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- 02 Dec 2015, 20:04
- Forum: LoadingReadyRun Streams
- Topic: GPLP next game thread
- Replies: 83
- Views: 14968
Re: GPLP next game thread
DialMforMara told me that G&P wanted us to suggest games in the forums, so I thought I'd drop in over breaks in my writing. I've mentioned this a couple of times, but I'd love to see Alpha Protocol. This would be very cool. I've heard it is an underrated game with a cool plot, but many problems....
- 06 Apr 2015, 14:28
- Forum: Video Games
- Topic: Video games are maturing, and could use a new name
- Replies: 29
- Views: 4567
Re: Video games are maturing, and could use a new name
Fine, just ask about similar things you might like! The same could be said for any other media including, of course, games. It may be useful for academic discussions of the media, but I don't see nor did I ever see a need for genres. That presumes that I have someone to ask. For most of my life, I'...
- 06 Apr 2015, 14:18
- Forum: Video Games
- Topic: Video games are maturing, and could use a new name
- Replies: 29
- Views: 4567
Re: Video games are maturing, and could use a new name
I can at least on some level follow the desire to rename something that is in the process of changing on a large scale, but I don't really feel as though it's necessary or even possible. They're called video games, and as a general term of reference it may not be laser accurate but it works because...
- 04 Apr 2015, 09:22
- Forum: Video Games
- Topic: Video games are maturing, and could use a new name
- Replies: 29
- Views: 4567
Re: Video games are maturing, and could use a new name
What harm is done by allowing "game" to be slightly broader than it is? Seriously, what bad thing will happen? I literally cannot imagine what's at risk here. Anyways, it's certainly too late to stop it. "Game" is already massively broadly defined - your assertion that only vide...
- 04 Apr 2015, 09:04
- Forum: Video Games
- Topic: Video games are maturing, and could use a new name
- Replies: 29
- Views: 4567
Re: Video games are maturing, and could use a new name
I honestly have no idea what you're trying to say with your platypus analogy. Can you elaborate? Furthermore, writing off professional-level game playing as "silly" means nothing to your argument. So you think it's "silly" that people play poker professionally. That doesn't chan...
- 04 Apr 2015, 00:11
- Forum: Video Games
- Topic: Video games are maturing, and could use a new name
- Replies: 29
- Views: 4567
Re: Video games are maturing, and could use a new name
In the case of poker and magic, those were created, and mostly played, for enjoyment. Some people take things to silly levels. Just because a game can be played professionally doesn't mean that is what it was made for. D&D used to have tournaments all the time, but I don't think anyone would say...
- 03 Apr 2015, 22:20
- Forum: Video Games
- Topic: Video games are maturing, and could use a new name
- Replies: 29
- Views: 4567
Re: Video games are maturing, and could use a new name
Film did do a name change as it matured. First they were moving pictures, then talking pictures, then talkies, then finally movies. But 'film' and 'cinema' are still constant terms for the medium, even if 'movies' (which is, obviously, informal) wasn't always around. EDIT: I don't mean to monopoliz...
- 03 Apr 2015, 22:15
- Forum: Video Games
- Topic: Video games are maturing, and could use a new name
- Replies: 29
- Views: 4567
Re: Video games are maturing, and could use a new name
As an addendum - plenty of media have undergone expansions without needing to change their names. Film/cinema never needed to change its name when new techniques, stories, and ideas were introduced. Duchamp didn't make sculpture change its name. Poetry is still called poetry even after Modernism de...
- 03 Apr 2015, 22:07
- Forum: Video Games
- Topic: Video games are maturing, and could use a new name
- Replies: 29
- Views: 4567
Re: Video games are maturing, and could use a new name
Well, video game is specifically defined as: a game played by electronically manipulating images produced by a computer program on a television screen or other display screen. That seems pretty straightforward. Even so called "walking sims" and the like still follow that very basic defini...
- 03 Apr 2015, 21:59
- Forum: Video Games
- Topic: Video games are maturing, and could use a new name
- Replies: 29
- Views: 4567
Re: Video games are maturing, and could use a new name
"Board games, card games, and roleplaying games are all pretty much only played for fun." Poker, Magic, and a bunch of other card games are played competitively, by people who make their living off of it. Roleplaying games aren't always for 'fun'; I've seen them used to explore consent, b...
- 03 Apr 2015, 20:46
- Forum: Video Games
- Topic: Video games are maturing, and could use a new name
- Replies: 29
- Views: 4567
Video games are maturing, and could use a new name
Moved from the LRR chat: I think video games need a new name. Not just for 'art games' or 'walking simulators' or whatever, but in general. Game is, in the OED, "1. Amusement, sport, fun; pleasure, enjoyment" (and other stuff, all along those lines). Now, sure, words change. That is why li...
- 13 Dec 2014, 17:30
- Forum: LoadingReadyRun Streams
- Topic: Watch + Play
- Replies: 303
- Views: 136662
Re: Watch + Play
It has your arm bending to point at wherever you point the cursor, regardless of annoying things like bones. I'm going with yes.
- 13 Dec 2014, 11:41
- Forum: LoadingReadyRun Streams
- Topic: Watch + Play
- Replies: 303
- Views: 136662
Re: Watch + Play
Oh HONEY...Trespasser is INFAMOUS - Big Rigs Racing kind of infamous. I imagine there's fan mods/patches out there that make the game function, but...well, it...it was breaking new ground , and not every explorer is as successful as Columbus, Magellan or Cook... Exactly! That is why it is PERFECT f...
- 12 Dec 2014, 12:21
- Forum: LoadingReadyRun Streams
- Topic: Watch + Play
- Replies: 303
- Views: 136662
Re: Watch + Play
If they are looking for more bad games to play, well, there is Deus. Remember how much Alex liked the inventory system in Alone in the Dark? Yeah, this is that taken to an extreme. http://www.pcgamer.com/saturday-crapshoot-deus/ Now, if Alex would like an FPS, why not Nitro Family? I can't really su...
- 12 Dec 2014, 12:04
- Forum: LoadingReadyRun Streams
- Topic: Graham and Paul Let's Play
- Replies: 157
- Views: 25600
Re: Graham and Paul Let's Play
You know, if you are looking for terrible games, I'm not sure you could get more WTF then Harvester. http://www.pcgamer.com/saturday-crapshoot-harvester/. Normally I'd say this is Watch and Play type stuff, but well, I think he hates adventures games.
- 12 Dec 2014, 11:58
- Forum: LoadingReadyRun Streams
- Topic: General LRL Stream Feedback
- Replies: 874
- Views: 220238
Re: General LRL Stream Feedback
As a note, it would be really cool if LRR signed up for the Youtube Gif Beta. http://arstechnica.com/business/2014/12/youtube-gets-with-the-times-allows-fans-to-create-gifs-from-videos/
- 12 Dec 2014, 11:55
- Forum: LoadingReadyRun Streams
- Topic: Let's NOPE pre-voting
- Replies: 168
- Views: 31389
Re: Let's NOPE pre-voting
What about some older games like Realms of Haunting? It got a pretty solid review. http://www.pcgamer.com/crap-shoot-realms-of-the-haunting/
- 13 Nov 2014, 10:21
- Forum: LoadingReadyRun Streams
- Topic: Let's NOPE pre-voting
- Replies: 168
- Views: 31389
Re: Let's NOPE pre-voting
Here is a crazy idea that I'd love to see Alex play: Eternal Darkness: Sanity's Requiem for Gamecube. Heck, we might even be able to get Beej on there.
- 12 Nov 2014, 18:41
- Forum: LoadingReadyRun Streams
- Topic: Beej's Backlog
- Replies: 115
- Views: 23960
Re: Beej's Backlog
I vote Beej just wear a green shirt and stream as the floating head of Beej.
- 12 Nov 2014, 18:40
- Forum: LoadingReadyRun Streams
- Topic: IDDQDerp
- Replies: 540
- Views: 68963
Re: IDDQDerp
Wow, that is amazing. Too bad I no longer have much time to watch streams, let along catch up on them.
- 11 Nov 2014, 22:08
- Forum: LoadingReadyRun Streams
- Topic: Graham and Paul Let's Play
- Replies: 157
- Views: 25600
Re: Graham and Paul Let's Play
CiderMuffin wrote:Try to find Cyberia, that would be a very fun "treat" for you guys to make fun of.
This is a great idea, but only if they have a PS mouse. There is at least one section that is nigh-unbeatable without one.
- 08 Nov 2014, 15:23
- Forum: LoadingReadyRun Streams
- Topic: Adam's Gamehaüs
- Replies: 97
- Views: 19383
Re: Adam's Gamehaüs
So, I hear that Adam wasn't feeling well and had to end his 24 hour stream early. Now, we all know that Adam and James are escapees from the same Canadian Forces Mutant program as created Wolverine and thus almost never get sick. Therefore we can only conclude that something very bad has happened. P...
- 05 Nov 2014, 18:53
- Forum: LoadingReadyRun Streams
- Topic: Adam's Gamehaüs
- Replies: 97
- Views: 19383
Re: Adam's Gamehaüs
Thank you very much, Memo. Now I can link people to that.
- 05 Nov 2014, 13:52
- Forum: LoadingReadyRun Streams
- Topic: Adam's Gamehaüs
- Replies: 97
- Views: 19383
Re: Adam's Gamehaüs
Alright, for those that missed it: Go to http://www.twitch.tv/seabats/popout?videoId=a585118239 then fast forward to about 3:21:10 and enjoy (You have to have it before he closes Sleeping Dogs, as he saw the popup with the gift as soon as it closed.) It seems someone, who might be me, saw a game on ...
- 09 Oct 2014, 15:15
- Forum: LoadingReadyRun Streams
- Topic: General LRL Stream Feedback
- Replies: 874
- Views: 220238
Re: General LRL Stream Feedback
Nice... I wonder if we'll get a torrent of all the streams eventually. Or at least torrents per show or something. The current archive of all of LoadingReadyLive clocks in at 2.2TB, at Twitch's "source" quality. Re-encoding from LRR's source files may reduce the size somewhat, but still.....