Much anger I sense in JediLuke. Hatred of dissent, squelching of debate, need for last word. The dark side is strong within him...



Oh, and I'll take that pillow now, nin. I can't wait to be put out of my misery. Terp, you hit it right on the head. The FanSith will have their revenge!
This comment was edited on Feb 11, 20:23.

Way to catch a typo and bring on your condescension. Oh wait, only I can be condescending here, right? You have no point - you're mad that someone disagreed with you and now you've puffed up that someone didn't back down from your fearsome use of a thesaurus. Grow up.

You don't know what your point is kid, and now you're backpeddaling since you were caught being stupid and illogical. You really are a sensitive one, aren't you?

And the new king of irony is... JediLuke!

So I should shut up, but people are allowed to say things? Make up your mind, kid. And while you're doing that, feel free to quote where I said you couldn't say it sucked. My point was that Lucas gets to say and do what he wants.

I can't believe your generation is going to take care of me when I'm old and gray. If your parents hadn't made you wear candy-ass bike helmets, all the brainiacs like Jedi would have been wiped out years ago. GG Charles Darwin...

Ok, reality check.

1. The only realy bad changes are the Greedo scene in Empire, the Jabba band scene in Jedi, and the end scene in Jedi.

2. Attack of the Clones isn't nearly as bad as people make it out to be. Watch the original trilogy again with a critical eye and you will find the same ham fisted dialogue, lame plot devices, and character malfunctions that you find in Clones. "I was gonna pick up power converters. Whaaa."

3. Would it hurt to make consumers happy? There is no reason not to give geeks and film buffs (the people who are going to buy the movie) what they want. Lucas is just pigheaded. It's the same reason he made Ep1 a kids movie, Ep2 a love story, and Ep3 (hopefully) a dark comedy, whether he is capeable of making those kind of movies or not.



Ask the kids say, pwned. I'd also like to ask when Star Wars stopped being Lucas' property and creation, and became some sort of public company where every hyperspace-loving untergeek got a few shares and had a say in its artistic direction. It's his movie and he'll edit if he wants to. Don't like it? Go back to Russia, where the Evil Empire strikes YOU.

This comment was edited on Feb 10, 18:28.

Of course valve had nothing to do with this, I was being sarcastic and making a joke. Get a sense of humor.

Yeeaaahhh, I'm gonna call bull**** on that one. More like you realised what you had said was ridiculous and you're trying to laugh it off like it was a joke.

Here's a thought: it's ok to like more than one game or game company at a time. You don't have to hate all but one. Man, I can't stand fanboying...

From the Entertainment Software Association press release today:

1/ Fifty percent of all Americans age six and older play computer and video games.
2/ The average age of a game player is 29 years old.
3/ Thirty-nine percent of game players are women.
4/ Computer and video game software sales grew eight percent in 2002 to $6.9 billion and are expected to show strong growth over the next few years.
5/ In 2002, more than 221 million computer and video games were sold, or almost two games for every household in America.
6/ All games are rated by the Entertainment Software Rating Board (ESRB), and sixty-three percent of games are rated “E” for Everyone. (For more information, please see www.esrb.org.)
7/ Sixteen of the top 20 best selling games in 2002 were rated “E” for everyone or “T” for teen.
8/ Ninety-two percent of all games are purchased by adults over the age of 18.
9/ Ninety-six percent of parents surveyed who have children under the age of 18 said they are paying attention to the content of the computer and video games their children play, and sixty percent of parents say they play interactive games with their kids at least once a month.
10/ The vast majority of people who play games do so with friends and family. (Almost sixty percent of frequent game players play with friends, thirty-three percent play with siblings, and about one-quarter play with their spouse and/or parents.)

Even if you ignore everything else, the fact is this is a $7 billion dollar a year industry, and if there's one thing politicians don't do, it's mess with big money. You can be betting the ESA lobby will be showing up with these stats and some fat checks. People have been blaming violence in kids on nonsense for centuries; this is just another phase that will be replaced with 3D holo-sex movies or virtual-wank or whatever the next big scary technology is to these fossils.

Well said, Anvil. I'd be even more forceful in my reply, but I turned 30 today, and I must now go yell at kids from my porch rocking chair and tell them I'm keeping their football, consarnit.

Hmmm. Well, it's your loss if you don't try the new Steam. It works quite well, and is far far more sophisticated than any other tools that game makers have ever provided. Not having people cheating is good enough of a reason, before you get to the buddy lists, server browser, automatic patching, and the rest. And well, if you want to play any current or future Valve games, it's going to be required.

People might talk a good bit about not wanting to play HL2 or the rest, but I'll bet anything that most of it is just talk. You'll play. Oh yes, you'll play...



What's don't you like about Aliens, Wazooty?

I really can't trust steam's performance until the next bandwidth strain, I mean is it going to crash and burn when everyone downloads their first HL2 update? I don't have much faith for any amount of servers to hold up to that.

See for yourself:
http://www.steampowered.com/status/status.html
http://www.steampowered.com/status/game_stats.html
http://www.steampowered.com/status/content_servers.html

Pretty robust actually, and getting more so all the time.

As for the other question, yes, I was the PR guy. As well as the web/network/utility coder/fetch the coffee guy.

This comment was edited on Jan 25, 23:08.

It always strikes me how 'old fogeyish' people can act on the Internet. You'd think it would be the opposite, but the days of everyone being a techie hobbiest are past us, replaced by appliance users. They'll be the same ones holding on their keyboards years from now when voice recognition is used by most people for word processing. The modern equivalent of my 55-year old father and his Westinghouse typewriter.

I hope everyone likes the new version of NS. I'm not as involved in the game as I once was, but I still take interest in how its doing. YOU'RE squad ffiiiiveeee...

This comment was edited on Jan 25, 15:10.

Maybe Take-2 should send them a copy of 'Scarface'. It's only been seen by about 100x as many people as who bought GTA:VC...

Actually. This looks a lot like C&C Renegade. Or any of the other FPS games that have RTS elements and there are a bunch out there. Even Giants Citizen Kabuto had RTS elements and was quite fun. I'll check this out later on. Battlefield is definitely the new FPS king of mods.


Just imagine how many mods there would be if there was an actual SDK, and EA/Dice didn't just sit around giving DC oral pleasure...

"We've tested a few of the mods that are even vaguely popular, and the ones that aren't working are... ehhh... all of them except Desert Combat. But we really don't care, because we're EA/Dice and Desert Combat is our Counterstrike. We also still don't have a real SDK, and don't support anyone except the DC mod team, and frankly we wouldn't have even supported them if they hadn't accidently become popular against our best efforts.

Love and Kisses, Satan

PS: Get ready for BF: Vietnam. We rewrote the renderer to support crazy poly counts and shaders and normal mapping and a bunch of other truly useless stuff, since we had run out of ideas on how to add even more latency, network utilization, and CPU overhead to our game. Toodles!"

And I'm a DC fan!
This comment was edited on Jan 9, 23:25.

Big ups to all the NS lovers in here

And a MEERRRYYYYYYY CHRISTMAASSSS from DDI and Zephalephelah to you all. Seriously kids, how about you settle down. It's a video game, you have a comfortable suburban life, and being this fanboy about something is only to to give you even more acne from all that stress.

Sheesh!


Edited to add an additional umbrella of sarcasm over the intarweb...

This comment was edited on Dec 19, 17:31.

Interesting. Aren't there other ways to have done it though? If they had used their brains, they could have formed a consortium of sites that all get exclusives together, for example. Maybe 3 sites form a download agreements and take that to developers and publishers (and one muight think that the publishers would like the idea - more downloads, more publicity) Then they could have fought the bigger sites on their own terms.

But that would have put the fallacy to their 'we're trying to save the gamers' out for all to see, naturally.

The biggest problem is, the exclusive download system would fail if you let it. Publishers will notice after awhile that gamers are digruntled or download counts are down. It's a problem that would correct itself. There's no need for some hypocritical game sites to shove their beaks into how a developer distributes his products. And now, publishers will just do what the crapbirds at FileShack do: call demos "beta's" and have exclusives regardless.

So, you really expected dial-up downloads to be faster? What's the expression...? 'A fool and his money are soon parted.'

J/K. Mostly.

Oh, and why is there no mention of print magazines on this boycott list? If they really cared about the gamers, you would be up in PC Gamer's face after they released an exclusive CDROM Call of Duty "Dawnville" demo that required you to pay $10 for it. It's because the print guys aren't competitors with these sites, so it's suddenly not an issue.

PS: Steve, you make me ill.

Yeah, I'm sure the publishers would make it so there is no way for 99% people to download their demos. That makes sense, right?

Uh no, that's silly. This is only about download sites wanting to get paid. The whole moral highground thing is just an act, pandering to the masses so that their pop-ups keep popping. It doesn't hurt gamers, but the whole made-up "we're trying to help the chiiillddreeennn" Sally Struthers act makes me want to vomit. Be honest and tell gamers the real reason, don't hide.