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I thought it was a dumb-a$$ subject, but, since I was interested in maybe starting some RPG again, I didn't shoot at the question.
BUT!
What do I see this morning? AM New York - a free daily newspaper (like the Metro) which has a daily survey.* What's the questions? "Will you buy the 'Halo' 3 Video Game?"
This must really be a big thing - which I didn't even know existed until the poll. I've still no interest in a FP-shooter, but apparently someone is.
Oh, yes - as for complaining about poll-answer options (which I and other will do now and then): things could always be worse. No matter what the question, AM New York has only [ ] Yes and [ ] No as options.
I guess I'm really out of it. But, I've become a bit of a Luddite. Never owned a beeper. My relatively recent cell-phone is always off, unless I want to make a call, and it's a converted (= unlocked?) Trac-Phone, which means it's not a camera, MP3 player, or sex toy.
"The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein
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"Games lubricate the body and the mind." Benjamin Franklin
further contemplation:
"All work and no play make jack a dull boy", consider this in the many context's that 'dull' implies, not the least of which is that couched in the first quote, above.
It is important, for example, that we learn to save money. Yet, money is for spending. A lesson I'm trying to teach myself, rather than leave as a lesson to my heirs.
Happiness is a delicate thing. Don't waste a moment of it.
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i don't say: 'don't you f** play' or nothing.. but IMO cp is not a community to ask if you'll buy some game..
if i'm wrong then sorry, but i saw people write 'WRONG FORUM, gtfo spammer' to someone who asked about programming in c/c++/vb on c# forum..
besides, i don't see any questions about WoW, UT or any other game, so why halo? is it some kind of advertisement of m$' game?!
life is study!!!
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Seishin# wrote: i don't say: 'don't you f** play' or nothing.. but IMO cp is not a community to ask if you'll buy some game..
Your point taken.
Why Halo 3? For me, it won't be an interesting game option. Then, again, I don't care who plays in or wins the World Series, SuperBowl, World Cup Soccer, etc. For the rest of the world, however, it seems to be that these are significant (re: the other post under this thread and AM New York's poll).
One can only hope that Halo 3 works out better for its users than Vista.
Seishin# wrote: life is study!!!
Is there a final exam or what?
"Life is just a bowl of All-Bran: You wake up in the morning and it's there!" - Mad John to Stan
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Balboos wrote: Seishin# wrote:
life is study!!!
Is there a final exam or what?
final? not really, but through all your life your knowledge is tested all the time, but let's don't get philosophical here
life is study!!!
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Seishin# wrote: so why halo? is it some kind of advertisement of m$' game?!
Well CP mostly offers info about MS's .NET , however, most of the developers/architects/dba that i know are really hooked into games, in my case software engineer by day, gamer by night , i don't think its wrong to ask different things in the poll once in a while, it wont stain the site.
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Wow - and I thought I was the only poor sod who hates the bloody console controls. When I do manage to shoot something it is usually my foot.
I loved Halo 1 on the PC - I wonder if they got the original concept from Ringworld by Larry Niven? I won't even upgrade to Vista to get Halo 2 and hell may well freeze before 3 gets to the PC.
Still I know I'm in the right web community when 65% of you geeks won't let go of your mouse.
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I cant stand console because you only use 1/2 of the movements as a pc keyboard so in oterwords you have more control on a pc
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avid fan of FPS on the PC, but cant get those controllers to point my guy in the right direction.
I've tried GOW and COD so many times, thinking I could surely handle it now... only to get frustrated and switch back over to a racing game or something.
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I can't stand FPSs on consoles, it's so much easier on the PC! I've tried time and time again, but in the end I crawl back to my PC for some "accurate" FPS action. I think I'll hold off buying Halo 3 until it comes to PC, if it ever does!
D and Mazza's Blog
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I can't stand FPSs on consoles, it's so much easier on the PC! I've tried time and time again, but in the end I crawl back to my PC for some "accurate" FPS action. I think I'll hold off buying Halo 3 until it comes to PC, if it ever does!
Checkout D and Mazza's Blog
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Ditto! FPS’s are great, I have never owned a game console, but did try one of the controllers once or twice. Give me a keyboard and a mouse any day, light-sabers and BFG’s are a great way to pass the time. Although I loved “Wing Commander” back in the day (joy stick). If you want to try a running a kingdom, then try finding a copy of “Majesty”, one of the few of that type worth playing.
INTP
"Program testing can be used to show the presence of bugs, but never to show their absence."Edsger Dijkstra
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First person shooter games give me motion sickness. I can play for about 10 or 15 minutes, but then I just start feeling horrible. I can't even watch somebody else play them. I imagine there are other people like this out there. Sound off, so I don't feel like I'm the only one...
Hogan
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Me too. I can play or watch about 30 minutes at the most before I start to feel sick.
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Me too.
A while ago I heard that it helps to set up a fan to lightly blow air at your face as you play. I was never really into these types of games enough to give this a try though.
-Jay
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Back, so long ago, when I was trying to make it as a shareware/CD-ROM vendor, I received Wolfenstein 3D from its author. The first FPS?
It was sort of fun (who wouldn't enjoy blasting Nazi's??) - but really boring in just a few levels. It would seem, although things have hopefully evolved, that if one plays these FPS games, action dominates - so insight and intelligence cannot way heavily in the game. Turn-oriented would seem to still be the way to go. Unless adrenelin is all you want - a distinct possibility and not to be condemned. Different strokes . . .
Dizzy or queasy? I can understand what you mean. My current experience in that arena is with another developer in this stable. When he pauses to think, he habitually shakes his mouse back and forth, and makes little circles in the window he's contemplating. Should he be at the command prompt, he'll type-matic <cr>'s. Way too much motion.
I do like the first-person view: that was the escape for me when I had time to play.
"The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein
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queasy for me. Guess I wasn't clear on that. Glad to hear that I'm not alone.
Hogan
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Dizziness sometimes more if I watch but the bad part is if I play too much I start to dream about the game when I go to bed. Then it’s time to quit.
djj
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I have this problem in any first person 3D game that is in confined quarters. If the game is in an outdoor setting, I'm fine. Certain places in EverQuest used to get to me, but most of the game was fine. Doom 3 was very difficult to play without feeling ill, but I've never had much problem with the Halo games.
I'll have to see if anyone is still playing Halo 2 online tonight...
Faith is a fine invention
For gentlemen who see;
But microscopes are prudent
In an emergency!
-Emily Dickinson
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The same thing happened to me when I tried playing HL2 on my laptop. Made me nauseated and headachy . Could be the LCD screen on my laptop perhaps, as I use a CRT for my desktop. My laptop has a superior video card.
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Wow – so many people getting queasy or something else. I love fps; never played Halo, but the Jedi Knight Series rocks (Duke Nuke’em was alright). Beyond that the “Myst” type games are my favorites; they are first person but not shooters, just I lot of. Puzzles in a 3D world.
INTP
"Program testing can be used to show the presence of bugs, but never to show their absence."Edsger Dijkstra
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Yeah, I am the same. I love resource based strategy games. One day, I'll have enough time to play them again. Oh, and platform games, LOVE the Mario series. FPS, I can live without.
Christian Graus - Microsoft MVP - C++
"I am working on a project that will convert a FORTRAN code to corresponding C++ code.I am not aware of FORTRAN syntax" ( spotted in the C++/CLI forum )
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When I first download and played the demo version of "Resistance - Fall of Man" for my PS3 I experience some motion sickness after a few minutes of playing. It wasn't really bad. Not nearly as much as I experienced playing a game on my neighbor's XBOX 360 . I quickly realized that the more I played the game the less motion sickness I experienced. I think my brain had to adjust to the graphics I was seeing.
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OK, I googled and found it, but still - some of us are not into video games.
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Or have no time to do so. When I was in my 20s and did not work 70+ hours a week and had no SO I had time for games now there is no time at all for this.
John
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