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Burek on 24 May 2014
Aielyn said:
Personally, my issue isn't so much THAT they're obsessed with shooting games. It's that they're not even actually getting creative with those. There's lots of new tweaks to rules in multiplayer, and things like that, but that's all we're really talking about - tweaks. No creativity.

Maybe tweak it so you don't shoot your enemies, but you have to caress their breasts (or another part of their anatomy) until they surrender.

That would certainly make for a great multiplayer game - especially Kinect enabled local multiplayer.

XBox One saved!!!



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BlkPaladin on 24 May 2014

I don't know if it has been covered but a FPS, and shooters in general, is one of the easiest 3D type games to make. The AI in these games are some of the "easiest" to program. (Since the computer always knows where you are and more importantly where your head it is easy to make an "unbeatable" AI, the problem comes with dumbing it down. The programming aspect of a FPS is pretty light also since the game is only centered on a few objects. Usual abstraction is PC(playable character) and NPC(AI), these type of games are usually used as an introduction to 3D programming, think the hello world of game programming.



d21lewis on 24 May 2014

I miss the days when people were excited to play as something other than a human with a flawless body. Back in the day, the only limits were the imagination.



kitler53 on 24 May 2014

  1. money
  2. you exaggerate
  3. there are only like 7 genres of video games


curl-6 on 24 May 2014
Damagon said:
curl-6 said:

Many people have an unhealthy obsession with guns

I don't understand this. These are not real guns, so you obviously don't mean gun nuts. 

I'd say people choosing to shoot in a fake medium where nobody gets injured is actually a healthy obsession with guns. 

Unless of course by unhealthy you mean simply having an obsession in the first place, but then , how is that any different from being obsessed with platformers?  or any other genre for that matter...

I mean having an obsession with guns independent of gaming in the first place.

I don't think it's particularly healthy to glorify an object designed for murder. Just my p[ersonal opinion.



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curl-6 on 24 May 2014
Ka-pi96 said:
curl-6 said:

I mean having an obsession with guns independent of gaming in the first place.

I don't think it's particularly healthy to glorify an object designed for murder. Just my p[ersonal opinion.


Yet you have a godzilla sig.

Godzilla doesn't exist. Guns do.



BraveNewWorld on 24 May 2014
curl-6 said:
Damagon said:
curl-6 said:

Many people have an unhealthy obsession with guns

I don't understand this. These are not real guns, so you obviously don't mean gun nuts. 

I'd say people choosing to shoot in a fake medium where nobody gets injured is actually a healthy obsession with guns. 

Unless of course by unhealthy you mean simply having an obsession in the first place, but then , how is that any different from being obsessed with platformers?  or any other genre for that matter...

I mean having an obsession with guns independent of gaming in the first place.

I don't think it's particularly healthy to glorify an object designed for murder. Just my p[ersonal opinion.


You're a terrible American. So it's a good thing you're Australian. ;)



"On my business card I am a corporate president. In my mind I am a game developer. But in my heart I am a gamer." - Satoru Iwata

kitler53 on 24 May 2014
curl-6 said:
Ka-pi96 said:
curl-6 said:

I mean having an obsession with guns independent of gaming in the first place.

I don't think it's particularly healthy to glorify an object designed for murder. Just my p[ersonal opinion.


Yet you have a godzilla sig.

Godzilla doesn't exist. Guns do.

video games aren't real either. both are fictional violence.  if you can take joy in watching godilliza decimate a city and kill millions of lives without feeling like "it's real" or feeling like you wnt to destroy real cities I can do the same with shooting a helgast. 



curl-6 on 24 May 2014
Ka-pi96 said:

Similar principle though. They both kill things, if one shouldn't be like then neither should the other.

One is real and kills thousands of real people every day.

The other is a fictional monster.



curl-6 on 24 May 2014
kitler53 said:
curl-6 said:

Godzilla doesn't exist. Guns do.

video games aren't real either. both are fictional violence.  if you can take joy in watching godilliza decimate a city and kill millions of lives without feeling like "it's real" or feeling like you wnt to destroy real cities I can do the same with shooting a helgast. 

As I said, I was specifically referring to those who have a gun fetish outside of gaming, which they then take into gaming.