violence does not represent maturity. Brown shooter 4 is realistic like michael bay movies are realistic. Real world violence is ugly and horrible and unpleasant and there is no respawning or checkpointing. Violence in games is for horror movie shock value or ooh pretty particle effects on that explosion. If the violence does not make you uncomfortable and never want to play the game again, it is not realistic or mature
@PureBacon: Name a new game which hey haven't done something about. Name one which you feel they missed out on. There's fucking nothing of any interest coming out this week and it's been the same the last couple of weeks. You can't get blood from a stone man.
Pokemon Conquest. There is one. And there are more.(I even seen Pokemon Conquest on somebodies desk in an I love Mondays.)
@PureBacon: Name a new game which hey haven't done something about. Name one which you feel they missed out on. There's fucking nothing of any interest coming out this week and it's been the same the last couple of weeks. You can't get blood from a stone man.
as well as Obsidian being known for creating rather buggy games like Fallout: New Vegas, Alpha Protocol, Neverwinter Nights 2, and KOTOR II
4 of the best games ever released, but who's counting.
If by "best games ever released" you mean top 300 then yes.
I would rank New Vegas, NWN2, and KotOR2 well above 300, personally, but that's up to taste. Considering how many genuinely great games have been released in the last couple decades, even being in the top 300 at all would be a pretty big honor.
Yes indeed! For me, top 300 or so feels just about right for those titles. Alpha Protocol doesnt qualify obviously.
However, when Chumm writes "4 of the best games ever released" it sounds like top 10-20 and that's just not even close. Obsidian is a great developer but still has a little bit left to be among the very best.
Unless, you know, you like their games? Or that is impossible? Those people like the wrong things?
@Hizang Yep, I know it. Actually borrowed one of those and was thinking of buying one when I got a good deal on a 30D instead (which I later traded for a 40D). Never mind the mega pixel count, anything above 5 is fine. It's optics that matter more.
I got a Canon 40D with assorted lenses (my favourite is probably the 60mm Canon) and an Olympus XZ-1 which I carry around. The DSLR I only take out for special occasions these days, can't be bothered to carry that around.
@Hizang: So which one did you pick? Linky no worky.
@LD50: You are accusing me of not thinking critically? Your're the one who's regurgitating shit you've been fed by your betters instead of actually doing any research of your own. The utter arse gravy you're serving out is nothing but the ramblings of a fool living in a country that's killing itself, but refuses to see that what he thinks is freedom is nothing but an illusion. Yeah you can own a gun, yeah you can imagine it gives you the power to overthrow the government..but you know what? Hasn't happened yet. What is happening is what I have shown you: 10 times the firearms related homicides of any country with stricter gun control.
@LD50: Yeah, if you wanna look at just straight up homicides then you're 10 times higher than Norway...not double. You sure you want to do that?
Pretty sure I just did, unless you know something about time travel that I don't.
I admitted right in the post I might be wrong.
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@LD50: So what causes the amazing amounts of gun-related deaths and injuries in the US, as opposed in countries with stricter gun control then? I asked this before but was met with silence. Is it gremlins?
Besides your ability to make really shitty jokes at the expensive of peoples suffering, you're asking why people commit crime in the U.S. As if that's a reasonable question.
Why the massive upswing in crime in Sweden, where you live?
EDIT: I'd like to point out by the time I got to this thread it was fully on gun control. Had been from the original post, if not the second, and certainly that way by the sixth post.
We're not talking crime in general, we're talking shootings. But if you want to go there the latest stats for Sweden show a 3% (source) increase in overall reported crime, and the stuff that went up was things like bike theft and fraud. This can be attributed to people becoming more prone to reporting (usually people don't care about a stolen bike) and the bad economy (can't get a job? Time for fraud!).
Now, I can't find any stats for over all crime in the US but like I said, it's shootings that's interesting here; So once again, you obviously think you have some insight..why more shootings in the US than other non-3rd world-run-by-drug-lords-countries? It is the gremlins right?
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