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| News Comments > Op Ed |
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Re: Op Ed |
Jul 3, 2010, 22:42 |
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I prefer regenerating health over health items, but I do think both are kinda silly. I wish games would just have the player jump from one body to the next whenever they die. So you go into a mission with a squad of 20 guys. You get killed, your viewpoint jumps to another one of the squad members.
Speaking of regenerating health, it seems like that system is not in any Japanese games at all. I guess Japanese game developers and/or gamers love health items. Personally I hate navigating through menus to use a health item during a battle. It breaks up the pace of the game. I've been playing Onimusha 4 on PS2 again, and I have to stop and use a health item 3 or 4 times per boss battle. Kinda sucks. Happens all the time in Metal Gear games too. And there's nooooo way most of these boss battles are meant to be beaten without using a health item!
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| News Comments > Natural Selection 2 Hydra Trailer |
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Re: Natural Selection 2 Hydra Trailer |
Jul 3, 2010, 16:14 |
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I just hope they actually have focus groups play the game as its developed. The first game had a very "We don't care what anyone thinks. We're gonna make this game however we feel like it, so piss off!" feel to it.
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| News Comments > It Came from E3 2010, Part 25 |
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Fallujah Honor |
Jun 29, 2010, 01:30 |
Charlie_Six |
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People like the Afghanistan war. It's not very controversial. All the major Presidential candidates said they were fine with that war, for example.
Not so much with the Iraq war...
In any case, I usually don't like it when games exploit real life wars and their dead. It's just so shameful the way most games do it. Oh well, there's money to be made. |
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| News Comments > Jane's Advanced Strike Fighters |
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Re: Jane's Advanced Strike Fighters |
Jun 29, 2010, 01:10 |
Charlie_Six |
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I was also let down by the video preview. I was hoping this game was the spiritual successor to the EA/Jane's games from 10 (?) years ago.
US Navy Fighters, Advanced Tactical fighters, Fighters Anthology.
I LOVED those games. Used to run a website called "Fighters Anthology Mission eXchange."
I thought those games had a good blend of fun and complexity to them. Would love to see a graphical update to them, if nothing else. |
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| News Comments > Morning Consolidation |
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Re: Morning Consolidation |
Jun 26, 2010, 18:26 |
Charlie_Six |
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PC games are very hard to resell, so I've stopped buying PC games and have moved to the PS3 almost exclusively. It's a shame since the graphics on the PC are so much better too.
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| News Comments > Mass Effect Multiplayer? |
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Re: Mass Effect Multiplayer? |
May 30, 2010, 04:57 |
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I think co-op ME3 could work like how Old Republic is gonna work. Each player is able to interject with dialogue. Not just the party leader.
It really has that pen-and-paper feel.
I'm surprised Old Republic is the first game to try this system. It's such a common conversation system in every day human life. You walk up to a group of people and they often talk back to you as a group!
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| News Comments > Op Ed |
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Re: Op Ed |
May 7, 2010, 02:22 |
Charlie_Six |
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http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20081227190604AATNOO2
Might be no Federal law, but there's apparently a lot of state laws about minors viewing porn. This game law everyone is talking about is a California only thing in case ya didn't know.
Here's what I gathered about California porn law:
"California "Harmful To Minors" Statute: Penal Code 313(a) "Harmful matter" means matter, taken as a whole, which to the average person, applying contemporary statewide standards, appeals to the prurient interest, and is matter which, taken as a whole, depicts or describes in a patently offensive way sexual conduct and which, taken as a whole, lacks serious literary, artistic, political, or scientific value for minors. (1) When it appears from the nature of the matter or the circumstances of its dissemination, distribution or exhibition that it is designed for clearly defined deviant sexual groups, the appeal of the matter shall be judged with reference to its intended recipient group. ... 313.1(c) Any person who knowingly displays, sells, or offers to sell in any coin-operated or slug-operated vending machine or mechanically or electronically controlled vending machine that is located in a public place, other than a public place from which minors are excluded, any harmful matter displaying to the public view photographs or pictorial representations of the commission of any of the following acts shall be punished as specified in Section 313.4: sodomy, oral copulation, sexual intercourse, masturbation, bestiality, or a photograph of an exposed penis in an erect and turgid state. Note: This statute refers to minors as persons under 18."
http://www.llrx.com/features/obscenitylaws.htm
My take on all of this is that the SCOTUS will strike down the game law, but this action will not be consistent with Cali laws that are supposed to prevent kids from looking at porn. Porn bad, violence good. Huh?
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| News Comments > Op Ed |
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Re: Op Ed |
May 6, 2010, 22:37 |
Charlie_Six |
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"California says its interest is in preventing psychological or neurological damage to young people. The appeals court concluded that the evidence connecting violent video games to this sort of damage is too weak to make restricting the games a compelling government interest."
I don't understand why porn and games like RapeLay are apparently illegal in the US for minors to view, then. I doubt there's much evidence out there that shows porn is bad for kids, or that a game like RapeLay causes problems too.
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| News Comments > Yee Against Banning Ultra-Violent Games |
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Re: Yee Against Banning Ultra-Violent Games |
May 5, 2010, 21:39 |
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I think the point of this law is that if a parent fails to raise their kids a certain way, and that child goes off and kills people, then the parent has allowed a dangerous situation to spill out of their household and inflict harm on society at large. Your freedom ends where someone else's freedom begins, etc etc. So it's not about any parent's individual desire to get "help from the government in raising and handling [their] kids", it's about preventing the misraised children of OTHER parents from killing your children in school.
I think this law is being brought about because of school shootings and the disproportionately high number of murders that are committed by young males. No one can prove that games increase murderous behavior, but many people seem unwilling to take even a nearly non-existent amount of risk on the issue, and see very little reason not to legally prevent kids from playing these games anyway. (Personally I don't care if these games are banned from kids, because after so many decades of games, no one has really made a violent game that was all that great. They're nihilistic fun and that's it. And I don't believe in the paranoid "slippery slope" arguments out there. Even if a violent game is amazing, what exactly does society lose if people are made to wait until they are 18 to play it?)
Take that game Rapelay, where you rape young girls. I'm pretty sure that's considered child porn in the US and is illegal. There's no way to prove that playing Rapelay encourages a person to rape a young girl in real life, but few people are willing to take that risk for the sake of free speech.
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| News Comments > etc. |
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voice acting |
Mar 24, 2010, 21:18 |
Charlie_Six |
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hmm after reading that article, my dream to do at least one voiceover for a video game has been dashed a bit. I don't want to go through professional (and expensive) acting lessons just so I can get a single role. Sigh. I just want to be a starfighter pilot who gets killed unexpectedly while talking to his wingmen about attractive women.
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