If some of you are on the fence about jumping into the "next generation" of gaming, I don't blame you. The 1UP Yours podcast yesterday really put a lot of things into perspective from a financial point of view. Simply put, many gamers, both hardcore and casual, are simply not ready to make the jump to the next set of consoles. At the moment, I cannot even begin to fathom spending $400 - $600 on a game console. Luckily, good games are still coming out for PS2 and there are a large number of past titles to catch up on.
As for those of you who simply owned an X-BOX or Gamecube... I guess catch up on the classics.
Saturday, April 21, 2007
Thursday, April 19, 2007
Why does this guy get air time?
A quotation (from me), that honestly, most rational people on Monday afternoon probably also made...
"The guy who committed the shooting at VA Tech was not a functional member of society. He obviously lost his mind, felt disgruntled with the world, and decided to take the lives of others in retribution. He felt it was right to rob others of their lives for his own selfish self-fulfillment. I don't know the guy, but I'll be damned if I'm wrong on this."
Gosh. Check any news site today and guess what? All of you rational people are right. Wow! Believe it or not, the millions of people who have played violent video games, watched violent movies, listened to aggressive music, or whatever other scapegoat medium you want to choose (remember how no one apologized for the attack on the comic industry years ago?) continue to enjoy their lives in a legal and moral manner.
Hey JT, Sierra published Counter Strike, not MS. For someone with a law degree, you sure don't know how to conduct your research properly. Or did God come to you in a dream and tell you to slander millions of people for your own selfish gain? Hey JT, how about you try playing Counter Strike for a while. You might actually have fun! You obviously don't know how that game works, so let me explain!
People get together online to form a game for fun. You jump onto a server and enter your map of choice. You then purchase weapons and equipment to use in the upcoming round. One team plays the the terrorists (read: "plays", I know you have trouble with this, but this is make believe JT) and the other group plays the counter terrorists. Sometimes the counter terrorists need to defuse bombs, other times rescue hostages, and other times it's simply the objective to eliminate the other team. Again, the human-like figures are composed of thousands of triangles called polygons. These polygons form rational shapes thanks to the work of dedicated programmers and game designers. Getting back to the game, you play until you've won the round and that's it. It's kind of like a more adult version of dodge ball, except in a virtual space with virtual violence against virtual players. Virtual = not real. A four year old could tell you that.
No game on the market has (or ever will) reproduce the recoil of a real gun or explosive device. No game has, or ever will, lower your heart rate so you can kill REAL targets. No game will ever desensitize someone from the act of robbing another REAL human being of his or her life. Lastly, no game ever instructs or makes you commit crimes in REAL life. People are responsible for their own actions and abiding by the laws and morals of society. You sit there and call people like me, Matt, and millions of game fans degenerates. Yes, surely we are degenerates (sarcasm there JT, in case you didn't notice). We mourn and still mourn for the VA Tech students and staff. We love our families, our friends, and our significant others. We respect our fellow human beings. We play games for entertainment and entertainment only. The thousands of people involved with the production of these games and systems are also great human beings.
People who commit acts of violence have decided to break that sacred contract between human beings. That decision is solely a conflict of the individual. We are all capable of great good and terrible evil. It is up to the individual, and only the individual, to do good.
I thought you would've known this JT, especially if you actually read the book you thump so readily. Shalom.
"The guy who committed the shooting at VA Tech was not a functional member of society. He obviously lost his mind, felt disgruntled with the world, and decided to take the lives of others in retribution. He felt it was right to rob others of their lives for his own selfish self-fulfillment. I don't know the guy, but I'll be damned if I'm wrong on this."
Gosh. Check any news site today and guess what? All of you rational people are right. Wow! Believe it or not, the millions of people who have played violent video games, watched violent movies, listened to aggressive music, or whatever other scapegoat medium you want to choose (remember how no one apologized for the attack on the comic industry years ago?) continue to enjoy their lives in a legal and moral manner.
Hey JT, Sierra published Counter Strike, not MS. For someone with a law degree, you sure don't know how to conduct your research properly. Or did God come to you in a dream and tell you to slander millions of people for your own selfish gain? Hey JT, how about you try playing Counter Strike for a while. You might actually have fun! You obviously don't know how that game works, so let me explain!
People get together online to form a game for fun. You jump onto a server and enter your map of choice. You then purchase weapons and equipment to use in the upcoming round. One team plays the the terrorists (read: "plays", I know you have trouble with this, but this is make believe JT) and the other group plays the counter terrorists. Sometimes the counter terrorists need to defuse bombs, other times rescue hostages, and other times it's simply the objective to eliminate the other team. Again, the human-like figures are composed of thousands of triangles called polygons. These polygons form rational shapes thanks to the work of dedicated programmers and game designers. Getting back to the game, you play until you've won the round and that's it. It's kind of like a more adult version of dodge ball, except in a virtual space with virtual violence against virtual players. Virtual = not real. A four year old could tell you that.
No game on the market has (or ever will) reproduce the recoil of a real gun or explosive device. No game has, or ever will, lower your heart rate so you can kill REAL targets. No game will ever desensitize someone from the act of robbing another REAL human being of his or her life. Lastly, no game ever instructs or makes you commit crimes in REAL life. People are responsible for their own actions and abiding by the laws and morals of society. You sit there and call people like me, Matt, and millions of game fans degenerates. Yes, surely we are degenerates (sarcasm there JT, in case you didn't notice). We mourn and still mourn for the VA Tech students and staff. We love our families, our friends, and our significant others. We respect our fellow human beings. We play games for entertainment and entertainment only. The thousands of people involved with the production of these games and systems are also great human beings.
People who commit acts of violence have decided to break that sacred contract between human beings. That decision is solely a conflict of the individual. We are all capable of great good and terrible evil. It is up to the individual, and only the individual, to do good.
I thought you would've known this JT, especially if you actually read the book you thump so readily. Shalom.
Monday, April 16, 2007
Did I miss something?
Wait....you mean to tell me that the Nazi's actually LOST WWII?! Woah thats news to me!
Seriously, how many WWII games are there going to be? At this point in time it feels like we're on "Call of Duty 32: Return of the Reich". Its like the genre that just won't end. Sure at first I'll admit I liked some of the WWII games. I remember playing Battlefield 1942 for hours at end, and the first Call of Duty was incredible. Call me a game snob, but I'm kinda sick of playing the same story again and again. Killing Nazi's gets stale pretty damn fast, especially when you make your 15th landing of Normandy beach.
The war genre needs to find some other cool stuff, like Incan dominance, the Mayans, the U.S. Civil War, French Revolution, hell...even the Boxer Rebellion or Sino-Japanese War. Just give us gamers some fresh new gaming, and not the same old shit we've been playing for the past 10 years.
An American Tragedy
As many of you have probably heard, there was a shooting at Virginia Tech. As of right now there are ~32 deaths, hopefully this number stays where it is. We all send our sympathies.
But as usual, the asshole we all love to hate, Attorney Jack Thompson is now using this to forward his own agenda. He went on Fox News this afternoon to claim that there was a link between the killings and video games. This man is a spineless slug who will use anything he can to make a name for himself. I really wish the media would stop giving this man the opportunity to slander the gaming industry with unfounded claims.
F*ck you Jack Thompson, f*ck you!
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