Wow.... The trailer is fantastic, I would watch if it was a full-lenght cg movie! The game seems promising too, hope it's not "Dead Rising 3" (never really bothered to finish DR2)
Great article, helped me realize what I already feared about my gaming addiction. What worries me more however is all the people trying to defend what they do...
Elann2008
What worries me is why do you think we're defending ourselves... more so than us actually enjoying video games as a hobby? What worries me is people taking this article way too far into your head. That's what leads to addictions and everything beyond imaginable. I think timma25 was not referring to you...
You'll know you are addicted to games when it starts ruining your life. That's addiction.
GummiRaccoon
Addiction begins earlier... people don't realize it is ruining their life until it is already ruined. Though I love hardcore games, I'm a casual gamer when it comes to "time spent gaming"... I like to play it on my free time, but it doesn't stop me from dating, working out or studying... My boyfriend got addicted to "Heroes of Newerth" some time ago, and it was scary as hell. He would spend 6 to 8 hours playing, he abandoned his personal life, would forget to take showers and go to university exams. The scariest part of it, is that he did not even realise all that. It was like everybody was picking on him, as if he wasn't doing anything wrong. Those were really tough times for people around him. After getting really sick of him lying to me about gaming (he would avoid speaking or going out with me to play "HoN", and lie saying he was busy with a university project), I broke up with him. It was a good thing actually, that was the first time he realized that game was destroying him. He searched for help and is better now. Never thought addiction to gaming was such a serious thing until that...
I'll just copy what I've posted in another topic>> What you seem to be missing is how it's all a big parody. Duke acts and lives in a world that all implicit things in gaming are explicit, it takes stupid elements from games that take them seriously and show how they are ridiculous. Men in shooters are always the stereotypical "alpha male", a totally sexual and sexist concept, but they can't be shown as sexist nor violent. Duke is an a***ole who likes girls, guns and gum. Women in most games look like hookers or strippers, but you can't have hookers or strippers in a game.... Duke has strippers. Monsters are ugly in all games and are killed in cruel ways. Duke says "Damn, you're ugly" and then laughs as they die. Shooters have violence as a fun factor. Duke has fun while killing and he does it with over the top gore. There are games that praise themselves for interactivity, but you can't use the toilet! Duke Nukem pees. Monsters with "sexual parts" are common nowadays (Dante's Inferno, anyone?) but you can't talk about it "because it's a serious game". Duke seems to be the only character in today's games that notices those sexual parts and on top says "Hell, I'd still hit it" Most of all, games take their dialogs soooo seriously and most of the time they are so bad, just plain horrible. Duke has bad voice acting and extra cheesy one-liners and he knows it. It's all a big parody, this trailer even makes fun of itself with "after 12 **** years, it should be!".
You need to lock the refresh rate for your monitor. If you have and ATI/AMD card, you can do this in the Control center, don't know about Nvidia though.
Of course it does. And he's right, GC version had amazing shader and lightning effects, PS2 was dumbed down, and PC version lacked any lightning or shader.
Heh, yeah, Legendary is pretty terrible. But this game is basically what I see DNF being reduced to: clunky controls, sloppy shooting mechanics, annoying enemies, frustratingly limited carrying capacity, total linearity, heavily scripted, so on and so forth. That's how it looked in the PAX demo anyway, at least to me.JN_Fenrir
By the previews, shooting is not sloppy, it's old-school (simple and without many features). Most previews criticized the lack of linearity (which is present in modern games and they say duke ignores it), along with big scripted moments.
[QUOTE="FelipeInside"]Prey was awesome....and had great ideas (although made me dizzy in parts). Never understood why it got low scores.... It wasn't "Halo" enough
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