I highly agree with the college administrators on this one. Grade 9 is way to early to decide a career. High school is what exposes students wide range of subjects so that they can go from there. Honestly, how much does one learn about physics, chemistry, computer science, law, etc. in middle school? Certainly not enough to make a decision that will bind them to a particular field of study for the rest of their lives.
As much as I disagree with people blaming video games for violent actions in young people, it is plausible that exposing an 8 year old to violent video games and movies will have a violent influence. However, when a violent incident involving kids or teenagers occurs and people look to video games as the scapegoat, they neglect to consider that parental intervention is what really could have prevented something like that from happening. I think parents should be held accountable for something like that happening above all else.
It is also by far the most durable controller of all time. I used to whip that thing at the ground and try to snap it in half so many times when I got mad at a game but, thankfully, it never broke. In fact I don't know of anyone who's ever had their SNES controller break.
The reason games like Brain Age and a lot of Wii titles can be so simple, yet so successful is because they offer a completely new and original way to play video games. When video games first appeared on the market, the fact that they were a completely new form of entertainment is what sucked people in, and compared to what video games have become, these first games were quite 'boring'. I think, in time, we'll see a similar trend with these new games that are experimenting with motion sensitivity and the like. Eventually they will improve and branch off into completely new genres and the games that initiated this change will be regarded as primitive and 'boring'.
If the major announcment is the unveiling of a new game in the works, I wouldn't expect it to come out for at least another 4-5 years. Remember how many times Daiblo 2 got delayed? What about Starcraft:Ghost? I remember reading about that game 2 years ago when it was, supposedly, nearing completion and the last I heard anything regarding it was over a year ago.
If you had read my comment more carefully you would have noticed that I'm clearly not complaining about being right-handed, nor am I proclaiming that I am at any sort of disadvantage over left-handed people. I'm simply trying to discuss the necessary, and interesting sub-features, that would have to be implemented to accomodate all users to make the game less awkward.
P.S. My Dad is left-handed. I am well aware of the inconvenience left-handed people face on a daily basis.
Has anyone ever noticed that Link is left-handed? I wonder if Nintendo is going to allow Link to hold the sword in either hand to match the players unidexterity? I'm not an experienced swordsmen by any means, but I think I would have a hard time playing a game that forced me to use my left hand for something like that since, like the majority of the population, I'm right handed. And I think it would be pretty awkward swinging my right arm and watching Link mirror my motion with his left.
The fact that we have tendency to kill other members of our own species through hatred is a major cause for wars and national conflicts (WWII is a good example). This tendency could easily augment into a large-scale nuclear war which could leave the Earth uninhabitable for all species, killing 100% of the population.
Humans will prove to be an excpetion to this general rule for 2 main reasons.
1)We are the only species that would kill another member of our own species through hatred
2)We are the only species that has ever had the ability to completely destroy our entire habitional environment many times over
I really don't think humans will last another thousand years (with the way we're poluting the environment and declaring war on each other plus the rising threat of nuclear weapons) let alone another few billion years. And provided we do last that long, I'm sure the standards for classifying planets will have changed hundreds of more times by then.
About 2 months ago I was in EB games purchasing Half-Life:Anthology, an M-rated game, and upon handing the game to the clerk I was asked for a piece of ID to ensure that I was at least 17 years of age. I was a little shocked at this because it was the first time I had ben IDed while purchasing a video game, however, I was actually glad that I got IDed because I know that if I got IDed, then they must be doing the same to a lot of people and effectively preventing "under-aged" kids from purchasing violent or sexualy explicit video games.
Being a 20-year-old, I had no problem with the purchase, but this actually came as a breath of fresh air for me to see someone actually taking steps to prevent kids from being exposed to explicit content and trying to releave the games industry of the constant, misdirected accusations that it has been getting over the pat few years.
What is everyone going to use as a scapegoat the next time there is a school shooting if they can't pass the blame onto violent videogames? This might cause parents to face the fact that they are ultimately responsible for what their kids are exposed to.
"The fourth quarter of this year is when things really heat up in the gaming market, with continued growth expected through 2007, reaching $15 billion."
I can remember back in 2001 when the games industry was exected to bring in approx. $8 billion, surpassing revenues of the Hollywood box office. I thought that was a significant milestone for the games industry and now it's expected to almost double those numbers come the end of next year.
$100 a year does seem a little steep for this service at first glance, and correct me if I'm wrong, but doesn't it cost big bucks (like hundreds of thousands of dollars) for professional studios to get a liscence to develop games for consoles? The advantage for them is that their games are guaranteed to get published, but if this service allows students and independant developers to get their games out there in the Xbox 360 commmunity and if these developers are allowed to keep the rights to their products, then I think it is an excellent way for aspiring developers to get started in the industry, whether they get picked up by existing studios or start their own.
This could be a giant step for the game industry. Kudos to Microsoft.
The abundance of sequels we have been seeing in the game industry is, indeed, an ugly site in video stores. And I think this can be accreditted to the fact that developing a new game from scratch takes so much longer than it used to (3yrs plus,easy). Thats a LONG time for one game. This forces compnaies to reuse the same game engines, animations, etc. in subsequent releases making for very similar titles that don't have a lot new to offer in order to release games faster.
10 yrs ago it was easy (compared to today) to come up with a new idea and build it up from scratch in a small amount of time. But when a game can take up to 5 years to produce, I don't blame developers for wanting to reuse the same content and tools for sequels if it means their game can spend 12 months in development rather than 60.
When people talk how much better older games are to new ones, they tend to only pick out the best games from a previous generation, and the average to worser games of the current generation. Obviously, there are a lot of games out there today that can't live up to great classics(personally I don't think any new mario game can live up to Super Mario World), but when you look the average platformer game back in,say, the NES days (average meaning anything thats not the Mario Bros. series) they're not as good as the average platformer would be today. I wish I could remember what some of these older games were called, but I distictly remember them being incredibly slow, unintuitive, and lacked a sense of momentum. Something that the average platformer today would have. And taking a look at the racing genre, I think its safe to say that GT4 is better than Rad Racer.
Are we shooting ourselves in the foot by staying obsessed with the old classics?
Yes. I think people have too much of a tendency to look back at a game as being better than it really was and better as it gets older. When they hear of a new sequel in the works for an old series they're in love with, they expect it to be as much (if not more) fun than previous games, however, they expect the gameplay, setting, and monsters to be the same as the old game while, at the same time, they expect the new version to be fantastically different, addictive, and genre-breaking.
Truth is, newer installments of classic games can be as good as ever, but they will never live up to the memories that gamers have developped for their classic, personal favorites.
Haven't you ever purchased a PC game on DVD? Any game that comes in versions of both media costs the exact same. These music DVDs will most likely cost the exact same in a music store
I really don't see how this will prevent people from stealing music. People have been downloading DVD rips of movies for years so what's to stop them from downloading DVD rips of music albums?
That said, I suppose it will stop a number of people from ripping music directly to the their HDs, but if they're going to a new media for this purpose as well as for more storage, why don't they go with those mini CDs that are used for GC games? They're are a much smaller media and can store a few gigs of info. This way manufacturers could start producing portable audio players for this media that are much smaller and easy to carry than the current CD walkmen and the inevitable DVD players that would come with this "revolution".
If you look at the games that are creating the most buzz for the Nintendo Wii right now, they are all games that make creative use of the new innovative controller (the Wiimote and Nunchuku combination). All or at least most of these games are going to be exclusive to the Nintendo Wii due to the unique control scheme and, from what I've heard, this time around Nintendo has a lot more third party support than with the GC.
So it sounds like the Nintendo Wii is going to have a ton of exclusive, innovative titles with a completely new style of gameplay as well as much of the third party support that the Sony and Microsoft have. And lets not forget about the virtual console...
I never thought they could bounce back, but I think Nintendo is going to take this one. (The console war, that is)
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I highly agree with the college administrators on this one. Grade 9 is way to early to decide a career. High school is what exposes students wide range of subjects so that they can go from there. Honestly, how much does one learn about physics, chemistry, computer science, law, etc. in middle school? Certainly not enough to make a decision that will bind them to a particular field of study for the rest of their lives.
that some of the people that now have nothing to do in Second Life might have to get a first life
Call of Duty 4 is not a WW2 shooter. It going to be game based on modern combat.
check it out:http://xbox360.ign.com/objects/902/902590.html
As much as I disagree with people blaming video games for violent actions in young people, it is plausible that exposing an 8 year old to violent video games and movies will have a violent influence. However, when a violent incident involving kids or teenagers occurs and people look to video games as the scapegoat, they neglect to consider that parental intervention is what really could have prevented something like that from happening. I think parents should be held accountable for something like that happening above all else.
It is also by far the most durable controller of all time. I used to whip that thing at the ground and try to snap it in half so many times when I got mad at a game but, thankfully, it never broke. In fact I don't know of anyone who's ever had their SNES controller break.
The reason games like Brain Age and a lot of Wii titles can be so simple, yet so successful is because they offer a completely new and original way to play video games. When video games first appeared on the market, the fact that they were a completely new form of entertainment is what sucked people in, and compared to what video games have become, these first games were quite 'boring'. I think, in time, we'll see a similar trend with these new games that are experimenting with motion sensitivity and the like. Eventually they will improve and branch off into completely new genres and the games that initiated this change will be regarded as primitive and 'boring'.
If the major announcment is the unveiling of a new game in the works, I wouldn't expect it to come out for at least another 4-5 years. Remember how many times Daiblo 2 got delayed? What about Starcraft:Ghost? I remember reading about that game 2 years ago when it was, supposedly, nearing completion and the last I heard anything regarding it was over a year ago.
That said, Starcraft 2 would be incredible!
Neither was that.
If you had read my comment more carefully you would have noticed that I'm clearly not complaining about being right-handed, nor am I proclaiming that I am at any sort of disadvantage over left-handed people. I'm simply trying to discuss the necessary, and interesting sub-features, that would have to be implemented to accomodate all users to make the game less awkward.
P.S. My Dad is left-handed. I am well aware of the inconvenience left-handed people face on a daily basis.
Has anyone ever noticed that Link is left-handed? I wonder if Nintendo is going to allow Link to hold the sword in either hand to match the players unidexterity? I'm not an experienced swordsmen by any means, but I think I would have a hard time playing a game that forced me to use my left hand for something like that since, like the majority of the population, I'm right handed. And I think it would be pretty awkward swinging my right arm and watching Link mirror my motion with his left.
The fact that we have tendency to kill other members of our own species through hatred is a major cause for wars and national conflicts (WWII is a good example). This tendency could easily augment into a large-scale nuclear war which could leave the Earth uninhabitable for all species, killing 100% of the population.
Humans will prove to be an excpetion to this general rule for 2 main reasons.
1)We are the only species that would kill another member of our own species through hatred
2)We are the only species that has ever had the ability to completely destroy our entire habitional environment many times over
I really don't think humans will last another thousand years (with the way we're poluting the environment and declaring war on each other plus the rising threat of nuclear weapons) let alone another few billion years. And provided we do last that long, I'm sure the standards for classifying planets will have changed hundreds of more times by then.
About 2 months ago I was in EB games purchasing Half-Life:Anthology, an M-rated game, and upon handing the game to the clerk I was asked for a piece of ID to ensure that I was at least 17 years of age. I was a little shocked at this because it was the first time I had ben IDed while purchasing a video game, however, I was actually glad that I got IDed because I know that if I got IDed, then they must be doing the same to a lot of people and effectively preventing "under-aged" kids from purchasing violent or sexualy explicit video games.
Being a 20-year-old, I had no problem with the purchase, but this actually came as a breath of fresh air for me to see someone actually taking steps to prevent kids from being exposed to explicit content and trying to releave the games industry of the constant, misdirected accusations that it has been getting over the pat few years.
What is everyone going to use as a scapegoat the next time there is a school shooting if they can't pass the blame onto violent videogames? This might cause parents to face the fact that they are ultimately responsible for what their kids are exposed to.
I can remember back in 2001 when the games industry was exected to bring in approx. $8 billion, surpassing revenues of the Hollywood box office. I thought that was a significant milestone for the games industry and now it's expected to almost double those numbers come the end of next year.
$100 a year does seem a little steep for this service at first glance, and correct me if I'm wrong, but doesn't it cost big bucks (like hundreds of thousands of dollars) for professional studios to get a liscence to develop games for consoles? The advantage for them is that their games are guaranteed to get published, but if this service allows students and independant developers to get their games out there in the Xbox 360 commmunity and if these developers are allowed to keep the rights to their products, then I think it is an excellent way for aspiring developers to get started in the industry, whether they get picked up by existing studios or start their own.
This could be a giant step for the game industry. Kudos to Microsoft.
The meaning of the debate, I'm thinking, is to justify very large paychecks...
The abundance of sequels we have been seeing in the game industry is, indeed, an ugly site in video stores. And I think this can be accreditted to the fact that developing a new game from scratch takes so much longer than it used to (3yrs plus,easy). Thats a LONG time for one game. This forces compnaies to reuse the same game engines, animations, etc. in subsequent releases making for very similar titles that don't have a lot new to offer in order to release games faster.
10 yrs ago it was easy (compared to today) to come up with a new idea and build it up from scratch in a small amount of time. But when a game can take up to 5 years to produce, I don't blame developers for wanting to reuse the same content and tools for sequels if it means their game can spend 12 months in development rather than 60.
When people talk how much better older games are to new ones, they tend to only pick out the best games from a previous generation, and the average to worser games of the current generation. Obviously, there are a lot of games out there today that can't live up to great classics(personally I don't think any new mario game can live up to Super Mario World), but when you look the average platformer game back in ,say, the NES days (average meaning anything thats not the Mario Bros. series) they're not as good as the average platformer would be today. I wish I could remember what some of these older games were called, but I distictly remember them being incredibly slow, unintuitive, and lacked a sense of momentum. Something that the average platformer today would have. And taking a look at the racing genre, I think its safe to say that GT4 is better than Rad Racer.
Truth is, newer installments of classic games can be as good as ever, but they will never live up to the memories that gamers have developped for their classic, personal favorites.
80$ not likely.
Haven't you ever purchased a PC game on DVD? Any game that comes in versions of both media costs the exact same. These music DVDs will most likely cost the exact same in a music store
I really don't see how this will prevent people from stealing music. People have been downloading DVD rips of movies for years so what's to stop them from downloading DVD rips of music albums?
That said, I suppose it will stop a number of people from ripping music directly to the their HDs, but if they're going to a new media for this purpose as well as for more storage, why don't they go with those mini CDs that are used for GC games? They're are a much smaller media and can store a few gigs of info. This way manufacturers could start producing portable audio players for this media that are much smaller and easy to carry than the current CD walkmen and the inevitable DVD players that would come with this "revolution".
If you look at the games that are creating the most buzz for the Nintendo Wii right now, they are all games that make creative use of the new innovative controller (the Wiimote and Nunchuku combination). All or at least most of these games are going to be exclusive to the Nintendo Wii due to the unique control scheme and, from what I've heard, this time around Nintendo has a lot more third party support than with the GC. So it sounds like the Nintendo Wii is going to have a ton of exclusive, innovative titles with a completely new style of gameplay as well as much of the third party support that the Sony and Microsoft have. And lets not forget about the virtual console... I never thought they could bounce back, but I think Nintendo is going to take this one. (The console war, that is)
Maybe they'll throw some constellations in this time too ;)