Violent video games worked for me!

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

[ECM]

You are missing out!

[COEXERJ145]

Gaming is a multi-billion dollar per year market. Many of our future warriors are in training right now and don't even realize it with games like the DeltaForce series, Battlefield 42 or my favorite, Desert Combat.

Too bad the Delta Force series is finished and replaced by a piece of crap called "Joint Ops". As for BF1942, it was the biggest waste of money I've ever spent on a video game.

Actually the first person shooter games have really gone down hill lately. They all seem to be tilted either toward arcade like action or total realism. Games that are all one or the other usually suck. A balance is needed between them.

I haven't enjoyed the DF series since DF2 became cheaterville and never found a game I really liked since then except for WWII Online. I'd play that but I got a lifetime ban for voicing my opinion to some changes that were coming even though they specifically asked all the players for their opinions.

[silent_jonny]

MGS2 is a great game! Yeah, the story is a bit convoluted and there's a hint of anti-Americanism thrown in for good measure. But there's so much more to it than that. Have you played MGS2: Substance?

[ECM]

MGS2 had, perhaps, the single worst storyline in the history of fiction--I'm still trying to forget it =P

[RandallFlagg]

Oh rub it in, why don't ya?

[July 4th]

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.

We had hours of fun sitting in the computer labs slaughtering hundreds in the hallways of our high school. Sorry Michael Moore...playing those games never once made me want to do it in real life.

[DocRock]

"Too bad the Delta Force series is finished and replaced by a piece of crap called "Joint Ops"."

Joint Ops is better when played on smaller, custom maps with people you know online. Voice over net (VON) makes it a true "joint operation".

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

I stand corrected and agree with you, however, it is the base for the Desert Combat Mod which replaces all the weapons and vehicles with modern items. Very nice (and free) Mod, but they are system hogs and require some nitrous to run properly.

"They all seem to be tilted either toward arcade like action or total realism."

The realism requires a fast system to really get your money's worth.

[struggle]

It was fun to knock down that girl, lay down on her, and call her brother through. That is where MGS2 surpassed the competition.

[The_Reader_David]

Criminologists and sociologists make the case that violent video games are cathartic: youth-on-youth violence dropped sharply immediately following the advent of Doom and Mortal Kombat. All the 'evidence' on the other side comes from analog experiments which should always be taken with a grain of salt when applied to complex social phenomena, and anecdotal incidents like Columbine (the perps played violent video games, therefore. . . but then again, so did lots of the victims and millions of others of their generation who never thought of bringing a gun to school. The argument is entirely akin to blaming an incident of violence in Japan on the fact that the perpetrator's hair was straight and black. One can't prove causation of a low-incidence phenomenon by a high-incidence phenomenon.).

[Bogey78O]

Can't beat the M-60.

[Bogey78O]

Unless of course you have the mini-gun.

[tubebender]

Just Damm. I was so embarrassed when my son beat me at pong on the large screen at the local pizza parlor years ago that I never touched a video game again. So why do I have these urges to kill people and break things now...

[this_ol_patriot]

The road to perdition.

[spodefly]

Far Cry

[TheLion]

Did you try Return to Castle Wolfenstein? I enjoyed that immensely. I'll have to check out the DeltaForce series.

Anyone tried DOOM III yet? I plan to get it soon...probably for Christmas.

[spodefly]

Far Cry

[ExSoldier]

Being a Mac owner, my game selection have been limited, and every one starts at $50! But I love my Ghost Recon, Rainbow Six (all of 'em) and SOFII "Double Helix" and especially Max Payne! I can only hope and pray that they decide to port Max Payne 2 to the Mac.

I've heard that SOCOM is pretty awesome (not available for mac) and there is a story relating to one of the commercials about that game, remember the one in which they're playing online and this mysterious group signs into the game and methodically blows everybody else away and all the "dead" players wonder: Who ARE those guys? And it turns out to be a REAL SEAL team playing on a laptop in the middle of the desert? Well, I had a buddy at SOCOM who recently retired as an 05 and he said it really happened! "Just like shootin' fish in a barrel..."

I like the Clancy games (wish more were ported to the mac) because his company employs ex SpecOps guys to write the tactics and so I have a chance to use my own experience and training in the mission planning and execution phases. Works pretty well with Ghost Recon and Rogue Spear. Weapons capabilities are extremely realistic, too.

[Bogey78O]

Is your username based on the short-lived TV Show of the same name?

[edchambers]

(I still haven't played Doom 3.)

I just finished the demo last night the word awesome doesn't quite do the graphics justice. But you better have an awesome machine to run it they're not kidding with thier system requirements.

[COEXERJ145]

Never really got into Wolfenstein or DOOM. Played them a few times but they just weren't that interesting to me. Same for the GTA games. Mostly I like either strategy games, an old example was Janes Fleet Command, air combat games, or a few of the first person shooters.