Thread: Video Games

Stephen King, for those too stupid to spell.

I never bouthg into King either, however the stuff he wrote under Bachman is pretty good. If you want to scare yourself about what human society and people are capable of I HIGHLY recomend Steven King/Bachman's The Long Walk and to a lesser extent The Running Man (the origianal not the way that Arnonld Shwartzinager messed it up).

As for games (in no real order since the game depends on my mood:

Escape Velocity (Mac)
Civ 2
Counter-Strike (PC)
Team Fortress Classic,Map: Warpath (PC)
SSN i688 by Janes (PC)
Masters of Orion II (PC and Mac)
NHL 2000 (PC)
Mechwarrior 2 (PC and quite possibly the BEST overall game for any mood)
Mechwarrior 4

howdy,
is Stephen King a video game...

King wont even let his own kids read the stuff he writes

Ok you're right...but where would we be n CP.com if we didn't havge tangents?....so I'll split the thread!

King's kids shouldn't read what he writes, I wouldn't let my kids read it! But that doesn't mean it can't entertain the rest of us and make us question human psychology and flat out insanity!!!

I've never read Rage, nor most of his books to be honest but it'd be REAL hard to beat The Long Walk

BomberLAN .

Honestly, I've been having fun playing street fighter alpha 2 kid from my dorm's PS2, and Return to Castle Wolfenstein on my PC is fun as well.

I liked Diablo...

Ground Control is awesome

Right now I am playing Max Pane (Pain... something like that) and I am liking it thoroughly....

All time favourite ? Probably Pirates on my old Atari ST.
At the moment ? Civilization 3 or Counterstrike.

nvoigt,
You live in Germany, right? I read something in
some newsgroup that said it's against German
law to sell video games that depict the killing
of humans? Is this true? If it is, could you
go to prison for playing Counterstrike?

Well, not generally. It is not really against the law. If you are 18+, you can order and play any videogame you like. However, there exists a department for youth-protection, which will filter out games and other stuff that they think is harmful for teenagers. Those products may not be sold to underage people and may not be advertised in any way. That means magazines will not test the game and you will not see it on the shelves. If you want it, you have to know it exists and you have to ask for it.

Killing humans itself is not against this law. However, the killing of humans to achieve your goal in the game is. Then, it also depends on the graphical way of displaying it. I wouldn't qualify Age of Empires as violent game. Ego shooters however...

The result are some pretty easy to circumvent measures of the computer industry. You remember Command & Conquer ? To sell it openly in Germany, they colored the infantrists blood black and said it were only robots in the manual. Case closed, game sold.

Also, most games have a violence level. Like Fallout for example. In the German version, you cannot set it to 'Violent' in the GUI. But hey, we are programmers... a little look for the INI file and a text editor gave me blood and explosions left and right

Conclusion: Most versions here have less blood. If you want the real thing, you have to go order the english version, or tweak it a bit

Another thing is nazi symbols. Displaying Nazi symbols for anything else but documentations is illegal. No matter if you are the good guy in Wolfenstein, no nazi symbols. Meaning: we got a special german version.

I don't really care for more blood on the screen. I rarely play ego-shooters, and when I play Counterstrike, I don't want the guy to bleed all over my screen. I got him. Thats what counts.

I'm looking for good coop LAN games. (no decent internet down here)

Any ideas? (Don't like deathmatch only styles like RCWolfenstein as not enough of us on the LAN)

Have played (lately) Operation Flashpoint, Ghost Recon, Empire Earth and Serious Sam.

Best ever?
System Shock

Rarely have time for games. Perhaps once a week or so I'll have a look at Dune 2000, or maybe a lightning chess game.

My favorite video game is (and will always be because I do not play video games anymore) Privateer. Probably out-dated, it's fun because it isn't complicated, the storyline is decent, and the action is acceptable. Second tier in every way, the combination of its mediocre elements (which are only mediocre now, not at the time of release) makes it easy to play and thereby enjoyable.

YESYESYESYESYESYESYESYESYESYESYESYES! I agree on all points (except that I still play video games)!!!

> No offense, but how can a video game change your perspective of life??

The Sims has that effect on people - it's a great game...

System Shock didn't work on my system, so I took it back - the second one was really cool, though... I hope they make a third one that's that good...

> (A book: Steven King, for those too stupid to know)

Stephen King, for those too stupid to spell.

> IMHO, King sucks, and The Stand is one of his wort, IMHO again.

Well, now you've gone and made me cry, Drakken...

> but in Yoshi's island you can beat the big baddie and get to the next level.

What is that achieving?

> Only to fall asleep by Chap 3. King just can't keep me awake. But that's just me. I know her has legions of fans. I'm just glad I didn't get flammed for thinking he sucks!

I guess I'm the minority in this case, then (see kermi's comments)... I can't usually tear myself away... (I know I'm gonna get flamed for this next part) I'd much rather read him that Tolkien anyday... I actually think he's a better writer than Tolkien. (That's right! I said it!)

kermi and drakken - if you want a somewhat different style of King's, try the Dark Tower series....

Oh yeah, and the Long Walk's one of my favorites - The Running Man's ok, but if you want a good Bachman Book, I'd go after Rage...

Originally posted by nvoigt
All time favourite ? Probably Pirates on my old Atari ST.
At the moment ? Civilization 3 or Counterstrike.

Hey! My first comp was a 1040. They were great machines, weren't they (compared to 286's, anyway).

I was loyal up to the Mega 2, then I gave up for lack of software.
Dr. T's music software was the best I've ever seen, and I mean right up to present day.

rick