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Make sense? NO, well, if it does then I don't know why but my point is - nothing makes sense anymore. Doesn't it? No not really, I don't believe that the PlayStation 2 is in fact the '3rd place', I disagree with public opinion that the Dreamcast is or was or has ever been 'dead', and I can't see a whole lot of difference in the visuals of X Box titles/GameCube titles and Dreamcast titles - the first next generation console.
As I sit here playing a knockout competition on SSX Tricky I see grainy graphics, awful sound and a lot of jagged edges. However, the game plays fantastically - just doesn't look that great! Doesn't it?
I don't know. Don't I? But in my view graphics aren't really improving - sound will always be a problem in Resident Evil games - not to mention the acting, Sega will never make a profit, Nintendo will continually be seen as a kiddies gaming manufacturer, the PlayStation will stay on our shelves for another 8 years, have a mach 3 - perhaps become the size of a matchbox, and Microsoft will recall all X Boxes after windows crashes on the console. Although this must be down to your home insurance.
If the games industry is a big booming business, bigger than cinema, bigger than the music industry then I think there should be a lot of changes in order to change public perception, make games more playable and user friendly, and help modern day technology create even better visuals, sound and more training systems are started for future games developers.
I would like to see gaming conventions - not because I'm a 'nerd' or 'geek' and just want to rebel against the rest of society, but because gaming IS bigger than the movies - it should become something more than a living room pastime - it needs a bit of media attention, top of the pops should make way for top of the titles and I shouldn't be embarrased about wanting to buy the latest Football sim rather than listening to MC Neat or DJ spoony in some night club.
Agree?
Maybe I'm taking this a little too far, but if it's big, and we all know it then why is it still very much a private thing - get rid of arcades, bring in "gaming chalets" where people can pay say £5 to get in for a few hours of top quality console gaming - could work? I think so!
Ok, so SSX looks better now I have my glasses on, and hey it's still fun to play, but why are we confined to a cramped living room? Ditch arcades bring in places to play, compete, meet people and have fun in - anyway, I'm real tired.
Cheers.
Why is it a grown man can be given a funny look for buying Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3, and not for buying the Tweenies latest album? Bad Attitudes? Or should I not have worn that hat...
Discuss!
Kuma 8')
As I sit here playing a knockout competition on SSX Tricky I see grainy graphics, awful sound and a lot of jagged edges. However, the game plays fantastically - just doesn't look that great! Doesn't it?
I don't know. Don't I? But in my view graphics aren't really improving - sound will always be a problem in Resident Evil games - not to mention the acting, Sega will never make a profit, Nintendo will continually be seen as a kiddies gaming manufacturer, the PlayStation will stay on our shelves for another 8 years, have a mach 3 - perhaps become the size of a matchbox, and Microsoft will recall all X Boxes after windows crashes on the console. Although this must be down to your home insurance.
If the games industry is a big booming business, bigger than cinema, bigger than the music industry then I think there should be a lot of changes in order to change public perception, make games more playable and user friendly, and help modern day technology create even better visuals, sound and more training systems are started for future games developers.
I would like to see gaming conventions - not because I'm a 'nerd' or 'geek' and just want to rebel against the rest of society, but because gaming IS bigger than the movies - it should become something more than a living room pastime - it needs a bit of media attention, top of the pops should make way for top of the titles and I shouldn't be embarrased about wanting to buy the latest Football sim rather than listening to MC Neat or DJ spoony in some night club.
Agree?
Maybe I'm taking this a little too far, but if it's big, and we all know it then why is it still very much a private thing - get rid of arcades, bring in "gaming chalets" where people can pay say £5 to get in for a few hours of top quality console gaming - could work? I think so!
Ok, so SSX looks better now I have my glasses on, and hey it's still fun to play, but why are we confined to a cramped living room? Ditch arcades bring in places to play, compete, meet people and have fun in - anyway, I'm real tired.
Cheers.
Why is it a grown man can be given a funny look for buying Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3, and not for buying the Tweenies latest album? Bad Attitudes? Or should I not have worn that hat...
Discuss!
Kuma 8')
now we can't always get what we want.
remember that.
no.....no .... don't cry...... not again!.......... .... ......look I'm sorry...... please forgive me......please?......... no? ..... why you little!....... In my day!......... no ice-cream for you!
HMPH!
remember that.
no.....no .... don't cry...... not again!.......... .... ......look I'm sorry...... please forgive me......please?......... no? ..... why you little!....... In my day!......... no ice-cream for you!
HMPH!
Kuma2001 wrote:
Nintendo will continually be
> seen as a kiddies gaming manufacturer,
you seen the trailers for the new resident evil on the gamecube? if you have you are mad saying that nintendo are a "kiddies gaming manufacturer" and if you havent watch the trailers. and that may change your mind about graphics not geting better as well.
Nintendo will continually be
> seen as a kiddies gaming manufacturer,
you seen the trailers for the new resident evil on the gamecube? if you have you are mad saying that nintendo are a "kiddies gaming manufacturer" and if you havent watch the trailers. and that may change your mind about graphics not geting better as well.
If you buy a game from one of the many gaming stores around, I very much doubt they'll give you a strange look - the purpose of the store is for them to sell you a game that you want to buy at a price which suits all, but them in most cases.
I was very annoyed with Sony's reasoning behind making the PS2 only have 2 ports, but at least if you do want to have more than 2 players playing at any one time, you CAN get a multitap, and well, more gamers will be able to play at once with no extra costs with the new X Box and Game Cube consoles.
This i-link thing, would it not require 6 televisions in the same room? Sadly I don't have a room large enough to accomodate this, but hey it's a great idea.
Online gaming was actually a very, very bold move from Sega and the Dreamcast was indeed a highly innovative console - Quake 3 Arena online was amazing, as was Planet Ring - there were infact people playing it at 3 am in the morning on Boxing Day and it was extremely fun!
Anyway, I think the idea of replacing arcades with game chalets is an interesting one, but perhaps making the arcades more popular again would be even better - Racing on the Sega Rally 2 machine with 3 mates is still great fun - against 7 people would be even better, and prizes could even be given to the winner, although the respect gained would be just as worthy as a Big Mac or something...
Arcade machines can withstand more than controllers etc, and so if "Gaming Chalets" were to be introduced then they'd have to have a dress code or something similar, and you'd have to be the bearer of clean hands when partaking in a multiplayer game of Super Monkey Ball (should there be a multiplayer option).
Thanks for reading, and don't forget that gaming hasn't really been around as long as cinema, and as FM rightly says, things are changing, I guess you'll have to be more patient.
Dan
I was very annoyed with Sony's reasoning behind making the PS2 only have 2 ports, but at least if you do want to have more than 2 players playing at any one time, you CAN get a multitap, and well, more gamers will be able to play at once with no extra costs with the new X Box and Game Cube consoles.
This i-link thing, would it not require 6 televisions in the same room? Sadly I don't have a room large enough to accomodate this, but hey it's a great idea.
Online gaming was actually a very, very bold move from Sega and the Dreamcast was indeed a highly innovative console - Quake 3 Arena online was amazing, as was Planet Ring - there were infact people playing it at 3 am in the morning on Boxing Day and it was extremely fun!
Anyway, I think the idea of replacing arcades with game chalets is an interesting one, but perhaps making the arcades more popular again would be even better - Racing on the Sega Rally 2 machine with 3 mates is still great fun - against 7 people would be even better, and prizes could even be given to the winner, although the respect gained would be just as worthy as a Big Mac or something...
Arcade machines can withstand more than controllers etc, and so if "Gaming Chalets" were to be introduced then they'd have to have a dress code or something similar, and you'd have to be the bearer of clean hands when partaking in a multiplayer game of Super Monkey Ball (should there be a multiplayer option).
Thanks for reading, and don't forget that gaming hasn't really been around as long as cinema, and as FM rightly says, things are changing, I guess you'll have to be more patient.
Dan
It was the hat.
I bought Space Channel 5 for the Dreamcast in a shop the other day and didn't get a strange look at all. (Apart from the usual one, but then my appearance can be a bit 'intimidating' to some. Dressing like Solid Snake and walking around Bristol does give you some funny stares from time to time).
On a more serious note, you are trying to equate the social experience of going to the cinema to be entertained to the experience of gamers trying to compete against each other. I don't think that the two can ever become equivalent as things are now because of their divergent histories and the fact that most of our favourite games just aren't geared up for massive multiplay.
Cinema was always a 'social' event, gaming has never really been 'social' up until now. Gaming, when it started, was usually a solitary experience in a dark room by the phosphorescent glow of a portable TV, and nothing much has changed there. The arcade goers were generally gaming addicts who escaped from their bedrooms and ZX Spectums every week or so just to see what real colour graphics should look like, and get an idea of what their consoles would be playing in a few years time.
But things ARE changing. You can now rent a game along with a movie in most 'video rental stores'. There are film exhibitions, there are game exhibitions. Where 200 people can go to watch a film, you can now have 200 people going to LAN parties to play games together. So it's slowly getting there.
Sony's PS2 uses i-Link technology so you can hook up to 6 PS2s together for a game of, say, Gran Turismo, but not all games support this technology yet, the easiest way to get people to play 'together' is still by using internet technology. Which means we're back to sitting in our bedrooms alone in the dark by the phosphoescent glow of a PC monitor instead of a portable TV.
So we're back to square one.
I bought Space Channel 5 for the Dreamcast in a shop the other day and didn't get a strange look at all. (Apart from the usual one, but then my appearance can be a bit 'intimidating' to some. Dressing like Solid Snake and walking around Bristol does give you some funny stares from time to time).
On a more serious note, you are trying to equate the social experience of going to the cinema to be entertained to the experience of gamers trying to compete against each other. I don't think that the two can ever become equivalent as things are now because of their divergent histories and the fact that most of our favourite games just aren't geared up for massive multiplay.
Cinema was always a 'social' event, gaming has never really been 'social' up until now. Gaming, when it started, was usually a solitary experience in a dark room by the phosphorescent glow of a portable TV, and nothing much has changed there. The arcade goers were generally gaming addicts who escaped from their bedrooms and ZX Spectums every week or so just to see what real colour graphics should look like, and get an idea of what their consoles would be playing in a few years time.
But things ARE changing. You can now rent a game along with a movie in most 'video rental stores'. There are film exhibitions, there are game exhibitions. Where 200 people can go to watch a film, you can now have 200 people going to LAN parties to play games together. So it's slowly getting there.
Sony's PS2 uses i-Link technology so you can hook up to 6 PS2s together for a game of, say, Gran Turismo, but not all games support this technology yet, the easiest way to get people to play 'together' is still by using internet technology. Which means we're back to sitting in our bedrooms alone in the dark by the phosphoescent glow of a PC monitor instead of a portable TV.
So we're back to square one.
Make sense? NO, well, if it does then I don't know why but my point is - nothing makes sense anymore. Doesn't it? No not really, I don't believe that the PlayStation 2 is in fact the '3rd place', I disagree with public opinion that the Dreamcast is or was or has ever been 'dead', and I can't see a whole lot of difference in the visuals of X Box titles/GameCube titles and Dreamcast titles - the first next generation console.
As I sit here playing a knockout competition on SSX Tricky I see grainy graphics, awful sound and a lot of jagged edges. However, the game plays fantastically - just doesn't look that great! Doesn't it?
I don't know. Don't I? But in my view graphics aren't really improving - sound will always be a problem in Resident Evil games - not to mention the acting, Sega will never make a profit, Nintendo will continually be seen as a kiddies gaming manufacturer, the PlayStation will stay on our shelves for another 8 years, have a mach 3 - perhaps become the size of a matchbox, and Microsoft will recall all X Boxes after windows crashes on the console. Although this must be down to your home insurance.
If the games industry is a big booming business, bigger than cinema, bigger than the music industry then I think there should be a lot of changes in order to change public perception, make games more playable and user friendly, and help modern day technology create even better visuals, sound and more training systems are started for future games developers.
I would like to see gaming conventions - not because I'm a 'nerd' or 'geek' and just want to rebel against the rest of society, but because gaming IS bigger than the movies - it should become something more than a living room pastime - it needs a bit of media attention, top of the pops should make way for top of the titles and I shouldn't be embarrased about wanting to buy the latest Football sim rather than listening to MC Neat or DJ spoony in some night club.
Agree?
Maybe I'm taking this a little too far, but if it's big, and we all know it then why is it still very much a private thing - get rid of arcades, bring in "gaming chalets" where people can pay say £5 to get in for a few hours of top quality console gaming - could work? I think so!
Ok, so SSX looks better now I have my glasses on, and hey it's still fun to play, but why are we confined to a cramped living room? Ditch arcades bring in places to play, compete, meet people and have fun in - anyway, I'm real tired.
Cheers.
Why is it a grown man can be given a funny look for buying Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3, and not for buying the Tweenies latest album? Bad Attitudes? Or should I not have worn that hat...
Discuss!
Kuma 8')
As I sit here playing a knockout competition on SSX Tricky I see grainy graphics, awful sound and a lot of jagged edges. However, the game plays fantastically - just doesn't look that great! Doesn't it?
I don't know. Don't I? But in my view graphics aren't really improving - sound will always be a problem in Resident Evil games - not to mention the acting, Sega will never make a profit, Nintendo will continually be seen as a kiddies gaming manufacturer, the PlayStation will stay on our shelves for another 8 years, have a mach 3 - perhaps become the size of a matchbox, and Microsoft will recall all X Boxes after windows crashes on the console. Although this must be down to your home insurance.
If the games industry is a big booming business, bigger than cinema, bigger than the music industry then I think there should be a lot of changes in order to change public perception, make games more playable and user friendly, and help modern day technology create even better visuals, sound and more training systems are started for future games developers.
I would like to see gaming conventions - not because I'm a 'nerd' or 'geek' and just want to rebel against the rest of society, but because gaming IS bigger than the movies - it should become something more than a living room pastime - it needs a bit of media attention, top of the pops should make way for top of the titles and I shouldn't be embarrased about wanting to buy the latest Football sim rather than listening to MC Neat or DJ spoony in some night club.
Agree?
Maybe I'm taking this a little too far, but if it's big, and we all know it then why is it still very much a private thing - get rid of arcades, bring in "gaming chalets" where people can pay say £5 to get in for a few hours of top quality console gaming - could work? I think so!
Ok, so SSX looks better now I have my glasses on, and hey it's still fun to play, but why are we confined to a cramped living room? Ditch arcades bring in places to play, compete, meet people and have fun in - anyway, I'm real tired.
Cheers.
Why is it a grown man can be given a funny look for buying Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3, and not for buying the Tweenies latest album? Bad Attitudes? Or should I not have worn that hat...
Discuss!
Kuma 8')