01.24.07
Link Wednesday: Faulty Hypertext Motivator
This got passed around Netjak recently, but it’s a pretty interesting concept. The Funniest is basically Hot or Not, except with humor.
1up’s preview of The Crossing presents a pretty interesting premise: what if there was no such thing as a single-player game? Instead of being controlled by an AI, the enemies in The Crossing are played by other players, while the main player (called the Elite) guns them down. Certainly sounds like a neat idea, but I’ll reserve final judgment until I get to play a demo. Till then it kinda sounds like they developers thought their AI sucked and just decided to punt.
Kat comes in under the wire with two things of note: first, a very good argument both for and against auto-translators in MMOs, and secondly, proof that someone needs to violently assault Tom Cruise with a small pin, if only to pop his ego.
It’s been a slow week, but for now, I bring you yet another Inconsequential Update: 73,000 words, 22 scenes left. I feel I’m returning to teh funni, so I’m gladdened by this recent surge of writing proficiency.
EDIT: Square is offering miniature replicas of four famous Final Fantasy weapons, collectively called Master Arms series. Looking at the page, I can only imagine Seifer leaning back, a smarmy smirk on his face, and saying, “Mine’s bigger.”
Rob Browning said,
01.24.07 at 5:23 pm
It’s not unique; a game that Valve has been hawking called “Left4Dead,” due out on Steam sometime in the future, is basically an FPS version of Resident Evil: Outbreak that has human zombies in addition to human survivors. In fact, Left4Dead’s basic gameplay sounds very similar to The Crossing’s outside of the fact that half of the campaign maps you play in the latter are meant to be offline (though apparently other players can “invade” there too). I do have to say that the narrative sounds more interesting on The Crossing’s part, though, especially since you and your friends can go down different paths and unexpectedly find yourselves trying to kill each other at a future point in time.
Rob
Jonny said,
03.24.07 at 9:48 am
I always loved then Ultima Online translators, they were very very useful playing on the European Realm which at the time I think there was one designated. Without playing on European servers though you can’t really appreciate these things as much.
Russian is the worst….. no matter how many times they spam me with messages I’m not going to be able to read such glyphs. Why they would expect me to be able to read it I have no idea.