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Afflict, you think something is not funny [and believe me, I don't think racism is funny] so therefore we all have to stay clear of it? Sorry, don't think so.

"I did read the thread, and all I found was Helm, Ishmael and yourself making racist comments."

If you read the thread you'd understand the context. You didn't read the thread.

Toumas made a racist comment that he hasn't either owned up to or explained therefore I make fun of him/point out his obvious racism.

Also, white people can't dance!

read the thread, afflict

Dan... Um... Stop? Please?

Removing foam and all this evil twin stuff, sorry, it's not funny. Your posts are just getting annoying and you're acting like a troll. Thank you.

Just as long as they're not black, AMIRIGHTFOLKS?!

I'd like to make a request to visit the cliffs by the sea in Benidorm. I've been told by people who've been there that they're very nice. Is it easy to get there?

Seconded

Someone is going to die at those cliffs, don't trust these two!

just a note, if you're going to do this I wouldn't make the icon for violence more violent than the game possibly could be. Showing blood in games is enough to knock it out of an E rating... Then again an icon for "sexual content" with 2 people screwing like mad would be awesome...

NEVERMIND ME!

What I'm interested in is how you came to that opinion. Did you arrive at that opinion because you just don't like the few games you've played now-a-days or did you look at the games industry and find some way of seeing into it that gives you the opinion that games are no longer innovative?

What are you comparing is what I'm also interested in. You say you've done this research and something in that research leads you to believe that games are markedly different now than they were 20 years ago in terms of gameplay and innovation.

The awkward continuation of CGI! I should have been more clear, sorry, you also mentioned rotoscoping which is how you would add in an apostrophe or gunshots [or lasers]. Also, I feel you are taking the extreme by excusing thousands of movies with shitty or obviously fake animatronics and saying that the few good animatronic movies prove that all CGI is bad. But whatever.

so many many many games have come out in the years how can you say that there are "few" and "hardly" any good innovative games? Does that mean there are tons and tons of innovative awesome games from the 70s/80s, like more than 80% of all games from the 70s/80s are innovative in terms or story, gameplay and art?

What reason do you believe that people back in the good ol' days wanted to make fun games more than money? I'm curious, a lot of what I read about Atari would say otherwise. What reason is there to believe that there still aren't tons of developers who still feel that way? Again, there are thousands of games that come out that EA or Activision wasn't involved in or even know are out there. If you're only thinking about big named companies making games then you are ignoring a big percentage of games that come out.

Again, as for CGI/Animatronics. You have been fooled countlessly with CGI. The cool thing is is that you were fooled so well you didn't know it. The beginning of Usual Suspects, they forgot to add an apostrophe to the news headline, they added it in with a computer. They paint out cars and lights and buildings from movies all the time and you are never the wiser. They add buildings and cars too. Did you know that jsut about every gunshot in Once Upon a Time In Mexico was added in later so they didn't have to place squibs everywhere? Oh and my favorite example is when they set an entire city on fire in 28 Days Later. My friend said "Man what a great movie, and it proves you don't need CG to make a good movie!" It was everywhere!

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Well, 'I' have changed. I am not a teen anymore and I would like the game industry to be able to address my age-group with a good game.

During those years, I was able to play great games, built lasting memories and define a quality reference point for myself on what I like to play.
I would like to see that legacy taken to the next step. That is not happening at all however.

This is one of the reasons I agree with the opening point, on the kids of today missing out. There are not many quality references in games for them and clearly not many games suitable for my age-group either.

At this point, a few changes to the game industry would be good.

I'm not saying some changes wouldn't be nice. There are a lot I'd like to change but as far as the game's industry now and then... I grew up playing the commodore 64 and when I got older and played the PC and then the NES and then the SNES and then the Playstation... Games didn't really adjust to fit me. Graphics got better, games got longer, load times got shorter [don't complain about a console's load time until you kill 5 minutes waiting for the commodore to load up] and more blood was added but they didn't really get that much more sophisticated or whatever it is you would judge a more "grown up" game by.

So if you enjoy the games you played as a kid and feel they built a foundation for you but then the games never took it to the next step... How are kids of today missing out? Kids are playing games that are building a foundation for themselves just like you did. Kids of today aren't missing out on anything you just feel that you are missing out because you've grown up and the games don't appeal to you anymore. Think how many older people could care less about Super Mario Brothers when you thought it was hot shit.

There are about a thousand people on these boards who apparently LOVE adventure games and think they are the best genre of game but there are a million kids today who LOVE the Pokémon games. It doesn't matter if you think they're shit and the kids are playing a stupid game, you're not a kid anymore and they are. So if anyone is missing out it's you not them.

Would you not agree that there is a physical pain and an emotional pain? I can feel pain and not have a spike in my eye, but hopefully that's not just me.

How can you serperate the learning from the emotion? The only way to learn from a regretful circumstance would then be to look at how the other person reacted and say "I think they are upset therefore I will not do that again because it would upset them again and people generally do not like to be upset, I have no preference one way or the other." You FEEL the regret which makes you want to LEARN from it. In my opinion.

Wishing something was different is maybe a part of the brain realizing that you are better than the way you acted. If I get pissed at someone for no reason and yell at them I will regret it because I freaked out for no reason and I should know better not to. Thinking back on how stupid I acted makes me feel stupid because I acted stupid. I don't want to be stupid so I wish I could go back and remember to be smart. If that makes sense.

"Crimes should be punished for facts, not emotions."

Well I don't understand how people get speeding tickets reduced to a non-moving violation but that's another story all together...

First thing I would suggest is halving the size of it.

Also, please don't use such a large graphic as this in your avatar. It is 400+ kb and the avatar shrinks only the size down to 60x60, it's still this large image but it's displayed at 60x60.

And games of yesterday had retarded AI that generally either walked back and forth or walked towards you. That's what they could do at the time so that is what we got. AI has gotten much better since 1988 and to not recognize that is a disservice. Is AI perfect? No but it puts up a hell of a fight in a vast majority of games from Quake 3 to Chess [which people usually forget in terms of AI advances].

You say the better graphics made it obvious we need better AI, does that mean when graphics were crappy you ignored the lack of good AI?

Also, because graphics are good and it's harder for a dude in his basement to equal a big studio full of 100 or so people isn't much of an arguement that I can see. At one point people were able to make games in their basement and sell them and they looked just the same as "professional" games, now depending on what style of game they shoot for, they can't. There are games for free on the internet that look better than 50% of all the GBA games I have seen. It's all in the comparison.

"So, you feel bad for something you did. Ã, Boo hoo. Ã, Does feeling bad about something make you feel better in some way? Ã, No. Ã, You just end up feeling more and more guilty, and to what end? Ã, At some point, you just have to move on and forget about the whole incident in the first place. Ã, So why not just skip the whole mid-section and take things in your stride to begin with?"

"Now, don't get me wrong. Ã, I'm not saying I don't learn anything from the situations in the past. Ã, I go into similar situations with the experiences of the past, and use those to act in the future. Ã, Learning from your faults is NOT regret"

These are 2 conflicting views on the idea of regretting something. You do something that makes you feel bad or makes you regret doing it and you try not to do it again. You don't just go into a spiral of feeling more and more depressed. Regret is feeling bad about a situation that came to pass and wishing one could change it. Wishing one could change an event in the past doesn't mean you obsess over it and it rules your life and you do nothing but think about it. I regret things in the past and this is how I think about them "Oh, I could have handled that better..." and then I learn from that. Even if it does weigh on my mind for a few days I eventually get over it or overcome it or clear the air with the person that I feel regret over. I don't just "forget about the whole incident in the first place."

"So far, regrets are there for what? Ã, To depress you, and to get you out of jail quicker. Ã, Pointless and unjust. Ã, Useful emotion, eh? Ã, Personally, I can't think of another reason for the emotion existing. Ã, This is the first of my points I'd like to open up to the rest of your opinions."

And that is an extremely simplified take on the judicial process... It isn't as easy as "Woops! Sorry!"

So like I said, regret isn't this emotion that consumes you and changes your life. Sure it does to some people but some people also can't leave the house without touching a certain part of the door in the correct fashion. Regret is a learning emotion. The same as anger, pain, happiness and love. "I regret how I yelled at that person, I will take steps to not act like that again." "I was happy when I ate that apple, I will eat another apple some day." I've just learned 2 things about myself, 1) How I would like to act in a situation should it arise again 2) That I like apples.

Eric

I would like to know what percentage of the games from the past are less about money/graphics and more about making an enjoyable game, in your opinion progz. I mean thousands and thousands of games came out in the 80s and 90s and thousands and thousands come out now, what's the difference? Are there amazing games from the 80s? Yessir! 90s? You got it! 2000's? Sure thing! Are there shit derivative games that mean little to anyone from all these eras? Yes. So what's the difference? What has changed?

Games being all about graphics isn't a new developement because of 3d models. Look at ads for the commodore 64 over the Atari. Look at boxes to Sierra games calling the games 3d as if it ment something. This isn't new and little has changed. Look at the growth of game graphics. People were trying to make graphics better, not because they thought "This'd be neat! Let's develop better graphics because people will like looking at them!" it was "Let's have better graphics and make our competitor's software look like shit.

Also:

" Take animatronics, a fantastic medium for creating often lifelike creations--all but abandoned with the advent of CGI's glossy and obviously fake looking creations (you could compare this to rotoscoping I suppose). Ã, "

This is a very awkward statement. You say that animatronics creates "often lifelike creations." Often? So it doesn't always look lifelike? That reminds me an awful lot of current CGI. Hmmmmm. Again, maybe things haven't changed at all.

One time I spoke out against homosexuals and it seemed like the whole forum was burning against me. So what if I don't like text adventures? Come kill me, see if I care.

While I have no idea what you're talking about with the homosexuals I just want to emphasize Pete's point.

Yodaman, you can and you did write that you don't like text adventures, and people disagreed with you. That is freedom of speech at work. While the term doesn't really apply, as Pete pointed out, you were not censored and your posts were not deleted. You have the freedom to say you don't like text adventures for whatever reason.

No one is going to kill you. I don't even know how we would.

I'd say "you know who you are", but in all honesty, you probably don't.Ã,  You don't have the sense to realise you've started an inane thread, and that your stupidity is disliked by many.Ã,  Get a sodding clue, you halfwitted buffoons.Ã,  You're not witty.Ã,  You're not clever.Ã,  On the most part, you're not even liked.

Zinged yourself!

Whatever

Useless Poster.

Why? SSH is doing it and that's fine. If people want to harbor illusions of mod favoritism or something like that [assuming that is a complaint] no amount of tweaking will please them until you put their game on the Pick of the Month.

Bspeers, if Jesus makes his second coming and he starts healing people... I want you to stand on a car and say "That's all well and good... But can shorty do... THIS!" and start juggling fish and loaves of bread.

Blow that guys mind back to year 1!

let me guess... People think you're deliberatly ignoring their games for pick of the month because you hate them or you're corrupt or something.