Timewaster's Guide Archive
Games => Video Games => Topic started by: Mad Dr Jeffe on January 22, 2005, 04:14:20 PM
-
Ok, Im purile. I like this game. What do I like, stealing every car in sight. Helping cops chase a crook with a buick. Getting 50 bucks for smashing said crook into a wall. Getting guns and ammo to just gun down gang members...
Killing four people with one shotgun blast...
beating a guy to death with a claw hammer..
Beating a guy to death with your bare hands,
getting in that extra kick to the groin just because you can..
Changing stations on the radio
Pulling a Waco.
Thats when a you put as many cars around you as possible, you hole up in an ally and wait for the cops to come. Dont forget the ammo.
Yeah the game is violent and wrong, and I find myself looking at my local grocery store completely differently... (I could drive my car through this!)
But man its kind of fun to play...
-
It's odd, I've never played these games becaue of the morality of it. Aside from the flat out soft core porn games I've never had that problem either. I can't bring myself to play GTA games.
-
I'm not especially attracted to the violence (though game violence rarely bothers me), but I'd love to play them just for the open-ended structure. It sounds really cool.
-
Im not really that attracted to violence either... the world is just very rich, and you can really do a lot... that having been said there is a lot you cant do...
-
Just call it an outlet for the pure agression bottled up inside and let fly....
Then again I have a problem where I cant even play an evil role in an RPG. I have never seen the Dark Side of KOTOR cause I Can't bring myself to be "dark"
When an NPC asks for help... I feel compelled to give it...
I blame my Father for shoving Arthur (the King, not the Ardvark) down my throat throughout my childhood.
Yet with GTA, I seem able to let loose and run down pedestrians while laughing maniacaly..... I really wonder why....
-
Lol, Oseleon. I thought I was the only one. I haven't been able to make it through the dark side in KOTOR, nor the evil path in Fable, because I just feel so darn guilty making those choices. That being said, I do like GTA III for its open-ended gameplay structure (if you want to sound like a hoity-toity know-it-all game designer, you can refer to it's "emergent game play"). I haven't played either of the games that followed it yet, because it just seemed more of the same, but it was one of the first big games to let you play the game at your own pace. For better or for worse, it has had a dramatic impact on the video game industry. Not just with a rise in the number of Mature titles that try to emulate it. Look at Spiderman 2, which borrows liberally from the gameplay structure of the GTA games. But I am glad I'll never see ole Spidey bounce the shock absorbers of a car with a prostitute and then run her down to get his money back.
-
Your right, I cant hurt people in Kotor either....
-
cmon guys, half the fun is playing evil in KOTOR. It's so funny to see the reactions of people when being evil, especially when you save someone's life only to extort money from them and kill them. It's a good laugh...
-
I'd LIKE to see spiderman do that. Especially if the rest of the game wasn't like that, just for shock value.
-
What, randomly flip out and use his webs to fling someone off of the bridge? Since anyone who heard about him doing it would just regard it as the usual anti-spiderman propaganda :D
-
I half the fun is playing evil in KOTOR like Moredew said. The other half is playing good. That twinge of guilt you think you have goes away after awhile. It is better to be evil in a video game and get it out of your system (hence why I love the GTA series so much) than to do it in real life. For you you twinge at being evil people, I would recommend playing evil the first time, then play good so you feel like you are atoning for your past game.
-
One of my favorite things to do was amass as many vehicles in as small a space as possible and start a chain reaction of exploding vehicles. Any cruisers that happened to be nearby were an added bonus ;D
Also:
Gov. Matt Blunt (MO) banned video games from the state's prisons Monday, a month after a newspaper reported some of Missouri's most violent inmates were allowed to play games simulating murders, carjackings and the killings of police officers.
-
I feel like making *bwing twing twing* love! I feel like making *doo-doo do dwaaah!* Love!
-
It is better to be evil in a video game and get it out of your system (hence why I love the GTA series so much) than to do it in real life.
I am a sysadmin. Evil deeds are my buisness...
-
I am a sysadmin. Evil deeds are my buisness...
Ahh those were the days. I used to shut off our head network engineer's computer remotley and give him all sorts of nasty messages, and he always thought he had a virus. Man did that crack me up. I finally had to tell him, but it was still fun even afterwards. We would have contests to see who could strike at the most inappropraite time. classic I tell you.
-
I remember the time in Year nine, when we discovered a little program called "WinPopup" this would send a short (30 character) message to any box on the network. It was near impossible to tell who it came from, and you'd click ok to get rid of it.
The teacher has his computer on a projector, and gets up to help someone, and isn't looking at it. Five minutes later he gets back. So many messages have piled up on the machine he has to restart to get rid of them all.
-
Installing a BSOD Screensaver on my Boss' machine and discovering later that he formatted his machine as he thought he had a fubar system
Remaping the people I dont like to Printers on the other side of the building
Enforcing Strict mailbox sizes while I still have 100GB Data free on the Mailserver
Sneaking a Wireless dorbell into the drop ceiling over the VP's Desk, then pressing the button in my pocket durring meetings and pretending I dont hear anything
-
Not nearly as creative as you guys are, but one we used to do on our summer college interns:
Take a screen grab of their desktop
Remove all icons and hide the taskbar
Set the grab as the desktop wallpaper
Frustration ensues
-
I've done that before.
I've also edited the mouse images so that the hand uses its middle finger instead of the index when it points and just swapped shortcut targets.
-
Although I don't have admin rights at work, I can pull some of that stuff off. That is classic! There will be some fun to night if my NUBs forget to log off thier accounts!
-
Move the login box to the bottom corner.
Change monitor settings so the little bit you can still see is offscreen.
Easily beaten, but fun anyway.
We went to HoldtheButton.com, put a book on the mouse, and left it in the computer labs for a week before someone moved it.
We also found this weird cage thing, and put one of the computer monitors in it, so it was sitting in a cage, on the desk. We took bets on how long it would stay there. This was in mid 2003. It's still there.
-
Not that you have to try too hard with people who effectively know nothing about compters. We do fun stuff like make a powerpoint slide of the screen and disable clicking. The person goes crazy trying to figure out whats wrong with the mouse.
Of course we also used the command line to netsend stuff to peoples accounts, like, "you have been caught looking at pornography on your account. Your command has been notified."
Or "your computer has encountered a critical systems error, reboot system in safe mode immediately."
When they lose 3 hours of work because they dont save as they go we get a good chuckle...