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Post by Venomeye on Apr 23, 2007 16:32:48 GMT -5
Well, it was also a first person shooter game as well (I didn't know about others though). I remember those Gameboys... when I was 10 or so I would stare out of the car and see other kids in other cars with them, then I would pester my mom. I finally got a gameboy pocket one Christmas, and then a Gameboy Color. I never got one of the originals though, with the big two-color black and "green" screen.
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Post by Poofiemus on Apr 23, 2007 18:05:57 GMT -5
I got a GBA as a handmedown from Haruo, but rarely use it. Like Pipe Organ, I'm not exactly that hot with video games, and in fact rarely get the urge to play them. That makes it very weird that I got into WoW, but I think that's mostly because the massive multiplayer function gives me the illusion that I'm not actually an antisocial hermit.
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Post by Pipe Organ Wolf on Apr 23, 2007 19:16:03 GMT -5
I've got a few games on my computer, but with the exception of Zeliard, Ultima, and Heroes of Might and Magic, they're fairly cerebral. For example, Starship Titanic and X-Files.
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Post by Venomeye on Apr 23, 2007 19:19:32 GMT -5
Call me a nerd. But I have almost ONLY first person shooter games. F.E.A.R, Half life 2, Doom 3, Tribes, Quake 4... yeah yeah. Though I rarely play games myself... I just get "into one" once in a while and play it consistently for a few weeks. Every few months or so.
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Post by Pipe Organ Wolf on Apr 23, 2007 19:23:16 GMT -5
That's kind of how I am with PlayStation. My brothers got the family's PS2, but I've got a few games for it: Matrix Reloaded, LOTR, Harry Potter, Wolverine's Revenge I'll get on a kick, borrow the console for a few days, but then I get bored with it, and I drop it for a few months.
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Post by Poofiemus on Apr 24, 2007 0:11:15 GMT -5
I do that with the PS2, too, except for DDR, and I can play Stepmania on my computer instead if I get the hankering to stomp on a pad.
I just can't get into first-person shooters. I actually feel more dislocated from the game with that perspective, and I get dizzy when playing them, too.
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Post by Pipe Organ Wolf on Apr 24, 2007 0:19:55 GMT -5
I've learned that I do equally horrid with either perspective. I am somehow unable to have any control over it and be able to see what I want to see. It's just one of my video game weaknesses.
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Post by Poofiemus on Apr 24, 2007 0:21:51 GMT -5
I do okay with third person, I think because it better emulates peripheral vision, and I like being able to see my character. But with first person, I'm just screwed.
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Post by Pipe Organ Wolf on Apr 24, 2007 0:33:35 GMT -5
That's getting into why I prefer cerebral games. It doesn't matter what perspective you're in, it only matters how well you can think. I've just reinstalled the X-Files game, and I'd probably be playing it now if it wasn't being dysfunctional!
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Post by Poofiemus on Apr 24, 2007 0:44:30 GMT -5
I like a little of both. I find it very satisfying to smack, freeze, bonk, eviscerate, electrocute, and light things on fire, but I like to have some strategy involved while I'm at it. But it can't be like those fighting games with the button orders; those drive me nuts, and I end up just button mashing. It's sad.
Your mention of the X-files reminds me of watching my cousin play a Star Trek game years ago...This was when I was in middle school, before I even had an internet presence. Anyway, my cousin was being trailed by this huge green caterpillar thing, and she said, "I'm going to make him my pet. His name is Poofie." (She, my friends, and I had made Poofie the default name, much like Phred and Bob. That's where my screen name originally came from.) But then there was this evil carnivorous plant that kept her from getting to the next level, so she gleefully sacrificed the caterpillar, proclaiming "Poofie DIES!"
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Post by Venomeye on Apr 24, 2007 10:23:16 GMT -5
My hard drive light has been on for the past hour non-stop. Something is wrong.
I still have complaints about FPS games though. I mean, they've had years to do this, and they still haven't even touched on it! The perspective has always been non-human and more robotic, like a camera attached to a box. They only thing they've done was get the head bob motion, otherwise, there's nothing more to it. Arms and hands would actually move up and change direction instead of just rotating on some axis, and looking down - even just a smidge would allow you do see almost your entire body, but instead, just looking all the way down you see nothing but the ground. Another BIG issue that has never been resolved in any game is walking animations. It's just an animation attached to a moving model. My idea would be to have the actual legs themselves propel the movement of the character. So not only would this fix the animation (the problem with sliding around because it's never accurate), but would add realism to reactions of things around where you walked. So many problems AHH.
The other genre I like is real-time strategy games, though I like Starcraft, my favorite would have to be the Dark Reign series, and I much prefer the classic isometric view with 2D geometrics and images rather than 3D. I just don't like 3D for that type of game.
I like thinking games sometimes, like the Myst series. I love those! I have every single one of them, but so far I've only beat the original, I've hardly spent enough time with any of the others to get anywhere. That and I lost all my notes...
So that's where Poofiemus came from! That's a rather interseting story, I wonder how that sprung up?
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Post by Poofiemus on Apr 24, 2007 15:05:58 GMT -5
That's not good. O.o Time for: EMERGENCY BACKUP PROCEDURE!
Hm...Maybe that's why I find them so impersonal. I still don't think it would alleviate my dizziness issue, but who knows?
You sound like my roommate. She too prefers 2D to 3D. For me, it depends on the game's tone and gameplay. For example, those thinking adventure games, like Myst, I think I would actually prefer in 2D, though that may be because that's how I played those games growing up. But if it's supposed to be immersive, like WoW (yeah, I like that game, so sue me), it makes more sense for it to be 3D.
Actually, I'm pretty sure we'd been using the name Poofie for a long time before the caterpillar incident, so even I'm not sure where it realy originated from. XD
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Post by Venomeye on Apr 24, 2007 15:56:56 GMT -5
YES!! YES!!! FINALLY!! Someone else who understands the relationship between graphics and gameplay/theme/setting/typeofgame/genre. The type of graphics for a game need to suit the gameplay, it's not just about one or the other. A Bugs Bunny game featuring 3.0 model shaders, anistrophic filtering and other shaders would make probably make the game a worse experience rather than just plain cartoony-cel shaded graphics to fit its style, which would create the intended experience.
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Post by Poofiemus on Apr 24, 2007 18:41:55 GMT -5
Exactly! It would be the difference between using CG, live action, and cell animation in a film. Can you imagine Toy Story as a cell film, or Spirited Away as a *shudder* live action film? It would be just WRONG.
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Post by Pipe Organ Wolf on Apr 24, 2007 18:53:52 GMT -5
That's kind of how I got named "Ian". No one really remembers where it came from originally. One friend suspects it had to do with Ian McKellan, but I remember being called that long before I really had favorite actors.
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