It is not a crime to modify your own property.
Yeah, you can mark me in the "not a fan of the redesign" column. It's unintuitive, and I'm pretty sure having nested scrolling went out of style in 1999.
@Batman: You mean when Bruce Wayne is with his girlfriend. Batman's only girlfriend is JUSTICE.
What I hate is that nobody considers that the amount of video games a kid should play probably depends on the kid more than anything. Some kids can be perfectly well-adjusted even with video games being a big part of their lives, while other kids would do better to go outside. There are about a million variables to consider and debating about it isn't going to do much.
The only real solution is to be an attentive parent so that when your kid's grades/attitude/social life start slipping, you know when to cut them back a bit. Nobody can tell you what's good for your kid here but you.
The only real solution is to be an attentive parent so that when your kid's grades/attitude/social life start slipping, you know when to cut them back a bit. Nobody can tell you what's good for your kid here but you.
"How was the play?"
"It was fun for everybody at first but after about five minutes we realized that there wasn't really all that much to it!"
"DOHOHOHO"
"It was fun for everybody at first but after about five minutes we realized that there wasn't really all that much to it!"
"DOHOHOHO"
Very funny. I'm always up for jabs at CoD.
It doesn't immerse me, though. It makes the game a very detailed mute soldier simulator. I don't put myself in Master Chief, I'm constantly taken out by the fact that he's just a suit with no opinions. Even if I have my own reactions to what's going on, no one in the game realizes how I'm reacting or what I'm doing, and that kills immersion. Stop making excuses and start writing actual characters.
"They want me to push buttons? Don't they know I just want to sit in front of a glowing screen with voices coming out so I don't feel as alone and pathetic as I really am?"
@LordDisco: See, those I can get behind. If you like Nathan Drake (I don't know why someone would like him so much as to name their kid after him, but hey) Nathan is a fine name. Cloud and Squall were names given to characters by Japanese people who felt that an English word sounded exotic and interesting, but they sound patently ridiculous in English.
I was having a similar discussion with someone else and the point I was making was that even though most - if not all - names come from words, what makes it a legitimate name is when tradition obfuscates the origin of the word to the point where the name is the first thing thought of upon hearing it, not the word. Damian is from Greek for "to tame," but it became popular as a name from Saint Damian, and so the "to tame" meaning became secondary, and now the name Damian is really its own entity.
Sorry if I seemed annoyed, I've just been having conversations with people who honest to god would think that it's a good idea to name your child Storm or some shit.
I was having a similar discussion with someone else and the point I was making was that even though most - if not all - names come from words, what makes it a legitimate name is when tradition obfuscates the origin of the word to the point where the name is the first thing thought of upon hearing it, not the word. Damian is from Greek for "to tame," but it became popular as a name from Saint Damian, and so the "to tame" meaning became secondary, and now the name Damian is really its own entity.
Sorry if I seemed annoyed, I've just been having conversations with people who honest to god would think that it's a good idea to name your child Storm or some shit.
@dalejrfanfreak: Isn't there a touch strip on the back that will be able to act like L2 and R2?
@LordDisco: And I think really any actual name is better than any of those. Yes, Apple is a fucking stupid name. Celebrities are stupid, stupid people. Kratos would be a stupid name for your kid too. Your point is?
They're not making it 3D? Color me interested.
@mrantimatter: Okay, but when your kid named "Puddle" or "Drizzle" comes home with a black eye because a kid with a proper name punched him, remember this conversation.
@mrantimatter: Cloud and squall are not decent names. They are weather terms. It's like naming your kid Rain or Sleet.
Just seriously please don't name your child after a video game character. If you HAVE TO, name him something that's actually a real name and make sure it makes sense with your last name.
I don't care how much you like Barrett or Kratos or whoever, if you name your kid Kratos, you should have your child taken away from you.
I don't care how much you like Barrett or Kratos or whoever, if you name your kid Kratos, you should have your child taken away from you.
@25toLife: Yeah, I gotta agree that everyone has a pretty good design but Jack. "I know how we'll get people to take our game seriously - we'll put a girl in it wearing nothing but tattoos and straps!" Seriously, BioWare?
@Giantmoth: Nope, not even slightly a sex-appeal object.
