alanschu

Err.....Deus Ex? :darque: Rome: Total War doesn't seem to be a dumb down. And while I don't think Splinter Cell was every a complicated series, I liked the changes in the third game, as it opened up options, and basically removed goofy restrictions on players (killing a civilian isn't going to end the mission anymore, but it will net you zero points for the mission).

I would imagine the nervousness is because he didn't want to blow it :D EDIT: My Failure to recognize the :darque: made me miss the sarcasm.

I fear Volourn has h4x0red Meta's account.

Just call it "The Aftermath of the Big Bombs going Kaboom"

I find that ability to be rather empowering Apparently my friend just had a phone interview with Bioware. I haven't spoken with him directly, but he told my roommate it was probably the most nervous he had been in his life (or something to that effect.....I'm paraphrasing here )

My roommate might disagree. He mentioned something about not liking the ending of the season. Plus there were many weeks the show didn't seem to come out :D

Nah, someone somewhere just has to finally slap the stupid suit and go "Look at Invisibile War!" I think it'll take a bit of sucky, dumbed down games before they really realize they're no longer making money. Once they can't hit the golf course at their leisure, they start looking at things a bit more closely, and will realize that gamers AREN'T stupid, and will make good games. I predict this change will occur right about the time I enter the videogame market

:alanschu: Soon I'll just stop with the 's, but I don't think I'm quite at the :darque: stage yet. It's an awfully big step to make to hit :darque:dom

Didn't it take a lot of poking and prodding to get you to eventually pick up Deus Ex?

In a goofy, misguided attempt to increase sales I imagine. Some big-wig somewhere goes "This game was good, but if we made it appeal to the masses, w0wzers I'd be- I mean we'd be rich!"

It would let people fulfill their wacky Revan fantasies.

Nah, it was more of a passive resistive agreement. A cold war agreement, so to speak :D

Agreed. Dumbing down games != more people buying (i.e. appealing to mainstream) It just makes people angry.

Simpler than a straight line? Other than just "make believing?" :D

Yes yes we know

Boo to hold outs :angry: Although in the interests of sport, I tend to agree with my right-wing, go go capitalism roommate that teams shouldn't just be left to their own devices. Then you get boring baseball, where the good teams are always good, and the crap teams are always crap. I like a bit of variety in my sports.

It also makes wearing the mask look less silly. win-win!

Railroads actually looked the best I think in the original Civ, when they were just a straight line connection.

Many people seem to :D

Well, you also weigh the need of building the road over building other improvements. Given the 3D map, I suspect this will happen. You can already tell what tiles are being worked from the 3D map....I don't think it'd be too hard to make them look like they're being worked in a more modern way :D

He'll never retire :D

I suspect the rail networks will be less extreme too. But besides, nothing will look bad with the new 3D engine :D

If the stats are so hard to get, then how do you know how prevalent therapy is for video game related issues. They were getting a kick out of playing a game though, "killing" non-living polygons. You can't say that Wolf3d doesn't count because it has bad graphics...especially considering the graphics at the time were awesome and looked more like a person than anything else at the time...and then say that suddenly we can't distinguish between polygons and reality. Shooting a light gun still does not provide training for firing an actual gun. And furhtermore, how useful would this "training" be, since you'd be stuck in one spot. Don't nitpick on a mere technicality. YOU still posted it. And it doesn't change the fact that your post mentioned he was itching for a fight at one moment, but then at the next moment claim the desensitizing didn't work. But I guess if that's all you got

They are eliminating the trade bonus of roads for Civ 4, in an attempt to get rid of the pointless networks of roads :D

Moose is good. I still like him :D