No. Not as a tester and not as a competitive gamer. Testers get paid **** for vast amounts of repetitive work. And competitive gaming is ok if you're ok with playing one single game every single day for hours on end for years just to stay at the top end. Those Halo champs have to play Halo 3 every single day for hours just to keep sharp. Halo 3 is cool, but I simply couldn't commit that amount of time with all the other things I want to do with my time and all the other games I'd want to play.
Generalisation, but yes, MMO fans probably will be more "geeky" on average. If anything, FPS fans are criticised for being too aggressive and losing their cool and screaming after headshots (thank you FPS Doug! :D) and so on, kind of the opposite of geeky. MMOs are generally RPGs, and there's no game genre more geeky than RPGs, is there? ;) Seriously, go to the WoW forums, and listen to people talking about Kara raids with epic gear, full tank specs, massive DPS, etc. It's like a freaking foreign language listening to obsessive RPG fans!!!!! :D
As soon as I saw that I could dress like a ninja, I pre-ordered it. Seriously. :D
The first was a little bland compared to San Andreas but it was still pretty good. I do like this type of game, and it looks like this game will both be an improvement on the first and have all the crazy randomness that Rockstar took out of GTA4. This game will be deliberately comical, so it fits having the stuff the more serious narrative orientated GTA4 didn't have.
Uh...yeah? It's 2008, if she doesn't like games, then it's because SHE is a loser, not me. Considering women watch Sex and the City and collect teddy bears, they can't say jack **** about anything men do. And people might want to reconsider the idea of just pretending they don't like something, if you intend to have a relationship longer than one day. Sticking true to who you are is infinitely more attractive to women than blindly changing everything about yourself to gain her approval.
Half Life 2, by miles. Resident Evil 4, bog standard action shooter that wasn't nearly as "survival horror" as the franchise is supposed to be. Half Life 2 is the pinnacle of gaming as an entertainment medium. It's frankly laughable to hear some people call RE4 the best game ever :lol:, when there are plenty of RE fans that don't even consider it the best in the franchise.
I'm more tired of threads like this. WTF is the point in this kind of crap? How can you "get tired" of a genre if you liked it before? I've never stopped liking a whole genre before, I can't imagine such a thing. If you are simply saying "I fancy playing something else for a while", then just say that, why go for the shock value? "I hate the current King of Genres, look at me!".
No, I'm not tired of FPS games, they are as awesome now as they were when I first started playing them. But as pointed out, there are VAST amounts of games in other genres out and still coming out. For every shooter, there might be 10 other types of games out. So when I fancy a change of pace, I go out and get a different type of game and WITHOUT needing to criticise FPS games. Easy enough.
The bigger question is why do people keep comparing Resistance to Gears? Gears was very over-rated, but it was still a good game. Resistance was mediocre at best, it's the PS3 version of Perfect Dark Zero. It was only moderately successful because it was a launch title and there was nothing else to play for ages.
My opinion on real life issues was simply confirmed by most games. That, despite the whining of unwashed hippies, Violence IS the answer to most things. Nothing gets things done like a double barrel shotgun or a maniac swinging a crowbar. :D
The games that give you tuturials as a seperate thing are the way to go, like a different option in the menu. So if you know what you're doing or you just want to wing it, you can just start the actual game.
"Hey Master Chief! Look up, then down!". Stupid. :D
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