Ah crap, I better elaborate real quick before this thread degenerates any further.
Right now, MMO (read: WoW) boss fights are stinky bad. Everything is timed. This leads to people sitting in a fight staring at the chat screen where notices are displayed every 5 seconds telling them what to do. ("Boss A uses Attack B in 10 seconds, DPS back off")
Now look at Punch-Out, where fights are based on awareness and acuity. Attacks are random, but can be predicted by visual cues on the part of your opponent. This makes for a much more fun and intense gameplay experience, as the player has to devote that much more attention, and it only takes a couple of mistakes to lose.
Think about it.
Did it ever occur to you that playing 162 games in 180 days, well 190 games in 208 days + post season, against the best players in the world is hard?
You, being a Yankee fan, know I am not a big Arod fan by any stretch. But he's going to retire, likely, as the greatest hitter to ever play. If he does so, and he does so clean, what can you say?
Ernie Banks never won one, yet he might be one of the most beloved men ever, and rightfully so. If you don't like Alex for any number of reasons besides his ability to play the game then cool, but the guy can play baseball, and for the most part better than anyone alive.
Is he someone I am nervous about walking to the plate in October? Not really, but I'd much rather see about 600 other guys than him.
The things he can do with a bat are almost inhuman...
Ok thread derailed....
Typical Yankee's fan. Asshole.
Boston fans are just loud and boisterous, Yankee's fans (for the most part) are cock holsters.
Problem is you are talking about 'twitch' games, without saying it That's a scary line to cross in the online world.
If you can promise me every single player in our world will have the same latency and connection issues/non-issues, then you have got something.
awareness and acuity are in many cases time and reaction sensitive. There is CERTAINLY a place for it but there are pitfalls as well.
I would bet we'll all be in a much better place in a few years when Copernicus launches as far as internet connection goes, both in customer base and technical progress, but at the same time I would argue that just like you don't 'make a tech play' when creating a monster like this, you don't 'bet' on those things to be in place for your product to be good.
Problem is you are talking about 'twitch' games, without saying it That's a scary line to cross in the online world.
If you can promise me every single player in our world will have the same latency and connection issues/non-issues, then you have got something.
awareness and acuity are in many cases time and reaction sensitive. There is CERTAINLY a place for it but there are pitfalls as well.
I would bet we'll all be in a much better place in a few years when Copernicus launches as far as internet connection goes, both in customer base and technical progress, but at the same time I would argue that just like you don't 'make a tech play' when creating a monster like this, you don't 'bet' on those things to be in place for your product to be good.
Now it all fits.
Spoken like a man who's never competed, or won, at anything above a hot dog eating contest past high school.
Sniping as an hpb? Only thing a normal person could efficiently as an hpb was mortar.
Funny you say that.....I was in a room a few years ago in Vegas, Curt was doing a bunch of interviews for us that day, and one of the guys doing one of the remote interviews asked Curt if the blood on his sock was real. Man did he look PISSSED. Soon as they cut off air, I heard some awesome shit. Curt laid down the verbal lumber on that guy. As I think back now, I bet that reporter was Conseco, cuz that guy is a huge fucking douche nozzle.ur all idiots, especially curt schilling.
SpoilerThe blood was fake