I finally finished God of War. Overall a smooth, cinematic treat of gaming that I enjoyed, although today was more frustrating than average. It’s a shame to end on a down note, but here are really the only hiccups in what is otherwise a superb gaming experience. Continue reading
Month: April 2005 (Page 2 of 2)
A capella video game music medley. It says a lot for the penetration of games into the mainstream the level of applause that some of these pieces of music got.
1. Inquiry. “Hey, I know we’ve been talking about MUDs and permadeath for 25 years, but I bet no one’s thought of this angle!!”
2. Despair. “Please, Not the Permadeath Debate Again”, “Permadeath debates always drive me crazy”, “So I was going to stay the hell out of the permadeath discussion Damion started for no apparent reason other than, perhaps, that we were boring him.” ” I’m rather tired of recurring topics that do not go anywhere”. Funny, everyone hates the debate, but no one can resist jumping into it. Continue reading
You want to know why MMORPGs all suck so much? I’ll tell you why: in a word, players. The fucking players are single-handedly responsible for fucking up every MMOG since Everquest. Until they are silenced or eliminated, MMOGs will continue to be the bastion of mediocrity they have always been.
I’m funny that way.
Permadeath is the whackamole idea of the MMO industry. It keeps popping up, and the people who argue against it keep knocking it back down. I’ll never fully understand why. Some people I know and respect greatly are huge fans of it. I don’t get it. Continue reading
Dave Rickey has something to say about the panic that television executives are feeling about the rise of computer games as an alternative life diversion. By his count, MMO players who used to watch the 28 hours of TV that most people watch now play MMOs for 20 hours a week and watch TV for 8. Which is to say, they’re not necessarily socially more degenerative than the norm. Hell, they’re the ones actually interacting with other people!
All that being said, I’m watching too much TV right now. Getting a DVR will do this to you. I go through phases with hobbies, and currently, I’m playing MTGO on a laptop while my fiance watches TV. A DVR helps a lot – erasing the commercials makes it much easier to justify wasting any amount of your life on TV. Here’s what I’m watching. Continue reading
Kotaku reports that the army has contracted a military simulation game that will taser you when you die in the simulator, presumably so the people they’re training will stop grabbing the rocket launcher and trying to rocket jump into a kamikazi raid on blue base. Continue reading
A lot of people here and there are slamming the Themis Group for being dropped by another company (the Saga of Ryzom people). Having never worked with them, I really don’t know how good this group is. But my experience with being a contract designer when I was with Ninjaneering has given me some perspective that makes me want to give them the benefit of the doubt.
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