Everything happens for a reason, except possibly football.
If someone ever was about to ask me which game I would recommend for educational purposes I would without hesitation send him there.
In my opinion there is no better example for a game which a) teaches you something and b) is fun to play. What I’m talking about?
And there’s zombies too!
OMG! Look at those weapons!
Als ich begann Tortuga - Two Treasures zu testen, war ich schnell bereit zu glauben, dass die immer wieder vorkommenden Abstürze am Spiel lagen. Doch es kommt immer anders. Hier meine ersten Notizen:
Was sind denn TAGES-Treiber? Das hätte mir ja mal einer erklären können. Was ageia ist, weiss ich zum Glück, aber geht das anderen auch so?
Nachdem Werbejingle eines großen Grafikkartenherstellers schauen mich drei verwegene Gestalten an. Und mehr passiert nicht. Das Spiel hat sich ordentlich aufgehängt und den Rechner gleich mit gerissen. Na das kann ja heiter werden.
Ich versuch es einfach noch einmal. Vielleicht war es ja nur ein schlechter Start. Kann ja jedem mal passieren. Hmm. Oder auch nicht. Jetzt steht schon wieder alles still. Naja schön. Schauen wir mal nach einem patch.
“Keine Updates verfügbar” heisst es auf der Webseite.
Na das kann ja heiter werden. Ich schraube mal meinen zweiten Monitor ab, mal sehen, was dann passiert.
Bevor ich die Leute von Ascaron anrufe, schaue ich mal, ob es vielleicht an meinem Rechner liegt.
Verdammt. Es lag am Speicher.
(^_^)
Da kann man mal sehen, das man immer alle Unwägbarkeiten ausschließen sollte.
Das Spiel war dann doch ganz lustig und vor allem das Schiffe versenken hat Spaß gemacht.
Wie der Test letztendlich ausgefallen ist, könnt ihr entweder hier lesen, oder euch anhören:
[Quote] “Jungen, die eher ein aggressives Verhalten an den Tag legten, tendierten über die Zeit eher dazu, sich mit gewalthaltigen Computerspielen zu beschäftigen. Mädchen hingegen, die eher zum Lügen und Intrigieren neigten, wählten über die Zeit eher Rollenspiele als Lieblingsspiele aus”, so Kristen. [Quote]
Aus “Studie: Computerspiele führen nicht gleich zu Gewalt” von heise. Da hab ich doch mal herzlich lachen müssen. Bedeutet das, dass ich in Wirklichkeit auch Lügner und Intrigant bin? =)
When will politicians get that computer games are not responsible for anything? Everytime some fucktard think it’s okay to blow his head away after shooting innocent people some miserable old guy thinks he can make up for his and societies failures by yelling “We must stop killergames! They are evil!”.
I’m now bound to remind you that only a few centuries ago books were treated the same way. And now they seem the pinnacle of entertainment that is deemed appropriate and educating. WAKE Up ALREADY AND CHOOSE SOMETHING NEW TO BICKER AT! HOW ABOUT VOTING MACHINES, RFID-pASSpORTS AND COMpANIES THAT GET RICH WHILE KEEpING WHOLE COUNTRIES pOOR?
Just an idea: Jeck
pS: Sorry. Just had to do that. It will not happen again… soon. If someone is looking for me: I’m going to stab some orcs retaining my sanity nonetheless.
Aus der Abteilung “Da hätte man ja auch selber drauf kommen können”: Der prefekte Algorithmus zum Lösen eines Sudokus.
Tja. Und jetzt? Doch Kakuro? Oder doch lieber das Murloc RpG?
Ack. The pain! The pain!
[Quote] The Canadian Red Cross, having eliminated all pain and suffering in Canada, has set its sights on video games that use red crosses to denote in-game health-packs. They’ve sent lawyer-letters to game-makers telling them that marking health-packs with red crosses is illegal and will damage the Canadian Red Cross. [Quote]
by Cory Doctorow from BoingBoing. And I second his remark:
[Quote] I mean, I hear about a lot of stupid, crazy stuff, but this takes (today’s) cake. [Quote]
Edited on Feb 9th 2006, 19:57 by jeck
Tycho of penny Arcade posted an email (2nd post on the page) from a guy who where offered a job at a marketing company. As always I suspected that there are things like this but are taken aback at how professional it is already managed. There you go:
[Quote] Hey guys,I interviewed for a guerilla marketing business in San Francisco that targeted web forums.
I was told that if I accepted the job, I was to have at LEAST 50 identities on as many forums as I could muster (they wanted 100 eventually), with a goal of 5 posts an hour. The posts had to be well thought out, and the idea was that I was to establish multiple identities with a history on the forums, so that when the timing was right a well written but subtly placed marketing post could be finessed in. And regular visitors would recognize the post as coming from a long time poster. There you go:[quote]They had 12 people working there full time, and were hiring 10 more. You do the math. No wait, I’ll do it for you: that’s 880 posts a day (if minimum was met). However he said the better ones could do around 8 or 10 an hour. And they had different “verticals” so there was the sports guy, and the games guy, the hentai, excuse me I mean anime guy, etc.
But the most critical point was this: develop and integrate the identity. No random “HEY EB GAMES IS AWESOME BUY THIS” stuff.
Kinda spooky.
Didn’t take the job. It was a fucking mill. [Quote]
…but unfortunately the dwarf survived.
Very interesting read about parents who are playing with their children.
It’s all over the place: The Xbox 360 is very unstable. That proves a certain point once more: dont buy 1.0. Always wait for the 2nd edition.
Or in this case for the next playstattion… ^^
(BTW: What would really piss me off is the “four to six weeks” repair time for a product that was just bought, after standing on a city street for more than 28 hours.)
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