah they LOOKED 40. Probably late 20ies on near-burnout.
There is always the talk of how older people don't get new technology, but i think this only described the people who grew up without IT and were confronted with it at a late age for the first time.
This might be naive, but i think now is the time where people grew up in this high tech scenario and for the first time actually grew old with it, too. Society needs to understand that the "new old guys" are just as proficient in adapting new technology as the young ones because adapting is what they did their whole life.
I would not see Modern Warfare as a pure hardcore game anymore.
Sure, to play online you gotta have skills and dedication, but the singleplayer, and the way it is handled is really casual. "Casual gamers" just set their game to easy and go with it. I don't even care for multiplayer anymore except if its with some friends.
And titles like MW2, or Halo ARE bought by the casual crowd, because the hypemachine is just not ignorable on such titles.
I remember back when i brought my xbox to the office for fun. Lots of nongamers and casual gamers there, and everyone of them only asked "but do you have Halo for it?", dismissing Gears of War and a load of other games that are better.
Yeah, but for gaming it can add a new - uhm - dimension.
Not just visually, it can change the way we play a little. People have already commented that playing Racing Games in stereo changes the way how you approach turns. I myself tried stereoscopic Q3 a few years back and found that it was a bit easier to calculate trajectories of grenades.
Maybe because "Fake depth perception gaming" is just such a mouthful ;-)
huh?
Whats interleaving got to do with it?
The 3DTVs sold around here (=Austria) rely on shutterglasses.
You run your TV in 200 Hz, and show one frame for the left and then one for the right eye and shutter accordingly. Wouldn't interleaving defy the whole concept?
Also 100Hz per eye is not exactly PAL flicker anymore.
Depends on your location.
Here in Austria, Sex is a perfectly normal topic on TV while violence gets cut out even after 2200.
T Doom is about 1 guy alone going rambo on some aliens..
And there is the problem. If you have zombies/monsters in a movie, you need a group of people so you can spectacularly kill of some of them to establish fear from the monsters. That exact same problem was the reason why I, Legend was such a boring piece and the monsters were completely unintimidating. I enjoyed Doom. Only thing that pissed me of was the "virus makes zombies" angle instead of the original "devils from hell" stuff of the games.