Violent video games worked for me!

Minnesota Daily ^ | 10/1/04 | Bobak Ha’eri

[primeval patriot]

ghost recon bump

[Patriot Hooligan]

Very Nice read. I myself work in the industry and the attacks we weather are very ludicrous. I appreciate your support. You've made it very hard for the naysayers.

[Psycho_Bunny]

[SALChamps03]

I can't wait for this game. It's going to take gaming into a new era.

[COEXERJ145]

My only problem with realism is sometimes the game is too realistic. After all, it is a game. As an example I'll use how games handle death/respawn. Some games let you repsawn an unlimited amount of times, others a limited number of times per person or team, and others make you wait until the game ends before you can play again which of course is the most realistic but not always a lot of fun for someone who has to sit forever waiting to play again.

[Psycho_Bunny]

Doom III rocked.

[Nowhere Man]

When I was in high school, the first "Doom" came out...early 1994, I think. I was taking an AutoCAD class at the time, and as part of our class project, we generated CAD maps of the high school. The maps, coincedentally, ported nicely into the Doom Level Editor.

When I was in Junior and Senior High, 1979 to 1985, being into role playing games (RPG's), I took the school building maps and stocked them with monsters for Dungeons and Dragons and later with mutants, androids and zombies for Gamma World and I roleplayed a game where the mission was to clean out the baddies. Gamma World, I ran a game where we were frozen in 1994 only to wake up in the future (this was around 1983/84) where we ended up being mercinaries and one of the jobs was to clean out the buildings for the locals. My grade school buddy I game with (we still game, even over 20 years later) between his "pig" (M-60 machine gun) and my M-16 with grenade launcher, we got the job done. B-D

I might still have some of my game notes from then, I might use it again for the Morrow Project game I'm going to run or maybe for a future Twilight: 2000 game. You know what, I'm glad I went to school when I did, if I was there today, I'm sure I'd be in lots of trouble.

Like many here, I have never hurt anyone, I love animals (I have 8 cats) and feel remorse if I accidently hit a squirrel (I did so in 1983 by accident soon after I got my license, I was bumming for days) and so on, but the plans are good, ready made maps for RPG adventures.

[Rome2000]

Ban Islam, not video games

Is Islam rated "M" for violence?

[killjoy]

I love Postal 2. Great game. It doesn't get any better when it comes to mindless violence for the sake of violence. It even pokes fun at itself.

[Rome2000]

As for BF1942, it was the biggest waste of money I've ever spent on a video game.

You really have to play BF on a LAN with 20+ other people to make it interesting.

Go to your local cyber cafe and pay the $4 bucks an hour, its worth it.

[DB]

Wolfenstein, Duke Nukem, Doom, Quake and Unreal...

If it moves, kill it. Head to head is the most fun. It use to be modem to modem, then later the Internet. My friend and I have ISDN lines primarily so we can play head to head (direct connection, computer to computer with ISDN) for the lowest ping we can afford...

I started with Wolfenstein on an Apple II. It wasn't even "3D" back then in the early 80's...

[Rome2000]

I played Doom 3 on a P4 3.2Ghz with a 21LCD monitor.

Almost felt like I was actually in the base walking around and talking to the other soldiers.

[edchambers]

(Doom III rocked.)

Hell, for that matter Doom 2
rocked and still does if you don't have enough computing power to run Doom3.I also like Quake 1 ,Duke Nukem 3d and Shadow Warrior on my older machines.Any hot tips for getting Doom3 to run smoother on something on the ragged edge of thier system requirements?

[DB]

LCD monitors are generally a bad choice for action games like Doom 3. They are too slow.

Even CRT monitors have to have their refresh rates set as high as the computer/video adapter and monitor can handle to get good play. Generally at least 120 Hz.

[Rome2000]

I would go with the NEC 22" CRT Flat Screen MultiSync FE2111SB, it's supposed to be the best out now for high end machines.

[bigjoesaddle]

Been waiting for Half-Life 2 for months; they keep pushing the release date. I liked Half_life 1 much more than Wolfenstein.

[Bella_Bru]

I cannot even tell you how many people I have beaten to death with a baseball bat in GTA III & Vice City.

[Army Air Corps]

Ditto. I have mercilessly "capped" scores of Nazis in Return to Wolfenstien. Let us not forget the hundres of Mechs and buildings that have felt my wrath in Mechassault. These games, and others, are just a stress reliever for me. After a long day filled with annoyances and BS, it is good to have a relief valve.

[isom35]

I long for the days of quake1 ctf on elder god shrine. ahh, the feel of sinking a grappling hook into an enemy, then whacking on him with my axe (even better if I had haste rune)

[John Will]

To much Raiden
To fruity for my tastes.