So, is it legal to download games you use to own but can't play anymore because they disc is ruined? Is it legal to download games you never owned because some games and system are not available even on ebay?

*If you believe this post is not appropriate to be posted on gamespot please let me know and I will delete it promptly. I just don't remember seeing it listed on the rules. I saw it said copyrighted Roms but I am not sure if all roms are copyrighted or even if any are.

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Imagine playing your favorite video game which happens to be a FPS (first person shooter) that takes place in the jungle. Now, your team's name is color coded primary blue which is simi easy to see in the dark green jungle; the enemies though are a nice dark color of red which makes since, since we usually assume that means evil and their armor is dark green and black. Now, the normal person would easily see that the enemy is clearly right in front of them and the moment they move they will be shot at. But, if you take someone who is colorblind and put them in the same spot, theres a good chance that they wouldn't see the name tag because the red bled into the tree color and their suits do the same; so the other team just happily walks right up to you slowly and kills you before you even saw them coming.

Example, you may see these as the nametag, armor and trees; people with red green blindness would see something like nametag, armor and trees.

FPS are not the only games where its a problem. I have noticed this in ever genre there is. In racing games, there is usually a line in the middle of the road that tells you when to speed up or slow down; we just can't see when it changes color gradually. In real time strategy games we can tell enemies from allies because light green looks like yellow and dark blue is purple. Every genre has its issues.

I bring this up because if you have played a game then you probably have seen this person before. I would even bet you laughed at them and didn't even realize this may have been the problem. For example, you were just standing there in the middle of the road next to a concrete slab in a game wearing similar clothing as the landscape when someone just ran by you and didn't even slow down. You followed them for a while then knifed the noob in the back where upon you and your friends busted up laughing, and rightly so. He/she didn't see anything other then the rather large concrete block in the road a few seconds before dieing.

I just felt this was a view that needed to be stated because there has been so many times where I'm called a noob over the mic in whatever game I was playing because of these reasons.

There's a bunch of ways this can be fixed to equal out the playing field. The easiest is just giving the player the options of what team gets what color. So, until this is fixed there is millions of people you play against that aren't noobs. I'm not complaining, I just want there to be an equal playing field in every game we play. Would you really feel good about your win if you knew you had an advantage over them before the game even started; I sure wouldn't.

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Another thing is that whatever game is popular or in style now will make it quite a ways and any game that may have been popular 4yrs ago or so you can pretty much count out because people may be burned out.

So, I had to go with some classic characters for some of the brackets: Mario, Link, little Mac, Kirby. Then there are characters that will be famous for quite some time: Gordon Freeman, the girl from RE, Snake, Master Chief, etc.

In the end though I had to go with two powerhouses as my final 2 Mario vs Snake. Old Nastagia who is always around with Old Nestagia who made a resent blast from the past. In the end I have Mario winning by a bit but not a tremendous amount. Who knows though, it may come down to Little Mac vs Cloud Strife. It will be awesome though, regardless.

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So earlier today I looked at my online PS3 buddies and it seems I have the most trophies but not by much. It doesn't matter at all but me with my level 6 is the highest. Most of them have between level 1-3. Then, when I come on Gamespot, I see so many people I know with level 10, 14, 20 ect. I wonder what the difference is.

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Maybe its just me that is getting tired of seeing this happen. The awards are not done but I am pretty sure that MGS 4 is going to win a bunch more awards that should be given to more deserving games that were available on all the platforms. I am playing Fallout 3 right now and its a fantastic game but I am not going to vote for it on every aspect because some games have better qualities in areas than it does. Sorry if this offends MGS fans out there because this isn't towards it because I would be just as angry if any game won every award.

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I think this may be to make sure that there is no fraud with the trophy system but I don't like the fact that I get punished. So now, my other PS3 doesn't earn trophies but the first one does. I have read that there are quite a few other people that have been getting this error which makes me feel better about my situation. Did not earn a trophy is a bit confusing and I kept trying until the message would say "trophy earned" needless to say that after 5 times of trying, nothing good happened.

I think maybe a error a less vague would be appriciated. Something that maybe lets me know not to retry getting that trophy but to figure out whats wrong with my accounts. Hope this error gets fixed soon.

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The worst offense to me that makes it so I won't read a review or will stop midway is a lack of respect for the reader.  Heres a made up example of what I am talking about that just bugs me and it doesn't ever seem to stop because the person decided that the reader doesn't need any period or even a dang comma and I just wish the sentense would stop so I could take a breath and they never capitalize the end of a sentense the stuff continues readers can't figure out when a sentense ends or begins and the som de wurdz spelt rong.  That mess right there is the biggest gripe I have about reviews.  Was that difficult for you to read because it was even difficult for me to type.

Now, I am not an english major; heck, I even mess up on where a comma goes or a semi colon quite a bit.  I just want to be able to read reviews without getting confused.  Or, maybe they just need to try and read their own work before submitting.

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Another emblem I have no respect for that I would like but doubt I will obtain is the one where you need a average gamespot game rating of 8.6.  That would be possible if some of the great games I own were actually rated (sim city 2000, super mario, tetris, dragon warrior).  Tons of my games are prior to late 1990's so gamespot didn't rate them and others are on consoles/systems that gamespot doesn't rate (mac, other).

It is entertaining to know that I own nearly $10,000 in games and system and payed for less than a quarter of that because of handme downs or someone just let me come over and play it so much it was practically mine.

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  Anyone else remember when this site had a mascot of a dog?  I think that it did and that I am not getting it mixed up with another site from the late 90's.  Man this site has changed.

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One thing I don't know if I would be able to change is from normal to inverted look. I have looked all over as to why people use one way or another without many good answers. i have found a bunch of personal reasons why but those only make sense if that is your way of playing. One example is that people who use inverted say that they think of the controller as the back of the head and if they are push forward they look down and vise a versa. Well, thats great, I don't think of it that way. I just view myself as the person playing and if he wants to look up i point up; but that example doesn't work for everyone.

But, it gets weirder as we go to other games because my taste of control changes depending on my distance from the person. If I am first person, than its normal; 2nd person than its inverted; planes its inverted; unless I am using a mouse than my first person with a mouse can be inverted. I have seen others opinions on this and they are opposite of mypreferences. How or what would have caused this? A few friends and I have been playing the same games forever and we all play differently.

I can't say this is done by any certain game because yeah I played flight simulator but I also played first person shooters. It doesn't matter to me whichoptionyou choose; I just think all these need to be in games. I remember as game recently (Ghost Recon 2) and the control setup was so backwards from what I was use to that it took me weeks of playing to finally not suck; it should have just had theoptionto have a controller setup that I liked.

Maybe I am the only person that cares about this but I am just curious why we all don't play the games the same.

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I just hope this wasn't something that just my friends and I use to do because that would be sad for everyone else. Some of the best games I remember either playing or watching was FF2, FF3, FF7, Dune for Sega CD, Dragon Warrior, Fallout, Everquest, Doom. There is a few games now that are, but they are far and few between such as COD4 and the Lego games but thats about it. The 2 prior generations seemed to have so many more of these games.

I don't know if they even can test for this in games. I do know that after watching one of the games you have a better chance of buying the next game. So, maybe this should be companies R&D because I didn't always want to buy the first version of a game but I might if I watched someone else. If a game is good enough to watch someone else play, then its sure as hell is good enough for me to buy. And if you noticed, the games that we found great to watch, for the most part became some of the most well known games ever.

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People need to get off their high horse about stealing and copying. Sony just released the update 2.4 with the Trophies feature. Already, lots of M$ people are calling foul because Sony supposedly stole that feature from the Xbox. Seriously, this is from people in association with a company that has a clean slate of not stealing? That could be true if MS hadn't stolen from Apple, Real Player, Netscape, and countless other companies. I may not be excited about trophies but I don't think they have any room to talk.

This was not meant to be bashing of Microsoft because they are in fact the people that came up with the ideas first so thankfully they did because a lot of Sony fans love trophies.

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I don't know how many of you play first person shooters out there but I became a big fan back in the mid 90's. I remember this awesome game called Doom and Pathways into Darkness. Pathways was my favorite because you picked up real weapons set in the 30's to 40's. It was supposedly about a Nazi who was searching an old pyramid and finds aliens and other things. Wolvenstein was just this game but in a different environment. That was back when these categories were new. World War 2 games also were a new avenue to try.

Now, it is completely different. Every game company makes WW2 first person shooters. I am pretty sure the company pet even puts out his own FPS WW2 with expansions. Ok, maybe not every one but it sure seems like it. COD4 came out after a plethora of expansions and other Call of Duty games that were WW2 and Medal Of Honors type games and it did phenomenal because I think people are just tired of these. I am not saying I don't like World War 2 because that would be wrong. I watch about it all the time on the History Channel, movies like the Great Escape are my favorite movies, books about it are cool to but I just don't want every first person shooter to be located during it. I am at the point I get excited when a game is located anywhere else at any time; heck, even a game set during the World War 1 were you spend the entire game in a trench with a 1911 .45 sounds more entertaining.

I wrote this blog because COD 5 will be based in World War 2 times and so I probably won't play it. Please companies, pick a new era to set your game in besides late 30's to mid-late 40's. Do you think we want all race games to have the same track and same 3 companies cars; or only 1 variety or sports game; or all RPG's to be set in midevil times with dragons. No! We get variety with them, why can't FPS fallow suit?

*There is number of FPS that are set in different times but the majority is not*

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1.Sacrificial Catalyst

Yes, females have been sacrificial catalyst in games but are guys and non-gendered characters not catalyst also? Return of the Jedi had multiple catalyst that weren't female as did Empire strikes back. When the Ewoks were fighting and one of the ewoks gets shot by the chicken walker did that not make you want all stormtroopers dead or when R2D2 was trying to open the door to the energy room and is shot by a chicken walker just moments later did that also not make you? What gender were those two, I personally have no idea so they may have not been female. Or, what about when Han Solo is frozen in carbonite? I am pretty sure he wasn't female. That's just Starwars. I used a movie because the writer used a non game on their example. In the game Doom, you are given information that the protagonist pet rabbits death is the reason for the killing he must do. In Dark Forces, your killing the empire because of the death of your father.

2.

It talked about emotionless, cold, evil characters. Yes, some female characters are cold but still, I don't even have to mention many because you can probably think of some pretty easy. Heres some examples: Sephiroth, The male protagonist in the Strike games, all the millions of guys we have to kill in first person shooters.

3. Sexuality

Are you kidding me. Sure, Lara Croft had sex appeal, so did most damsels in distress but how many fighting guys took off there shirt to display flab and a beer gut; just the opposite happened in tons of games. Theres that new Conan game; the gauntlet franchise, Fabio even use to model for games (which thankfully stopped), Rambo, Contra, etc. So yes women are objectified but so are us guys.

4. The last one I am not even going to bother with because there is more villains in games that are guys than girls so just by shier numbers, a huge group should be equal or more evil than females.

So, my only thing I have to say is please don't be sexist in the video game industry. I am tired of hearing that females are treated poorer, portrayed worse or objectified more than guys because, that just might not be true. I for one though, am not for changing games because a few people object to certain aspects.

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