http://www.theonion.com/content/video/are_violent_video_games
God I love this site.
Are video games preparing kids for the Apocalypse?
Ahh, The Onion. The home of the gullible, the stupid and the most primitive of primitive humans.
BabyChris121675
I’m being QUITE sarcastic… and I should say VERY SARCASTIC…-edit
Are video games preparing kids for the Apocalypse?
I’m…. trying to follow how you’re being sarcastic. Is this like a play on how we address news stories brought from the Daily Mail (since 90% of people who find the stories on the Onion know they are a joke, but about 50% of people still seem to believe far-fetched Daily Mail stories)? Are you sarcastically calling the people who read the Onion those things are are you sarcastically calling… well, I don’t know since I don’t read the Onion (I could figure out what sort of angle they were going for just by reading the thread title). Maybe they have interviewees or something.
Are video games preparing kids for the Apocalypse?
That’s really, really funny. ‘Hellscape’ - ha. As is the spam one that followed it for me.
Are video games preparing kids for the Apocalypse?
That’s the daily mail or the sun. The onion is the daily show on the internet, it was meant to be comedy from the start.
Are video games preparing kids for the Apocalypse?
Oh I know, I was just stating in my usual sarcastic way how some people I know tend to take the Onion seriously. That’s all. Then again, I’ve fallen for some of their articles once or twice when I was not alert or awake.
BabyChris121675
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That was really funny. I feel good knowing that with my extensive history of playing games such as the RE series, Silent Hill and Fallout I’ll be all set when the bombs fall. As long as I can find enough herbs around, that is. Green are the best…
Then again, I won’t have to worry to hard about it. Boston was one of the primary targets (or it used to be back in the Bad Old Days of the Cold War) of any Soviet or Chinese nuclear strike plan. So if there were to be a nuclear holocaust, yours truly would be ash anyway. Unless there’s a convenient Vault-Tec Survival Vault around I don’t know about…
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I actually really want to get Fallout, if only because I really like the Elder Scrolls games.
Are video games preparing kids for the Apocalypse?
Get it Nemo. If you liked ES, you’ll like Fallout 3. Amazing graphics, fairly decent game play, good story line and a not-shabby voice cast. Plus you have Bethesda promising a bunch more DLC stuff than they did for Oblivion (including one that will expand the level cap from 20 to 30), and it’s a winner. Words of advice if you’re playing on the 360 like I am. Make a save before you first leave the Vault so you can start new games without the hassle of the preliminary story and never delete it. Actually, that’s for any platform.
Also save halfway between level 7 and 8, halfway between 13 and 14 and halfway between 19 and 20. Never delete those either, or at least not until you get the achievement points for Good-Neutral-Evil at levels 8, 14 and 20. If you’re on anything other than 360, disregard this of course.
The only way, I think, to make FO3 better is if they had somehow made it multiplayer, but I guess I’ll have to wait for ES:V for that.
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I’m on PS3.
Speaking of which, I had to quite Oblivion when I hit a massive bug that deleted like half my progress or left me as a vampire. Fallout the same?
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No bugs, but their is a similarity between fallout 3 and Oblivion. They’re both terrible fucking games.
Are video games preparing kids for the Apocalypse?
Pretty strong words about a former Game of the Year and the reigning one. Meh. To each their own and all that.
Quick question, Jaks. What kind of games do you play as a general rule?
Are video games preparing kids for the Apocalypse?
Pretty strong words about a former Game of the Year and the reigning one. Meh. To each their own and all that.
Quick question, Jaks. What kind of games do you play as a general rule?[/quote]
Ones that get low ratings from IGN, Gamespot, and other big name game reviewers.
Oblivion has several fatal flaws that make it an awful game. The big ones are graphics as a priority over any other game-play element, promised features that never actually made it into the game (such as the mages guild watching you to see if you’re good enough to become a guild member, rather than you simply walking in and joining), Repetitive NPC interaction in a dysfunctional and broken system of recycled dialog, and of course there’s the overall character system of oblivion compared to Morrowind, significantly less detailed than Morrowind. Some minor ones are repetitive landscapes, I.E. Snow and Forests, snow and forests, no lively ecosystems, level-scaling for both items and creatures that make the game of no challenge whatsoever (even with the difficulty slider up), little NPC interaction options with your character (most of the time you don’t have the ability to refuse a quest once you talk about it, that’s retarded), a speechcraft system that makes no logical sense, only four species of animals (Wolf, Boar, Deer, and Bear) in an entire continent, extremely fast leveling which takes away from the longevity of the game, recycled voices from person to person and race to race (I.E. All Male imperials have the same voice actor with no variation of the tone or sound of the voice), unrealistic clay-like people with no substance or depth to their rendering, a boring redundant quest system involving the finale of a quest almost always being “You think you caught me but I was expecting you so lets fight,” And so on.
Oh, and when I say “And so on,” I can quite literally go on. This is a shitty game. Fallout 3 is the same, it’s more than oblivion but less than a game, much like a well made oblivion mod. Not to mention, their’s a lack of expansiveness and longevity to fallout 3 as a whole considering you have a 20 level cap and even less of all the above features/faults to the game.
EDIT: Oh, and almost forgot. One other problem I have with the game. For something that praised to have such an intuitive AI (which isn’t AI but rather a bunch of random percentile rolls and If then statements), I fucking HATE how it cannot tell the difference between an evil murderer and a guy who hit the wrong person in the heat of a massive battle. I accidentally killed a guard in the Kvatch fight, so not only do I immediately get hunted down by other guards, and I get a bounty, but I also get contacted by the Dark Brotherhood about how “I’m a murderer” and no matter what I say he gives me a quest, and a quest item that I cannot refuse and ignore. Sorry, but when Bethesda praised AI and does that, that’s bullshit.
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The map is smaller than the Morrowind map and there are more species of animals - lions and rats, for example. It’s not a continent either, it’s a province.
I know what you mean about it being annoying that it doesn’t always notice people getting caught up in the action and that the speechcraft is arbitrary and in fact, the main quest is too short as well. But just because it’s imperfect, does not mean it’s crap. Moreover, not being as good as Morrowind is a pretty common thing for plenty of good games.
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Yes, imperfection isn’t a crime Jaks. I’m going to have to side with Nemo on this. I actually might still be playing it if my game didn’t keep freezing on me (that’ll teach me to buy a used copy for my 360) I’m also surprised you didn’t bring up the god-awful load times in the Imperial city (they’re about as bad as the starting load-time for GTA Vice City on the PS2).
Are video games preparing kids for the Apocalypse?
Yes, imperfection isn’t a crime Jaks. I’m going to have to side with Nemo on this. I actually might still be playing it if my game didn’t keep freezing on me (that’ll teach me to buy a used copy for my 360) I’m also surprised you didn’t bring up the god-awful load times in the Imperial city (they’re about as bad as the starting load-time for GTA Vice City on the PS2).[/quote]
Imperfection is a game like morrowind. A few glitches, a few problems but overall a great game. This is….well it’s not very thorough in detail it seems like.
In any case, I’ve never experienced the load times for Imperial City, but that’s mostly because I’ve always used the Open Cities mod.