well I don't see a problem with renting you know not all games are worth $50-$60 yet worth playing for a bit so go rent the game.Stange13

YourChaosIsntMe: a very thoughtful reply. I agree that DLC and supply methods like those pioneered by steam, and others are posed to address money flow problems. I do not want to see advertizing that is not appropriate in context. that is i do not want advertisements that brake continuity. it would be okay with me if along with the "Axbro Cleaner" in Fallout 3 came Tide and Ajax...

While not all videogames are artistically made, i believe that many game aspire to be a realization that captures something significant in the human experience and is undeniably art.

that said, i appreciate a culture that shuns compromises for advertisements, and facilitates insdustry standards that in some small ways ease of creation of art

I dissagree with whoever said that used sales are positive because gamers who sell games may in turn buy new games. in my mind the determining factor for used game gamers is whether a copy is availiable used. so in the model the gamer who buys 10% or less games new, only buys the game new when he picks them up at launch.

So I have been hearing that the used game market is not exactly positive, the practice is stopping money from reaching developers.

Warez of course means no money goes anywhere...

The following is hypothetical, made up, make believe, fictitious, false, the product of an over-active imagination, untrue, and otherwise superfluously and redundantly prefaced and disclaimed... repeatedly, I cannot stress this enough.

Two gamers, both with portables and multiple consoles, playing equally on all of their machines.

One person purchases 90% of their games used and only 10% new, on all systems they use for gaming. Perhaps less than 10% new.

Another person who plays fewer games over all, acquires their pc and DS games less than scrupulously through the internet, however they purchase all of their console games new.

Both of these gamers are on a budget, but are interested in having their money support the creation of new videogames.

Who is doing better right now, how could both of these gamers do better in supporting the video game industry.

a little help?

i just did a bit of searching with no success, can someone help me find the episode of the hotspot with the celebrity impersinations top ten list contest? i want to hear the daniel day lewis one again because i just saw there will be blood.

Looking for a recent episode of the hotspot:

User Phone in contest: read a top 10 list in the style of a celebrity

thanks for any help

tough but fair my ass. the game has inconsistant levels of difficulty that make it frustrating to no end. it is not fun fighting people in NG IMO. you just fight, fight, fight, then sigh "whoooh, that was close" i am not saying it is a button masher, it definatly takes skill to play well, i just dont think it is fun. i loved god of war, and i can kick a little but on DMC, i have beaten super ghules and ghosts. i can play hard games and enjoy them, i just really dont like the mechanics of NG.

also, it pisses me off each time i hear an interview with team ninja!! the wii creative pool will not run dry, and NG is not the game that they make it out to be. it is really good all, but it is not for everybody, and it is not head and sholders above the competition as they would have you believe

allow me to take a second and evaluate my own actions honestly, i still firmly believe that i never told anyone to simply not use a given word, but in regarding my first post, i deffinately started on the offensive, i appologize for that. i could have worked harder to start an amiable discussion on the matter rather than laying it out "this is the way it is" style. in retrospect, i am very impressed warbmxjohn for his level headed evaluation of the situation with respect to my somewhat hostile enterence into this conversation where he was already upset to begin with.

sorry again, people like you give me hope (i was just grumbling to myself about the "people like you" comment earlier in the thread, but here i am, using it myself)

I was going to stay away from this one, yet I just can't bring myself not to throw in my two cents. I work at a high school and hear these sorts of things all the time and it.....disappoints me. ......[ganjalo omitted a sentence here].... a little curteosy would be nice. When a person posts/talks/generally shares their opinion in a public forum they should consider what they say and how they say it. Many people are going to see this and some may be offended (almost guarenteed really) but it's not necessary to make it personal. We are quite lucky to live ina country where we can/are allowed to speak our minds in a variety of different ways but this doesn't make us exempt from simple social politeness. Although I doubt that the original poster meant anything by his use of the word retard it could've been avoided.

Also, Even words like gay and retard have taken on an added meaning, their previous meanings are also in common use too. By using gay to mean both "attracted to the same sex" and "stupid or worthless" a person is, likely unintentionally, making the comparison the one meaning is related to the other. In other words, using gay to mean the latter is, in a sense, similar to calling all gay people stupid. Again, although we all have the right to use that word, and few people can really take that away, people need to maybe consider these things before excersising said right. That's what I think at least.

elemental_drago

yeah, teachers represent!