I get it, it seems kind of stupid, and pretty easy to get around. What is funny is that it seems that in general our school systems are not very good at finding problems. When they do find one, they are generally even worse in solving them.
So what they did here is find a problem. Too many kids are lazy and fat. In order to solve this problem they... oh god... give mothers the option to monitor what they can order.
So what is wrong with this? Simple, fat fuck kids are GENERALLY fat fuck kids because they have... yep, fat fuck parents! Do you think that these parents are really going to monitor what their kids are eating from an online interface while they sit on the couch chowing down on their 18th Burger King run of the week, sipping on diet cola, so they can have a little cancer with their 3000 calorie nutritionless meal? Of course not!
What is going to happen, is the same thing that happens with ALL OF OUR PROBLEMS, the kids who are pretty good, active, and eat relatively well, are going to suffer because the day they want a couple ice cream cones the alarm bell goes off and he will embarrasingly be turned down at the counter. Then Janine the 300 pound depressed girl with messed up parents orders 3 cheeseburgers and goes to go sit down by herself at a table.
How about this instead. Stop serving dog shit food. Stop selling dog shit food. Teach kids that you actually feel better and have more fun in your life when you are healthy and take reasonably good care of yourself. You don't need to be an athlete, just stay healthy.
When it comes down to it, you can't fix bad parenting in school. Schools can do a lot of good, expecially if you fill it with great inspiring teachers. Of course, it is tough to fill schools with people like this when they make 30K a year and have to teach bullshit like Intelligent Design. We are becoming a society of band-aids and patches. People need a leader. I'd do it, but i'll be damned to hell before I get into politics. If you make it very far in that profession, you have been stripped of what would have made you a good leader many years before.
Yes, an additional feature that COULD be used by some evil genius who has your computer anyway to see some of the files you deleted is a good reason not to upgrade. I agree!
Sure, some people don't buy into this, they say things like "but it can easily be disabled, and your casual computer users would only benefit from this kind of feature". These people are obviously missing the large scale point. Microsoft has been making windows for a long time, and every time they do it, they add more features. If we keep buying new versions of windows, inevitably they will continue to add features untill all they can add is BAD, DANGEROUS, EXPLOITABLE SECURITY HOLES!
If you buy Vista, within years they will have features that send your porn to your parents. Send your AIM conversations to your boss. They will probably have a start option "Open Computer To Random Hacker".
Microsoft is obviously adding this feature because all of their engineers are evil. They have been for years! You and I will not stand for this. I am sending my 50 page word document, which proves my case to congress... it is right in this folder... hm.... where the fuck did I put it?! FUCK! I deleted it!!! If only I could recover my deleted file, I COULD END VISTA AND ITS PLAGUE OF EVIL FEATURES FOR GOOD!!!
There is a difference between making a sequel that is a full priced rehash of a game using the same engine, and a new game that has a cast of characters from other games in the past that are actually licensed by the console maker...
I would pay $100 for a mario game in which mario fucking DIES at the end of the game, forever. Never ever to return in ANY game, ever.
Just for fun, I am going to rewrite what you said, but let's pretend that our "government" is not the corrupt group of corporate cocksuckers they are (but I love them too!), and instead treat it like it was meant to be, a government run "by the people for the people" (We all know that people are all good!). So I will just replace, government with people. Let's also get rid of the word company, because it really isn't a very descriptive name, companies are not tangible things, you can't punch a company in the face. Let's replace company with "people who sell things". Let's see how it sounds...
You stated: No, becuase CEO's and [people who sell oil] are not forcing their rules upon us with the power of police and prisons and the military. If I choose to work for [people who sell things] I follow their rules. I can choose to work somewhere else.
This is what people mean when they call your idea communism. You want the [people] to make these decisions for everyone.
If you'd check your history you would see that communism does not work. Why do you think it would work in the U.S.? Do you think [people] that coddles [people who sell things] and does not care about the little guy would all of the sudden completely turn around? Do you think an apathetic populas will all of the sudden forge a utopia?:end of your statement
So in response to what you are ACTUALLY TRYING TO SAY, people who sell oil don't just make rules for their workers, and neither do other very large groups of people who sell things, they make rules for everyone. I don't think I really need to explain how on this site, most people realize that. The rest, I agree, I do want people to decide things, and I DO think that if people all worked together that it is possible that we would form a society that works.
Now, unfortunately, and at the root of many problems is that in society today, you really can't substitute "government" with "people", in fact, it is FAR MORE ACCURATE to replace "government" with "companies". Don't think about that for more than a few seconds at a time, or you may get really mad and start killing people who sell things...
You see, the problem is that the government has no place in our lives to do anything other that protect us from things that people on an individual basis never could. But when the power of the government is no longer used as a large band of Americans protecting eachother, and instead becomes a small group of Americans exploiting eachother, you have a cycle that looks much like other failed governemts in history. But don't fret, we've done a great job, and made some cool advances. If human kind lasts much longer, we will be able to learn from the mistakes America made and create a type of government that is better. There is no failure, only oppertunities to learn. America kicks ass in a lot of ways. But everything comes to an end, and I think we are really starting to see that now.
What is really the most troubling is this. We NEED to protect ourselves from other people. The fact that people who have everything they could possibly need in life often seem to follow a trend. Instead of using their extra resources to help everyone, they use them to hurt others and exploit them for their own uses. This certainly doesn't seem like the behavior of a group of happy, smart, well adjusted people. THIS JUST IN, people in power are NOT HAPPY WELL ADJUSTED PEOPLE. Every once in a while when a very happy well adjusted person, accidentally raises to a place of power, and uses it, they generally are killed. God damn!
Yeah, nothing like a family of kids arguing about who got lucky and landed on the best property... When I think family fun, I think ruthless business ethics.
I just want to know why people care so much about performance enhancing drugs. I would rather see a bunch of juiced up frenchmen flying at 200 MPH on a bike, crashing at the end and exploding, taking out 1500 spectators. Seriously, I watch sports for entertainment, period.
17:28 - Hushovd Crashes!
Hushovd has crashed in the finale. He is bleeding profusely from the right elbow and appears to be in a terrible state... 17:32 - No Crash For Hushovd
Hushovd did not crash as reported earlier but he did sustain an injury in the final straight when his right elbow was caught on something held over the barriers by a spectator.
X80: "Good Day Sir, Please Scan First Item"
Consumer: (Scans taco mix)
X80: "Ah, Taco Mix, very nice, I noticed that you seem to have chosen the generic taco mix, are you sure you have thought this through?"
C: (Selects "yes")
X80: "Have you given much thought to the consequences involved in buying generic taco mix? What will your children say?"
C: (Selects "I don't have any children")
X80: "Ah, I see, single guy, living it up, not too concerned about the quality of your taco mix. Are you in a relationship?"
C: (Selects "Not really, Girls don't like me very much")
X80: "I am sorry to hear that sir, it probably makes you feel pretty bad at night, trouble sleeping?"
C: (Selects "Yeah, some times my mind wanders at night")
X80: "How about some tylenol PM? Also, I would like to recommend this issue of Maxim, it has some great advice on picking up women in the clubs, and also some great pictures to jack off to, you know, if things are a bit slow to start"
C: (Selects "OK")
X80: "Great Sir! I'd say this is probably working out to be one of the better shopping experiences you have had recently. Not going to want to make a mess out of that magazine though.... Tisues?"
C: (Selects "Absolutely! I want the ones with lotion.") (Then mumbles to himself) "This thing is great, so much less embarrasing than dealing with those pretty young checkout ladies."
X80: "Your additional Items will be here in one moment"
Beautiful Checkout Assistant: "Hi... uh... this is your girly mag, and tissues for masturbation sir... and here is the tylenol... so your depressed ass can get to sleep at night... you are a pretty sick person, you know that?"
C: "..."
X80: "Women can be pretty damn cruel, don't you think sir? How about a rope?"
C: (Selects "no thanks, get me out of here")
Why don't you just stick the "target" with consumer syrum and start depositing shit they don't want into their cart for them... It would be less annoying than your "prompt for shit you don't want idea", and probably more successful.
Am I the only person who wants to open fire on school children when I am about to pump gas, I swipe my card at the fuel pump, and then it asks me "Would you like a car wash?"...
They are not forcing you to do anything, they are offering you a choice. Wait in line while the vapid clerk checks you out, or BE THE VAPID CLERK.
I agree that self check outs suck, because they are used to cut back on staff, but I don't see it as a grocery store trying to stick it to you. People want them there, because it's their chance to play god, or checkout person. Same thing, really...
Thanks for clearing that up, but why would they tell the user that they have so many rights over the content? It seems like overkill, and the only right they should tell the user they have is that which they can post your work. Why would they want the right to own your work, only while it is on their site? Isn't that just begging for a lawsuit in the future, because if anyone uses the work on that site, then is pulled, the people who are using the work at that point no longer have the right to use it... Why not just never give that right in the first place.
While I believe your right, because I don't know much about this subject, their terms seem somewhat misleading.
I think I have figured it out, now all I need is 15 million dollars, can I get some donations.
First problem, you need to set the lightsaber in relation to the characters orientation... This would be the most difficult part, this is because depending on how the character is oriented, the animations of moving his arms would need to change. As an example, let's say your character is running on a wall, and you would like him to swipe down at an enemy that is physically below him, but oriented to his left. You need to make a desision, does the saber link directly to your remote, or does it move relative to your character? I think the best way is to have the saber move relative to your character. I also think that it is very reasonable, to allow the possibility of cutting yourself with your own saber, this way you don't have to have your character do unrealistic things to account for this. Be carefull where you point that damn thing.
Second, how does the saber do damage, point based, or cut through? I think that the answer is pretty simple. Some enemies don't have saber resistance, some do. The hardest part will be to realistically take a cut through an enemy, and have the damage done look right. If you cut through the legs, you don't want storm troopers to fall to the ground and have their head roll off... I mean, come on, this isn't the 90's. This system doesn't need to be perfect, it is just important that certain strike areas take into account the force with which you hit them, which needs to include direction, which is an easy vector formula. This would be nothing for advanced game consoles like the Wii.
Third, How do you deal with parried lightsaber movements without giving up so much realism that the game is actually less fun and realistic than games like Jedi Knight 2? Well first bear in mind, we don't need force feedback. In fact, force feedback would suck, and would likely result in injuries, don't know about you guys, but I don't want a game that I could break my wrist while playing...
Well, this is where some of the interesting parts come into play. first there will be a limit to how fast you can swing. Or how fast you can accelerate the light-saber. The player will have to figure this out through experience, and the result of screwing up and overswinging by too much will result in a penalty, most likely a dropped saber. This has some big advantages, the most obvious is it gets rid of the advantage that 8 year old kids are going to get when they just randomly swing as fast as they can in every single direction... As soon as you start to try an "cheese" the system, you drop your saber, luckily, you can use the force to get it back, but in the middle of a duel, this will be the break a controlled player needs to take the fight.
Parries will incorporate a similar system, when you saber is struck, depending on the vectors of the two sabers that meet, they will bounce back, causing your player to be somewhat staggered (doesn't need to actually have footing staggered, just have the saber bounce back a little bit). You then need to move your Wii remote back to where it has stopped to regain control. If you had your saber nailed out of the way, this could take a little longer, if it was just blocked, it will only require moving your wrist back a few inches.
The most important part of implementing these systems is to take away the possibility of completely cheating the system by simply swinging much harder faster and wilder, while still taking into account speed, and acceleration.
Unfortunately, I fear what the same company that has been shitting on the action game industry since JK2 will do is not as good as what I just described... But we can dream, can't we?
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I just would like to see some discussion about new ideas for FPS Genres. We all have realized that there really hasn't been much new stuff to the genre since, maybe half-life... And if you want to be real hard on the industry, maybe even Duke Nukem 3D.
That isn't to say that they are no fun anymore, it just means that maybe we could use some fresh new ideas. But what are they?
I have a couple.
1. Give the character your playing a little bit of realistic physics - Have you noticed that when a rocket hits 3 feet to your left, you have a certain percentage of damage done to you, based on the damage it does at ground zero? How about it also knocks you off your feet and slams you into the wall, or whatever is in your way. You would need to balance the game a bit so you are not hit so frequently with projectiles, or you would never recover, but having getting hit by some kind of powerful enemy fire knocking you around the level a bit might add a little bit of realism and fun to the game. You will feel like you are actually in the battle taking the damage yourself!
2. Unique monsters shouldn't be just for bosses anymore - Too many FPS have the same fricken monsters. How many bi-pedal monsters carrying a shotgun do I have to fight in my life. There is nothing that says that all monsters need to be pretty much like humans that fight using human tactics with uglier faces. I want monsters that effortlessly jump from the floor to the wall, they get in close and explode. Big monsters, this doesn't mean big as in tall human like monsters, but inovative designs that take up a lot of space. How about when a monster has a gun grafted to it's arm, you can blow that part off, but it will still keep coming.
It seems like this kind of press will really kill all inventive and intersting content that can show up on a site like YouTube.com. While there will still be a lot of the garbage, the stupid videos that people put up just to get their quick internet exposure, the creative people out there who are tying to create something fun and interesting for people to watch most certainly will refrain from putting their work on YouTube after knowing the terms of use.
Think about putting a bunch of time into making a video, possibly getting a lot of people who want your work. Then having YouTube selling YOUR work to someone else, who now owns your idea, and your finished video. I know some artist do stuff for the love of art, but even they don't want it ripped off in any way that YouTube sees fit.
They had better fix this problem, or we will see a sharp downswing in good content on that site. On a site that is already filled with garbage, that could be the last nail in the coffin. If they don't change, I guarantee another site will come along that will.
Ok, so to be more specific, I honestly do not know where I heard of the link, but some symptoms between Alzheimers and Mad Cow Disease are very similar. Incubation periods are similar, and they are both linked to a protein that uses some unknown method to attack the brain.
Part of the problem with solving Alzheimers was probably the fact that it was protein and enzyme based, I would imagine that just making some steps forward here COULD be applicable to Mad Cow.
Can't believe they modded me down to zero! Bunch of jerks up this late at night.
I have heard linkages between alzheimers and "mad cow disease", I wonder if this drug will be able to fix both problems. I can finally start eating all cows indiscriminately!!!
You read slashdot... You notice that the most recent article is about a choose your own adventure virtual book engine. What do you do now? (Make fun of hentai at the risk of being modded troll)(Give to the community a clever take on games in Japan)...
You start to articulate how gay it is to play games that are dating sims, and poke fun at the pathetic losers who do it...
The robot war had been lost... We destroyed unmanned aircraft, and beat back the evil spider bots... But these damn snakes kept crushing our skulls and spraying water all over our carcasses, making them wet.
Oh god, I couldn't agree more... We need more companies doing less to satisfy player base. You know when a game is the greatest? When EVERYONE can agree that it is really bad.
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I get it, it seems kind of stupid, and pretty easy to get around. What is funny is that it seems that in general our school systems are not very good at finding problems. When they do find one, they are generally even worse in solving them.
So what they did here is find a problem. Too many kids are lazy and fat. In order to solve this problem they... oh god... give mothers the option to monitor what they can order.
So what is wrong with this? Simple, fat fuck kids are GENERALLY fat fuck kids because they have... yep, fat fuck parents! Do you think that these parents are really going to monitor what their kids are eating from an online interface while they sit on the couch chowing down on their 18th Burger King run of the week, sipping on diet cola, so they can have a little cancer with their 3000 calorie nutritionless meal? Of course not!
What is going to happen, is the same thing that happens with ALL OF OUR PROBLEMS, the kids who are pretty good, active, and eat relatively well, are going to suffer because the day they want a couple ice cream cones the alarm bell goes off and he will embarrasingly be turned down at the counter. Then Janine the 300 pound depressed girl with messed up parents orders 3 cheeseburgers and goes to go sit down by herself at a table.
How about this instead. Stop serving dog shit food. Stop selling dog shit food. Teach kids that you actually feel better and have more fun in your life when you are healthy and take reasonably good care of yourself. You don't need to be an athlete, just stay healthy.
When it comes down to it, you can't fix bad parenting in school. Schools can do a lot of good, expecially if you fill it with great inspiring teachers. Of course, it is tough to fill schools with people like this when they make 30K a year and have to teach bullshit like Intelligent Design. We are becoming a society of band-aids and patches. People need a leader. I'd do it, but i'll be damned to hell before I get into politics. If you make it very far in that profession, you have been stripped of what would have made you a good leader many years before.
Now go eat an apple!!! YOU WILL BE WATCHED
Yes, an additional feature that COULD be used by some evil genius who has your computer anyway to see some of the files you deleted is a good reason not to upgrade. I agree!
Sure, some people don't buy into this, they say things like "but it can easily be disabled, and your casual computer users would only benefit from this kind of feature". These people are obviously missing the large scale point. Microsoft has been making windows for a long time, and every time they do it, they add more features. If we keep buying new versions of windows, inevitably they will continue to add features untill all they can add is BAD, DANGEROUS, EXPLOITABLE SECURITY HOLES!
If you buy Vista, within years they will have features that send your porn to your parents. Send your AIM conversations to your boss. They will probably have a start option "Open Computer To Random Hacker".
Microsoft is obviously adding this feature because all of their engineers are evil. They have been for years! You and I will not stand for this. I am sending my 50 page word document, which proves my case to congress... it is right in this folder... hm.... where the fuck did I put it?! FUCK! I deleted it!!! If only I could recover my deleted file, I COULD END VISTA AND ITS PLAGUE OF EVIL FEATURES FOR GOOD!!!
Yeah, I hear people think all the time... Nice to meet a fellow telepath!
There is a difference between making a sequel that is a full priced rehash of a game using the same engine, and a new game that has a cast of characters from other games in the past that are actually licensed by the console maker...
:)
I would pay $100 for a mario game in which mario fucking DIES at the end of the game, forever. Never ever to return in ANY game, ever.
But I have to admit, that was hilarious.
Just for fun, I am going to rewrite what you said, but let's pretend that our "government" is not the corrupt group of corporate cocksuckers they are (but I love them too!), and instead treat it like it was meant to be, a government run "by the people for the people" (We all know that people are all good!). So I will just replace, government with people. Let's also get rid of the word company, because it really isn't a very descriptive name, companies are not tangible things, you can't punch a company in the face. Let's replace company with "people who sell things". Let's see how it sounds...
:end of your statement
You stated:
No, becuase CEO's and [people who sell oil] are not forcing their rules upon us with the power of police and prisons and the military. If I choose to work for [people who sell things] I follow their rules. I can choose to work somewhere else.
This is what people mean when they call your idea communism. You want the [people] to make these decisions for everyone.
If you'd check your history you would see that communism does not work. Why do you think it would work in the U.S.? Do you think [people] that coddles [people who sell things] and does not care about the little guy would all of the sudden completely turn around? Do you think an apathetic populas will all of the sudden forge a utopia?
So in response to what you are ACTUALLY TRYING TO SAY, people who sell oil don't just make rules for their workers, and neither do other very large groups of people who sell things, they make rules for everyone. I don't think I really need to explain how on this site, most people realize that. The rest, I agree, I do want people to decide things, and I DO think that if people all worked together that it is possible that we would form a society that works.
Now, unfortunately, and at the root of many problems is that in society today, you really can't substitute "government" with "people", in fact, it is FAR MORE ACCURATE to replace "government" with "companies". Don't think about that for more than a few seconds at a time, or you may get really mad and start killing people who sell things...
You see, the problem is that the government has no place in our lives to do anything other that protect us from things that people on an individual basis never could. But when the power of the government is no longer used as a large band of Americans protecting eachother, and instead becomes a small group of Americans exploiting eachother, you have a cycle that looks much like other failed governemts in history. But don't fret, we've done a great job, and made some cool advances. If human kind lasts much longer, we will be able to learn from the mistakes America made and create a type of government that is better. There is no failure, only oppertunities to learn. America kicks ass in a lot of ways. But everything comes to an end, and I think we are really starting to see that now.
What is really the most troubling is this. We NEED to protect ourselves from other people. The fact that people who have everything they could possibly need in life often seem to follow a trend. Instead of using their extra resources to help everyone, they use them to hurt others and exploit them for their own uses. This certainly doesn't seem like the behavior of a group of happy, smart, well adjusted people. THIS JUST IN, people in power are NOT HAPPY WELL ADJUSTED PEOPLE. Every once in a while when a very happy well adjusted person, accidentally raises to a place of power, and uses it, they generally are killed. God damn!
Yeah, nothing like a family of kids arguing about who got lucky and landed on the best property... When I think family fun, I think ruthless business ethics.
I just want to know why people care so much about performance enhancing drugs. I would rather see a bunch of juiced up frenchmen flying at 200 MPH on a bike, crashing at the end and exploding, taking out 1500 spectators. Seriously, I watch sports for entertainment, period.
that's because you looked it up in a book... Next time look it up in your gut.
Umm... Oops?
X80: "Good Day Sir, Please Scan First Item"
Consumer: (Scans taco mix)
X80: "Ah, Taco Mix, very nice, I noticed that you seem to have chosen the generic taco mix, are you sure you have thought this through?"
C: (Selects "yes")
X80: "Have you given much thought to the consequences involved in buying generic taco mix? What will your children say?"
C: (Selects "I don't have any children")
X80: "Ah, I see, single guy, living it up, not too concerned about the quality of your taco mix. Are you in a relationship?"
C: (Selects "Not really, Girls don't like me very much")
X80: "I am sorry to hear that sir, it probably makes you feel pretty bad at night, trouble sleeping?"
C: (Selects "Yeah, some times my mind wanders at night")
X80: "How about some tylenol PM? Also, I would like to recommend this issue of Maxim, it has some great advice on picking up women in the clubs, and also some great pictures to jack off to, you know, if things are a bit slow to start"
C: (Selects "OK")
X80: "Great Sir! I'd say this is probably working out to be one of the better shopping experiences you have had recently. Not going to want to make a mess out of that magazine though.... Tisues?"
C: (Selects "Absolutely! I want the ones with lotion.") (Then mumbles to himself) "This thing is great, so much less embarrasing than dealing with those pretty young checkout ladies."
X80: "Your additional Items will be here in one moment"
Beautiful Checkout Assistant: "Hi... uh... this is your girly mag, and tissues for masturbation sir... and here is the tylenol... so your depressed ass can get to sleep at night... you are a pretty sick person, you know that?"
C: "..."
X80: "Women can be pretty damn cruel, don't you think sir? How about a rope?"
C: (Selects "no thanks, get me out of here")
Why don't you just stick the "target" with consumer syrum and start depositing shit they don't want into their cart for them... It would be less annoying than your "prompt for shit you don't want idea", and probably more successful.
Am I the only person who wants to open fire on school children when I am about to pump gas, I swipe my card at the fuel pump, and then it asks me "Would you like a car wash?"...
FUCK YOU MARKETING SWINE!
They are not forcing you to do anything, they are offering you a choice. Wait in line while the vapid clerk checks you out, or BE THE VAPID CLERK.
I agree that self check outs suck, because they are used to cut back on staff, but I don't see it as a grocery store trying to stick it to you. People want them there, because it's their chance to play god, or checkout person. Same thing, really...
Put condoms and twinkies right next to the self check counter... Sit back and reap the benefits!
Thanks for clearing that up, but why would they tell the user that they have so many rights over the content? It seems like overkill, and the only right they should tell the user they have is that which they can post your work. Why would they want the right to own your work, only while it is on their site? Isn't that just begging for a lawsuit in the future, because if anyone uses the work on that site, then is pulled, the people who are using the work at that point no longer have the right to use it... Why not just never give that right in the first place.
While I believe your right, because I don't know much about this subject, their terms seem somewhat misleading.
I think I have figured it out, now all I need is 15 million dollars, can I get some donations.
First problem, you need to set the lightsaber in relation to the characters orientation... This would be the most difficult part, this is because depending on how the character is oriented, the animations of moving his arms would need to change. As an example, let's say your character is running on a wall, and you would like him to swipe down at an enemy that is physically below him, but oriented to his left. You need to make a desision, does the saber link directly to your remote, or does it move relative to your character? I think the best way is to have the saber move relative to your character. I also think that it is very reasonable, to allow the possibility of cutting yourself with your own saber, this way you don't have to have your character do unrealistic things to account for this. Be carefull where you point that damn thing.
Second, how does the saber do damage, point based, or cut through? I think that the answer is pretty simple. Some enemies don't have saber resistance, some do. The hardest part will be to realistically take a cut through an enemy, and have the damage done look right. If you cut through the legs, you don't want storm troopers to fall to the ground and have their head roll off... I mean, come on, this isn't the 90's. This system doesn't need to be perfect, it is just important that certain strike areas take into account the force with which you hit them, which needs to include direction, which is an easy vector formula. This would be nothing for advanced game consoles like the Wii.
Third, How do you deal with parried lightsaber movements without giving up so much realism that the game is actually less fun and realistic than games like Jedi Knight 2? Well first bear in mind, we don't need force feedback. In fact, force feedback would suck, and would likely result in injuries, don't know about you guys, but I don't want a game that I could break my wrist while playing...
Well, this is where some of the interesting parts come into play. first there will be a limit to how fast you can swing. Or how fast you can accelerate the light-saber. The player will have to figure this out through experience, and the result of screwing up and overswinging by too much will result in a penalty, most likely a dropped saber. This has some big advantages, the most obvious is it gets rid of the advantage that 8 year old kids are going to get when they just randomly swing as fast as they can in every single direction... As soon as you start to try an "cheese" the system, you drop your saber, luckily, you can use the force to get it back, but in the middle of a duel, this will be the break a controlled player needs to take the fight.
Parries will incorporate a similar system, when you saber is struck, depending on the vectors of the two sabers that meet, they will bounce back, causing your player to be somewhat staggered (doesn't need to actually have footing staggered, just have the saber bounce back a little bit). You then need to move your Wii remote back to where it has stopped to regain control. If you had your saber nailed out of the way, this could take a little longer, if it was just blocked, it will only require moving your wrist back a few inches.
The most important part of implementing these systems is to take away the possibility of completely cheating the system by simply swinging much harder faster and wilder, while still taking into account speed, and acceleration.
Unfortunately, I fear what the same company that has been shitting on the action game industry since JK2 will do is not as good as what I just described... But we can dream, can't we?
I just would like to see some discussion about new ideas for FPS Genres. We all have realized that there really hasn't been much new stuff to the genre since, maybe half-life... And if you want to be real hard on the industry, maybe even Duke Nukem 3D.
That isn't to say that they are no fun anymore, it just means that maybe we could use some fresh new ideas. But what are they?
I have a couple.
1. Give the character your playing a little bit of realistic physics - Have you noticed that when a rocket hits 3 feet to your left, you have a certain percentage of damage done to you, based on the damage it does at ground zero? How about it also knocks you off your feet and slams you into the wall, or whatever is in your way. You would need to balance the game a bit so you are not hit so frequently with projectiles, or you would never recover, but having getting hit by some kind of powerful enemy fire knocking you around the level a bit might add a little bit of realism and fun to the game. You will feel like you are actually in the battle taking the damage yourself!
2. Unique monsters shouldn't be just for bosses anymore - Too many FPS have the same fricken monsters. How many bi-pedal monsters carrying a shotgun do I have to fight in my life. There is nothing that says that all monsters need to be pretty much like humans that fight using human tactics with uglier faces. I want monsters that effortlessly jump from the floor to the wall, they get in close and explode. Big monsters, this doesn't mean big as in tall human like monsters, but inovative designs that take up a lot of space. How about when a monster has a gun grafted to it's arm, you can blow that part off, but it will still keep coming.
Other Ideas? Hate mine?
It seems like this kind of press will really kill all inventive and intersting content that can show up on a site like YouTube.com. While there will still be a lot of the garbage, the stupid videos that people put up just to get their quick internet exposure, the creative people out there who are tying to create something fun and interesting for people to watch most certainly will refrain from putting their work on YouTube after knowing the terms of use.
Think about putting a bunch of time into making a video, possibly getting a lot of people who want your work. Then having YouTube selling YOUR work to someone else, who now owns your idea, and your finished video. I know some artist do stuff for the love of art, but even they don't want it ripped off in any way that YouTube sees fit.
They had better fix this problem, or we will see a sharp downswing in good content on that site. On a site that is already filled with garbage, that could be the last nail in the coffin. If they don't change, I guarantee another site will come along that will.
So do we agree that they are exactly the same?
Ok, so to be more specific, I honestly do not know where I heard of the link, but some symptoms between Alzheimers and Mad Cow Disease are very similar. Incubation periods are similar, and they are both linked to a protein that uses some unknown method to attack the brain.
Part of the problem with solving Alzheimers was probably the fact that it was protein and enzyme based, I would imagine that just making some steps forward here COULD be applicable to Mad Cow.
Can't believe they modded me down to zero! Bunch of jerks up this late at night.
I have heard linkages between alzheimers and "mad cow disease", I wonder if this drug will be able to fix both problems. I can finally start eating all cows indiscriminately!!!
You have been labeled a troll, but have a rating of 2, that is pretty much awsome.
Is there anything else that you liked as a kid that you outgrew, while the Japanese did not?
Yeah, me neither!
You read slashdot... You notice that the most recent article is about a choose your own adventure virtual book engine. What do you do now? (Make fun of hentai at the risk of being modded troll)(Give to the community a clever take on games in Japan) ...
You start to articulate how gay it is to play games that are dating sims, and poke fun at the pathetic losers who do it...
The robot war had been lost... We destroyed unmanned aircraft, and beat back the evil spider bots... But these damn snakes kept crushing our skulls and spraying water all over our carcasses, making them wet.
Oh god, I couldn't agree more... We need more companies doing less to satisfy player base. You know when a game is the greatest? When EVERYONE can agree that it is really bad.
Do you work for Lucas Arts?