RISE OF THE UNICORN BRETHREN

[Lady Lambdadelta]

Funny, and I thought WoW /WAS/ the abyss....

[dramonic]

WoW is the post-apocalyptic OR money-drain
Halo is Failure given a genre

together they form the abyss

[Lady Lambdadelta]

WoW is the post-apocalyptic OR money-drain
Halo is Failure given a genre

together they form the abyss

Fair enough... but if you're going to include Halo on there, you need to also include every other online multiplayer FPS game.

This includes all COD, Metal Of Honor, L4D and the such.

FPS games aren't totally the abyss IMHO. I think that they lead there, if you get too absorbed.

Where as WoW, if you're paying for that shit, it's already too late.

[gandalf5166]

NO

Halo is fail. FPS games are not.

[xRECKONERx]

WoW is the post-apocalyptic OR money-drain
Halo is Failure given a genre

together they form the abyss

Halo sucks
WoW doesn't

[gandalf5166]

WoW is awesome. I'd play it if my mom would let me pay for it. What she expects me to do with my scholarship money, I'll never know. Buy drugs?

[ReaperCharlie]

WoW is the post-apocalyptic OR money-drain
Halo is Failure given a genre

together they form the abyss

WoW sucks
Halo doesn't

Fixed this for you.

[xRECKONERx]

OH RC I SEE WHAT YOU DID THERE
stop posting

[ReaperCharlie]

Real Halo armor:

http://www.google.ca/images?q=Trojan%20 ... 20&bih=979

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trojan_Bal ... t_of_Armor

Honestly that looks more like Gears of War armor. But that's epic either way.

I have to wonder how flexible it really is though. It says on the wiki page that it's 99% bulletproof and 95% flexible…

But I don't know how to believe that. Unless it's made of some Kryptonian super-alloy. lol

[tanstalas]

http://www.torontosun.com/news/weird/20 ... 51511.html

[ortolan]

the abyss is people who actually think video games are progressing as an art form

[Knight of Cydonia]

THe abyss is people who think they haven't made rapid progress towards being an art form in the last 10 years.

[gandalf5166]

Video games ARE an art form. Ever played Shadow of the Colossus?

[ReaperCharlie]

the abyss is people who actually think video games are progressing as an art form

Please explain why you DON'T think so? *is confused*

[xRECKONERx]

DEAR GOD NOT THIS DEBATE AGAIN

*headdesk*

[gandalf5166]

Just like any form of art, there are video games out there that definitely aren't art, but there are definitely some that are.

[ReaperCharlie]

If a movie can be considered art, a video game can be considered art. Period.

If not, then you want to quibble about the definition of "art" elsewhere. This topic is about video games.

Or, more specifically, Halo Reach, and the Unicorn Brethren. ..Pwnin' Newbs Since 2008!

[dramonic]

I'd play it if my mom would let me pay for it. What she expects me to do with my scholarship money, I'll never know. Buy drugs?

What do you think she's preventing you from doing? <<

[gandalf5166]

I'd play it if my mom would let me pay for it. What she expects me to do with my scholarship money, I'll never know. Buy drugs?

What do you think she's preventing you from doing? <<

Haha. No, but seriously, she doesn't even ask how I spend my money. I could buy anything with it and she would never know. She just thinks WoW is too expensive for some reason. :/

[ReaperCharlie]

It costs 3 times as much as Xbox LIVE. But it sucks away your life, more than anything.

Even if you have the money to pay the monthly subscription, do you have 50+ hours a week to play? lol

[gandalf5166]

It costs 3 times as much as Xbox LIVE. But it sucks away your life, more than anything.

Even if you have the money to pay the monthly subscription, do you have 50+ hours a week to play? lol

I had it a while ago. I didn't play THAT often.

[ReaperCharlie]

Well, my brother and friends (and everbody I know who plays) pretty much do...

One time I went to a pro Counter-Strike player's Xfire page (keep in mind, he plays CS for a

living

)...
... and what I found was that he had 16 hours of CS played that week, and

118 hours

of WoW.

My jaw dropped, and that was the moment when I decided I'd never play WoW.

[ortolan]

Well, my brother and friends (and everbody I know who plays) pretty much do...

One time I went to a pro Counter-Strike player's Xfire page (keep in mind, he plays CS for a

living

)...
... and what I found was that he had 16 hours of CS played that week, and

118 hours

of WoW.

My jaw dropped, and that was the moment when I decided I'd never play WoW.

the fact a pro cs player is also happens to be a hideous nerd (by virtue of playing WoW) isn't exactly surprising. And ability in cs has never been hugely correlated with sheer amount of time spent playing.

[Oman]

Playing a shitload of WoW isn't the refuge of the nerd any more.

To anyone who is interested in this side of video game "addiction" or "overuse", I really recommend that you listen to this podcast below.

For those who don't know Taverncast used to be a WoW podcast that became a more varied podcast based on "round-table" barroom discussions. This particular show is about one of the host's experiments. He found out that people were playing an enormous amount and he decided that he'd experiment with playing about 10 hours a day for a few weeks and see the effects.

This is really well presented, and has really interesting results:

http://dl.affiliates.futureus.com/taver ... -06-02.mp3

Spoiler: an interesting result

He still plays, even after all the side-effects, but it's a much more casual and much less goal orientated playstyle.

[ReaperCharlie]

Interesting, Oman. I didn't listen to it (80 minutes long? yawn) but I somewhat expected that result.

Here are some better (much shorter) videos!

Halo Reach: Best 10 kills of the week
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1CalSyxgvlA (12-1)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jpaCTle_DVQ (11-17)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4xeTi7OsuMI (11-10)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L-eIgIFxE0I (10-27)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pOmoaNHPi3A (10-20)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H82n9YTxzn8 (10-13)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U36CwLBbgRI (10-6)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W4RLfTrX-2Y (9-29)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O47m9UENHUY (9-22) (#2 is for Fritz and Flameaxe. LOL)


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lDbVrkXZ9h4 (CRATE BEATS EVERYTHING)