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RE: Gaming: Do You Like The Violence?
May 21, 2009 at 9:03 am
It depends on the game really. War sims like Medal of Honour or Battlefield 1942 would not be as much fun in 2D.
One of the first real 3D games (and not the Doom layered levels) I played was "Descent" which was one of the first to give a real 3D orientation . It was set in a space mine where you flew around in in a spaceship, so the floor could be just as much be the ceiling. That was very confusing for people in the beginning and took some getting used to.
Other games do not translate into 3D at all. 3D Tetris just sucked.
I do like the gfx as they did in Dune2 and the original Command and Conquer, where you have a false perspective.
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RE: Gaming: Do You Like The Violence?
May 21, 2009 at 9:09 am
I've played Descent a bit too...in PC world as a sort of test run...
I also used to own Decent II myself.
I think that games that were originally designed to be 2d often suck (or at least not AS good) - but if they were ORIGINALLY designed to be 3d then that's usually awesome...
I owned one game that I didn't reckon much to and my computer wasn't even powerful enough to run it properly at the time! It was really laggy.
That game is Forsaken. But I'm SO glad I bought it (well, technically my dad bought it me but still lol) even though I didn't play it because the soundtrack is fucking awesome!
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RE: Gaming: Do You Like The Violence?
May 22, 2009 at 8:22 am
(May 21, 2009 at 9:03 am)leo-rcc Wrote: War sims like Medal of Honour or Battlefield 1942 would not be as much fun in 2D.
You are kidding? Are you calling Medal of Honor and Battlefield for battle simuolations? It's like calling GTR for a racing simulator or something.
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RE: Gaming: Do You Like The Violence?
May 22, 2009 at 8:41 am
Fair enough, but they aren't War simulations Leo. They aren't even the most realstic ones on the market. They are very much arcade.
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RE: Gaming: Do You Like The Violence?
May 22, 2009 at 10:11 am
I just want to clearfiy it because it's a wrong defintion
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RE: Gaming: Do You Like The Violence?
May 22, 2009 at 4:52 pm
Haha... i wonder: how many other atheists play video games?
I prefer games like Spore, WoW, Warcraft 2, MOO, Rock Band 2, Halo, and Dark Cloud 2... I'm not so much into unrealistically violent or gory games.
I don't like mindless violence, or unrealistic gore. If 'gore' is done realistically, then it is a very nice tell of how wounded an enemy is, or was when it died. And one can tell just how much power they really have at their disposal.
As for the violence... vandalism, unnescessary killing, any violence done for lolz or without thought: i can't stand. My immense dislike of it is serriously interfering with my getting the evil/neutral acheivments in Fallout 3...
Anyway... that's just my take on it.
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