Common amiga knowledge that's wrong

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Or 3D  

3D literally killed my interest in video gaming and that's fine, because I was already in my mid-late 20's when it became all the rage, BUT! It's fine for driving and maybe the occasional shooter, just a shame it became the standard for almost any genre now though.

Really? What killed my interest in videogames was the failure of the dreamcast (and to a lesser extent gamecube), and the move away from the PSX/N64/Saturn to newer systems. After those faded away, games companies went from trying to make videogames to "generic action film #145347, by an incompitent version of pixar. oh, and you have to push buttons too". I have to say that those four/five systems are probably the greatest consoles of all time.

3D didn't ruin videogames. aiming for the lowest common denominator, and people realising there was money in it did. I think there should be a "polygon ration", because the gta series always looked cack in 3D but were great games. GoW, Later NFS games, all sports titles since forever? Crap.

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SoulReaver for the win! Dreamcast was awesome.  Still got mine, still fire it up from time to time.

What's it like in comparison to the psx version, better graphics? I have a copy of it but I've never actually played it, my RF cable is knackered and I can't be arsed replacing it.

More and more effort is put into 'looks'. I'm sure it impresses the execs who control the budget. You simply won't get the same quality of games nowadays unless it is done by a small developer.

Do valve still count as small? I mean, TF2 doesn't seem to be profitable in the slightest, what with them costantly working on free content for an "old" game, nor does counter strike or any of their other less well known multiplayer games. They genuinely seem to be doing it for the fans (pretty much every game developer there is a modder valve hired, including the origional HL team). Of course, the games publishing "hobby" probably counts as a licence to print money.

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..... and by the way... ' I have been searching for a certain artifact ' Guess what. Its on the website. Never find one though.

the commodore made 1200 cdrom drive? The one that looks like a cd32 with bits sawn off?

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PS: Do you know where the line ' I have been searching for a certain artifact ' comes from ?

nope.


How much of a difference do you think it would have made, if commdodore didn't make the 500 and 1200 in keyboard cases? I'm not so sure the toy-computer look was great for the amigas image.

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Lara.....

Personally I would swap a tin can for an A1200 working as a tin can any day. I just loved having everything on the desktop... Gamers play games and they care little about the machine or console as they tend to focus on the screen. Never been a TV gamer, and most I talk to are dedicated players in bedrooms. They play at their PC mostly so having the computer in the keyboard isn`t a problem. We will never know how the Amiga would have developed, but personally the Amiga was everything to me as a computer, both as a dedicated PC and games machine. Now I have to swivel on this chair and look at another screen to play on the PS3... I just wish I didn`t. I also hate the tin box.. Its archaic.. Scuse spelling.

The A1200 was a dream computer, still is. Chuck in half the technology they have in mobile phones, laptops, etc and the A1200 would fly in the current case design. With the slender DVD drives and flash hard drives it just gets easier. For me the computer should be the keyboard. Then I could get rid of this annoying dinosaur of a tin box. Nothing changes sadly. We need folk like those that developed the Amiga to show the world what a real computer could look, feel and operate like.

We have given in far too easy to the grown ups... Boring. Not the world of computing that I grew up in sadly. The last ten to fifteen years have changed emphasis from a serious computer interest to internet cruise junkie activities...

Frankie said ' We are living in a world where sex and horror are the new gods '
Frankie now says ' We are living in a world where YouTube and Twitter are the new gods '

You can have it. That's why I collect retro.

scuzz

Yeah, but only toy computers have colour graphics and sounds. Only toy computers have a space saving design. "real" computers cost a load more, and since its for "serious work" you get 80 lines of text, the colour green, and a beep. "real computers" need to store all their parts in a low grade steel box, with a shitty peice of badly styled plastic glued to the front.

Nobody got fired for buying IBM. It's all about perception.

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War Hide yourself

Being a frankie fan doesn't really show how old someone is. I wasn't even alive when they released that album.

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To be honest, it's just not my kind of game. I didn't get anything out of Half Life or Unreal Tournament, they were just samey to me. Clearly lots of people like FPSes, and that's cool, I just wish there was more variety in game genres.

Okay. This proves my point that opinions can be wrong.

Half-Life, a game that completely revolutionised storytelling in videogames with an extremely strong singleplayer.

Unreal Tournament. A multiplayer game.

"samey". Yeah, they have a lot in common. Loads in fact. I always thought it was a bit uncanny how they both needed electricity in your house to work. And they needed computers too! Thats just not creative!

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Think you phrased that a bit off....

Just because they aren't the same doesn't mean that he couldn't have thought they were..

Opinions aren't wrong.  They are opinions.

They can be based on misconceptions, but that doesn't mean they are wrong.

Also, he said they were similar.
Let's see..
Half Life..  First person.. Walking around shooting..
Unreal..    First person..  Walking around shooting..

Actually, I think I agree with his (wrong) opinion.

I'm just saying..  :-)

desiv

What? Yes an opinion can be wrong. An opinion is something the owner of the opinion thinks is a fact. If it is not actually a fact, it is wrong.

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^Sinclair! It burns usss... I don't know about the QL but the spectrums were bad at everything.

no, an opinion is an opinion, a fact is a fact, an opinion is not a fact. IMO.

You misunderstand me, or are else you are just trying to annoy me. It's simple:

If you have an opinion, you believe it to be the truth. I.E, factual. If it is not the truth, it is not factual, and is in fact wrong. No exceptions.

Just because it's in a persons head, doesn't mean it's exempt from criticism.

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Monkey Island is 11 disks! Just about shit myself when I opened that box. Haven't tried it yet but please god be installable.