I'm not thrilled about the idea either, and I've never heard anyone say that they want their software to exist on the Internet. Even some users of Valve's Steam are worried about having too little control over their games.
Why would the "desktop era" suddenly end? It's not the Ice Age, it doesn't just simply "end" as if it was controlled by the forces of nature. It ends if people want it to end. Does anyone want it to end, besides Microsoft?
If I can't survive after extensive in-game training with nerfed weapons what makes me think I'd survive a real war where people are really honest trying to make my life stop.
It's easier to kill people in a game than it is in real life, and anyone who isn't a crazed Muslim is more or less afraid to die. If real life was like CS, every SWAT or special forces operation would result in insane amounts of casualties, and the US military death toll in Iraq would be in the tens or hundreds of thousands.
I think Finnish law states that the police can't search your property if the crime wouldn't result in at least six months of imprisonment. This is why the police can't raid your home with a SWAT team just because you refuse to let the TV license inspector into your home.
I think FPS games can also be used to practise correct movement in a combat situation: moving from cover to cover, peeking around corners, positioning yourself so that you have minimum exposure to enemy fire etc. When you play Counter-Strike (or something similiar) long enough, these things become completely instinctive. Another thing that occured to me is that you have to be careful when you're playing with friendly fire enabled, and eventually you'll learn to identify your target before shooting it to pieces, and resisting the urge to start spraying around when a teammate or hostage is between you and the enemy. Not everyone learns these valuable skills, unfortunately.
Of course, none of this is a substitute for real training.
I'm not intimately familiar with the search logs, but I've seen a little of them. How are the logs tied to personal information? Do they contain IP addresses, or what?
The new economy sounds cool to me. I've been playing CS for so many years that I don't mind if they change things. Eternally playing the same game without any changes will eventually become boring.
Ah, so now I'm a troll. Maybe you anonymous cowards should grow some balls and actually present arguments instead of arbitrarily modding people for no reason.
I think a lot of players in WoW take the Alliance vs. Horde thing too seriously, and seem to genuinely hate the other faction. I don't know which is worse, being racist towards real people or being racist towards imaginary people.
I also like the fact that I get modded flamebait if I point out that a bunch of anonymous fucktards are falsely modding people just because they have a different opinion.
I'm not sure if the Wiimote will be as advertised. Will it work well in a confined space with a small television? Will it be easy to control or will I flail all over the place in Metroid Prime 3, like I was playing Halo 2 or something? I'm really just going to wait and see.
On the other hand, I couldn't care less about HDTV, Blu-ray or how many cores the Cell has. All I really care about is the games. I'm also ready to keep playing the same old FPS and RPG games, I don't need innovation just for its own sake.
While I don't know the sales figures of BattleZone and Tribes, they did both receive sequels, so they couldn't have been utter failures. Grim Fandango was supposedly the only game in Lucasarts' history that didn't produce any profits, and I think that's a pretty good example of reviews not correlating with sales figures.
You've chosen to have a family, deal with it. You can't have time for everything in the world. If you want to have time for MMOs, stay single and get a job that doesn't have excessively long hours. Don't blame MMOs for your own choices in life.
I do think that it's a very underrated game that hasn't received a lot of attention (nobody ever seems to talk about it), and this post makes it almost seem like people didn't like it. I'd love to see more Jade Empire games, it's a very good and original IP. As much as I'm looking forward to NWN2, it wouldn't hurt to get more RPGs that aren't either based on DnD or copied from it. A Jade Empire MMORPG would be great.
The trouble is that in academia there are a lot of sacred cows that change like slow-motion fashion. Want to start a class on Islam these days? You'll have full support. Want to start a class on Mormonism? It's a joke. This is just an off-the-cuff example.
Furthermore, your class on Islam must say only politically correct things that make people feel warm and fuzzy (this applies to the entire planet, though). I don't know if Wikipedia requires people to be politically correct, or if facts are accepted as long as they're facts.
Advances in technology have made games like Oblivion possible. Is Oblivion better than the RPG games we had ten years ago? Yes, it definitely is. Similar examples can be found in any genre.
I think Oblivion's graphics are wonderful, especially the forests. However, it's not really such an amazing game, and I didn't find it as interesting as, say, Baldur's Gate II. Likewise, I didn't think Half-Life 2 was as good as its predecessor.
A reliable insider source has told me that Bethesda will release an expansion called Horse Adventures in Oblivion. You get to design your own horse and then feed and dress it (armor sold separately!).
Does 'they' mean all Muslims? How do you know that is true?
Yet another predictable and overused multiculturalist argument. Just because every single individual isn't doing something doesn't mean that generalizations can't be made. Nitpicking will not help you.
It is not inevitable, natural, or sensible to some of us.
Let me put this another way for you. . .
Suppose two US Marines raped a young Japanese girl (under 16 years old) in Okinawa. Not one Marine publicly denounced the rape, although the Pentagon did issue apologetic press releases.
Should all US Marines deployed in Japan be held responsible for the actions of those two rapists? What if they were found guilty in court? Could Japan then imprison all US Marines for, say, eight years?
Where did you get the idea that two people are suddenly equal to hundreds, thousands and millions of people?
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I'm not thrilled about the idea either, and I've never heard anyone say that they want their software to exist on the Internet. Even some users of Valve's Steam are worried about having too little control over their games.
Why would the "desktop era" suddenly end? It's not the Ice Age, it doesn't just simply "end" as if it was controlled by the forces of nature. It ends if people want it to end. Does anyone want it to end, besides Microsoft?
It's easier to kill people in a game than it is in real life, and anyone who isn't a crazed Muslim is more or less afraid to die. If real life was like CS, every SWAT or special forces operation would result in insane amounts of casualties, and the US military death toll in Iraq would be in the tens or hundreds of thousands.
I can't see any drawbacks in dumping nuclear waste into space.
I think Finnish law states that the police can't search your property if the crime wouldn't result in at least six months of imprisonment. This is why the police can't raid your home with a SWAT team just because you refuse to let the TV license inspector into your home.
I think FPS games can also be used to practise correct movement in a combat situation: moving from cover to cover, peeking around corners, positioning yourself so that you have minimum exposure to enemy fire etc. When you play Counter-Strike (or something similiar) long enough, these things become completely instinctive. Another thing that occured to me is that you have to be careful when you're playing with friendly fire enabled, and eventually you'll learn to identify your target before shooting it to pieces, and resisting the urge to start spraying around when a teammate or hostage is between you and the enemy. Not everyone learns these valuable skills, unfortunately.
Of course, none of this is a substitute for real training.
That's pretty much what I was going to post. Video games shouldn't always be compared to books and films so rigorously.
Powered armor would be ideal for SWAT teams, I think.
I'm not intimately familiar with the search logs, but I've seen a little of them. How are the logs tied to personal information? Do they contain IP addresses, or what?
The new economy sounds cool to me. I've been playing CS for so many years that I don't mind if they change things. Eternally playing the same game without any changes will eventually become boring.
Ah, so now I'm a troll. Maybe you anonymous cowards should grow some balls and actually present arguments instead of arbitrarily modding people for no reason.
I think a lot of players in WoW take the Alliance vs. Horde thing too seriously, and seem to genuinely hate the other faction. I don't know which is worse, being racist towards real people or being racist towards imaginary people.
I also like the fact that I get modded flamebait if I point out that a bunch of anonymous fucktards are falsely modding people just because they have a different opinion.
Assholes.
I'm not sure if the Wiimote will be as advertised. Will it work well in a confined space with a small television? Will it be easy to control or will I flail all over the place in Metroid Prime 3, like I was playing Halo 2 or something? I'm really just going to wait and see.
On the other hand, I couldn't care less about HDTV, Blu-ray or how many cores the Cell has. All I really care about is the games. I'm also ready to keep playing the same old FPS and RPG games, I don't need innovation just for its own sake.
I like the fact that you get modded flamebait on Slashdot if you are not a rabid Nintendo fanboy. Slahdot is a very mature place indeed.
While I don't know the sales figures of BattleZone and Tribes, they did both receive sequels, so they couldn't have been utter failures. Grim Fandango was supposedly the only game in Lucasarts' history that didn't produce any profits, and I think that's a pretty good example of reviews not correlating with sales figures.
This is a non-issue. The game's designer is in no way responsible for what some whackjob does. No point in even discussing about it.
He must be stopped!
You've chosen to have a family, deal with it. You can't have time for everything in the world. If you want to have time for MMOs, stay single and get a job that doesn't have excessively long hours. Don't blame MMOs for your own choices in life.
I do think that it's a very underrated game that hasn't received a lot of attention (nobody ever seems to talk about it), and this post makes it almost seem like people didn't like it. I'd love to see more Jade Empire games, it's a very good and original IP. As much as I'm looking forward to NWN2, it wouldn't hurt to get more RPGs that aren't either based on DnD or copied from it. A Jade Empire MMORPG would be great.
I think people who cheat in online games are psychopaths. It's that simple.
Furthermore, your class on Islam must say only politically correct things that make people feel warm and fuzzy (this applies to the entire planet, though). I don't know if Wikipedia requires people to be politically correct, or if facts are accepted as long as they're facts.
I had assumed that they had been friends before the show.
I think Oblivion's graphics are wonderful, especially the forests. However, it's not really such an amazing game, and I didn't find it as interesting as, say, Baldur's Gate II. Likewise, I didn't think Half-Life 2 was as good as its predecessor.
A reliable insider source has told me that Bethesda will release an expansion called Horse Adventures in Oblivion. You get to design your own horse and then feed and dress it (armor sold separately!).
Yet another predictable and overused multiculturalist argument. Just because every single individual isn't doing something doesn't mean that generalizations can't be made. Nitpicking will not help you.
Where did you get the idea that two people are suddenly equal to hundreds, thousands and millions of people?