The Great Video Game Industry Crash

[[AK]The Beast]

An interesting read. It mostly talks about console gaming, but some of it can be applied to PC gaming as well.

[[AK]StitchJones]

Your just putting up that so you can lure more people into playing paintball instead of video games

[[AK]Squidly]

Is that so bad?

How'd you die on that fort-defense "map" anyway? Fax, Bribo and I were all together...I don't think I saw how you and Beast bought it.

[[AK]StitchJones]

I was called out right at the end. Me and two other guys were the only ones left. The Ref was nice enough to call me dead so I didn't get lit up. Which was cool of him. But man did I feel a case of Butch Cassidy and Sundance kid comin on!!!!

[[AK]The Beast]

Stitch and I spent a good portion of the time in the room directly behind where you were standing, Squidly. In fact, aside from a few lean-outs, I didn't leave that room--the fire started coming my way every time I tried. I think Stitch got out, and I was trying to get to the front entrance when I saw a barrel poke through a knothole in the outer wall--he missed; I returned fire through the same knothole, and exposed my back to a larger window in the process. I got tagged in the right shoulder blade, apparently from fairly short range--that's the one bruise I got from a paintball.

[[AK]The Beast]

...BTW, if you want a crappy video game based on a movie, just download T3: War of the Machines from Atari. I can't speak for multiplayer (as I was playing a "free trial" copy *coughShareazacough*), but suffice to say that the game felt like a crappy tossed-together BF1942 mod with crummy graphics, moronic AI that makes BF1942's bots look like Nobel prize winners, slo-o-o-o-w gameplay (the Terminators' running speed is about half of DC's walking speed, the humans are a bit faster but won't be winning any Olympic medals), and the only game is Conquest (capture-and-hold). I actually melted the bottom of the CD with a lighter before throwing it in the trash lest its horror be inflicted on some unsuspecting hobo rooting through my garbage. Worst game I've ever played.

[[AK]Clay]

Just read the review. I think the guy's bent. Yea, consols suck. Consoles have always sucked - uncaptivating twitch-fest games for those with time to kill. PC games are immersive and are only getting moreso. I'm not taking any financial advice from this fellow - though a few of his verbal charactures were great.

[[AK]Leonidas]

He overstates his case for dramatic effect, but I agree that computer games can't remain interactive movies showcasing video technologies. Maybe the industry will feel a pinch, and they'll have to go back to making actual games, with rules and strategy and all that.